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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 04/10/2026

Kind of love the Killscreen controller edit that, as my spouse put it, “looks like a sex toy”

A completely neon pink ps5 controller that looks like it’s got silicon grip surfaces? It looks like a sex toy.

JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 04/10/2026

Hanging out in the work room with this lady who’s getting a kitty time-out because her and the boys are not getting along today.

The same cat and bench but now she is staring pensively into the middle distance as she plots her revenge

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 03/10/2026

Correctly gendered at the dump today, while in shades and schlumpy clothes and inside the car.

Jessica, a white trans woman, dressed like a punk band roadie, in a black denim jacket with patches over a black hoodie, with a yellow and black trucker hat and white knock off wayfarer sunglasses. She has knuckle tattoos and a large amber pendant. Her hair is clipped behind her and she’s sitting in her car.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 03/10/2026

It’s nice to have something you built that you aren’t precious about. And I’m sorry, but she goes hard.

The white SG style guitar from the last post leaning against the leg vise of a short roubo and stout style workbench.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 03/10/2026

Put a new bridge on Kathleen, the SG-style guitar I built. Plugged and redrilled the bridge studs so I won’t half to keep backing the bridge all the way to the end of its travel, and the saddles on the Gotoh bridge give me a little more adjustment

A white hand-built SG style guitar, with black hardware, single pickup, pickguard and knobs. It has a couple of scuffs thru the paint and an ebony fretboard

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 03/10/2026

Vegan tortiere! I might have used too much ground clove. I also spilt some clove and swept it it up with my hands and it’s still all I can smell?

A double crust pie, with holes poked in the top.

A slice of tortiere, a Québécois meat pie, except the “meat” in this is seasoned and roasted walnut/cauliflower mixture base that I made myself. It is a little heavy on the cloves.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 02/10/2026

Food processors are a great time saver until you remember you don’t own a dishwasher. Made a double batch of cauliflower walnut “meat” - gonna make another vegan tourtière. I wonder what vegan boudin noir would be.

Two baking trays lined with parchment and filled with a seasoned walnut and cauliflower mixture for a fake meat crumbles

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Obsessed with these fruit flavored computer cases I saw on Reddit

Six ATX cases in translucent and colored translucent plastic, like a vintage original iMac but an ATX case. There are signs stuck to them advertising them and the price in I presume Japanese. There are marked ¥125

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Haute P12’s are like $40 shipped on eBay so I guess I’m going to try leverless

A black leverless fightstick, with eight buttons in two rows of four in a subtle arc on the right hand side for actions, and three buttons in an arc on the left for directions, with a slightly larger button on the lower side for up/jump. It is entirely matte black and has a row of four tiny round buttons along the top right edge and a small screen I guesss in the upper left. It’s being held by a hand

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

And there were four. I think last time I hacksawed the end off of these? I like the more sunken into the handle of the older two (left) that I made. Slapped on a layer of paste wax and away we go. Usage will tell if I like the larger handles better.

Four drawbore pins made of steel drift pins stuck into octagonal wooden handles. The handles on the left are birch the ones on the left beech. The beech handles are somewhat larger and the pins stick out a bit more.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Listen, I don’t know a better way to drill a 5/16” hole this deep in endgrain than with a bit and brace. I love this old bit that some craftsman had made an individual stamped holder for.

A spofford brace with a 5/16” Jennings pattern but in the non/ratcheting thumbscrew chuck. Next to it the holder for the bit and the two drawbore pins in progress. A mechanical pencil and metal pocket rule also sit on the bench.

The 5/16” Jennings bit laying on the vintage wooden holder someone made. It’s a well patinated wood with a numeral 5 stamped on one end, shaped like a ln octagon with a hole bored most of its depth to hold the drill bit.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Had to grab a still from the video because the audio is mostly L feeding cats in the background - this is the quickest and most comfortable way to bevel the ends of the handles, using the same bench hook and super sharp chisel.

A hand presses the handle against a bench hook, with its thumb guiding the back of a chisel to make a paring cut across the grain to bevel the ends of the handles.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Ends chamfered and quickly blockplaned and these are smooth as butter and ready to be drilled for a tool. I’m going to use the two I finished for drawbore pins. I don’t know about the third yet.

Three octagonal handles, made of quartersawn beech, slightly wider in one direction to fit a hand comfortably, with beveled ends lay in a pile on the bench. (One still needs an end beveled)

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Rotate and cut, never cutting where the you can’t see and you get a nice smooth cut with minimal cleanup

An 12pt panel saw laying on a bench hook. The octagonal stick has been cut into thirds

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

Dividing by three in fractional inches is hard. A normal person would use metric, but I’ve grown more and more accustomed to just not using a ruler at all.

