Cut some different pieces of wood and paint these.
Cut the text in lines, and divide the lines over the surface.
Put a little nail over the outlines of the letters, and use some wool to connect all nails.
Wall decoration from wood and wool
Category Archives: Hobby
Shogi game lasercut
I designed playing pieces for a DIY made Shogi board.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, Xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general’s (shō 将) board game (gi 棋). Western chess is sometimes called (Seiyō Shōgi 西洋将棋 lit. ’Western Shogi’) in Japan.
Shogi was the earliest chess-related historical game to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This drop rule is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed.
Pieces Lasercut and Laser-engraved
Final board
I’ve designed the pieces and the markings on them using Inkscape.
Instead of the Japanese characters the pieces show the allowed movements. The Circled signs are on the back of the pieces.
Board and traditional characterset
Iaido – Takeda Ryu – Utrecht
After a long pause … doing martial arts again.
I’ve studied several sports in the past, like Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Ninjitsu.
And tried a lot of other ones .. now Iaido
( Kungfu , Bojitsu, Nunchaku-do and Hojōjutsu )
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Wooden candle holder xmas tree
While we were in Zweden for several months (2011). Coline for work, and i tagged along. ( Working using VPN )
We saw a wooden xmas thingy, Coline liked it very much.
I made it myself because it was not a ‘thing’ yet in the Netherlands. Now you can buy these everywhere.
Medieval prison and woodwork
This year we did an Eastern Europe trip.
Every country left and down from Germany.
One of the countries was Romania. And we visited a lot of Castles.
So I became interested in recreating one of the scenes I saw.
It was a square medieval prison. I was captured by the natural materials being used in the displays.
Stone, wood, metal, rope and straw.
I was working on a Da Vinci model at the time. (We visited a Da Vinci exposition in Den Haag.)
I love his designs.
So I build a prison, with a straw bed. Some mini items like a water jug and a piece of bread.
Then I made some torture devices.
I found some parts recently, hopefully the rest will turn up soon.
Example of the bed (also lost .. during moving??)
Takeda Flash Card website
While studying Iaido, i needed a flashcard study thingy.
So I made this:
So I could guess and practice the names of the moves.
Short demo here : https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/websites/takeda/index.php
Flight Computer
Bought myself a Jeppesen Sanderson Slide Graphic “Computer” (1989)
I like those “old skool” manual/analog instruments.
I want to use this together with my flightsimulator.
A flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century
They are mostly used in flight training, but many professional pilots still carry and use flight computers. They are used during flight planning (on the ground before takeoff) to aid in calculating fuel burn, wind correction, time en route, and other items. In the air, the flight computer can be used to calculate ground speed, estimated fuel burn and updated estimated time of arrival. The back is designed for wind correction calculations, i.e., determining how much the wind is affecting one’s speed and course.
Lets dance .. but i can’t
I started playing the pipes for the Highland Dancers a long time ago.
I wanted to know at least the Highland Fling, so i could understand what it is for the dancers. I learned the Fling from Monique and Yvonne.
Yvonne tried to learn me to walz. But that was it for a loong time.
Then in 2008, 2009 we joined a Country Dance group.
(Monique, Coline and I)
So I bought some size 45 (11.5) dance shoes.
At least the “little green book” with dance diagrams looks cool.
End of Season Ball
Frontdoor decoration
Our frontdoor was a simple glass plane, which needed some decoration!
So i made some designs which included : Celtic knotwork, hearts and a triskelion. (because we where with 3 persons at that time)
We took a exacto knife, and traced the designs on a big piece of adhesive plastic.
Staircase pictures
Maybe you also have a white area to fill, here is a suggestion.
For years we collected picture frames, weird and ugly.
We wanted to have a collection of images in our staircase, to fill the white area.
The images are all something we like, have interest in or are personal.
It needed to be on 3 walls, so here was my first design.
