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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was kinda curious about some of the old desk hardware I've got laying around. Cut one into a planing stop for #woodworking

Before/after shots of some old desk hardware I made into a planing stop. Also a file, square, drill bits, 3in1 oil, etc. scattered around the workbench.

The new planing stop screwed onto the workbench with a random piece of pallet wood on it, along with my jack plane and a brush I use to sweep dust off the workbench.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hand-planing pallet wood continues to be good exercise, and it's the primary reason why I keep at it rather than just buying new wood. Though some of the wood is good, too - and I should be trying to avoid blowing a bunch of money on materials before I've got more #woodworking experience.

A bunch of roughly planed pallet wood on my workbench with a jack plane and candle (for waxing the bottom of the plane for smoother work).

Gonna evaluate what's good and properly dimension it later, just wanted to get the crap outer layer off.

The remaining few pieces of pallet wood that I need to de-nail and otherwise clean up before use.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just wait til you see Anklegator's Potemkin controller:

A pizza box with a mess of buttons in a couple of large groups on either side. The leverless controller that Anklegator uses to play Potemkin in Guilty Gear.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Loaded up Elite: Dangerous for the first time in so long that the game actually failed to load my profile/account data the first time I tried to load up do fly around solo. I think it had to do some sort of conversion/upgrade first. A couple of jumps and I randomly happened upon a pulsar.

A pulsar in Elite: Dangerous. I heard you can do funky FSD stuff with it but I decided I'd rather not risk my ship while I can barely remember how to play the game.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'd probably still be using it if I wasn't running into lead-free solder which I can barely heat enough (and it takes like 20-30 seconds to actually heat the joint after the iron has warmed up).

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In case you're wondering if anything's better in the vastness of outer space:

Two hands holding a magic eight ball with a fortune that reads "outlook not so good".

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mine looked like this for a bit:

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Alternatively, you could build one. Since I primarily play on PC, the PCB was cheap and the buttons weren't too bad. Most of the work was deciding on a layout and making the box. Shoutout to @szego.ca for pointing me in the right direction.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In honor of ripostes past and future.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Somewhere between these two

signaling flag for "my vessel is stopped"

signaling flag for "I am dragging my anchor"

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Kludged a vise onto the crappy folding table I've been using as a workbench. I'm gonna build an actual workbench at some point later, but sometimes it feels like you need a workbench to build a workbench. Been laying boards under the legs w/bottles of water to weigh it down.

Underside of the table with the vise mounted to the bottom.

Front of the vise, from below (planed the bottom jaws flush with each other).

Table upright with the vise closed. def wasn't perfect w/mounting it but it's usable.

Table with a random scrap board in the vise jaws.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Found out herb strippers were a thing earlier, so I took a shot at making a couple (and beveled the edges bit so they can also be used as bench scrapers). #woodworking Worked really well on some cilantro I've got on hand. Gonna make taco and chicken masala, etc. a little more convenient.

A couple of vaguely leaf-shaped thin pieces of [red?] oak wood with a series of holes (3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, and 15mm) drilled into 'em for pulling herbs through to strip off the leaves. They're finished with 2 coats of mineral oil and 1 coat of beeswax + mineral oil butcher block conditioner. The straight edges on the bottoms of the strippers are slightly beveled to act as bench scrapers.

There's also 3 small capybara figures standing around the herb strippers.

All placed on a piece of plain unfinished wood (pine or something?)

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The absolute confusion when you finally get around to checking out whatever the "Baguette Trailer" was for #Expedition33 and don't notice this before the narration starts:

YouTube thinks they're being helpful by automatically using AI to dub peoples' content.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

MS Office UI team be like:

"Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?!" - Seinfeld reference

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Started a new #Inscryption playthrough off-stream and...

Holding a Black Goat card with Unkillable, meanwhile there's an Ouroborus card with Worthy Sacrifice on the board. These can loop forever.

After many sacrifices looped with the Unkillable Black Goat, the Ouroborus has 99 attack and 99 life.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A clumsy makeshift solution is kinda okay. I think this weekend I'll see about making something robust that doesn't wobble as much. For this one, I was just attaching the drill to one end and holding it against the bench while holding a rasp up to the wood.

A vaguely cylindrical piece of wood being held roughly level against the left side of a makeshift lathe. The right side has a large wood screw sticking out which I'd spin with my drill.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ok fuck trying to shape brass. I suck at this.

A horrible attempt at trying to form a brass spoon, after brushing off some of the soot and oxidation.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"Anything's a lathe if you're brave enough" #woodworking Trying to make something that I can use to press brass into a spoon shape for melting wax. I have no idea what I'm doing. Be afraid.

A drill with a cylinder of wood attached to it and a shinto rasp clamped to a table partially off-screen. Spin the wood, press against rasp, out comes rounded wood cylinder.

The resulting rounded wooden pleasure bullet, with the flat brass spoon cutout waiting to be pressed into shape.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Swapped over to the green polishing compound I use with the chisels and plane irons and got much better results.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Pretty apparent that this is my first attempt at engraving at all, but I think it's a pretty good start.

After some initial polishing with a 300-grit sanding dremel bit (one of those wire brush looking things), I used a square and sharpie to mark the cut on the sheet of brass.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Second attempt went a little better, and I could clean it up with a sharpie.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Been wanting to try some engraving and also been watching Uri Tuchman lately -- decided to try the method he showed for transferring laser printed designs onto brass. Real acetone would have been better, but for now all I have is dry erase board cleaner. First attempt went alright...

A bunch of mirrored Jerp 'J' logos of different sizes printed on a sheet of paper. One of the smaller copies is cut out and has already been ~mostly applied to a fresh 6x6-inch sheet of 1mm thick brass.

