Jon and Flip Anderson have been working with stoves and ovens for some years now (HPP regulars may remember their rocket powered oven design.) Last February, they helped teach at the Winter Stove Workshop put on by Aprovecho and InStove. Aprovecho Research Center (ARC) was consulting for Mercy Corps in East Timor, who had sent their Program Manager for Renewable Energy, Will Baron, who has responsibility for all programming related to energy, poverty, lighting, electricity, appropriate cooking technology and sustainable cooking fuels. Mercy Corps' East Timorese stove program imports stove . . .
Ray Jacobs Rocky Mountain Dulcimer on Youtube
Are you making or playing a Rocky Mountain Dulcimer? Send us your videos! High school student Fiona White: Ray and Shirley at home in Montana . . .
Some wooden bowls & spoons
So about a year and a half ago, I built a foot-powered lathe for turning bowls. It's a very rough structure that works really really well. Power comes from your leg, pushing on a stick, which is tied to a string, which wraps around a mandrel, which spins a chunk of wood. Sticks, string, and two fixed points create the axis of rotation. Apply curved blades (on stix) to roughly round chunk, dig out a void until it's smooth and beautifully hollow, remove a bowl. I still love carving wooden spoons, but there is something about the lathe. The design goes back thousands of years, originating with . . .