My Projects

I like to build and make things. These are some of my recent ones.

Designing a New Dash: Part I

I purchased my Defender in the Spring of 2016. It's a 1988 D90, imported from Bulgaria, where it spent most of it's life operating as a milk truck. To say that it was in rough shape would be an understatement. A disheveled interior, heavy cigarette smoke damage, what turned out to be some serious chassis damage, etc etc. Long story short, the list of issues was long. But of everything that needed to be fixed, the one issue that I was sweating the most was the idea of rebuilding the truck from the ground up, only to put the original dash back in. 

Casting a Bronze Chess Piece

I’m terrible at gift giving (I often forget about social events which as you might imagine creates many interpersonal issues), but when I do I tend to try and think about something that has had a connection to someone’s past. My business partner lost his mother far too early in life from cancer. But she was an artist and as such through her creations she left behind a great many articles to remember her by. One of those items was a chess set, carved from soap stone. In this chess set I saw an opportunity to…