A small hand clamp, a small block of wood, some paper towels, scissors, and a small dust brush are also visible.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Starting on that router plane. Remembered a little late that just sawing the sides in a bit is cleaner than trying to use a knife or chisel to cut the edges. It'll be on the inside at least. Can also see that I marked where I'm gonna chop the other end of the was-wrench.

Marking a piece of oak to to use as a router plane - lines for the width of the tool and the groove where the blade fits.

Got a small pencil, WIP router plane blade, utility knife, and square in the foreground.

The router plane body cut off of the board I made it from. I've got it marked to split it into two halves to sandwich together with the groove on the inside.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Taking a shot at making a router plane blade from one of those random wrenches you get when buying furniture (or whatever it was from?) Got it nice and shaving sharp, and seems at least as hard as the admittedly cheap chisels I own. Router plane later... #woodworking

Two cheap thin wrenches, one of which has the head/front end cut off, filed down, and sharpened into a chisel-esque blade.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If anyone else is having trouble getting music to work in #DevilBladeReboot (and SFX are playing without issue), check your audio settings and make sure you aren't on the super-high-end studio quality settings. Found this while searching for a way to get audio to play in #Expedition33 (worked)

Going to the properties for your audio output device and choosing something like "16 bit, 48000 Hz (DVD Quality)" instead of something like "32 bit, 384000 Hz (Studio Quality).

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Made a makeshift vise to have a temp solution before I actually make a proper workbench. That and putting some heavy weights on the crappy folding table and it's much easier to do some planing. #woodworking I could take this a little bit further with a couple of long bolts instead of clamps.

A couple of blocks of wood in the shape of an upside-down T cut in half. Each is basically separate jaws of a "vise".

A board in the middle of the two jaws of the makeshift vise. The vise is clamped to a crappy folding table that I'm using as a temporary workbench.

Wide shot of the makeshift vise with a long board in it. Just needed something to stand up some wood to plane it more easily.

110lbs of gym weights are on the table to make a bit more stable so it doesn't slide around as mu ch.

The board in the makeshift vise after shaving off a bit of the top edge with a jack plane. Got some long, even shavings still sticking out of the plane.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The sewing went so quick I didn't end up taking any progress pics. While it's not very even stitching, I'm still shocked that the sewn-in elastic pen loop came together so quickly and without any issues.

A close-up of a newly sewn-in elastic loop for holding a tablet pen on the side of a tablet case, viewed from the interior side of the case.

Another close-up of a newly sewn-in elastic loop for holding a tablet pen on the side of a tablet case, this time from the exterior side of the case.

A close-up of the interior side of the tablet case with the newly-sewn-in elastic loop for holding the tablet pen - this time with the pen securely within the loop.

Front view of the tablet case with my tablet inside (though not really visible), and the tablet pen securely held within the newly-sewn-in elastic loop on the side of the tablet case.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Assembling the new elastic loop was pretty easy.

Inside the two metal butter cookie tins is sewing supplies (of course). Out of all of this, I'm just using some of the thread and the bundle of elastic material. The plastic buckles and cord for that and D-rings are for other projects.

The utility knife placed on the elastic cord to hold it down while I cut it. The circle cutter blade is out and I've already cut a piece for the new elastic pen loop thing. Also pictured is a metal ruler and a small lighter, all on the self-healing work mat. In the top-right corner is the pen that the new loop thing will hold. The edges of the freshly-cut elastic piece are already melted with the lighter.

Close-up of the initial stitch to close the elastic loop. Also shows a needle and attached thread on the self-healing work mat.

Close-up of the elastic material, fully sewn into a closed loop and test-fitted around my tablet pen. Also shows the needle and thread, lighter, and some small scissors for cutting the thread. All on the work mat.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Took a shot at replacing the crappy glued-on pen loop on my tablet case.

Full view of the tablet case. It attaches to my tablet via magnets (how do they work?).

Close-up of the original crappy elastic pen loop.

The crappy elastic pen loop was glued in, and was already disintegrating. It's also really thin crappy rubbery material that was already falling apart.

Initial view of the requisite supplies to replace the elastic pen loop on my tablet case --- a ruler, a utility knife, circle cutter, self-healing mat, and two metal tins for butter cookies.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

One thing I really want for #StreetFighter6 is some sort of indicator to show which active frame hit the opponent so it's easier to understand some combos and juggles (note the uninterrupted yellow recovery frames on the opponent).

A screenshot of Street Fighter 6 in training mode with Jamie using his Arrow Kick on Ryu. The frame meter has a couple of extra triangle indicators to suggest which active frame hit the opponent and drawn red arrows pointing towards those indicators.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Think I've been waiting at least 20 minutes to finish a spellcast in #Noita The game has recovered and played a few frames here and there so I think it's still going. One CPU core has been at 100% for the entire time.

Me looking at a semi-frozen game of Noita after casting a ridiculous spell that the game is not handling well.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A day late, and a slightly different approach this year.

A vanilla sheet cake with a blue and red border, a pack of icing decorations spelling out "happy birthday" (as well as some balloons and stars), and "4" and "1" candles. Candles and decorations not yet placed on the cake.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

And I finally figured out how to kill 'em.

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Jerp @jerpdoesgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Could stand to tweak it a bit more to have some extra stars + the beard, but this is plenty for now. Based on the avatar and emote art I commissioned from @carsondrewit.bsky.social

My jerpMagic Twitch emote that Carson made. Has a Capybara in a blueish purple Wizard outfit with yellow stars on it, a wizard hat with ear holes, a wand bursting with blue energy in the right hand, and a blue tome in the left hand. Also a big fake wizard beard.

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