Jessica Amelia

@loveandcrossbones.org

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Trans, queer and annoyed. DIY pedals, woodworking and a punk act, The Obvious Tells https://linktr.ee/JessicaAmelia

Tabitha, a long haired tortie cat basking in slivers of sunlight shining through the bamboo fencing on the porch, the shadows from metal plant stands casting spiral patterns on her. She is belly up to the sun
A bottle of Gojo natural orange hand cleaner
Tofu and broccoli with peanut sauce on a white plate on the counter, a red chefs knife above
The cover of the School Drugs seven inch record “disposition”, with a stylized photo of a lily and an ornate border, suggesting a funeral
The green cover for the Burning Kitchen album “Consolidation”, featuring a two tone print of half a face and the text in black.
A screenshot of a spam email with amusingly poor grammar. It reads : “Your Risk is at Data 🔒 Files 🚨 Jeopardy Photos and in—Immediately! Upgrade ⏳”
A bright pink bic lighter and a vintage Mezurall metal 6’ tape measure
A metal jointer plane, its mouth full of shavings, resting on two oak plywood box sides, held in a wooden moxon screw vise. The clutter of the shop, including the hammers hanging in a board is behind it.
Jessica flipping the plane blank to show off the rough cut mortise.
A wooden jack plane blank having the initial mortise sunk into it with chisels and mallets
Jessica sweeping some of the saw shavings away and commenting on the figure of the wood. The rough sawn face faces the camera, and a cut has had a kerf made with the fenced saw
A few seconds of the beginning of a long boring saw cut with an antique disston rip saw
Another angle, Jessica sawing towards the camera with what looks quite like a plough plane, but with a coarse saw blade on it, guided by a wedged arm fence to put a saw kerf around the block of wood. This helps guide the rip saw that follows, removing a little thinking and effort from the equation of a long rip in dense wood like this beech.
Jessica at a cluttered bench, using a coarse saw in a plane body with a guiding fence to initialize the rip cut thru a large piece of beech
A large piece of quartersawn beech resawn to make a jack plane. The intended iron lays in front. The rear offcut with make a molding plane and the small piece in the front could be the wedge. The large rip saw used for cutting the wood is pictured in front.
A lemon almond cake with lemon zested buttercream frosting. Vegan and gluten free!
A gluten free almond lemon cake with lemony vegan buttercream frosting
Jessica using a coarser set wooden plane to rough in the perpendicular edge of the wooden beech billet
Jessica uses a metal jointer plane with a fine set iron to level the reference face on a large beech billet
An in-channel gouge resting on a piece of cocobolo, surrounded by some of the shavings produced
A cocobolo neck blank having the curved transition from the headstock to the volute carved in, crossgrain with an in-channel gouge
Tabitha, a long haired tortie cat, laying asleep in the porch under a four shelf planter with the bottom shelf removed because cats were going to sleep there regardless, so we might as well make everyone’s lives easier.
A wide shot of a huge 14” vintage Nicholson rasp next to a two foot ruler
a screenshot of my lyrics from one of my songs on Bandcamp that I thought sounded good and look stupid, they read " And I feel it Each day as I grasp at healing And fuck the part of me just feeling Like earnestness isn't deserving it's just I'm learning it"
A “music video” for The Obvious Tells “Shapeshifter”, with Jessica performing for the camera, at one point wiping off her makeup and removing a wig, and cuts between different presentations
Jessica in wig with bangs and a v-neck, rendered in black and white then done over with bright pink and yellow, clipped out and placed on a bright primary blue background
A hand built guitar spattered in blood after a show.
The 5” thermometer showing 100° on the porch
a crowded fridge with fresh vegetables and tofu on the bottoms and the middle shelf entirely taken up by two sheet pans full of no bake cookies cooling.
the top of the quaker oats with a stuck on label saying "are you making no bake cookies? you probably want to halve the recipe! as a reminder
A pink PRS Vela guitar from Sweetwater. It is a bright pink with a bit of gold sparkle and a slightly more pronounced asymmetry than the standard style PRS, with a swoopy black pickguard
