A spring break road trip down to San Francisco with the wife and kids. My wife plans the itinerary and it does not include boats. If I pushed it, I could probably squeeze a stop in here or there but it would always be under the shadow of a stopwatch. “How much...
A trip to the Blue Ox Millworks I had stumbled onto the Blue Ox on Youtube some years ago. Eric Hollinbeck is a Vietnam vet who dealt with his own PTSD issues by retreating into a secluded corner of a Eureka California industrial park. There he took a deep interest in...
thought a little constructive self-criticism would be an interesting subject for this video. We all look back on early projects with a bit of a cringe. And why is that when we were so proud of the results when they were fresh from the hopper? Well, because we...
Here are two simple approaches to indexing a part in two or three different possitions. It’s the use of a hinge to create a flip away stop that is the brains behind the idea. This saves a separate setup operation that in turn saves a bunch of...
Here’s a very simple method of creating a non-skid finish that is easy to clean. It’s also easy to remove and re-apply. I learned this method from the skipper of the schooner Alcyon, Sugar Flanigan. He used it on the painted cabin tops of the...
