January 2018 – Eric Girard

I experimented inlaying different woods to produce attractive design. I decided to make a coaster so I could use it afterward. I used my upcoming company logo as the basis of the design and decided on a 4" coaster diameter, plain round for now. I used a 60 degrees v-bit, 16K RPM, 65IPM feedrate (could have gone faster but I went with safe values). I then glued the two parts together, making sure there was glue in every corner to prevent lift-up / delamination later, used regulard yellow wood glue. I then clamped overnight to allow to dry. Next morning, I used my bandsaw to remove the backing of the inlay and then sanded everything smooth using 180, 320 and 400 grit. I than applied 6 coats of glossy varnish, sanding with 600 grit in b...

I'm happy to report that I'm mostly done migrating my site from Shared GoDaddy to a dedicated VM on Azure! Knowing that I would need a 2nd site for my personal business (more on this soon), I spent the last few weeks reviewing hosting options for either shared or dedicated hosting. I read a lot of review and finally made the jump to an azure VM. Reasoning Price-wise, for about the same amount I get a dedicated VM that I can do whatever I want with (multi site wordpress, services etc) Pros: Low cost (24 CAD$ / month Pay-As-You-Go or 9.95 CAD$ / month for 3 years) More consistent performance Can easily scale up / down resources (CPU + RAM) as needed Access to the full cloud infrastructure as needed (backups, virtual network, other VM, storage, tiered storage e...

Month: January 2018

Wooden coaster

Site is now running on an Azure Linux VM