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“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As a charter member of the Drivel Starve Nation, I must share this video. After viewing this I feel like I have been wasting my life by getting as little sleep as I do.
I loved the music, the photography and would love to meet this man–I think you will find it equally as fascinating.
-John
That’s crazy wow.
Absolutely amazing. At 40 hrs/wk that is over 6 months to build.
There aren’t many videos that I have the patience to watch all the way through – especially if they’re longer than about 3 minutes. Gillian and I watched the whole thing – with the music, it was about as exciting a video as I’ve seen recently.
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What an amazing feat of engineering. Such skill. While I marvel, I’m totally envious of his skill.
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Thanks so much for sharing, John.
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– Peter
Peter-
Thanks, the video is an inspiration. Small shop, cool & talented guy, really cool, passionate project.
Do you and Gillian watch “How It’s Made”? That show is fun too.
-John
We do watch “How It’s Made” occasionally. I love that show (plus, it’s Canadian). Mostly we watch cooking shows together: Iron Chef, Chopped. Oh – and Disney…
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I wish they had more craft shows on TV. Or at least shows showing skillful people making beautiful objects. Whatever happened to those shows?
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– Peter
My impression is that I watched a life time of learning all put to use in 3 minutes. Very compact bite of time, but a HUGE amount of preparation to get there. Inspiring.
DJ
Peter, the last show I watched about skillful people making beautiful objects went off the air…”The Brady Bunch”.
-John
Very cool video John. Thanks for sharing. I made this one-cylinder steam engine several years ago. Getting it tuned with one cylinder was an effort. I can only imagine getting 12 of them in sync.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nclemmons/227892587/in/set-72157594262678857/
neil
Neil–Cool engine! Is the boiler powder coated?
John
Nope. It’s copper with soldered rivets and joints and then painted with black grill paint. It’s held up well!
A Sherline lathe and milling machine and a kit were all that it took to complete.
Neil
John,
Have you finally given into the wood working Taliban and supplied materials and the above video so they can now have a motor for their JMP?
-Rutager