What are your jeans doing today?

[PartTimeBarista]

From the weekend, a walk down to our favorite playground on the shore of Lake Michigan.

[Double 0 Soul]

Alrighty.. i'm getting to the final stages of this Volute pattern

I started carving out the internals..

I made this wooden spokeshave / drawknife when i was an young apprentice

Fitting the parts into the box.. i've machined away parts of pine and inserted mahonany to be more hardwearing  in areas of high stress.

The template for the discharge fits here

The rest of the diameter appertains on the other half.. compicated init!!

There we go ..all carved out

Went to a 4yr old's birthday party.. photobombed my kid.. i'm wearing Hakusan specs and 60s era Champion sweat, kid's wearing Japanese 'Toyota Supra' footy shirt and Stussy basketball shorts.. photo taken by 4yr old on toy camera

Two halves of core together

I also made this micro-spokeshave / apprentice piece

Made a chilli

Used my kids old baby bowl for rice presentation

..and a couple of beers from Clarksons farm.. whatever next, Nigel Ferrage's White Lightening?..  Piers Morgan's Rum? .. Pft!.. Nice Tho!

The square in the middle is just to raise the centrline for measurements.. i'll pop that out at the end

Ta-Daa... 10 weeks of brain melting work / reducing snail shell volute patterns and core boxes

In Blue Peter style.. here's one i made earlier.. it'll have an impeller inside this bore and if all my calculations are correct.. it should be able to pump 200 liters / second.. without cavitation, without turbulance.. that's a fuck ton of liquid!

..and British industry keeps ticking over for another week.. all it needs is a couple of coats of blue pattern varnish 

[Hardcrimper]

16 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Alrighty.. i'm getting to the final stages of this Volute pattern

I started carving out the internals..

I made this wooden spokeshave / drawknife when i was an young apprentice

Fitting the parts into the box.. i've machined away parts of pine and inserted mahonany to be more hardwearing  in areas of high stress.

The template for the discharge fits here

The rest of the diameter appertains on the other half.. compicated init!!

There we go ..all carved out

Went to a 4yr old's birthday party.. photobombed my kid.. i'm wearing Hakusan specs and 60s era Champion sweat, kid's wearing Japanese 'Toyota Supra' footy shirt and Stussy basketball shorts.. photo taken by 4yr old on toy camera

Two halves of core together

I also made this micro-spokeshave / apprentice piece

Made a chilli

Used my kids old baby bowl for rice presentation

..and a couple of beers from Clarksons farm.. whatever next, Nigel Ferrage's White Lightening?..  Piers Morgan's Rum? .. Pft!.. Nice Tho!

The square in the middle is just to raise the centrline for measurements.. i'll pop that out at the end

Ta-Daa... 10 weeks of brain melting work / reducing snail shell volute patterns and core boxes

In Blue Peter style.. here's one i made earlier.. it'll have an impeller inside this bore and if all my calculations are correct.. it should be able to pump 200 liters / second.. without cavitation, without turbulance.. that's a fuck ton of liquid!

..and British industry keeps ticking over for another week.. all it needs is a couple of coats of blue pattern varnish 

Pretty impressive not many people in the country have you skills any more 

[Double 0 Soul]

Thanks @Hardcrimper ..

Yep.. I’m pretty much the last of them, I’ll have to go live on a rocky outcrop and drink blue milk with Luke Skywalker 

[bod]

Me and the GF coincidently had the day off work today so we took the short drive over to Keswick for a buggy push along the Threlkeld footpath which is a 3 mile stretch of ex railway line

Pure blue sky as we approached Bassenthwaite on the A66

Skiddaw and surrounding fells with a bit of icing on top

The footpath starts from the old train station in Keswick which closed in 1972

Old railway runnel under the A66

The river Greta looking back towards Keswick 

Mini waterfall 

And another tunnel

Quick fit pic - Patagonia / LVC / Tracksmith

Into the village of Threlkeld

We called into the cafe for a brew and cake, soz no pics - my plate was just crumbs by the time I’d thought to whip my phone out

And back the way we came

Leaving keswick shot through the windscreen

Edited November 25, 2025 by bod

[MJF9]

Walk around the park this morning... fresh and sunny... missed this lovely place lately as I've been swamped with stuff

That's my lad warming up with his athletics coach down there

SCSC 43 jeans starting to get interesting

Christmas trees up for sale already

Edited November 30, 2025 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

The weather looks lovely! we've had pissing down rain since Thursday.. everything is flooded, the river broke it's banks so the park is sub-aquatic 

My Sunday wasn't so picturesque.. we had an attic full of sleepy teenagers having been on a night hike and not got back till 2.30am (one of them was wearing a one piece ski suit  ) 

I decided to clean the bathroom, Sarah cleans it every week but twice a year it 'needs' someone with insane levels of OCD to come along and eliminate the microscopic amounts of grime lurking in the corners which only they can see.. 

