What are your jeans doing today?

[julian-wolf]

Drying in the sun

Sugar Cane + Word of Mouth + The Vanishing West

[ATWM]

22 hours ago, PartTimeBarista said:

“Climate haven” is the term I’ve heard about Michigan / Midwest.

Ha, yea. If there is such a thing... Nevermind being shrouded in wildfire smoke for the majority of the summer now. Better than some alternatives though.

[MJF9]

My first visit to Everton FC’s new stadium… our glorious new home on the banks of the royal blue River Mersey, definitely befitting of the school of science!  Playing Crystal Palace, at that point unbeaten in 18 games

Parked a couple of miles away from the stadium in the city centre – walking past the Adelphi Hotel

Then through Matthew Street... saying hello to Cilla and John on the way

The stadium’s in the old docks area of the city… so little pop up bars are opening up for match day footfall… this is Meraki with a DJ on spinning some old skool tunes… nice warm up with my old mates

The walk up to the stadium

Awful first half for the Toffees, played off the pitch by a much superior Palace… but what a second half with a penalty equaliser and then an injury time winner from Jacky boy Grealish – go ‘ed lad!

The walk back… and even managed a visit to see me Ma on the way home… 12 hour day well worth it 😊

Clad in SCSC ‘43 jeans, FW 44-45 jacket, Ironalls chambray, FW heavy sweatshirt, Rototo beanie, Adidas shell toes (Star Wars dark side)

Edited October 7, 2025 by MJF9

[julian-wolf]

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix

[Double 0 Soul]

While y’all are enjoying your weekend, I’m at work making a volute casing for a pump.

I have no drawings.. I made a volute for a 6” impeller from a proper drawing, back in 1996.. then in 1997, I scaled that drawing up to make a volute for an 8” impeller.. (this was young Double 0 at peak engineering skills)

The same customer has recently cut one of the volute castings in half, opened up the reducing snail shell bore so it’s elliptical, put some spacers in and welded plate around.. they've tested the flow rates and now they want to make it as a casting without paying for a draftsman to produce a drawing, there is no model and their chief hydro engineer has since died.

Let’s give it to Double 0 .. he knows a thing or two fuck all about fluid mechanics (well, he knows a little bit)

I've setout the scroll / reducing snail shell in 1/77 contraction

This is the principle.. i'll be making the impeller too.

In laymans terms, It's a bit like sticking your thumb over the end of a hosepipe .. see Bernoulli's Equasion, don't worry, there wont be a test at the end..

Templates for internal / extarnal

Construcion

..on each end of these segments, I’ll mark out a reducing ellipse and carve one shape into the next as it moves around the scroll

I use a height guage around the inside of the segments, then I use blue wax crayon on plywood templates to create the shape / pick up the high spots

The fun part will be making the internal bore and maintaining an equal 12mm wall thickness

Both halves are worked and fitted together.. obvs it needs to be made in halves as a split pattern so it will mould in the foundry

Pastel de nata to keep me going..

Now the development towards the discharge flange.. as you can see, i pick minutes up from the setout and transfer them to the segments so each template fits around the pattern like a clock, the 'unknown' shape between two templates is created using a strip of 1.5mm ply, cut across the grain so it flexes.. you apply blue crayon and bend it around the conteurs to pick up the high spots then feel around the shape with your hands.. zen like imagining flow..

If i was a proper Instagram woodworker.. everything would be spotlessly clean, i'd have a £200 copper riveted selvedge apron and a brand new pair of Redwings..

Turn the volume up for max ASMR 😍

Hopefully i've managed to embed one of these videos.. if they don't play, lmk

The scroll shape is getting there..  it's going to be complicated by the discharge flange which (unlike the YT video) will be tapered at 45° the angle will mould on the top half of the pattern but be undercut (against the draw) on the bottom half.. i have no idea what shape this will be just yet, i need to figure that shit out..  it'll be whatever the projected shape is at the end of the segments.. but on a 45° angle?? .. the internal bore has to be a true diameter but exiting at 45° to fit up to the connecting flange of the pipe which this will volute will bolt to..

Hmmmm?? .. "you'll have to suck it and see" is what they used to say when i was an apprentice.

Tune in next week for another thrilling installment as i start to make the internal shape

Edited October 11, 2025 by Double 0 Soul

[indigoeagle]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Turn the volume up for max ASMR 😍

 

Unfortunately for me the videos are not playing, "network error".

[Double 0 Soul]

1 hour ago, indigoeagle said:

Unfortunately for me the videos are not playing, "network error".

Is this^ the same for everyone?

If no.. try a different device Thore, if yes, I’ll try and fix it.. works fine for me on both laptop and phone.

[indigoeagle]

It works now on my laptop. Didn't work on the ipad somehow.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

@Double 0 Soul that was one of the best things I saw in a while here on Sufu (besides @Dr_Heech neighbour's post).

[Dr_Heech]

4 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

@Double 0 Soul that was one of the best things I saw in a while here on Sufu (besides @Dr_Heech neighbour's post).

My neighbour posted on here!? Why didn't you tell me?? 😂

[indigoeagle]

Yes, really amazing things you can creat, @Double 0 Soul

Probably not your thing, but I'm sure you could find a solid number of people world wide interested in the things you can do and possibly sharing some knowledge. There can't be too many people who have this diverse set of skills. At least I've never met or seen anyone.

[smoothsailor]

Went to the bespoked bicycle show in Dresden Germany.

its a handbuild bicycle show. Its good mix of high end race, gravel, mtb , cargo, touring bikes. Mostly made of steel. And it has a diy vibe builds. All super nice.

