I'm still learning too, guitars normally use "tone wood" which would be things like alder/basswood/ash etc. I've seen lots of people making Pinecasters though so hopefully this one sounds ok. The forming will be pretty much the same though regardless of wood type.


It’s a test piece really, I’ve got some nicer wood earmarked but I’ve never made one before so doing a pine/oak top test first.


Haha, always need more clamps! It's a guitar body, or hopefully will be!


What am I making and do I need more clamps?

#woodworking #woodstr
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Spent quite a few hours of my weekend fixing issues in my fiat job.

It’s funny you just get a “thank you” from managers who’ve done sweet FA on the weekend, and most week days too.

Must hold back the urge to say “well I’ll take your ‘thank you’ to the Time Machine to get that time I spent back then”


Welcome 👋
I also finished the Sovereign Individual this weekend, great book! I think I need to re-listen at some point to absorb all the wisdom!


It was easier than it thought it would be! Now to figure out how to mill it into boards on the bandsaw…
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First go at riving a log today. Was a sweet chestnut cut down last year, too big for my chainsaw mill.

#woodstr #yardstr
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Nice one, I estimated 5% radial shrinkage so should be ok as long as I don’t have to take too much off to flatten it!


Thanks, I’ll check that out!

I think this beech is quite dark because it’s wet and newly cut, it’s mellowed out a bit now. Hopefully it doesn’t crack and warp too much and I’ve cut it thick enough to allow for shrinkage!


I was pleasantly surprised by the grain! I’ve got a bookmatched pair earmarked for an electric guitar body.

Which app do you use for nostr communities?
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That’s very nice! Lovely wood too. I’m currently drying some beech boards I milled from a tree I cut down in the garden, looking forward to building something.


The squash plant I bought with sats at the Bitcoin Beach Retreat is going well!

#yardstr #growstr
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Not even $80,081.35?


idk about anybody else but I’ve spent an excessive amount of time thinking about the possible memes when we get to $80,085


also improvised weapon uses in that case 🤣


Never throwing mine out, what if I need a parallel cable for a dot matrix printer?!


It takes a lot of time to grow your own food but it is satisfying AF. I’d like some chickens too but hilariously the UK now makes you get a license for that!


Very nice!


Well, enough ranting about Airbnb. Advice: don't do Airbnb, it's not profitable even if you think you're "making money" with the NgU of the property and more guests than you think will take the piss.


Going to be policing the thermostat all week with this people.

The higher energy bills go, the more people will take the piss when in self catering accommodation - “oh isnt this lovely, I can sit in shorts and T-shirt at someone else’s expense”

I wish I knew how unprofitable Airbnb was before getting into it. Not even making minimum wage with the labour that goes into it.


That's childs play compared to the £400bn spent to "save granny". Funny they never talk about that!


Some of the most annoying and inconsiderate airbnb guests are the ones who turn the thermostat up to 24C 4 times a day.

Literally smashing all the glasses in the kitchen would be less costly than this behaviour.


Good haul of hops this year. Planted the ryzomes 2yrs ago.

Looking forward to making some beer with this!

#brewstr #beerstr #grownostr
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I think the bark is too smooth to be elm and the leaves have smooth edges


Thanks, I thought it might be but just looks too dark from the examples I’ve seen online!


I think it’s most likely European beech, though it’s darker than examples I’ve seen. Maybe it’ll lighten when dried 🤷♂

I’m a n00b to woodworking etc!


The tree it came from didn’t have any fruit. It is quite a dark wood though, not sure if it’ll lighten when dried


My garden, I’m in the U.K. if that helps


Is anybody on here good at wood identification?

Milled this up but no idea what it is!

#asknostr #woodstr
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It’s great how they reduce the allowance and also the value of the currency is reduced by inflation. It’s not going to be a good 5yrs in the UK for productive people!


Savers are the enemy of socialists! The Tories also reduced the allowance from £10k to £3k. Bastards.


Been putting the bandsaw to work today attempting to plank up some logs from a tree I felled in the garden.

Looking forward to getting this dried and making something!

#woodstr
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Got the bandsaw setup in the workshop, did a test of slabbing up some firewood. Big unlock for stuff I can do now 🪚🪵
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A bit of touching grass today ☀

The view from the top of Crimpiau looking over Lyn Crafnant
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With lots of eye rolling!


Just had a 1hr 15min scrum standup meeting where I had to repeat myself at least 3x times explaining every ticket to a bunch of ppl with the memory of goldfish

AMA


Managed to snag a bargain bandsaw on ebay, can't wait to level up my workshop!

Looking to start developing some Bitcoin related products made out of wood!

#woodstr


I gave my neices and nephews their equal share of sats per person (244k sats) for Christmas 3 years ago. The fiat value is now pretty much the same so they haven't really caught onto the benefits and haven't stacked any more themselves per my advice!

At least they have it though. I still hold their keys just in case.


