Mar 13 2012
I made a permanent mount in the kitchen for my Android tablet a few months ago, but most of the time the tablet doesn’t live there. I find myself using it a lot around the rest of the house, strangely enough even when I’m at the computer where desk space is at …
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Mar 12 2012
I thought I’d post a slide show showing some different views of the Excelsior mini-lathe I recently bought, in case other people are interested in purchasing one. Also I thought I’d share some of the specs from the Rockler page and some I figured out on my own. From the page: Powerful …
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Mar 08 2012
Last month, I watched an excellent video by David Barron called “Hand cut dovetails made easy.” His whole technique was excellent and it was easily the best demonstration for cutting dovetails I’ve seen yet — it made me feel like a hack for posting my dovetail …
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Mar 07 2012
Last Saturday, after months of talking to a friend about his Excelsior Lathe, I finally decided to purchased one. Of course the fact that it was on sale at Rockler for $200 with the free bed extension didn’t hurt. Unfortunately they didn’t have any more left in stock when …
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Mar 06 2012
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Feb 26 2012
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Feb 17 2012
I’ve probably told this story before, but where I used to work, we bought a humidity chamber for calibrating the humidity sensor on one of my products. Right in the operations manual it specified that the 5 gallon tank on the integral air compressor needed to be drained every X hours of use. To make …
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Feb 09 2012
Right after I finished cutting all the dovetails for my toolbox, I thought I should have documented that better. So tonight I while I had some time, I thought I’d throw together a picture tutorial on how to make dovetails with tools you probably already have: a bevel gauge, chisel, …
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