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Length of wood with a groove cut into it

Hanging clamp storage

Over the course of this year, I've been working on setting up my workshop space in the basement. One of the particular joys of setting up this new workshop is trying to solve problems that I never managed to in my space in Utah. One of these is

Making our headboard disassemblable

Making our headboard disassemblable

Our headboard didn't fit up the stairs in our new house. A reasonable person would buy a new bed frame. I am not a reasonable person.

A fence, surrounded by plants, with a gap between the post and rail, and a ratchet strap around sections of the fence

A few small (fence) repairs

Seattle catch-up post! After closing on our house last fall, we were excited to introduce the dogs to their new backyard, but there were a few issues with the existing wood fence that I wanted to address to make sure they wouldn't be tempted to escape to explore

Shower fittings & finishes

Shower fittings & finishes

After the success of my shower curtain rod brackets, I wanted to turn my attention to some other aesthetic touches. Our shower head has a little chrome piece that sits around the pipe and is supposed to cover the spot where it comes out of the wall, but because of

Shower curtain rod brackets

Shower curtain rod brackets

Back in April, I took a week off of work as a staycation, and decided to take on a project I’d been thinking about since last summer. When we bought our house, we put in a curved shower curtain rod. There is a little arch detail at the front

Looking into a 3d printer enclosure through a plastic window. Inside, a Ender 3 v2 is well-lit.

Printer Enclosure Lighting

Super quick infrastructure improvement! I’ve been doing a lot of 3d printing lately with ABS, which means printing inside an enclosure, itself inside my paint booth. While it’s printing, I want to keep the enclosure closed to contain the ABS fumes, but that makes it hard to see

An orange ducting hose, clamped to hardware for a paint booth venting solution.

Paint booth (part 2): Venting

When we left off last, I’d finished the structure of my collapsible paint booth, but I was venting it out the window with a precarious, clearly-temporary rolled posterboard vent. It was flimsy, not waterproof, and honestly quite a pain to use. Paint booth (part 1)Painting outside has never

Some mailbox mounting repairs

Some mailbox mounting repairs

We got quite a big early-April snowstorm here in Utah, and I came outside to discover that something or someone—perhaps a plow—had hit my mailbox hard enough to snap the mounting board off of the post. (As an aside, this is not the mailbox I want, but perhaps

An in-progress photo, showing a 4x4 grid of large holes drilled into a piece of tile board.

Paint booth (part 1)

Painting outside has never seemed like a super viable proposition. My main workshop space is my basement, and I don't have a ton of space. So I need a paint booth, and something portable and collapsible is clearly required.

3D printing pieces of a BD-1 Star Wars droid on an Ender 3 v2

BD-1: printing

I've been thinking about model building for a while. I'm very into the aesthetics of Star Wars. I've actually had a model kit for a U-Wing at home for an embarrassingly long time. When I finally opened it up, I discovered it's

Adam Luptak, wearing safety glasses and hearing protection, in his basement workshop

Getting started

This is Making, my new blog to document my various making endeavors. It seems a truism that the grass is always greener. Having a career in digital work, I have long been enamored with making things with my hands. At various stages of my life, I've had some