With autumn fast approaching in the U.K. I’m looking forward to cosy nights in front of the wood burner and no Airbnb guests!


I had thought our cleaners would let us know stuff was disappearing. Looking at what other hosts say on Airbnb it seems there’s little recourse as you have to prove things are missing. How do you prove a missing towel!
Going to do the checks myself now but it will add 30mins extra labour per booking.
Wish I knew how unprofitable Airbnb’s were before I got into it 😂


That’s what I’m going to have to start doing! I hadn’t been doing inventory between guests, didn’t think it would be such a big problem! The question is whether you would actually get anything back from Airbnb, the kind of person that would steal stuff isn’t the kind that would admit to it


The spares are locked up. The stuff that’s going missing is what the guests get. I hadn’t thought to count everything after each guest, I knew some would get stolen but not to this extent!


I’ve been running an Airbnb for 2yrs now. We bought 3 sets of laundry (sheets/towels etc) so there was always a spare set in case of accidents etc.

The spare set is now entirely missing and we have less than 2 sets worth of hand towels left.

Anybody know if this is normal or how to stop it if (as I suspect) scumbags are stealing stuff?

#asknostr #boringrant #airbnb


Double rainbow over the garden!

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Good haul of potatoes!

#grownostr
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Looking forward to next year already!


There is no second best UK Bitcoin meet up

#BitcoinBeachRetreat
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Looking forward to Bitcoin Beach Retreat in Wales this weekend! Anyone else on Nostr going?


I’ve got kittens living in my hedge!
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What is it with Airbnb guests putting the heating up to 22C at the end of June. Wtf?!


This UK General Election is shaping up to be a hilarious clown show, one side wants National Service for the young and the other side wants to spend more than UK GDP nationalising energy companies.

I'm going to tell people I'll be voting Bitcoin on polling day by stacking sats. This small action will do more to change the world than voting for a Fiat politician.


Lots of jubilation about Trump coming out with a pro- #Bitcoin script, but I’d just like to remind everyone that Trump’s DOJ indicted Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, he didn’t free Ross when he was President, and he didn’t pardon Snowden.

Actions speak louder than words.

Anyway, goodnight.


Sea fog over Conwy bay today. Summer has arrived in North Wales ☀
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The garden needed some water after this dry spell!


Missed the northern lights last night. My airbnb guests were sitting on the balcony all night so I closed the curtains


Awesome! That’s pretty steep! I need a board to get strong again, I’m over an hour from the nearest gym. Lots of real rock closer but it rains a lot in Wales!


I kinda want to build a moon board in my garage but it’s so expensive to get the hold sets and electronics 😭

Also don’t have the headroom for the full size one


The maiden whip apple trees are doing nicely in the mini orchard. The sheep got in and munched one of them but not too badly.

They’re all Welsh varieties of eaters and cider apples so in a few years I’ll have some cider.

Gardening is a very low time preference activity!

#grownostr #howdyoulikethemapples
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Levelled yo my chainsaw mill game with a guide rail. Still a 5-10mm discrepancy but much better than using a warped scaffold board.

Now I’ve just got to purchase a thicknesser to true it up.
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Nice, they’re all sandbags in the moonboard aren’t they?


I’ve got mushrooms growing in my compost! No idea if they’re edible
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A bit of touching grass today. Found some nice waterfalls just down the road ☀
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Reprogramming NPCs & Winning The Economic War

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Nice! Look forward to seeing the finished product!


Looks good, what ABV you going for? I’ve made regular ginger beer before with a ginger bug but never an alcoholic version


Hello! We are a rare breed, especially here in the sticks of Snowdonia!


Finally a dry day to do some gardening here in sunny North Wales.

1.5 acres mowed and levelling and seeding of old box hedge beds (still more to remove!)

Might need another bay for compost, that much lawn makes a lot of clippings!

Now onto some chainsaw milling if the rain holds off

#yardstr #gardening #grownostr
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Interestingly they aren't reducing the amount of energy they use per person though. And they are increasing fossil fuel usage even with the renewables when you look at the data.

The UK however is reducing energy per person, still with high reliance on fossil fuel. No wonder our energy bills are sky high here.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china
https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/united-kingdom


We can agree on more energy = good! The problem with the mainstream climate hysterics is their solutions involve coercion and violation of basic rights rather than voluntary cooperation. And over the past decade or more they have made everyone's lives worse and more expensive!

Lots of new cantillionaires in the green washing industry though!


I'd consider myself an environmentalist, anti-pollution etc but when it comes to humanity shooting itself in the foot to attempt to reduce CO2 emissions I'm incredibly dubious.


They may be separate issues but they are similar in the "proof" being modelling - models that haven't shown they can predict the future. See also, Bitcoin price modelling.

It's sad so many have been convinced we are doomed based on very shaky data.


Therein lies the problem - you could very easily send me off to do a simple experiment to prove the earth is round. To convince me humanity is in mortal peril due to human induced climate change requires modelling, dubious data sources and browbeating.

