#elbow grease

[theaibountyhunter]

The art I put the most effort into and want stolen the least

[nextgenfoals]

twinkle bright eyes g1 + elbow grease g4

A crystal pony AND a twinkle eye?? The shiny knows no bounds :0….. — Mod charm

[ponygoldboy]

y’all wanna see something crazy

i bought this expandable drop-leaf dining table (& two “matching” chairs) last year for cheap because i was like listen that bad boy could be beautiful as hell with some love and thankfully my partner understands my particular brand of insanity

we have pretty much always kept tablecloths over it because uh it looks like this! but i finally was like It Is Time and so after two rounds of stripping and a lot of sanding it currently looks like this:

it still needs a some more sanding and i need to steel wool the edge groove more then i ordered some fancy oilwax for kitchen surfaces (osmo topoil). it’ll get a few coats of that and she will be done!

[magicclam]

Last weekend a friend of mine reached out to let me know that her uncle and father (who were contractors during their careers) were having a tool sale.

One of the things they were selling was a floorstanding drill press. I’ve wanted one for a long time, and this was a good opportunity to get one at a reasonable price. It was supposedly working when I got it, but that was really only true at a basic level.

When I plugged it in, the drill chuck spun. 

However... the platter was gunked up and rusted so it wouldn’t move. I removed the cross-slide vice from the platter (2nd and 3rd pics) to find a pile of sawdust and chips underneath. After 6 rounds with degreaser, I got the platter clean.

Then spent a bunch of hours on Sunday scrubbing the metal parts with WD40 and steel wool to clean them up and de-rust. Pic 6 and 7 show the motor mount slide which was so rusted it wouldn’t move either. Last few pics show the main column before and after. Managed to get most of the rust off it, so it works well now.

Still more cleaning and work to do on it.

Stay tuned for more projects!

[themancorialist]

Market Street, Manchester.

[cozcon]

🧐What Have You Done For Us Today❓

“Not enough” is the only just answer. Last year was a marathon of traumas for black folks in america. We spent it witnessing those that have ignored centuries of our obliteration suddenly decide our lives mattered simply because they had too much time on their hands. There is a particular pain to seeing your ongoing suffering as another’s delayed and much congratulated revelation. What’s the gameplan now that the fanfare of valuing black lives has died down? Seeing white people being given the Disneyland backstage pass treatment at the capitol building was an impeccably illustrated point: If you’re reading this and you’re white, know that there is nothing dividing you from any of those people tracking mud onto the carpet. You have a lifetime of unlearning to do. You’re still investing in anti-blackness by nature, tending toward performative contributions vs. concrete service, biting your tongue where you should be screaming, cashing a check when you should be redistributing the wealth... the list is one of biblical proportions. You entered this world with a legacy so grand, bloody and boundless that even when you’re losing you’re perched on a pot of gold. Lately I can sense extra exasperation in some of the white part-time activists that took on extra hours last year. It’s the kind that comes from those in positions of privilege finding out that they *still* owe something to the disadvantaged. The stench of “What More Do You Want” is thick in the air. But white privilege is a well you can ladle from til the end of time. I’ve arrived to 2021 very aware that if you’re in a position to ask me what more I want from you then you clearly have more to give and I want every last drop plus interest. I want you give until the shirt’s off your back and snugly onto mine. I trust you will find that your ability to contribute at the same level as last year is not only possible but easily bested. Internalize the urgency of this time we’re in as if you woke up an hour late for school... except it’s more like 400 years late.

more art here.

[nevinslibrary]

Totally Youthful Tuesday

I had to read all about a truck with gumption by @JohnCena right?

Elbow Grease has four brothers. They are tough, fast, smart, and brave. He’s smaller than them, but, he enters the Demolition Derby anyway. He’s going to show his brothers that he can do it too. (He also has Mel his mechanic!)

This was the coolest book. It was the title (and the author) that pulled me in, but, the art is bright and awesome, all the trucks have distinct personalities (the whole ‘plug’ scene cracked me up so much), and it’s just really well done (for any age). And, it’s the start of a series too, never a bad thing.

You may like this book If you Liked: Mighty Truck by Chris Barton, Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky, or The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

Elbow Grease by John Cena

[foolishkatreblog]

Inktober day 15

Eyyy who understands this?