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Electrician’s Tool Pouch
Occidental Leather Electrician’s Tool Case Occidental Leather 5589 Electrician’s Tool Case (* more info here) Occidental Leather 5035 LG H.D. 3-inch Ranger Work Belt (pick your size) Knipex 09 02 240 SBA 9.5-Inch Ultra-High Leverage Lineman’s Pliers Knipex 2612200 8-Inch Long Nose Pliers with Cutter Klein Tools J206-8C Wire Stripper Pliers, Spring Loaded (2 of these) Knipex 8702250 10-Inch…
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Perfect Mechanic's Tool Kit
Perfect Mechanic’s Tool Kit
There’s a story behind this tool box. When I spent time on my grandfather’s farm he let me run wild. This usually ended with me breaking something. He had a lot of patience; it amazes me. What I remember most was his ability to grab his go-to tool box and fix anything I broke. It was perfect…magical. I inherited that tool box and, although it’s not quite perfect for me, it served him well and I…
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Cabin Cabinets (2-Door Base)
Cabin Cabinets (2-Door Base)
2-Door Base Cabinet
Construction on one of the 2-door base cabinets is complete. It took me a little longer than I would have liked because of so many other projects interrupting me. I still need to build another 2-door base and a 1-door base to complete all the cabinets for the cabin.
I’m about halfway through construction of the second 2-door base cabinet. I’m happy with the results of…
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Miter Attachment for Crosscut Sled
Miter Attachment for Crosscut Sled
Image of the crosscut sled with the miter attachment in place.
The first, and maybe only, accessory I plan for my new crosscut sled is the miter attachment. I finished building it today; it looks good and works great.
This project has been sitting on the shelf for a long time and I’m happy to have gotten back to it and finished it. It’s especially nice to get such good results.
Now I’m moving on…
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Table Saw Cross Cut Sled
Table Saw Cross Cut Sled project is complete. I'm really happy with the results.
Crosscut Sled
For years—okay, a decade (maybe more)—I’ve wanted a cross cut sled for my table saw. It sounds easy; why not just stick some wood together and get on with it? Right? Well, once you start thinking about it, it’s a complicated build.
A piece of plywood (3/4″ for rigidity) to make the base sled. Some designs use 2×6’s and 2×4’s for the front and rear fences. How do I square the…
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Ammo Can Storage Rack Completed
Finally completed my Ammo Cab Storage Rack project. Now it's easy to see my inventory and pull it for the hunt or target shooting event for which I'm planning. No more double-purchases! Now, more shelves for more books!
Ammo Can Rack Base & Install
I got a little time off at the end of this year and decided to finish the Ammo Can Storage Rack installation and clean/organize my Man Cave a little better. The clutter in there was driving me crazy!
This post completes the two previous posts (Ammo Can Storage Rack and Ammo Can Storage Rack Update) on the Ammo Can Storage Rack project. The process has taken…
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6-Pistol Rack
6-Pistol Rack
It has been three years in the making but I finally finished my handgun rack. It was substantially complete with it back in March 2015 but I never liked the solutions I was using for the gun slots.
I tried using CA glue to attach hook & loop (Velcro®) with the loop side exposed and the hook side glued to the wood. That didn’t work. It didn’t adhere well and it wasn’t very good…
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March Quail Hunt
It has been a long time since I posted and I need to get back into the habit. A lot of things were going on; one thing that distracted me was getting a new knee. But that’s getting further in the past and I’m trying to get back into my groove. The knee caused me to miss much of the hunting season. I was able to hunt duck on only one occasion last year. It was fun but it didn’t scratch the itch.…
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Poetry in Political Science
Have we lost Poetry in Political Science?
I’m a reader but not yet what I would call well-read. Reading regularly is something I starter doing many years ago (to cure my lack of education) and one of the first books I read was Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. The book was interesting to me because it helped me cleanse some of the cultish ideas in which I was raised. Even so, I never delved into his other works. Recently, I looked at his…
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Just Finished Reading "The Vanishing American Adult"
I made a rough bibliography of the books mentioned in "The Vanishing American Adult" by Ben Sasse.
Ben Sasse’s book The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-Of-Age Crisis—And How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance recently came out and I just finished reading it yesterday. Because my reading list isn’t huge (50+ books a year), I try to pick good, impactful books to read. This isn’t always easy so I’m constantly looking for sources to help me populate my reading list. That’s one reason I…
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Working Through Getting the Electrics Laid Out
Still working on fitting all the electrical components into the electrical compartment of the Hot Wire Foam Cutter project. Almost there.
Hot Wire Foam Cutter Electrical Components Box I’ve been working on sourcing the electrical parts of the Hot Wire Foam Cutter project and getting them all laid out in the electrical compartment. The goal is to keep the box as small as possible, just large enough to contain all the components. There are a lot of parts to get into the box. There’s the main variable autotransformer, main…
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Modeling Components with Fusion 360
Modeling Components for the Hot Wire Foam Cutter with Fusion 360
Hot Wire Foam Cutter (underside – v9 unfinished). I’m using Autodesk Fusion 360 to model the Hot Wire Foam Cutter I’m building. Usually I use Sketchup to design my projects. Sketchup is simple and straightforward which makes it quick to model all the parts and then make build drawings with its included Layout application. But there are a few reasons I’m shifting to Fusion 360: Fusion 360 is free…
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Ammo Can Storage Rack Update
Fabrication is complete on the Ammo Can Storage Rack v2 and I have a whirlwind of interdependent projects right now.
When I look at this blog it seems like nothing is going on. This is odd because their are so many things happening right now. The major construction on the Ammo Can Storage Racks v2 is complete (I’ll have pictures below). I have been working diligently on the development of the Hot Wire Foam Cutter project. All of the electrics are done; some fine tweaks will occur but it’s 99%. I have designed…
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Ammo Can Storage Rack
I’ve needed a way to store ammo cans. They pile up, they don’t stack very neatly. You’d think the military design would accommodate stacking and storage a little better. Furthermore, it’d be reasonable to expect there would be a rack on the market to hold them. Nope, and nope. So, I had to design my own. I don’t think wood will be strong and compact so I need to go with metal. I’m not a welder so…
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Bike Rack
Building a Bike Rack to declutter the porch.
Bike Rack model Around the house there seems to be more bicycles than there are people. It’s causing the front porch to get cluttered which tends to agitate me. I’ve been told I’m not the nicest person to be around when I’m agitated. Long ago I found the best solution to avoiding the agitation is to find a solution and then work on training the kids (best results in younger children) to use the…
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Man Cave Book Shelves
I've completed my Man Cave Book Shelves. Now I need more shelving.
I have a lot of books that I enjoy reading, re-reading, and referencing time and again. The problem is, I have a lot of books and no adequate place to organize them well. So, I end up with lots of piles of books and double rows of books on each shelf of my cheap, freestanding bookshelves. The shelves you buy in the store have a couple of problems: They’re made with cheap, low-quality materials…
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Small Parts Cabinet [Completed]
Small Parts Cabinet [Completed] build gallery.
I don’t like the finishing part (painting, etc.) of my projects. That’s why it took so long to complete this project. It was built, just not finished. I decided to finish it with “trunk paint” which has a similar consistency to the spray-in bead liner material they use on pickup truck beds. I finally found the motivation to complete this project because there were so many small parts and tools…
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