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Picked this up for $20. An interesting vise that clamps onto the corner of your bench. I suspect I will end up using this quite a bit. Time will te...
I was at salvage right when they opened. I saw a new face. A tower of a man with a full head of fluffy white hair. Must have been over 7-feet tall ...
The strong back is built with a top and bottom layer of OSB and a frame between them. This yields a very stiff structure that will maintain flatnes...
Purchased from Urban Ore for $4 [IMG_7634.jpeg] Here is the before: [IMG_6750.jpeg] Here is the after: I disassembled it, cleaned it, polish...
The neighbor restores furniture and sells it at fairs. She picked up some ratty rattan chairs where the webbing was gone. I said I could make her ...
Picked this up for $4. Saw it on scoutcrafter’s channel a few days after it arrived at my local salvage. He’s on the East coast and nowhere near me...
Saw this and knew it was worth the $25 they were asking. Sure enough, these go for $55 new on eBay. Here I snagged it for less than half with zero ...
I bought a Lost Art Press engraving tool a while back. The short metal handle works fine for putting it into a compass, but for freehand use, it’s ...
Before testing I took the covers off. Tires were pretty gummed up. So I grabbed my Red Devil scraper and spun the wheels while holding the scraper ...
While working on the Altai Project Logo carving, I discovered I needed a narrow skew in order to get down into some of the corners. I have a handfu...
Found this for $9. You better believe I scoured the place top-to-bottom looking for the Kapex. Nowhere to be found. This is the first Festool thin...
Also, not a typo. Red Zebrawood. Just came in. [IMG_7391.jpeg][IMG_7390.jpeg] No, I don’t work there. I just go in a lot. This is interesting but...