hushnel
Well-Known Member
I'm Mike, I'm often mistaken as a skilled craftsman, even by close friends,who should know better "o) I'm focused, but I tend to wander from craft to craft, or skill to skill.
I just made up my first batch of soap yesterday, I'm pretty sure it turned out OK, even if it's a bit ugly. As I searched the web for "The book" on soap making it popped into my poor abused mind to find a forum on the subject, sorry, you guys got chosen "o)
So, ugly soap still works, I poured it into a wax paper lined cardboard box, I learned two things, wax paper is not going to work and I don't like the cardboard box mold. I looked at the molds offered on the web then went out to my workshop and banged out this adjustable soap mold.
My wife of 27 years and I have just bought a beautiful 21.2 acre Florida Cracker Farm built in 1886 just out side of Lake City Florida. I retire from my day job with 30 years of service in 8 months. My skills and crafts are mostly traditional. I started playing musical instruments at 7 years of age, I still play and always have so it's kind of natural that I would make my own instruments, unfortunately it's hard to keep that a secret, forcing me to make instruments for others, even though I try my best to discourage this behavior in others with outrageous pricing "o)
So other than that I spin, weave, knit, felt, do custom leather work, spin pottery, make knives, iron work, bake, woodwork, baskets, ships in bottles, glass engraving and stuff along those lines. We do a lot of canoeing, wilderness camping, I hunt and fish, we sail and put a bunch of miles every year on one of two Harleys.
Hope I didn't over do this introduction, I just wanted to let y'all know a few things about me.
I'm going to go brows around the forum know and mine information.
I just made up my first batch of soap yesterday, I'm pretty sure it turned out OK, even if it's a bit ugly. As I searched the web for "The book" on soap making it popped into my poor abused mind to find a forum on the subject, sorry, you guys got chosen "o)
So, ugly soap still works, I poured it into a wax paper lined cardboard box, I learned two things, wax paper is not going to work and I don't like the cardboard box mold. I looked at the molds offered on the web then went out to my workshop and banged out this adjustable soap mold.
My wife of 27 years and I have just bought a beautiful 21.2 acre Florida Cracker Farm built in 1886 just out side of Lake City Florida. I retire from my day job with 30 years of service in 8 months. My skills and crafts are mostly traditional. I started playing musical instruments at 7 years of age, I still play and always have so it's kind of natural that I would make my own instruments, unfortunately it's hard to keep that a secret, forcing me to make instruments for others, even though I try my best to discourage this behavior in others with outrageous pricing "o)
So other than that I spin, weave, knit, felt, do custom leather work, spin pottery, make knives, iron work, bake, woodwork, baskets, ships in bottles, glass engraving and stuff along those lines. We do a lot of canoeing, wilderness camping, I hunt and fish, we sail and put a bunch of miles every year on one of two Harleys.
Hope I didn't over do this introduction, I just wanted to let y'all know a few things about me.
I'm going to go brows around the forum know and mine information.
