Make Something - Quick Aluminum Pen
Sometimes I love toiling over designs and making something very refined and calculated...other times I like rifling thru my drawer of off-cuts and building whatever comes to mind. Not perfect, not well planned out but its something that didn't exist yesterday and I enjoyed making it.
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