I started off in a denim tux.. SC 506xx and SC47s (with arcs obvs) took the jacket off because the cuffs got wet.. took the jeans off because i didn't want wet knees while scrubbing the shower tray with a toothbrush and some alternative detergent..  it was actually an alternative to detergent with florals, herbs and citrus 

4hrs later wearing shorts and t-shirt.. i was still removing traces of toothpaste from the dimples in our electric toothbrush handles with a toothpick..

[PartTimeBarista]

Winter has arrived. Jeans on under the snow pants 🙂

[PartTimeBarista]

I’ve been in the local news twice in the last week. Both print

and broadcast

[julian-wolf]

Went to southern Florida this past weekend for a friend + colleague's wedding. Was really pleasantly surprised, overall, by how lovely and varied the landscapes were. Possibly the first time since pre-SuFu that I've flown somewhere and not brought a single pair of jeans???

Main event Sunday evening (feat. Django Atour x3 + MOTO derbies)

 

Spent Sunday and Monday mornings at the beach (feat. Union Special, Tender Co., Freenote, Birks)

 

& spent Monday afternoon at a nice big city park, inland a bit, before flying out (feat. Tender Co., Big John, Russell)

 

Would def. go back!

[smoothsailor]

Got invited for the opening of 50 yr hip hop in Holland.

great expo in our local museum, got to rob elbows with old school writers, some mc’s and local cultural snobs. There was break dancing and Shoe, famous Dutch drag guy, wrote his name with dripping paint with a broom. Was a good night out with my own fly girl.

We got all sentimental about a wall full of show posters we used to go to.

[Double 0 Soul]

8 hours ago, smoothsailor said:

Got invited for the opening of 50 yr hip hop in Holland.

 

Looks like a great night.. but there is an incredible oversight here by the set designers.

This^ AJ4 colourway wasn't released till the year 2000 

[smoothsailor]

I contact my connection at the museum and get to the bottom of it

[Double 0 Soul]

I got the volute finished in time for Christmas..

..you would put each of these halves in a moulding frame.. fill the frame with sand, turn the frame over, pop the pattern out leaving a cavity (mould) in the sand

..fill these core boxes with sand.. strickle off the joint and glue the two halves of sand core together

..then the core would fit into the cavity in the sand, located by the prints (painted black) leaving a 14mm space between the sand mould and the core.. this space would be filled with molten metal.. left to cool.. break the sand away and if my calculations are correct, you should have a cast aluminium volute pump

looks pretty swish to say it's just carved out of wood

This aftenoon.. i've been watching 'Fred Bibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone' on Yesterday while i wrap Christmas presents.. i roasted some chestnuts and took them around to the neighbours for hot, home baked mince pies with Limoncello .. followed by brandy and half a bottle of beaujolais

..i feel fucked and it's not even 6pm

Edited December 21, 2025 by Double 0 Soul

[bod]

@smoothsailor fantastic, spotted the ‘Dump Koch” photo which was in the Subway Art book

I had a book called “The Battle of Waterloo” which featured graff from the Waterloo subways in Amsterdam in the 80’s too

Always wanted a painted denim jacket like those but settled for a huge belt buckle with my tag on it instead. Happy days.

[Dr_Heech]

Sat in my usual spot for breakfast, umming and arrrring over this Subscription business..

Made in Stroud cap, Cushman sweat, Sugarcane 47's and Buzz Rickson 1st deck zip -

 

Edited December 28, 2025 by Dr_Heech

[Double 0 Soul]

5 hours ago, superfuture said:

@Double 0 Soul A superlite option for the drop-in folks with post limit might be doable....or there might be an option to limit views for guests?. I think a flat $5/month keeps it simple for now. (We had discussed it being around $10/month) - and considering what other subscriptions cost these days - Adobe CS costs me around USD80/ month!... The issue is we rapidly need at least 100 of these subscriptions to keep this oasis online. If we get beyond 100 then we can tweak the options a bit.

I get it.. 👍 i just think that once folks are gone they ain't ever coming back, we see it so often with these online communities, most of which have no paywall.. personally, i don't mind paying $100 to be part of a lively community, i don't necessarily want to pay $50 to be part of a dead one.

 

In other news i've just been for a blast around the peaks to burn off some Christmas calories..

Porter trail

Through Whiteley Woods

I've been mildly obsessed with mosses recently after watching a BBC4 docu about Japanese moss gardens

Cowper Stone

From the top.. Odd Future Vans stick like glue to this gritstone

Hampers Hang

Millstones

Stanage Edge

You wouldn't want to run out of Marmite living out here

Stopped for a coffee.. outta the wind in this old cabin at Redmires

Aunty Sue sounds quite open minded

Past Fullwood Hall..

