3D Printing
Bed Adhesion, Step by Step
The most common first-layer problem has almost nothing to do with the printer and everything to do with three basic steps, done in order, that are easy to skip …
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Critical Infrastructure in Looe
This is bit of a page with a map of pubs and restaurants that I enjoy frequenting
→On Slowing Down With Hand Tools
A hand plane forces a different pace than a router does. There's no way to rush it without the wood telling you immediately that you've rushed it — a plane that…
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GPS
Trail Notes From the Ridge
Clear enough at the start to see three ridgelines out, cloud down to head height by the time I reached the top. Typical Dartmoor, really — the forecast had prom…
Gadget
Charging Cables, Ranked
A completely unscientific ranking, based entirely on which cables have survived a year of being stepped on, sat on, and dragged across a desk by accident more t…
GPS
Notifications Have Gone Too Far
Every app now believes it deserves a push notification. A weather app that pings me about tomorrow's pollen count is not providing a service, it's competing for…
Sharpening Basics I Wish I'd Learned Sooner
Angle matters more than grit I spent two years buying finer stones before realising my angle was inconsistent between strokes. Fixing that mattered more than an…
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Gear Review
A Case for the Smaller Backpack
Every pack I've bought bigger than 30 litres has quietly filled itself with things I didn't need. The smaller one forces better decisions before I leave the hou…
Woodworking
Finishing a Walnut Board, Start to Finish
Four stages, four photos, roughly a week between the first and the last as the oil cured properly between coats rather than being rushed to a finish that would …
GPS
Reading a Map When the Signal Drops
Every phone-based navigation habit falls apart the moment signal drops, unless the maps were downloaded in advance. This is the one lesson worth actually acting…
3D Printing
Print Settings Cheat Sheet for PETG
Starting point These are the numbers I go back to before touching anything else, across three different printers and two different PETG brands — a genuinely rel…
Cable Organiser Roundup: Four Tried
Four ways to stop a bag turning into a cable knot, tried over a month of travel each, rotating through so I actually got a fair comparison rather than judging o…
→Site Update Notes — July
A short housekeeping post — no photo needed for this one, just a plain update on what's changed behind the scenes over the last few weeks, mostly for anyone who…
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GPS
Why Does Every Charger Use a Different Cable
I counted six different charging cables in one drawer this week. Six. For devices that all charge at broadly the same wattage, doing broadly the same job, made …
General
Five Minutes of Quiet Before the Day Starts
Coffee, no phone, five minutes on the step before anyone else is up. It's become the one part of the morning I actually protect, even on days when everything af…
Tool
The Multitool I Actually Reach For
Not the one with the most tools — the one that lives in the van door and gets used weekly. Half the blades on the "better" multitool I own have never once been …
Gadget
Unboxing the New 20,000mAh Power Bank
Nothing revolutionary here — it charges things, it's the right size for a jacket pocket, and the display actually shows a percentage rather than four vague dots…
3D Printing
Dialling In Part-Cooling Fans on the A1 Mini
Where I started Stock fan curves are a reasonable default, but overhangs on PETG kept coming out fuzzy no matter what I tried in the slicer's temperature settin…
Woodworking
Building a Simple Oak Shelf From Offcuts
The plan Three offcuts, a single dado joint, and no metal fixings at all. The whole thing was going to live or die on the glue-up, since there was nothing else …
GPS
A Week With the Offline Maps App I Almost Didn't Buy
I'd resisted paying for offline maps for years, on the logic that a paper map never runs out of battery and never needs an app update at the worst possible mome…
Gear Review
Testing the Ridgeline Headlamp Through a Wet Autumn
I've run the Ridgeline through most of a wet Dartmoor autumn now, and it's earned a permanent spot in the door pocket. The flood beam is genuinely usable for cl…