Plumb Daddy

11/22/2025

Mildly dramatic- finishing the GFRC hand packing of the Warg mold.

10/30/2024

10/27/2024

A few pics from projects over the last few months. Steel gates.

09/06/2024

Spent some time working on this gate design. Here’s a peek at the process.

Watch as this custom steel gate takes shape through careful fitting and welding. This video focuses on the craftsmanship and precision behind the design, cap...

05/08/2024

Some MIG but mostly TIG-

08/18/2023

Rolling Right Along...

10/31/2022

This previz image rendered with software from the same people who bring you Fortnight. What a savings of time.
Hours as opposed to days.
Those textured panels on the end of the cabinets are actual geometry, not decals.
A murphy bed and cabinetry project.

08/06/2022

Sculpted the lion in Zbrush. Printed then molded and cast a handful in concrete to see how it would really look before scaling it up. Split and keyed the model in Zbrush as well to fit the printer.

08/01/2022

Bar clamps too short?

07/24/2022

The futurists say that someday, when we want something, we’ll go to the 3D printer ( or replicator) and it will be printed for us. Heard that a lot when I started dabbling in 3D printing. 3 years and 7 printers later I am reminded of this as this morning was the first time experiencing this. My wife, the crab slayer, needed a measuring device to take out with her on her paddle board to check her traps.
Found a measuring tool after a quick search on Thingiverse. Sliced it in Cura, and in 10 minutes the Ultimaker was printing the part. Took 4 1/2 hours to print but that’s ok, we were not in a hurry.
Maybe in 20 years this will be the way we start getting things in our homes. I think it is still going to be awhile before 3D printing is user friendly enough to be practical for the non-technical type who just wants a hamburger.