Recent content by Jeroen Zuiderwijk

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    Christmas Competition - Worlds Smallest Axe

    Now there's a challenge I can't resist! Here it is, a miniature reconstruction of a early bronze age axe: It's got a bronze axehead, wooden haft and leather string to attach the axehead to the haft. Total size: 2.5 cm. And next to its bigger brother, which I also finished this...
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    Hello from The Lowlands

    Welkom aan boord! I'm still quite new here too, and lurking about a bit:)
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    European fish stocks dwindling severely

    The problem is that on one hand you've got people who want to reduce fishing, to make sure the fish stock doesn't decrease, but on the other hand you have fishers who complain that they will loose their jobs because of it. So the government meets them in the middle, which means instead of...
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    rainforest or arctic?

    Definately arctic. I can be found in my t-shirt outside when it's freezing, and I consider anything above +15C too warm. When it's summer, I'm generally more tempted to go north then south, unlike most people. And even that doesn't always help. Last year I went to Denmark, and nearly had a...
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    what does everyone do ?

    Not to worry, I'm no teacher, nor related to one with that name:wink:
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    what does everyone do ?

    Thanks, and thanks :-)
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    Quotations thread

    My addition to that one: "First, don't die!" :wink: I like that one :biggthump
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    Quotations thread

    That sounds like a true mechanic. Here's what an aeronautical engineer would have as reply: "When a plane crashes, we can trace down exactly which mechanic used a hammer to beat in a pin that didn't fit, damaging the lug, which eventually broke due to metal fatigue, causing several hundred...
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    what does everyone do ?

    Hi everyone. I'm new here, so I figured this is a good way to introduce myself. My regular job is designing rocket and satellite structures (yep, I'm a genuine rocketscientist! :-)). To balance out all that ultra modern stuff, I spend my free time as bronze age metal worker in a living history...