Monthly Archive: January 2015

Jan 30 2015

My Son’s Scrap Bin Imperial Shuttle

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Pin Nailer, Scraps, Son

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January 30, 2015

My kids love my shop. I’ve always told them they can use any materials they want as long as they give me a drawing of what they want to do. My scrap bin is the exception, they can dig through it and use anything they find without asking. So of course …

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Jan 29 2015

Adding a Mouse Door to Some Baseboard

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Acrylic Paint, Daughter, Red Oak, Scroll Saw

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January 29, 2015

You’d think my main reason for installing a mouse door in the baseboard was to add a bit of whimsy to our family room addition. You might be partially right, but my real motivation starts with trying to lay baseboard in my kitchen. A few years ago, when I …

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Jan 17 2015

Thrift Store Find: Mission Style File Cabinet

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Furniture

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January 17, 2015

Browsing one of the local thrift stores a week or so ago, I found this interesting mission style file cabinet/end table. Now I’ve been meaning to make a wooden file cabinet to replace our cheap plastic one for years and years, but like anything else, if you already have a good enough solution, you hardly …

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Jan 05 2015

Energy Efficient Bulbs and the Cold

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Lighting

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January 5, 2015

Man it’s cold. You know it’s cold when the snow starts to squeak like Styrofoam under your boots. It’s so cold here in the burbs of Minneapolis that CFL’s wont light outside and that’s a problem; we need the outdoor …

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Jan 02 2015

Making a Baby Gate Puppy Proof

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Home Improvement, Miter Sled, Pine, Table Saw

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January 2, 2015

Baby gates are designed to keep babies out of trouble, not to keep a 50 pound German Shepard puppy at bay. Even the staying power of this heavy duty gate was only as good as its friction fit, which due to the chair rail in the way wasn’t very good at …

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Jan 01 2015

Matching Pine Trim to Oak

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Minwax Stain, Pine, Red Oak, Remodeling

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January 1, 2015

To trim out the family room, we choose red oak colored with Minwax natural wood stain. The story would end here, but I also needed to match some pine picture rail to this trim. After shopping around, the only picture rail I could source locally came in pine. Now you …

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