On Waiting: Eighteen Months of Running-In
A new orrery is not finished when it is assembled. It is finished when it has run.
Notes from the bench, written between windings. Three essays a year, no newsletter, no feed.
A new orrery is not finished when it is assembled. It is finished when it has run.
Why we finish brass the slow way, and what the eye reads in it.
A small perversity in the standard, and the reason it stays.