..and home

Edited December 28, 2025 by Double 0 Soul

[julian-wolf]

Morning walk above + below + within the fog

[ATWM]

^ Within the fog is always my favorite. Wish we got more of it here. Pt. Reyes has just about the most! 

[MJF9]

December holidays escape to Malta – lovely climate for gallivanting about at 15 – 19C with some winter sunshine.  The island itself is nice though there are other places I’d prefer just for having more defined and interesting cultures.  Really good, healthy family break coming back feeling refreshed!

Ferry to Valetta looking back at Sliema

View of Valetta… by day and by night

Steep streets of Valetta

Never far from colonial influence – red pillar boxes all over the place 

Really nice Italian, doing a lovely bolognaise, with seating going up the hill

St Julian’s Bay a lovely coastal walk from where we stayed

Mdina the walled city

Marsaxxlokk a little fishing village

My coffee spot… before the morning cold-ish Mediterranean Sea dip / submerging

Featuring SCSC ’43 tux

This is where we went for our morning dip... it's walled off as the sea can get a bit choppy

The end!

Edited January 3 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

6am walk to work in the snow, It looked pretty bad from our bedroom window near the Peak District border.. 

Got togged up.. in 2x pairs of socks, and 2009 era Highland 2000 leg warmers on loan from wife 

The look on Leonard’s face says “men of your age shouldn’t really be wearing leg warmers”

When I got out there.. the snow wasn’t bad at all.. I could and should have gone on the bike..

Cactus houses

Past Hendo’s 

Past the university 

 

Edward street flats..

..these used to be as rough as fuck

nowadays it’s mainly illegal immigrants and students sub-letting the flats from the original owners, all of whom keep it on the DL

Rest of outfit.. Woolpower base, Dunlop Wellies, Vintage Dale of Norway, SC47s, M41026 and Paramo directional shell.

 

🥶

[julian-wolf]

@Double 0 Soul himself posting flat lays?? What’s the world come to

[Double 0 Soul]

7 minutes ago, julian-wolf said:

@Double 0 Soul himself posting flat lays?? What’s the world come to

Ah crap! .. you’re right, hoisted with my own petard.. I’ll have a superficial denim blog before you know it 

[Geeman]

He'll be adjusting his cuffs over his redwing with a bit of cheeky chup sock showing!

[tg76]

Summer fun

Had friends staying so took them for a bike ride, turns out we all ride Niners, parked up to look at an old bridge my partner reused on the bike path, Vietnamese coffee afterwards cause, yum.

Back out on my bike a few days later as it was nice and overcast

blue skies and scorching temps today so went out to the hanger to see what my partner was up to, there was a wings and wheels thing on. watched the warbirds do stuff for a while and was just about to head home when a friend asked if I wanted to go out in the Cub, sure.

 

wearing Blundstones, chinos and a black tshirt, my go to summer clothes. 
 

 

[indigoeagle]

19 hours ago, tg76 said:

Summer fun

Had friends staying so took them for a bike ride, turns out we all ride Niners, parked up to look at an old bridge my partner reused on the bike path, Vietnamese coffee afterwards cause, yum.

Back out on my bike a few days later as it was nice and overcast

blue skies and scorching temps today so went out to the hanger to see what my partner was up to, there was a wings and wheels thing on. watched the warbirds do stuff for a while and was just about to head home when a friend asked if I wanted to go out in the Cub, sure.

wearing Blundstones, chinos and a black tshirt, my go to summer clothes. 
 

 

Great day.
Where is this?

[tg76]

16 minutes ago, indigoeagle said:

Great day.
Where is this?

New Zealand

Up north in Whangārei, most people say it's boring as here with nothing to do, others say only boring people get bored

(I hated it here when I was a teenager, and when I left said I'd never come back. It has grown a lot since then, so have I, I guess)

[indigoeagle]

13 minutes ago, tg76 said:

New Zealand

Up north in Whangārei, most people say it's boring as here with nothing to do, others say only boring people get bored

(I hated it here when I was a teenager, and when I left said I'd never come back. It has grown a lot since then, so have I, I guess)

It looks very beautiful.

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

@tg76 that’s beautiful. 
 

I visited NZ from  September 2013 to January 2014 and there hasn’t been a day since I left that I didn’t wish I was there again. 
 

On another note - 

quick coffee bean run on the bicycle. Gotta love the practicality of the Tabby jacket (and chore jackets in general) 

 

 

[PartTimeBarista]

Job site yesterday, temps -11 C with wind chill of -19. Fighting the weather to get closed in. I was freezing (mostly due to poor choice of footwear).

 

Meanwhile, these admirable actual construction workers are hard at work.