This year my podcast, Roll for Topic, held its first convention. For one of the door prizes I made a dice tower reusing some ash flooring that a friend had gifted me. Here’s the finished piece: I’m very happy with out it turned out. The brass discs on the outside are for the internal pins […]
Twice Reclaimed Ash Box
A while back, a friend had an ash tree from their yard milled into floorboards. Those then those sat in storage until they moved and he donated the lot of them to me. As a thank you gift I made this small box for him: I tried to keep details from the floorboards intact. The […]
Happy Holidays!
In lieu of physical cards this year I spent way too long putting together a digital version that has a few jokes that made us laugh: 2020 Salzman Holiday Card I really do want you to have a happy last few weeks of the year. If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas! And here’s to a […]
Two cutting boards
Selling these two cutting boards for $50 each. Both are finished with a mineral oil and beeswax blend. This one is oak, black walnut, and elm. Approximately 9.5″ by 12.5″ by 5/8″: And this one is elm and a very pale black walnut. 9.5″ by 13″ by 5/8″. A small knot was filled in with […]
Issues with the Microsoft Sculpt on USB-C MacBook Pros
Feel free to skip this if you do not want to hear about a very specific hardware issue I am having. I’m writing this so I have a reference document to point back to and share! Updates Update July 2023: I’ve had a few years of no issues when using a direct usb-C to A […]
Sounds Good To Me! – A Halloween One Shot.
On Halloween I ran a game in which the players played as characters from a not-real-but-plausible 90s sitcom called Sounds Good To Me!. The show was all about the Good family who lived in the Detroit area. The game would be them playing the special Halloween episode from Season 2. As a way to gauge […]
Videochatting on Thanksgiving: An acceptable teleconferencing solution for the whole family
In late October I started thinking about how in the world we were going to videochat with family on Thanksgiving in a way that didn’t involve holding a phone at arm’s length while we tried to keep a baby from grabbing it. I got some advice to use a computer for the video portion and […]
Small Box For Beach Treasures
On Friday we went to the beach in Port Huron, MI and my daughter collected rocks and shells. The rest of the weekend I worked on making a small box for her to keep those treasures in. Final dimensions came out to about 3.25”x2.25”x2”. Materials were white oak and Titebond III. Finished with three-ish coats […]
A pile of knives
Our previous methodology of storing our knives was a pile in one of the drawers. In a nod to safety we had a scrap piece of wood in there as a divider to keep them separate from the non-pointy kitchen utensils.It wasn’t the worst system. It wasn’t the best either. So I made a better […]
Front Garden
We had A2 Garden Guides design and landscape our front yard and it looks SO much better! Super happy with it: And here’s the map they drew for us of what is what. This is really useful because our kiddo keeps asking us the names of things: Descriptions Azalea Varieties ‘Hino Crimson’, ‘Boursault’, ‘Gaiety’. Azalea […]