Off Hours

Jon and Chris talk about buying art, stone carving, and managing notifications without a wearable.

• Adam Young – A Canadian artist that Jon & his wife recently acquired a painting from

• Steven Strang – Local artist & friend of the show whose work Chris has been a longstanding patron of

• ‘The Memory Thief’ – Chris’ most recent acquisition from Steven Strang

• Printrbot Ceases Operations – We spoke a little about Printrbot back in Episode 15, they recently & suddenly shut down

• Monoprice Select Mini – The 3D printer Jon picked up to replace his Printrbot Play

• Dufour’s Watch Cases – Philippe Dufour fits the movements for the cases of his timepieces to within 0.01mm of precision

• Canadian Stone Carving Festival – An annual festival held on Sparks Street in Canada’s Capital

• Phil White – The Dominion Sculptor of Canada

• Stone Carving Course – A stone carving course offered by Smith & Barber in Ottawa

• Cortex – Myke recently switched out his Apple Watch for a Nomos

• Metro Date Power Reserve – The Nomos that Myke picked up

• BBC Panorama – BBC’s Hilary Andersson investigates the ‘dark side’ of smartphones—including the physiological effects that notification alerts have on us

• Custom Vibration Alerts – How to create & customize vibration alerts on your iPhone

Turns out there’s more than one way to thread a screw. Chris talks to Jon about the upsides and challenges of crafting multi lead threads for his pens, and why you should use metric—not imperial—measures.

• Timely Tees Jon recently released a co-axial version of the Escape Tee

• Multi Lead Threading One of Chris’ most popular blog posts

• The Machinery’s Handbook A quintessential reference in any machine shop

• The Sheaffer Snorkel A stupendously over-engineered fountain pen design

• Fischer Space Pen A pen engineered for use in zero gravity

• David Oscarson Pens

• Dykem Layout Fluid A surface masking solution that makes it easier to see where the tool you’re using has come into contact with the material you are working on

• Taig Lathe One of the first lathes in Chris’ n+1 collection of lathes

• The Perfectionists A book, by Simon Winchester, that details the history of precision manufacturing

• Archimedes Screw

• Logan Lathe The lathe Chris upgraded to from the Taig

• Higbee Thread

• Breech Thread

• Follower Thread Cutting A video demonstrating how threads are cut using a follow rest

• Hello internet A podcast hosted by CGP Grey & Brady Haran

• Demise of the Kilogram A video produced by Hello Internet co-star, Brady Haran, that explores how the way we define various units of measurement is changing

• Veritasium Derek Muller goes hands-on with the world’s roundest object, a sphere of silicon used as the definitive standard of a kilogram

• Veritasium Redux A follow up to the previous video, Derek Muller ventures deep into the National Institute of Standards & Technology to discover how science is redefining the kilogram & rendering that perfect sphere of silicon effectively obsolete

Turns out there’s more than one way to thread a screw. Chris talks to Jon about the upsides and challenges of crafting multi lead threads for his pens, and why you should use metric—not imperial—measures.

It was Canada Day this past weekend. This may get a little patriotic. Sorry.

It was Canada Day this past weekend. This may get a little patriotic. Sorry.

Jon and Chris chat a little more about the Santa Fe speakers’ trip, the closure of OSU’s watchmaking program, and the potential upsides of augmenting reality.

Jon and Chris chat a little more about the Santa Fe speakers’ trip, the closure of OSU’s watchmaking program, and the potential upsides of augmenting reality.

Chris just returned home from the Santa Fe Symposium where he delivered a talk on modern niello. He and Jon talk about this year’s talks and some of the things Chris got up to while in New Mexico.

Chris just returned home from the Santa Fe Symposium where he delivered a talk on modern niello. He and Jon talk about this year’s talks and some of the things Chris got up to while in New Mexico.

Chris recently returned from Makers Central in the United Kingdom. He and Jon chat about what he got up to there—and elsewhere—with friend of the show, Rich Loen.