TraverseCity4pete
@petecity4.bsky.social
Generally use social media for news and politics. I like what Pete Buttigieg says. It's the kind of stuff I think, but just can't quite articulate as well.
Also into wood carving primarily with a mallet and gouges.
Also into wood carving primarily with a mallet and gouges.
Traverse City MI protest
Hands off our democracy.
Hands off our democracy.
April 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Traverse City MI protest
Hands off our democracy.
Hands off our democracy.
Traverse City right now.
Many thousands at protests.
Hands off.
Many thousands at protests.
Hands off.
April 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Traverse City right now.
Many thousands at protests.
Hands off.
Many thousands at protests.
Hands off.
When you're a star they let you do it..."
March 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
When you're a star they let you do it..."
Yeah, I started with power carving and the vibration and dust was too much. A year with a couple Stanley chisels turned me completely into hand tools and now I'm happy.
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yeah, I started with power carving and the vibration and dust was too much. A year with a couple Stanley chisels turned me completely into hand tools and now I'm happy.
@altnps.bsky.social @betsycoffia.bsky.social
I support and appreciate my friends and neighbors who work for the National Park Service and all parts of the Federal Government who are receiving insulting and threatening letters from their own government urging them to quit.
We need you.
I support and appreciate my friends and neighbors who work for the National Park Service and all parts of the Federal Government who are receiving insulting and threatening letters from their own government urging them to quit.
We need you.
February 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
@altnps.bsky.social @betsycoffia.bsky.social
I support and appreciate my friends and neighbors who work for the National Park Service and all parts of the Federal Government who are receiving insulting and threatening letters from their own government urging them to quit.
We need you.
I support and appreciate my friends and neighbors who work for the National Park Service and all parts of the Federal Government who are receiving insulting and threatening letters from their own government urging them to quit.
We need you.
I'm going to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Monday Feb 3 to show some love to our National Park Service civil servants.
Our federal workers are being told to resign en masse
These stewards of our national lands deserve our support.
Our federal workers are being told to resign en masse
These stewards of our national lands deserve our support.
February 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm going to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Monday Feb 3 to show some love to our National Park Service civil servants.
Our federal workers are being told to resign en masse
These stewards of our national lands deserve our support.
Our federal workers are being told to resign en masse
These stewards of our national lands deserve our support.
Pretty on point yard sale find this morning. Washingtons Farewell where he warms against kings and a pocket Constituon.
Also the only Constitution without a 14th amendment I'll accept. Printed in 1812.
Also the only Constitution without a 14th amendment I'll accept. Printed in 1812.
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Pretty on point yard sale find this morning. Washingtons Farewell where he warms against kings and a pocket Constituon.
Also the only Constitution without a 14th amendment I'll accept. Printed in 1812.
Also the only Constitution without a 14th amendment I'll accept. Printed in 1812.
Little fox out of cedar and painted with acrylic I finished over the weekend.
It's a more kitchy and cute piece than I typically do, but I'm really proud of the execution of this piece from a square block and without a sketch or model. Just used brainpower to visualize it.
Good practice.
It's a more kitchy and cute piece than I typically do, but I'm really proud of the execution of this piece from a square block and without a sketch or model. Just used brainpower to visualize it.
Good practice.
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Little fox out of cedar and painted with acrylic I finished over the weekend.
It's a more kitchy and cute piece than I typically do, but I'm really proud of the execution of this piece from a square block and without a sketch or model. Just used brainpower to visualize it.
Good practice.
It's a more kitchy and cute piece than I typically do, but I'm really proud of the execution of this piece from a square block and without a sketch or model. Just used brainpower to visualize it.
Good practice.
I got the idea from this image and went from there.
December 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM
I got the idea from this image and went from there.
Thanks. Little boxes are the best.
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Thanks. Little boxes are the best.
Working on a holiday gift. Tackle box for the kiddo.
Finally got the first pivot jingle to work. Watching it work in action for the first time is the best gift I've given myself all year.
Feels great. Good luck to all the crafters out there trying to find time to get it done.
Finally got the first pivot jingle to work. Watching it work in action for the first time is the best gift I've given myself all year.
Feels great. Good luck to all the crafters out there trying to find time to get it done.
December 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Working on a holiday gift. Tackle box for the kiddo.
Finally got the first pivot jingle to work. Watching it work in action for the first time is the best gift I've given myself all year.
Feels great. Good luck to all the crafters out there trying to find time to get it done.
Finally got the first pivot jingle to work. Watching it work in action for the first time is the best gift I've given myself all year.
Feels great. Good luck to all the crafters out there trying to find time to get it done.
Lathe work: Mario Bros 1-up mushroom.
December 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Lathe work: Mario Bros 1-up mushroom.
I've been using my veining tool to gouge out between the rings on softwood planks. Just a quick and soothing carve that really brings the grain into stark relief.
Makes sariafying shavings too.
Makes sariafying shavings too.
December 6, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I've been using my veining tool to gouge out between the rings on softwood planks. Just a quick and soothing carve that really brings the grain into stark relief.
Makes sariafying shavings too.
Makes sariafying shavings too.
Deceptive picture then. I ended up veining in between each of the grain lines.
December 3, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Deceptive picture then. I ended up veining in between each of the grain lines.
Coffee scoops.
Made these a few years ago before I got into handtools.
Hollowed out the scoop using an Arbortech ball gouge on my angle grinder, then cut the blank out of the board with a jigsaw, then shaped on a oscillating sander.
It worked great, but fuck the dust.
Made these a few years ago before I got into handtools.
Hollowed out the scoop using an Arbortech ball gouge on my angle grinder, then cut the blank out of the board with a jigsaw, then shaped on a oscillating sander.
It worked great, but fuck the dust.
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Coffee scoops.
Made these a few years ago before I got into handtools.
Hollowed out the scoop using an Arbortech ball gouge on my angle grinder, then cut the blank out of the board with a jigsaw, then shaped on a oscillating sander.
It worked great, but fuck the dust.
Made these a few years ago before I got into handtools.
Hollowed out the scoop using an Arbortech ball gouge on my angle grinder, then cut the blank out of the board with a jigsaw, then shaped on a oscillating sander.
It worked great, but fuck the dust.
Turkey soup on the woodstove.
November 30, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Turkey soup on the woodstove.
Peapod out of an ancient apricot branch carved this summer.
This was a fun carve and a great opportunity to practice flipping the big gouges upside down/ curved down.
I love carving big pieces.
This was a fun carve and a great opportunity to practice flipping the big gouges upside down/ curved down.
I love carving big pieces.
November 29, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Peapod out of an ancient apricot branch carved this summer.
This was a fun carve and a great opportunity to practice flipping the big gouges upside down/ curved down.
I love carving big pieces.
This was a fun carve and a great opportunity to practice flipping the big gouges upside down/ curved down.
I love carving big pieces.
Thanksgiving Eve, snow predicted soon. Really wish I didn't have to wait another two weeks for Brandon Sandersons's Wind and Truth to be out.
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Thanksgiving Eve, snow predicted soon. Really wish I didn't have to wait another two weeks for Brandon Sandersons's Wind and Truth to be out.
Saw these in an old library book. Anyone see/build/stay/live in one?
Maybe our invasive phragmites could be put to use?
Maybe our invasive phragmites could be put to use?
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Saw these in an old library book. Anyone see/build/stay/live in one?
Maybe our invasive phragmites could be put to use?
Maybe our invasive phragmites could be put to use?