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Made of wood: Wenge
Wenge is my favorite wood. It is beautiful, hard, resistant, exotic, hard to come by. Working with wenge wood means your hand is full of...
acszolie
Mar 27, 20221 min read


Made of wood: Macassar Ebony
I visited an exotic wood shop in Geneva, and what I witnessed was truly astonishing. The vast selection of exotic woods was...
acszolie
Sep 5, 20211 min read


My thing for bowties
When I first encountered these intricate joinery techniques many years ago (before YouTube), my reaction was simply, "Wow, how is this...
acszolie
Feb 23, 20211 min read


Some inlay work, using the laser cutter
I've always wanted to attempt this, but I never had the patience to do it entirely by hand. The laser cutting and engraving process has...
acszolie
Feb 4, 20211 min read


Continue the Nixies?
There was a request to create more Lamina Nixie Clocks in turquoise and gold colors. I began cutting and preparing a new DROID version,...
acszolie
Aug 1, 20201 min read
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