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i just (re)found this wounderfull material. it’s cheap, ecological and easy to carv. no dust, no tired hands, and even soft skin at the end.
no need special tools. a small kitchen knife is enough. don’t even need to be sharp. and some tissue to polish. the rest is the wide wing of your imagination!
i usually take a cake of curd soap. it’s easyer to work with because it’s not so hard and it doesn’t smell so much.
the hardest part is… after carving something nice, to look at it as a cake of soap and to use it.
kite-buggy III
i’ll stop working on it now. i think it could work like this. it has a good suspension, it’s comfortable, it’s as light as i can do and it looks great.
now i’ll sew the tractor-kite and hope for wind.
by the way… i need a new computer-chair!
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kite festival
i was there!
the vokspark is not the best place to fly kites (too much trees) but it can work.
lots of different kites, almost only single-liner, very interesting and colourfull giants, lots of people, and… almost no wind.
i wanted to try my new ones, to talk to kite-builders, to fly and have fun. it didn’t work. too much people, too little place, and the kite-makers too busy with selling or presenting theyr kites. so i tryed only my ultra-lights.
for an entry of 5€ it is for me too expensive. if you compare to other festivals and kite-competitions with free entry… but as an aktive (registered) kiter, you go there for free. thanks flying-colors!
my idea: get some trim-coaches there. to make toy-kites with the kids (or to sell rtf-kites) is not enough if they don’t fly. to kite is more than to hold a line but people don’t know that!
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kite-buggy II
now it looks like a buggy!
still have to rivet the whole thing but that’s how i mean it should look like. now i need a new office-chair.
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ultra-light-kite-workshop II
after the box, now a delta. also single line.
quite easy to make, quite hard to trim. but it works!
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kite-buggy
i wouldn’t be me if i… ta-da… new project!!!
the start is done: a 2nd (looks like 20th…) hand twins-buggy.
the plan:
- a sit (i have a red one that could fit)
- stearing (don’t ask me yet - no idea)
- foot-breaks (not sure if i really need them but “safety first”)
- lots of oil to forget that that thing weights a tonn
- a mast and a sail (optional - for the days i don’t feel like kiting)
- hi-fi, light, mirror, live-cam, gps, swiss-pocket-knive, ashtray, bottle-opener…
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ultra-light-kite-workshop
the first of many. traditional chinese box-shape, shower-courtain and bamboo, 1m long.
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knive-cut-workshop
here is the start of a brand new tag: workshop.
here i’ll post all the stuff i helped people to do, no matter if my idea or my technical knowlege or my experience. it’s a late start but even better than no start.
parafoil
after almost a week of studying, planing, designing and sewing… today the test. unfortunately there was not enough wind to fly it, but anyway emough to trim and to be sure that it flyes! now i’m proud to present you the youngest of my kites: a 2,30 x 0,70m parafoil.
the most interesting side of the kite is that i made it of old material. there was a broken beach-tent, some flags, a piece of net and simple strings. all in all it costed me as much as a pizza with a coke.
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tempelhof
an old airport, now as free-entrance-park in the middle of berlin, and unfortunately not enough wind…
