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and in this picture you can see one of the reasons this clock is so popular. notice how the light creates shadows with the balls.
All in all i spent around $25 total in materials, and that’s not considering that i spent $15 on paint but only used about $3 worth.
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And here it is finished. The hands are made from roofing flashing from Home Depot. It’s basically thin squares of aluminium that i cut into the approximate shape of the original ones.
The hands are more rustic then i would like, but i’m too lazy to make new ones right now. Surprisingly the $5 quartz movement is strong enough to move the minute hand–which is much heavier then the orignal one. This actually keeps pretty accurate time–well as accurate as you can get with a ball clock. The lack of minute markers means you’re always guessing at the time anyway.
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the tip of the heart is not quite formed right and the edges are a little soft and it’s not quite centered, but gosh darn it, this does look like a heart!
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Ok i don’t know what this one looks like, maybe a phoenix rising from the ashes? a not so formed rosetta or a distorted leaf?
well it looks cool. though it didn’t taste that good for some reason…
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here are a few shots of my feeble attempts at latte art. this is the first thing i ever poured that looked like something. I think it’s an apple 🙂
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Ok so i’ve been wanting a nelson ball clock for quite a while. However i did not want to pay the ~$300 for one from Vitra that is a reproduction.
At the same time i did not want to buy a vintage one on ebay either, they’re still pretty expensive for a design that is knocked off a lot. So what to do? Well i was at a discount store (Marshall’s maybe?) and found a ball clock missing the hands, it was also in natural wood finish. I bought it for $5 with a plan of ‘remixing’ it.
It cost me about $15 in paint, spray lacquer and brushes to get it to this point. I used acrylic paint over the natural wood, hand sanded it to smooth out the brush marks and 3 coats of spray lacquer. I still need to finish the hands but you get the idea.
I picked colors similiar to the original pictures i found, but there are many versions of this clock. I also chose to use a glossy finish which is not true to the original.
I’ll post a follow up once the clock is complete. I’m not sure it will keep time because i made the new hands from flashing and they are much larger then the hands that came with the quartz movement. but it should look good.
still jittery
murkycoffee had a home machine dial in today. It’s an event where we bring our home machines and people share tips etc. Nick Cho (owner) helped us work on pulling espresso shots and frothing milk. It was an eye opener to see all the machines pull pretty respectable shots as well as create good micro-foam. Since we’re all coffee geeks it makes sense that we all bought good quality machines. There was my Solis SL70, a Silvia, a Gaggia Classic and the prettiest one an Isomac Zaffiro. They all represented a price range from $300 to $800 and they all work well. I was surprised that the Silvia had so much more crema then my Solis–of course the Silvia had a naked portafilter so that might of made a difference.
Nick gave us some tips for pouring latte art and i need to practice. The comforting thing is that it’s just hard and takes practice. I poured something that resembled a leaf/rosetta this morning before I went to murky.
Nick was also gracious enough to give us all about half a bag of espresso beans! It was a little hectic because we did it in the shop, right in front of the cash registers so people were befuddled by our presence. And some folks were just annoyed because they were trying to do work! But once we got started it didn’t affect us at all!
Here’s a shot of the lumbar area, it’s the little curve in at the bottom. It must be for weight distribution because it reduces the size of the bag by a lot. You can buy strap on bags that clip into this area to give your more storage and external access to things.
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here’s the bottom or back side of the bag. I think the newer versions don’t have the orange padding (it’s black). I kind of like the orange, you can’t really see it once you wear the bag.
As you can see there is plenty of padding in the lower back. Surpringly the straps are not that padded, there are a few hook points and straps to clip things like bottles or strap on accessries on the straps.
I think they have a new accessory that lifts the bag off your back to allow for more ventilation. I can see that as a benefit in the summer when it’s hot.
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Here’s a profile to give you an idea of the shape, notice the hookpoint on the side. There’s a number of them on the bag to allow for stretchy cord like i have here or to use the net sold by boblbee to strap down things like jackets, helmets, shoes etc.
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