A hardcover copy of Ignition by John D Clark
A floral print linen and rayon dress in red tones, it's a square neck sheath dress that falls mid calf with spaghetti straps. It is ruched in the back for fit.
A copy of “Make a Windsor Chair with Michael Dunbar”, in paperback, featuring two Windsor chairs on a plane blue background. Laying on top is an inshave and a Lie Nielsen number 85 rabbeting scraper plane.
A large cardboard box for Whoppers malted milk balls. 2 for 1¢, the box originally held 240 of them, it has a cartoon picture of muscular man in a one strapped wrestling singlet holding a giant malt ball over his head like Atlas holding the earth. They are made by the company Leaf, whose all caps logo is on the top above the word “Whoppers”, with the cartoon below, surrounded by the words “Malted Milk balls” and the price
A 7pt crosscut saw laying on top of the large cut thru a 4”x4” piece of beech, showing the cut face, one piece resting in the end vise, another sitting on a stool just out of range.
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A screenshot of an eBay watchlist comprised of antique plane irons. It reads : 1 WATCHING Orig. 21/16 Inch Width Tapered iron & Chip Brkr.- James Cam - mjdtoolparts Used $36.50 Free shipping •.. 2d 18h (3 WATCHING) Antique Thick Tapered Buck Bothers Double Plane Iron 2" Wide Used $29.00 + Shipping 3d 17h ... (2 WATCHING) 5191 Dwights French; 2 1/8" Wide Tapered Iron with Chip Breaker Used $25.95 Free shipping 8d l .•.
a red LED unit in a white box with two thru-leads coming out the bottom. It's about 5mmx10mm
A screenshot from the HR website noting a Continuous Service Date of 6/01/1998 and a Length of Service of 28 years, 0 months and 20 days
A large metal tin, that says “Humpty Dumpty Potato chips” and “the treat that can’t be beat” above and below a cartoon of Humpty Dumpty.
A hand holding a 3”x3”, one foot long hunk of rosewood
A large cardboard box held together with heavy duty plastic strapping sits on the bench
A hand holding a roughly 3"x3" foot long piece of rosewood. The ends are waxed.
A turning saw; a type of bow saw or frame saw, shaped like a capital ‘H’, tightened by a toggle in twisted lengths of cord stretched across the top of the frame, with a thin blade like that of a coping saw, but longer, resting on the porch floor
A wall cabinet, opened up on its piano hinges, showing all the saws, planes, chisels, etc, and several a bunch of small drawers. In front of it, an antique tool chest is open, showing a scattering of tools in its tills. In front of the tool chest is an electric guitar case; behind it is a window with blinds drawn. Underneath the wall cabinet is a shop vac. An 8 Bit Do fight stick lays on top of the vac.
Screenshot from the Megadeth summer collection featuring a Vic Rattlehead tiki mug and Hawaiian shirt
A screenshot of a Google search for "Smart car lift kit", showing results from someplace called BRAAP Limited and one from Little Big Supply
A close up view of a Hold Heet automatic glue pot, a device for keeping hot hide glue ready to use. It looks like a almost like a black paint can with a red-on-brushed-aluminum label tag and a power cable coming out of it
Tabitha, a long haired tortie cat, in the sun under the bench on the porch.
The bow saw, minus the toggle and handles, and not yet with the surface finished, but with the basic final shape
A curvy turning saw out of birch wood, with hickory handles from Gramercy Toolworks / Tools For Working Wood.
Jessica demonstrating on the kitchen counter that the frame doesn’t rack and is co-linear
A small dovetail saw laying in the bench. A small stick of beech rests in the end vise, with the rip cuts defining a tenon made
A Hold Heet branded electric glue pot.
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A turning saw laying on top of a piece of 3/4” birch plywood with a decent curve cut out of the board with it
A square and plumb crosscut in a 2’x4’ piece of three quarter birch plywood and the 7 pt crosscut saw used laying on top next to a small square.
The cassingle with cardboard sleeve for Weird Al Yankovic’s “Smells Like Nirvana”
The blind side of four rabbet in planes. The one on the lower right is made of cocobolo the other three are quartersawn beech. The upper right plane has boxing of dogwood, the other two beech trees planes have cocobolo boxing