An octagonal stick laying on the bench marked out divided in length into three. (Each handle is about 5 1/3rd inches) Next to it, the antique dividers that were used to mark out the divisions and a pencil to darken the marks

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 29/09/2026

After dealing with that squirrely walnut, grabbing an offcut of quartersawn beech to knock out some tools handles is such a joy!

A bevel jack plane next to a stick of quarter sawn beech shaped into a rough octagon. Next to it is a huge pile of shavings and the ever important cup of coffee

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 24/09/2026

I made L take a picture while I was driving of my odometer being a stupid number.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 23/09/2026

Jessica 2, broken glass 0. I need to remove one of the slips, make a small repair an replace it, but for now I'm going to revel in the fact I installed replaceable glass in the cabinet doors without seriously injuring myself or breaking the glass.

an angled view of the walnut cabinet in progress. There are three open cubbies where drawers will be eventually, but the two bead-detailed doors above now have salvaged glass placed in them The cabinet hangs on the wall and has ornate crown molding

A finger drawing attention to where one of the nails securing the slips that hold the glass in place was angle wrong and damaged the interior show surface of the door.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 23/09/2026

I built the frame saw for the leg up it gives on tricky resawing, but it’s also handy when you want identical parts and minimal cleanup.

Six identical 1/4” square walnut slips for holding the glass in place on the cabinet lay on the bench. The 1/4” walnut it was cut from is in the end vise and a mahogany kerfing plane, (a saw blade with fence and handle) that cut the pieces out lays behind it.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 20/09/2026

The grain alcohol i bought for mixing shellac also works great with TransTint dyes! I think a little medium brown will do wonders to age the poplar for the insides of the drawers.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 20/09/2026

* Gestures hands and mumbles “be drawers!” *

A pile of poplar and walnut waiting to be dovetailed into drawer boxes

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 19/09/2026

Padded some shellac on the drawer fronts after prepping stock to make drawer sides out of and golly gee these are gonna be purty

The three drawer fronts with a thin coat of shellac to bring out the color.

The three drawer fronts placed carefully into the drawer openings of the walnut cabinet with a pink back, hanging on the wall

An antique plow plane with a large collection of spiral shavings and a warrington pattern hammer, next to a long board with a groove plowed in it by the plane

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 18/09/2026

Fuck it. Installed the back and hung it on the wall. Still needs glass for the doors (arriving Monday!) and drawers built.

A walnut cabinet with two doors hangs on the yellow workshop wall. It has a bright pink back and theee open spots for drawers that ain’t built yet

The cabinet with its doors open and stuff stored inside.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 18/09/2026

The hardware agains the walnut is lovely.

A brass hinge with a floral detail in it held with brass slotted screws in the walnut cabinet

The brass pull on its side against a shellaced piece of walnut scrap

The brass pulls against the walnut with a coat of shellac

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 18/09/2026

Ended up ordering pulls from the same seller; they look lovely against the walnut, but I’m going to need larger ones for the doors, so I put in an order for the same profile but longer. Stumbling across this Indonesian brass seller on Etsy was great

A white hand grasping a 1” long bar pull with flutes for finger grips along the side and a crowned top. It is brass and turned so the fluted edges are front facing. Below the hand several more lay on the wooden counter

Another view with a side view of the pulls on the counter and the hand holding the pull as one might see it on a door

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 15/09/2026

the latest email from @klevgrand.bsky.social being all “untz” over and over 😹🤌

An email from Klevgrand advertising a new techno expansion for their program One Shot, all the text is “untz” repeated over and over

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 14/09/2026

Honestly I can’t deal with single coils which is why the soap bar in the one I built for myself at the same time is a DiMarzio, but my pal loves it!

A white SG-style handbuilt guitar with a single humbucker soap bar pickup and black hardware leans against the bench

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 14/09/2026

The pal I made it for still plays it a lot. This is the only stage photo I have of it, when I road-tested it. I really thought that sideburn goatee combo worked for way too long

A still male-presenting Jessica in black skinny jeans wearing white and black Kangaroo sneakers, a white shirt for the band Pretty and Nice with the bands name written as an eye chart. She is playing the guitar from the previous post and has a ridiculous combination of giant mutton chops and a goatee. Like Hellboy. She has a bandanna and a flip-brimmed hat on.

