Category Archives: Hobby

Lasercut Xmas Cards

Using a lasercutter i’ve been making some wooden ornaments.

We send these as Xmas cards, so people can hang these in their tree afterwards.

DIY Xmas Cards

We also used these for Advent Calendar decorations.

You can find the lasercut models attached

https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/2015KERST.cdr

Wall decoration from wood and wool

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.

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.

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 )

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

Found more

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.

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.

Flogging pole

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