Kona Unit X here, with rack etc for bikepacking.

You should grab a burnisher for that card scraper…

Looks like it’s only ITS sequencing (“barcoding”) which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It’s a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it’ll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn’t much grant money out there for fungal diversity…

If you’re going to try it, my advice: mix some very fine sanding dust (maybe 120 or so) with some poly with a putty knife until it’s a really thick paste, and then jam it into the cracks… it’ll shrink a little so be liberal with it and just sand it before you do the final finish. If you’re really artsy too, you can actually paint on matching grain with acrylic and an incredibly fine brush to help it match. I’ve also just filled up cracks with sawdust and applied a few drops of poly, but it never seems to match quite as well for me that way.

I actually need to try something new for my next oil finish project too, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this post, haha.

Always worth doing a test piece first. I haven’t had any good results with glue (wood or CA), but if I’m finishing with polyurethane, making a filler with the same poly as the ‘glue’ is next to perfect.

I’m going to have to try this! Very curious about just how hard it turns out to be in the end.

Crown land, sure. But they even banned access to things like small city parks with trees. That’s just crazy to me, I’m sorry.

Just been thinking about this a lot because the feet really bug me somehow. I think it probably is do-able as other people have mentioned, but also, are you sure this is a real box someone made and not AI-generated? I hate to have to ask it, but these days… and man, why don’t the feet visibly support the box? I guess it could be inlaid… like I said, I don’t think it’s impossible. Just odd somehow.

Oak’s the one that really gets me.

Nice composition. I love the way the reflection looks in the one tower.

Sorry, I mean hosting platform as in, provides ad insertions for those that want to go that way, submission to multiple platforms easily, RSS generator for your podcast, etc. Like Libsyn, Podbean, Acast, etc.

Anyone have suggestions for podcast hosting platforms? Seems like they’re all American as far as I can tell.

Lovely! Does the top just slot into the body?

We’re going to be entering a golden age of hacks in the next 5 years, I’m calling it now. All this copy-pasted bad ChatGPT code is going to be used in ways that generate security holes the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

As long as they’re both water-based and you scuff it up a little with 120 beforehand, you should be fine, although I haven’t used that specific set of finishes. Can always do the tried and true and try it out on a test piece first if you’re really worried.

But yeah, TBH, even if you went crazy and used epoxy or urushi, pretty sure it’d get scratched up with kids being kids. I use 10+ coats for specific applications, and it’s very scratch resistant (in fact it seems more more than the technically harder urushi… this is where I redact a few paragraphs of finish hardness discussion…), but standing up to kids, nah.

I really like the bottle stoppers. Not sure I really have anything big enough but I’m going to see what I can glue up. The bigger pieces are usually softwoods too, unfortunately, but even just carving something decorative for the top could be cool.

I did try that once but you’re right I should give it a go again with better wood choices (verawood is just too waxy to glue unless you treat it right I guess.)

Ohhh, I hadn’t even thought of that, and I have done some small epoxy projects before. I guess the question would be then what after that… But at least it would be a bigger chunk to work with.

It is one thing to seize terrain and another to hold it. The American public would be confronted with video images of their sons and daughters being picked off one by one at night by Canadian soldiers, reservists, and citizens who volunteered as paramilitary partisans.

100%. Beating Simo Häyhä’s record is a tough challenge, but it gives us a nice goal to aim for.

Maybe there are some downsides I’m not aware of, but this sounds like great news to me. There are some great local microbreweries, sure, but I really miss some brews from when I was living in SK and it’s such a pain to get them several provinces away.