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woodworker in pdx who likes to make fun things 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them
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new baby reveal 🐈‍⬛
September 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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very happy with how this project is finally coming together!!
a small wooden form comprised of 9 wooden slats bent in a “U” shape and cut into angled wedges. the wedges are glued together to make a half circle.
September 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Allyship, baby
kateross.bsky.social Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 21
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Scooby I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time 1d RookaTX This is the way Scooby • RookaTX Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures. 1d
August 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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came home to discover the mini split in our bedroom had been dripping all over the chest i made as my very first design project in school, the entire lid of it was covered in water and it was sitting in wet carpet 😭
July 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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ya boi has chode feet

6EE
June 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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showed my friends grandparents my woodwork tonight their grandpa told me about the coffee table he made in high school shop in the 60s — they still have it! i love this craft and teaching people to make things that will last a lifetime, even if it’s not the most incredible piece of furniture
June 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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the best way to start the morning is watching ‘possums run back and forth across the backyard - in daylight! seems like they were migrating to a new home and our backyard is commonly used by local wildlife to cut through the block
an opossum the size of a small cat sits in a grassy yard and looks in the direction of the camera two opossums running across a backyard toward a gate in the back corner
May 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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glad that someone had gifted me a @pamwishbow.bsky.social hex breaker a while back cuz my baking has been cursed this weekend and i finally needed it 🥲
May 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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your friendly semi-regular reminder that I will not follow your newsletter if it is hosted on Substack
April 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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i made these yesterday and i’m very proud cuz hot damn they’re gluten free baby
a tray of freshly baked gluten free croissants that look so damn good you wouldn’t even guess they’re gluten free a tray of freshly baked chocolate croissants with a couple rings holding rolls of scrap cut off bits as well. the lamination on the dough is absolutely incredible
April 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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somehow i got very lucky and only had a week back before i started a two week shop job (which i am in the middle of currently) and then immediately after finishing it i will have another week long steam bending class that i’m taking!
marbeckwood.work mar @marbeckwood.work · Apr 15
it’s very hard to go back to your non-woodworking job after 5 days of being in the shop full-time helping with a class and building a table 😭
April 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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it’s very hard to go back to your non-woodworking job after 5 days of being in the shop full-time helping with a class and building a table 😭
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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don’t mind me just changing the guild dust collection hose connections because they don’t make sense and now it should be slightly more efficient (it’s laughable to consider it efficient at all)
April 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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taught someone how to change the sawstop blade/brake and use a dado stack today while running the shop and i’m very happy with how it went and glad the shop is not so busy i couldn’t take the time to do that!
April 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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my brush fiber has finally arrived! i can make bristles for the brush handles i’ve made! tampico and arenga
two bundles of long fibers wrapped in brown paper and labeled with their weights. the larger bundle is a lighter cream-colored tampico fiber from agave. the slightly smaller bundle is a dark black-brown fiber, arenga, from palm trees.
April 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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“home” work in progress - picking the sawdust out of the tunnels has been frustrating and i don’t have the right tools at all (i’ve been using some large sewing needles 😅) but i realized it’s house-shaped and decided i am going to keep it this shape, next step sanding!

spalted hickory
hand holding a small piece of wood full of bug tunnels. the wood is shaped like a wide house, the triangle making the “roof” offset slightly to one side. the wood is a warm brown with lighter and darker grain lines and spots of gray and black spalting as well. the bug tunnels have been carefully cleaned out.
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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that “severe thunderstorm” sure was boring
March 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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finally spent some time in the shop today and made some progress on my next coopered box! this one is a hexagon, made of spalted hickory that another member of the guild left on the scrap shelf! there was a ton of it this is just a small bit! #woodwork
a tall hexagonal column made of pieces of a light wood, covered in small pieces of blue tape to hold the corners of the pieces together. the wood has a lot of variability in tone, from creamy white areas to dark almost black lines enclosing those areas. there are dark swirls and flecks and streaks of all colors, the last remains of a fungus that previously lived in the tree that became this board
March 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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good morning there’s an animal in the attic and i can hear it over the kitchen yay just what i wanted 🥲
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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when you realize photographing the cutting board you finished is also a great opportunity to show off your bread

quartersawn curly big leaf maple, finished with beeswax
a wooden cutting board on a counter with a sliced loaf of bread on it. the cutting board is decently large, about 11x17 inches, and is made with a light maple wood. there are changes in color, from a pale cream to warmer light browns and peach tones. those familiar with wood might recognize the distinctive grain pattern that indicates the piece is quarter sawn and there are hints of curly figure where the light reflects off the board in stripes perpendicular to the grain.
March 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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gluten free “white bread” sourdough was a success! delicious even at room temperature which is unusual for gf bread!!
the top of a loaf of gluten free sourdough bread. the top of the loaf is floured so the golden crust where the scoring allowed the loaf to grow through clearly. it is scored to have a large crescent moon, and inside the moon is a small “burst” pattern of straight lines of varying lengths at splayed angles from each other. as the bread baked and rose and the lines split open, it gave an abstract flame look to it. side view of the gluten free loaf, it is very satisfyingly round and full, a sign of being well-proofed! the interior crumb of the gluten free loaf, not as full of bubble holes as a gluten loaf, but with a very satisfying distribution of mid-sized holes and very much NOT a dense loaf
March 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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brushes are my current obsession 😍 waiting for more bristle fiber to arrive so i can finish the other two

black cherry wood, tampico fiber, milk paint, shellac
wooden handled brush standing up on a wood surface with the bristles pointed up. the handle is warm cherry wood, the top cut at an angle, with the bristles continuing straight up out of it. the angled edge of the handle where the bristles protrude has a band of green paint over a dimpled carved texture. the bristles are cut at an angle to match the angle on the handle and are all the same length. the whole brush is less than 6 inches long. two more partially completed brush handles accompany the previously described brush. both handles are much larger than the first brush. they are all made of the same cherry wood with painted accents in the same shade of green. one handle has a curvy worm-like shape, with two large areas carved out in bean-like shapes that match the curves of the main body. these carved areas are smooth and painted green, the rest of the handle is not painted. the second has a wide, rounded base to allow for a wide sweep of bristles, and a long wiggly handle sticking up from the far side, offset from the center of the bristles, making the whole thing an L or boot shape. there are two painted areas, the toe of the boot, following the grain lines in the wood and sweeps from a thin area on one side up and over to a wider area on the other. the very top of the handle is also painted, as if it had been dipped in paint.
March 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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i did not get the job i interviewed for last week 😭 at least i didn’t get the news yesterday, on my birthday?
March 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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thevagabondtabby.bsky.social The Vagabond Tabby @thevagabondtabby.bsky.social · Mar 18
equinox sale GO GO GO GO GO

13% off all seasonal soaps & also some jewelry I'm tired of looking at

nowish through Saturday, more or less

go buy stuff

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March 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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i love when i think i’m getting better and then the cold decides to get worse again 🥲
March 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM