I was cleaning up a good number of relatively thin but consistent off-cuts and glued them up into a cutting board – in retrospect I am not certain it will have been worth the time / glue but we will see 🙂

I really like engineers squares, so I ordered another small double square this one from iGaging.

This is the result of my new spoil board re-surfacing / flattening bit, in appears as though the bed was not perfectly co-planar with the gantry, a difference of bout 1.5mm from the left to the right.

I finally found a sale for me to replace my 100 tooth 12 miter saw blade that I damage when a small piece of improperly secured wood broke a few teeth and bent at least one, a costly mistake. So it arrived.

This is one of my post Christmas’ splurges, a set of machinist parallels for use on the drill when metal working.

So I spent too much time on Amazon and tool sites recently, especially the day I was sick so I may post some of my purchases as they are delivered, long story short I bought a spoil board surfacing bit for my small CNC (1/4 shank Bosch Colt router) and I used it last night -very nice I was impressed, and my spoil board was not perfectly level/flat…[Read more]

I don’t like lending tools from my tool chest and my wife finds them hard to find, so she likes her one and she has a very Independent streak so she insisted on her own wrenches for her kayak trailer etc. So during the holiday sales I bought her an initial set, but she liked my ratcheting set better- so the picture says it all, after I added the…[Read more]

I ended up adding a brace on my matt/glass cutter, the aluminum right angle guide occasionally gets bumped during moving or storage so a bought a piece of 3/4″ box steel tapped it on one end and removed some material on the other end to make a tab. Then using the 3-4-5 method for a right angle (where in this case the units were 10″ so 30-40-50) I…[Read more]

I did finally get a new stump for my poor little anvil, I am still in the market for a bigger one.

I didn’t post this earlier, this was a so last minute finish that when I broke the pane of glass when cutting it, that I gave it to my sister without the glass until I can buy another sheet.

Apparently I was extra good this year 🙂 I also got a cordless trim router:

Because you can never have too many – I now also have 12V drill and drivers.

Canadian Tire is dangerous this time of year, I couldn’t pass up the wire cup brush set at the price they were on for and the sale price on the internal/external thermometer meant that it was going in the shop 🙂

Cutting glass, I have a bunch of frames to due before the holidays, and I just broke the only large pane of glass I had for a panoramic photo frame – damn.

I also picked up a miter slot mount for my dial indicators, you might be surprised how much the rip fence varies over its length, even on a good quality fence.

I think it is ugly, but I understand the theory behind the simple shapes when using the stainless steel, and I like the EV and features side, but I want to wait and see what actually rolls off the production line. I do think that the disruption to the truck industry is a good thing, but I prefer the look of the Rivian, and if I buy a Tesla, it…[Read more]

Last night I wired up a couple more of the swing arm reading lights, I used wire that has a fabric sleeve coat over the wire. It looks very nice but in this application it was a real pain to work with and hampered my ability to easily feed it through and terminate it.

A friend of my wife lent her a ski waxing jig/form and I have made a template of it as I expect to be requested to make at least a couple of them.

I bought a couple more mobile bases from BusyBee Tools, I am quite happy with how heavy they seem as they were quite a bit cheaper than the others I looked at.

I bought a router bit extender for a specific use, it is for my 1/2″ router, but it has both 1/2″ and 1/4″ collets.