Month: January 2011

Lovely handmade wooden door latches

Lovely handmade wooden door latches

Matthias Wandel writes:

My dad originally started making wooden door latches for the cottages he built at Amogla camp. Conventionally available doorknobs and strike plates don’t allow for a lot of latitude in terms of dealing with shifts in the buildings from frost heaving. That, and the available door hardware just didn’t suit his style.The door latches pictured above are for the house he built for the main house, more than 10 years after making his first door knobs and latches. They are an evolved version of his original door handles.

Matthias’ site bills itself as “an engineer’s approach to woodworking.” If you like what you see here, chances are you’ll find it worth the click.

Easy Chocolate Leaves

Paula Valentim’s Otchipotchi blog is a delight to read and offers delicious recipes, easy how-tos, and gorgeous ceramics. It’s like a one-stop shop of inspiration and craftiness! I’ve made chocolate trees for years as an adornment on my Halloween Graveyard Cake, and they are surprisingly simple to make. So I’m enthralled with these gorgeous looking […]

Make Your Own Beehive

There’s a great do-it-yourself project in the new issue of MAKE (Volume 25) that shows you how to make your own Honey Cow, or beehive, to keep a swarm of honey-producing bees in. Yummy, honey! And we were happy to include the entire project online — steps, photos, notes — at Make: Projects. (Full disclosure: […]

Necktie-tying Robot

It’s a delight to see a machine manipulating a silk necktie with carefully designed mechanisms. I find this video mesmerizing! Sean @ Make: Online writes: This video from sculptor Seth Goldstein shows one cycle of the operation of his piece Why Knot?, which is described as “[a] kinetic sculpture that continually ties and unties a […]