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6 pieces, newest first.
2026
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Carving Nothing
I set out to make a pendant of the empty tomb and spent two days working very hard to produce a hole. Almost nothing went to plan, and there was only ever enough silver for one attempt.
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How I Use Claude
Not a list of features — an account of how much I've actually handed over, in what order, and where it has gone wrong.
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How I Use Obsidian with Claude
Six weeks of running a personal knowledge vault with an AI librarian — what I built, what I threw away, and what actually stuck.
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My Weekend Jaunt into Chainmail
Winding my own rings, learning European 4-in-1, and finding out exactly how tedious a 1.5-inch swatch of mail really is.
2016
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There's Something About Steel
The four AISI families in plain terms — and the questions about cost, environment, and heat treat that narrow a dizzying catalog down to a single bar of steel.
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Design Goal
Why I want to make knives that are excellent first, comfortable second, and beautiful third — and never too pretty to actually use.
