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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

Left side the turned over pieces, right side displays normal faceup pieces

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.

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Board and traditional characterset

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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 )

One of the few pictures i have, most of the time i was the photographer.

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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.

Picture we took in Sweden 2011

I made it myself because it was not a ‘thing’ yet in the Netherlands. Now you can buy these everywhere.

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Medieval prison and woodwork

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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.

A clean prison, have to dirty it up!
Building of the Diorama

Then I made some torture devices.

I found some parts recently, hopefully the rest will turn up soon.

Flogging pole

Example of the bed (also lost .. during moving??)

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Flight Computer

Bought myself a Jeppesen Sanderson Slide Graphic “Computer” (1989)

I like those “old skool” manual/analog instruments.

Sextant
Pocket Sundial

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.

Hobby, Music, Pipes / Folk / Instruments

Lets dance .. but i can’t

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They can!

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

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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.

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Staircase pictures

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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.

Most left .. picture around the corner
In the end a total of 110
Around the corner picture frame i made
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Making whistles

We play a lot of different whistles in our folkband.

But as always it started with one simple high-d tinwhiste.
We bought many more in all kinds of keys and also Flutes.

I wanted to have a Low whistle, so i did some research and made my own.

When making a whistle you have to take into account the diameter and wall thickness of your material.
Even the hole distances together with its diameter is important.
After a lot of calculating and some trial ‘n error.

I had my first own made Low-D whistle. The mouthpiece was the hardest part. But it worked!

After that I made a Low-Eflat which you can use together with Highland Pipes.
Also a Low-G was build, for this one i used the mouthpiece of another (bought) low whistle.

Some old pictures below.

And the Eflat & G whistles.

Old picture, 2 gray ones are DIY

I tried to make one using metal, but i didn’t have the right tools to do so.

I made a Android Application a few years later to do the calculations.