Don’t get your fingers burned!

A little addition to make a cooker safer
A little addition to make a cooker safer

This is a special drop-in feature to improve the safety of a gas cooker used by someone with impaired sight. The OEM design can allow pans to tilt and spill, so these overcome the problem, without restricting the flames and don’t need any skill to fit.

Enchanting

One of my personal projects
One of my personal projects

This is an ongoing project to design an affordable uilleann bagpipe chanter. This will never replace the beautifully crafted items by top makers, but it may make the instrument more accessible to people wanting to learn (before they go on to buy from those craftsmen). I will add a few details to the page up the top there, as I progress.

Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!

Chain fusee for a clock escapement. This is far more complex to create than it looks...
Fusee for a clock escapement. This is far more complex to create than it looks…

Some things are harder to model in software than they are to make in the real world. This is a case in point. This is a non-linear helical cut that has to meet some very specific requirements. With a little tweaking (now done), this is soon to become a production item.