 

[MJF9]

Coffee then off to the gym - the recent boxing gloves banter relates... trusty old Twins bag gloves

Then a late breakfast with Mrs MJF9 down at my favourite grill, run by some good Kurdish lads

Family walk in the park before the afternoon rain

Edited October 19, 2025 by MJF9

[indigoeagle]

On 10/15/2025 at 10:23 PM, smoothsailor said:

Went to the bespoked bicycle show in Dresden Germany.

 

 

More deets on this pic?
Is that a bakfiets?

[smoothsailor]

Yes a cargo bike that I made, it’s the pink one in the second picture.

they had a “drag” race. When I stood on the start line this lovely queen jumped on my bike, so raced with her.

The queens did the start and finish with flags. Was a cool little event, all kinds off bikes, mini velo’s, bmx, tall bikes, cargo, 

[indigoeagle]

6 hours ago, smoothsailor said:

Yes a cargo bike that I made, it’s the pink one in the second picture.

they had a “drag” race. When I stood on the start line this lovely queen jumped on my bike, so raced with her.

The queens did the start and finish with flags. Was a cool little event, all kinds off bikes, mini velo’s, bmx, tall bikes, cargo, 

Sounds like a fun event.

[PartTimeBarista]

Was down in @yung_flynn’s neck of the woods this past weekend visiting my college roommates. Two of my roommates married two of my wife’s roommates. We took our three families to the pumpkin farm Saturday morning, here’s mine:

[yung_flynn]

1 hour ago, PartTimeBarista said:

Was down in @yung_flynn’s neck of the woods this past weekend visiting my college roommates

Leaf colors are almost hitting their peak here plus it's finally getting cooler, so it's a great time to visit

[MJF9]

Earlier this week in the big smoke

[Dr_Heech]

Oh l'm down here myself @MJF9 for the weekend, albeit south of the river big smoke. 

[MJF9]

My jeans were not doing much today...
Parked up on the edges of the city and walked into Leeds for a coffee

Regeneration

Corn Exchange and area

Coffee and Freewheelers

On the way back

Old pub, now flats

 

Edited November 1, 2025 by MJF9

[Thicolas Rage]

Love the pub converted into flats. Reminders of what once was that almost personifies a building by giving it character and a story past just being an apartment block. We don’t get that kind of history where I’m based. The inlaid ‘cafe’ sign in the brick a few pics above is equally cool. 
 

My favourite I’ve visited was a McDonald’s in an old arched building in France — complete with an incredibly intricate tiled mosaic that spanned the entire ceiling. No clue what that building served a purpose for before, but the beautiful architecture juxtaposed with Big Macs was quite funny. 

Edited November 1, 2025 by Thicolas Rage

[Dr_Heech]

What did they do today? The same thing they do just about every week between October and December, clear the lawn of sycamore seeds and leaves. If l didn't do it regularly then l'd have a small field of baby trees come springtime. 

Used to have to rake the lot which could take 2 hours or so but not nowadays since acquiring this bad boy. Cuts time in half and really cleans out the lawn completely, giving some much needed feeding ground for the small garden birds.

Maruyuma backpack blower with a 2 stroke kawasaki engine and extra long pipe, pulled it out of the skip at work and fixed it up/serviced it and it's as good as new.

^Taa-daa! Clean garden

^and clean little yard

^a bit behind with some garden maintenance, oopsie! Below is how it looked when new -

 

And as in today's WAYWT thread, my garden jeans...

 

Edited November 15, 2025 by Dr_Heech
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[Maynard Friedman]

Pt 1

Took a pair of Warehouse Warrens to Clutch Cafe today for hemming, accompanied by the faithful hound. I snapped a few of the more interesting sights on the walk along a quiet Great Portland Street.

This cricket bar (Sixes) has a batting net inside (window on the left).

BT tower

Customer service in here is pretty slow…

Can we go to the park now please?

[Maynard Friedman]

Pt 2.

Walked back to Finchley Rd station via Regents Park and St John’s Wood before getting the tube a few stops home.

I love these big old mansion blocks, lots of them around St John’s Wood

Green hut for black cab drivers

Back of the media centre at Lord’s

Your move, pooch!

The pattern on this transom window looks like Edwin arcs!

Perky Blenders coffee shop next to the station

Back home

Local burger joint & tap room

[MJF9]

Watched Blackstar (Talib Kweli, Mos Def) last night in Manchester, with a surprise appearance as support from Lowkey... excellent, unlike my terrible low resolution pictures

Venue was Victoria Warehouse, in clear sight of Old Trafford football stadium where Man Utd play

Luckily I'd left my helmet and my drone at home so I had no trouble getting in

Kapital, Freewheelers, At Last 162, @Duke Mantee, Adidas x Wales Bonner

Edited November 16, 2025 by MJF9

[smoothsailor]

How was the show? @MJF9

[MJF9]

Really good thanks mate.  Both Mos Def and Talib Kweli were on top form.  They did a load of old Blackstar from the first album, then a bit of their own stuff including Get By by Talib and Ms Fat Booty making a big deal of Aretha Franklin's voice.  Lowkey got the crowd going well as warm up.  Blackstar came out to a nice tribute to D'Angelo with Devil's Pie and they closed out with that before an encore iirc.  The DJ from San Francisco was excellent but I never caught his name.  I've seen Talib Kweli three times now and he's consistently good.  I wanted to see Mos Def for ages - he did a show in London last year doing Madlib but we missed out.  Definitely worth seeing if they come down your way Smooth 

[smoothsailor]

Sounds good. They play in Amsterdam next Thursday, if I was closer I would make an effort to go.

they play at the Paradiso, pretty cool venue. I used to work there, saw a lot of legends play. And met my wife there, we were colleagues 

[Alec Leamas]

Unreal! Would love to see Blackstar live, and Lowkey too!