Crow?

A copy of the bird icon (is it a crow?) that was on the inside flap of the corn meal bag that I bought to make corn meal drop biscuits.

I like the shape of the "5" quite a bit.

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Bike!

A napkin sketch showing the difference between adjusting screws for horizontal drop outs and chain tensioners for track ends.

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Bar Doodle

this is a doodle I made while at the bar.
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One Step

"Hey, does peter like Polaroid Cameras?"

Yes, I do, and here is a drawing of a Polaroid One Step Land camera. I'm not sure when exactly this camera was manufactured but it used the SX-70 film so I would guess it dates back to the late 1970's or possibly the early 80's. I own one of these but it is buried somewhere so the was a drawing from memory. As you can see some of the details are incorrect.

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Shelf!

A first for the daily drawings, a digital image. This is the sketch elevation of the IKEA shelving unit I'm planning on purchasing. I did a pencil sketch with the dimensions and posted it a few weeks ago. Here is the scale drawing produced in Adobe Illustrator. It looks like everything will fit as I had planned it and the total price of the parts needed for this set-up is only $163.00 what a deal!

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My Miele

More watercolor, this time filling in a drawing of the headtube of my Miele bicycle.

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Polaroid Land Camera

Here is my Polaroid plastic Land Camera first outlined in finepoint Sharpie and then filled in with Caran d'Ache watercolor pencils. I enjoyed working with watercolor again but found the brush that came with the set to be somewhat difficult to work with. Also the Moleskin book I was using does not seem to accept water very quickly so it take too long for the color to dry. I would like to experiment with some proper water color paper sometime soon.

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Hub Dimensions

This is the two hub measurements needed to calculate the length of spokes needed to build a new wheel. Andrew, Travis and I are building some wheels for our bikes.

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Hash Browns

A pencil drawing of hash browns and a bottle of beer made on the backside of a laundry receipt. We had a late night snack at the diner tonight. I didn't order any food as I made some split pea soup and read "The Power Broker" for most of the evening.

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Wheels

Tonight at dinner I was explaining to Andrew and Travis some of the structural qualities of bicycle wheels and these are some placemat drawings. Nothing too crazy or exciting.

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Top Shelf

Here we have an elevation sketch of the location where I would like to install a new IKEA shelf sometime in the near future. I'm going to do a quick scale layout in Illustrator to make sure that everything fits the way I want before I invest the time and $$$ to pick up the "IVAR" storage unit from my friendly Swedish furniture store.

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Coaster Brake

Happy New Year! The end of 2006 was a bit bumpy in terms of the regularity of my postings but I'm hopeful that I can settle into a better rhythm for 2007. To start off this new year I've gone back to the topic of my first post, bicycle bits'n'pieces. This is a coaster brake hub that I found in the trash over the weekend. I've removed the old, crappy steel rim and spokes and taken it apart and cleaned it out. Soon I will order a new rim and spokes so that it can fit on my Raleigh city bike.

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