There is a white drum kit with black heads that says “The Mountain Wizards” on it, and the drummer is wearing the same shirt.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 14/09/2026

Picture of a guitar I made in the early-mid aughts showed up in my memories. I had more chutzpah than skill back then but made it work.

A picture of a kinda swoopy offset guitar with a carved top in mahogany with black binding and hardware and a single black P90 and two large black knobs. It has a tune-o-matic bridge and thru body stringing.

The fingerboard is ebony with a single heart inlay on the 4th fret at the customers request. (Standard side dots are not visible at this angle. )

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 14/09/2026

I’m 47 and I’m just now finding out people call what I’ve always called a Chicago screw a “sex bolt” and I’m snickering like a child

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 10/09/2026

Two coats of shellac and assembled. I’m still not sure if I’m going to buff out the sheen or not.

Jessica holds the freshly shellac finished cabinet upright on the bench, without its back, in front of the spot it will eventually hang.

The cabinet laying on its back it has two beaded doors that are yet to receive their glass, and three openings awaiting drawers.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 09/09/2026

I finally got card scraper sharpening and hook turning figured out and repeatable (info after visual description in the alt text)

An image of a card scraper with some shavings on it, surrounded by a paper envelope for a 2500 diamond lapping plate in thin steel, which is behind the envelope attached by a couple magnets to a flat block of wood. To the right, a square block of maple, and an accuburr carbide burnishing rod in a small rectangular container.

This is what I’ve switched to for card scraper sharpening and it’s just repeatable and quick. Whatever gets the job done works, this is just what I’ve done.

2500 grit diamond coated steel lapping plate attached by two counter sunk magnets to a block of wood. Lap the faces until they’re uniform sheen, then using the square block of wood to keep perpendicular, do the same to the narrow edges.

Anything harder than your scraper works for a burnisher but I’ve found the accuburr is more repeatable and foolproof for me, and I can feel the carbide dragging the hook.

Took me longer to dig out the bits than to sharpen a scraper. I probably should clean the diamond surface of swarf.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 09/09/2026

12” photo masks are just going to look cool. I don’t know, I’ve seen the six inch masks and I always find them fascinating and I’m imagining a 12” one in my mind and whatever they’d use for a carrier

A photo mask for lithography, a glass sybstrate with a design for a layer the chips to be etched repeatedly twenty times

A SMIF pod, a type carrier for photomasks

Another type of photomask carrier, that can be loaded into an automated machine to retrieve the mask from the carrier without being handled

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 06/09/2026

(Predictive text shunning SF VI and IV. )

The words “street fighter” being typed and “III” “II” and “V” being auto suggested.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 06/09/2026

Gee, Marco, must be nice. I don’t think I get a choice here, but I guess that doesn’t bother you. Spoken like someone who’s never been a political pawn, that’s for sure.

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If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my "side" considers unacceptable and unforgivable, should I be able to have dinner at their house, shovel their snow, or even greet them outside?
Should l be condemned for supporting or associating with them in non-political contexts?

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 05/09/2026

Kids shoes getting all the fun colorways and styles wtf

An ad for a PUMA Karen II IDOL, a sneaker in baby pink and blue over white in leather with an extra chunky sole.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 05/09/2026

Went with a slightly brighter pink eyeshadow because I wanted something that popped. I had a salmon that matched but it was too staid, but would be perfect if I was being more dressy.

Jessica sitting on the porch in a denim jacket and cadet cap, over a bright floral dress with pinks and purples and a bit of burgundy. She is wearing her chunk of amber necklace, and has bright pink eyeshadow with black eyeliner. Her jacket has many patches on it.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 05/09/2026

Fit check. Needs makeup but I think this will work; lunch with a pal today, I figure this is nicer than my schlubby shop clothes I usually stumble out of the house in, but still dressed down enough for for my comfort level. Plus, it the dress of two pieces I bought for a wedding & I need to wear it

Jessica in a floral print dress belted with a studded belt with a The Locust belt buckle, partnered with a denim jacket, cadet cap and black Dansko flats, and her signature chunk of amber necklace

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 04/09/2026

Still some perfecting to do, but I need to tweak the hinges and want to wait until I have the final screws for that. But the doors shut now.

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JessicAaahh!!! Real Monsters @loveandcrossbones.org · 03/09/2026

A lot of fiddly work to do still but I had to put it up there and finally see all my design decisions come to life. I don’t feel like as much of a fraud now.

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