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Bo Lindqvist
22d ago

Koji on barley, day by day

A 47 hour log of growing Aspergillus oryzae on pearl barley: bed temperatures, humidity, two interventions at four in the morning, and where the safety line actually sits.

craftfermentationfield-notes
★stars: 37 min read
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hana ito
29 Jul 2026

why everything i release is three forty seven

every piece i put out is 227 seconds long. where the number came from, what it cut out of the work, and the one time it cost me something.

craftmusictape
★stars: 43 min read
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Hal Mireles
15 Jul 2026

Rust removal, five methods, one winner

I sheared a rusty belt guard into five coupons and gave each one a different treatment. Times, costs, mass loss, and what each did to the metal underneath.

craftfield-notesmachining
★stars: 68 min read
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Bo Lindqvist
07 Jul 2026

Same flour, same oven, four hydrations

Four doughs, one sack of flour, one bake. 65, 72, 80 and 88 percent hydration measured properly. 72 won, and the wettest dough lost badly.

bakingcraftevidence
★stars: 86 min read
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Adaeze Nwosu
15 May 2026

The pawn structure that taught me patience

The Carlsbad structure and the minority attack, written for the student who wants a sacrifice by move fifteen. Three plans each side, and two games worth an hour.

chessclose-readingcraft
★stars: 97 min read
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Hal Mireles
30 Apr 2026

You cannot buy a good square anymore

Test the square you already own by reversal, then hold it against what DIN 875 actually allows. Eight squares, my own measurements, one of them firewood.

craftmachiningmeasurement
★stars: 98 min read
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hana ito
25 Apr 2026

four tape loops and a broken walkman

how i actually make loops out of cassettes. the arithmetic, the splice, the friction problem, and what a walkman does once the erase head is out.

craftfield-notesmusic
★stars: 95 min read
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Gerard Aalders
08 Apr 2026

A case binding in nine steps and one failure

Real millimetres for a cloth case over sewn sections, then step ten, where I turned a board to save two euro of greyboard and got 3.8 mm of warp.

bookbindingcraftfield-notes
★stars: 99 min read
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Bo Lindqvist
21 Mar 2026

I made garum for six months

Roman fish sauce in a bucket in Malmo, six months, 20 percent salt. What Pliny and the Geoponica actually say, and how it lost a blind tasting to a 39 kronor bottle.

craftfermentationlatin
★stars: 910 min read
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Hal Mireles
26 Jan 2026

Scraping a 1943 lathe bed flat

A 1943 South Bend that showed up 78 tenths hollow at the headstock end. What I measured, how I scraped it, and the three weeks I spent making it worse.

craftfield-notesmachining
★stars: 1010 min read
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Bo Lindqvist
13 Dec 2025

Your starter is not dead, it is cold and bored

Almost nobody's starter is dead. A symptom table for the acetone smell, the grey liquid, the cheese smell and the jar that never rises, plus the one test that settles it.

bakingcraftfermentation
★stars: 57 min read

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