I think if there is human induced climate change, what states around the world are doing to attempt to combat it is worse than useless - exactly like the Covid response.


Much of the Covid hysteria was based on modelled predictions. There is lots of data on Covid but it doesn’t stop most people continuing to believe shutting down the world was worth it and the virtuous thing to do.

If you could show me climate modeling that has accurately predicted temperatures over many years without sly adjustments of said model I might be more convinced. Al Gore promised us an ice free arctic by now and it hasn’t happened!


Ah, so not as easy to disprove as flat earthism then!

How do these models hold up? Have they predicted temperatures correctly in the century of research?

People are understandably sceptical of models used to enforce big changes on their lives after the Great Covid Debacle.


Science isn’t a consensus sport, check the history of science. There are simple experiments anyone can do to prove the earth is a globe, are there any simple experiments anyone can do to verify humanity is in peril due to climate change?


It just needs a clear view of the sky, no trees is better. I used starlink for over a yr before I got fibre in the area, weather didn't really affect it - and there's a lot bad weather where I live! Only issue is slightly higher ping than hardline and the occassional 1-2s lag spike when switching satellites every half hr or so


The big lie is that COVID is/was disproportionately dangerous - it's the foundation for all other lies on the subject. It was reinforced by the large spike in deaths following panicked interventions by govts and healthcare profs - democide and iatrogenesis.

Narratives are like a blockchain, stories are built on top of each other and the deeper they go the harder they are to change.


Fallout!


I paid for my contact lenses with lightning. Was a nice surprise to find the site I usually order from accepted BTC!

It’s so much easier than fiat payments, no billing address, long number, expiry, approve in your banking app etc etc.


Watched Fallout episode 1. So far it’s excellent. Art style, humour and music matches the game.


Sampling another brew tonight, a clone of Beavertown’s Neck Oil. I’ve brewed this one a few times now, it’s a banger!

Low time preference hobbies are the best

#brewing #brewstr
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saminbelize

coder / climber / sat stacker / node runner - 022fb3125f484130fb4bed135f1e19a4006d2b9977af602d7c50703457b5713bd5

Based in North Wales


Thanks! I tried setting it up with nostrcheck.me but don't think it worked


Sampling my latest homebrew - it’s a hazy session IPA, pretty tasty even though it was only bottled a week ago

#brewstr
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12hrs of driving this weekend, listened to 4 great podcasts

- nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft  on Titcoin
- The No Agenda Red Book Special
- Lawrence Leopard on Bitcoin Matrix
- PD Mangan on TFTC


This was a great rip and totally resonated having given up on Xwitter finally. Scrolling without getting triggered AF is awesome!


Is there somewhere to get nostr verified and pay with sats? #asknostr #nostrn00b


Just gotta get your plane or chisels super sharp! I think it’s a bit easier in some respects to dovetail hard wood as it doesn’t split at easily.

Good luck with the cabinet, woodwork is all about practice!


Nice! Dovetails are really tricky! This is the first box I made
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Caught a good rainbow reflection on a walk around a nearby lake.

Unfortunately there was only a pot of shiny rocks at the end of it, not sats!

#photography

(Gwydir Forest, Snowdonia)
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Don’t forget your ABC’s

Always Be Composting

#growstr
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I’m addicted to sous vide #foodstr
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I just upgraded my network with the TP link ER7212PC - it’s an all in one managed switch and router. Saves getting the router/controller/switch separately. Works with a bunch of tp link PoE APs.


GM!


Trying nostr only for a while.

Hi nostr!


The varieties of pandemic preparedness plans amounted to springs set to activate and “help” if there was a pandemic.

To the extent those plans were followed, they obliterated civil liberties and had massive harms.

But in most cases governments reacted with interventions going far BEYOND even those hubristic pandemic plans.

And — this is not often discussed — the existence of those plans almost surely contributed to the illusion of a pandemic. Just as hammers see nails everywhere, the infrastructures constructed to save us if there ever were a pandemic are disproportionately likely to suffer from an illusion of a pandemic. They want to save us. And they certainly don’t want to be remembered for NOT saving us when they were charged with that righteous task.

So…

Plandemic preparedness plans, if they are to exist at all, must

(1) be steeped in the complex cost-benefit trade-offs of living and breathing societies,

(2) possess an overarching humility about their ability to possibly master plan anything

(3) not violate civil liberties [THIS is the most important of all]

(4) learn that the dangers from mass hysteria and social division — such as targeting the evil unclean out group — can be much more severe than the dangers from the emergency itself

(5) realize that they themselves are uniquely biased in their ability to recognize whether or not a pandemic (or any emergency) is actually occurring.

The folks involved in such “emergency planning” infrastructure are, however, invariably far Left, have the hubris that they can master plan economies and the truth, don’t view civil liberties as a constraint, have childish models of how society will respond to their policies, and have zero insight into the bias peculiar to their situation.