Hand built astronomy equipment

This is kind of a cool site by a designer/illustrator that makes his own astronomy equipment, mirrors (lenses) and all.  I struggle to maintain an interest in Astronomy but I appreciate anyone hacking this type of thing together from scratch.  It's a bit similar to my snowlab project, although I tend not to dwell on the equipment too much (not in public anyway, in reality it consumes me)  I like the colorful graph screenshot, it looks cool.

http://proportionwheel.squarespace.com/atm-blog/