All posts by Geof Franklin

Researching ways to improve scientist's access to data. Programming software to solve humanity's problems. Disseminating emergency preparedness knowledge. Sharing knowledge about science. Practicing amateur radio. Serving humanity through volunteer efforts. Drives a robot to work.

Making of a fire hook

A Fire hook is designed for working with campfires where large or uneven logs are normally seen. In contrast, your typical household fire uses split logs that are mostly all the same size. Below are the steps we took to make this Fire hook and a few descriptions on the actual steps. Continue reading Making of a fire hook

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How we built our bender tent

Okay so you saw the pictures, or you saw us at an event and you just have to know HOW we built that Bender Tent!

 

Geof and Barbara stand infront of their bender tent, dressed in their garb.This page will show you step by step what we used and how we stuck it all together. You might be asking yourself why a pair of Roma are living in a tent when they could be living large in a vardo (Roma House on wheels)? Well it is simple, Vardos are not period to the SCA. Continue reading How we built our bender tent

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A forge mishap and a caterpillar

This morning was like any other. I got the forge helpers their breakfast and went about our normal start-up routine. Today I was working on some smaller candle sticks so I cranked up the two burner, propane forge.

I’m setting out stock and clearing workspace when I realized the forge did not sound right. The blast was giving a higher pitch than normal and there was a distinct lack of heat radiating from the forge. I noticed that one of the burners had not caught and was just streaming small blue gas trails. I quickly grabbed for the kill value on the propane feed line as I was having visions of flying through the air via a propane catapult. Continue reading A forge mishap and a caterpillar

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