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Mumblings of a sometime webdeveloper, occassional potato sculptor, recently-become dad, and just this guy getting along in the world.

Sunday, April 28, 2002

Ropemaking
W R Outhwaite & Sons, Ropemakers - How rope is made
Rope Making from Natural Fibres for Kite Tail Trailing Lines
Google Groups: View Thread "searched: simple ropemaking machine" - a thread including a description of a fairly robust but shop-made machine, and some good pointers to other pages and resources.
Rope Works- a book on rope, knots, splicing, and lashing - the book includes designs for a simple rope making jig.
A model rope-making machine

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Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Why Left Handed items are left handed
This is a great item by item explanation of how left-handed tools differ from their mainstream cousings, and why they are really necessary. It all rings so true - upside-down tape measures, ring-binders, pen nibs that snag, bendy bread slices, as well as the more common impossible to use scissors.

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Monday, April 15, 2002

Google Catalog Search
Google provides for hours of window shopping. I apparently missed this when it was launched (..its still in beta, that would be why), but they have a huge collection of scanned mail order catalogues here. (my spelling is betraying my roots again...)
See this search result for wood turning tools for an example that revealed a hoard of catalogues I didn't know existed.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Ginger
botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Ginger - Herb Profile and Information - treating and preserving the rhizome as well as usage.

Growing your own ginger - pot it up, allow to die back in winter, dont let it freeze.

and more details on getted started growing ginger

more tips..

or how about hydroponically, in couch foam?

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