{"id":10309,"date":"2020-03-03T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:13:40","slug":"a-thingymajig-out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/a-thingymajig-out-of-the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"A thingymajig out of the blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through some sewing notions that a friend gave me when I found this:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16400 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200303_tool2.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a small old-school (1980s) plastic combination protractor, ruler, French curve, circle gauges, and triangle and hexagon and line templates,\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200303_tool2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200303_tool2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently it was a thing in the \u201980s (never saw one then) and is now \u201cvintage.\u201d \u2019Scuse you, internet. The \u201980s was just 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I was googling it to find out about it when I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galenleather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Galen Leather<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galenleather.com\/collections\/writers-medic-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catalog of wonderful and esoteric things<\/a>! You know <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/a-lone-artist-wendy-drolma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how much I love good craftsmanship<\/a>. And then, then \u2026 I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galenleather.com\/collections\/brass-accessories\/products\/vintage-inspired-brass-combine-tool-protractor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16401 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200303_tool3.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a high-end brass combination protractor, ruler, French curve, circle gauge, and hexagon and line and triangle templates, made by Galen Leather Co., out of Turkey.\" width=\"551\" height=\"367\"><\/p>\n<p>MUST. HAVE.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a frivolity and we are in a position to eschew frivolities at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Still \u2026 my birthday\u2019s coming up and I wanted to give Dude a heads-up as to something he could get me relatively inexpensively (I thought) that I really wanted. What I didn\u2019t know was that it was coming from Turkey (shipping ain\u2019t cheap)!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, he didn\u2019t wait for my birthday (silly man \ud83e\udd2a) and so this happened:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16399 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200303_tool1.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a high-end brass combination protractor, ruler, French curve, circle gauges, and triangle and hexagon and line templates made by Galen Leather Co (out of Turkey) PLUS unboxing images (beautiful, heavy box), quality brown pouch, instruction booklet made of quality paper, anti-tarnish cleaning cloth, and tea pouches.\" width=\"750\" height=\"960\"><\/p>\n<p>The craftsmanship at every level is exquisite. The box is heavy, tidy kraft.  The logo is lovely. The pouch that the coffee and tea packets come in is fine cloth. The envelope that the protractor is in is heavy embossed cardstock (almost chipboard). Everything about this is lovely and perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Protractor: 10\/10 cannot regret frivolousness<\/p>\n<p>Husband: 10\/10 would marry again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through some sewing notions that a friend gave me when I found this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,567,578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-craftsmanship","category-lovely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16493,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/16493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}