I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is a JSM-6320F from the early 1990s. The little one (“Meryl“) is a JSM-5600 from th…

Big thanks to everyone who helped me lug this beast into the shop last night. For something called a “microscope”, you’d think it would be tiny…

Minnie’s name plate is finally finished! Let’s start with the finalé and work backwards : [The finished name plate. So purdy! The black is high gloss automotive paint. I sprayed a nice thick laye…

Today was cncbot’s big day: machining brass sheet! Proof in plywood: Brass in process: Ready for extraction:   I’ll post the finished piece once the inlay enamel is dry.