Posts Tagged With: Metal
Repetition, Relaxation and Learning
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short, William Shakespeare I’ve found a certain relaxation in repetition. I think I first experienced this while block-sanding the primer coat on my 1973 Firebird (in 1980) while I was getting it ready for a coat of eye-searing red paint. Some music on the stereo, the essential tools for the [...]
Ron Covell’s Soapbox Racer
In an earlier post on the Artist’s Soapbox Derby that was held in San Francisco in 1975 I mentioned my buddy Ron Covell. Ron helped Don Potts build his car for the first derby in 1975, and then in 1978 when they held the event a second time he built this car for himself. He [...]
The Studley Caliper
This is a short story about the Studley Caliper. No, this isn’t a caliper for “men regarded as virile and sexually active”, it is a small caliper contained in the elaborate tool chest that belonged to H.O. Studley. Christopher Schwarz blogged about this in “My Favorite Tool from the H.O. Studley Tool Chest“. First, the tool [...]
