[MachineShop] cutting wax, logbook

[Jack Rexer]

I'm going to work on getting the carving done over this weekend and cast it
in bronze next week. I'll report back with how it turns out! Also I
unplugged the lathe and flipped the breaker off as part of my cleanup of
the machine shop afterwards.

-Yak

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM Mitchell Newberry <mitchell at localpost.io>
wrote:

> Yesterday new member Yak and I used the lathe to "cut wax" for Yak's art
> project machining hard wax for lost-wax casting. Yak is making partly
> carved partly machined castings to work as decorative caps for modern
> bicycle forks, so obviously I am into it. It was fun and if you thought
> machining aluminum was forgiving, try machining wax!
>
> We cleaned up in a hurry because I had an orientation to do, and I forgot
> to unplug the lathe and flip the breaker off. Sorry about that; if I get
> back there I'll unplug and turn off, or if someone else is there, please do
> it. Reminds me to follow up on our earlier discussion of checklists.
>
> I was also thinking it would be nice to have a shop log / guestbook for
> who, who's the second person, what and when. It would be nice to see what's
> going on in the shop, and then we know whom to blame when I forget to
> unplug the lathe. What do people think?
>
> Mitchell
>
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