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by nil
Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:09 am
Forum: Community
Topic: Why I hate software updates
Replies: 17
Views: 9396

Beeg is on to something. Your old Firefox profile was probably incompatible with the new Firefox so you probably landed in a new profile with the old one still there on your hard drive for you to fish out of the right directory to manually recover whatever you like from it. If you had not resisted u...
by nil
Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:03 am
Forum: Community
Topic: How to get a pix suitable for the forum?
Replies: 21
Views: 3336

Google plus

If you install the google+ app on your phone it can auto sync all of your photos as you take them and save you some time and a step. You only need to tell who to share them when you get the notification that they are ready to be shared. Having them in google plus also makes it easy to participate in...
by nil
Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:46 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: What is the best way to store sanding belts?
Replies: 35
Views: 18869

Eat more chili. The big cans are great.
by nil
Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:46 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

Not being a well experienced 'turner' myself I must ask if the use of a skew as demonstrated in the last video prior to the workpiece being 'round' is either typical or a reasonable thing to do. I usually get it round with a gouge before reaching for a skew. I used what I saw the majority of wood t...
by nil
Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:45 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

two magic wand video is going up now...

My week three video should be encoded and uploaded within the next four hours. Video will be embedded in the following blog post (which includes the final photos) when it's complete: http://www.airquotewoodworker.com/2013/08/two-magic-wands.html This is more traditional than the last magic wand in t...
by nil
Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:42 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

Wood mallet video is up.... http://youtu.be/eh3kPfBeW0M Two new magic wands up next, and this time i started with the idea to make them from the start. As a followup, I opened up the bag that I was letting the mallet dry in since i cut it out of very green wood... You can see the sad, sad result in ...
by nil
Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:28 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: Dowel rod on the lathe
Replies: 25
Views: 13547

What would be the most accurate way to make 1 3/16 OD x 12" dowel rod on the lathe? I need it to fit precisely, but slide thru an aluminum bore 1 3/16" x 2" through its entire 12" length. Seems to me that if you had an aluminum pipe of the same bore, you could grind saw like tee...
by nil
Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:21 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

Video is posted, but I am not sure how long youtube will take to process it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqsAhwi4Eo0

I am still editing the video of the large mallet, but I put another teaser photo at the end of the above video.
by nil
Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:32 pm
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

The mallet is now done, photos and video to come as well... mistakes and all (and there were a lot of mistakes -- I'm not even yet sure how to use the skew chisel correctly on something like this -- though it worked well for my magic wand, so I had to fix mistakes from each time I tried). It's green...
by nil
Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:19 am
Forum: Beginning Woodworking
Topic: First wood turning project...
Replies: 18
Views: 8592

Is the next project going to be a fat baseball bat:p Close! It's going to be a big fat mallet. I think I may bandsaw off the waste first though, so that I can use it for other projects rather than just a bag of shavings. Also, this is green wood, so it should be interesting to see how it deforms an...