Making liquid starch
Making liquid starch
from a usenet posting a simple howto to make your own from (pref) potato starch.
Stencils for woodcarving some ways to transfer an image onto the subject/material of your choice. Some I've never thought of too like ironing on laser printed or photocopied patterns.
Stencils for woodcarving some ways to transfer an image onto the subject/material of your choice. Some I’ve never thought of too like ironing on laser printed or photocopied patterns.
what is asafoetida?
what is asafoetida?
Now I (and you) know.
Home-built foundry
Home-built foundry
Charcoal Foundry thread
A HOME-BUILT CHARCOAL-FIRED FOUNDRY - Similar to the Gingery style, but
freshly conceived home built
foundry
Coffee Can Foundry MkII
Dremel goodies
Dremel goodies
A PC Board Cutting Jig For The Dremel Drill Press - shop built jig using the drill press accessory and the cheap cutting wheels.
Dremel - basic cutting bit
Papa John’s Toolbox for mini-tools, accessories
Small Stuff - Dr. Bob’s Spiral Dremel Tools “How-To” discussion of dremel / accessory usage, extension
seems like there ought to be more of this kind of stuff out there…
line numbered code.
line numbered code.
this is very sweet - classing the PRE tag makes a cheap and easy way to get line-numbering with a background image providing the #s.
I’ve been using an SSI to include raw code into a XMP tag (sadly depreciated but works still in most browsers), for maintenance-free code listings and this would be a nice touch there.
Identifying Plastic
Identifying Plastic
A chart with what the recyclable numbers / plastic ids mean - e.g [2] is HDPE, which is high density polyethylene. There’s also a table of properties and common usage (and repair method), and a flow chart helping to id unknown plastics.
Cabinet Making Tips, Hints and Ideas
Cabinet Making Tips, Hints and Ideas
choked with ads, but some very worthwhile, mostly simple wood and shop work tips.
Updates to this blog
Updates to this blog
I’ve made this blog (actually the whole site) searchable - look to the leftnav. This should hopefully mitigate the problem of ephemoral content on the blog page. I see a lot of hits where people have searched for a term, and landed on my blog page - which has long since moved on to other stuff.