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Woodworking

A Place for Saws

I’ve got enough saws floating around now that I decided I needed a better way to store them. My little till will be a pretty simple box, dovetailed at the corners, with a drawer (two maybe?) underneath for saw sharpening stuff.

The plan is to store the saws handle down, blade up. The handles will rest on a piece of dowel and the blades will slot into a series of kerfs.

The dovetails came out pretty well, though I screwed up the top rail my first go round, mismarking the location of the pins. They fit great, they were just offset by an inch or so. Sloppy. I also got to cut my very first dado by hand.

 

White pine is fun stuff. Easy to work, smells nice, compresses well. And it’s cheap here in upstate NY.

 

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Linkage: May 24th, 2012 to May 31st, 2012

VIDEO: The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. An instant classic…
Keep 'em running, keep 'em on the road.
On Being the New Boss
Every time Tim Bray says "Mr. Lowery," I cringe a little.
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stupid eye tricks. the brain is crazy.
US Housing Crisis – Negative Equity Infographic – Zillow
beautiful visualization of a terrible thing
API Design – Matt Gemmell
Mostly focused on iOS / OSX, but good thoughts
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Linkage: May 17th, 2012 to May 24th, 2012

"The Maple Avenue Mind-Set"
The local drama over whether kids should be able to bike to a local middle school ends up in Bicycling magazine. Crazy.
Courtesy Table
More like a see-saw table. Clever idea and design.
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Neat design for a cutting gauge with a captive wedge.
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Improvised shave horse for roughing these dowels. #konkbench
Geeks and Repetitive Tasks
AUTOMATE
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Linkage: May 15th, 2012 to May 17th, 2012

Electric Imp
Tiny wireless controllers for just about anything. $25. Awesome.
[Interview] Christopher Schwarz of Lost Art Press
A good, quick interview with the Schwarz.
Instagram
Breaking in the skates on the brewpub floor. #daughters #6thbirthday #smallbusiness #shopsmall
Liquid Photo Page Layout
Flickr is now showing the biggest photo they can on a photo page. Awesome!
Buchanan, the gay president
I love the term "chronological ethnocentrism"
Wolfram’s bibliography omission
"A typical issue that came up was how the book was vetted or checked. In academia, there’s the idea that “peer review” is the ultimate method of checking anything. And perhaps in a world where everyone has infinite time, and nobody operates according to their own self-interest, this might be true. But in reality, peer review is fraught with error, often quite corrupt, and even in the best case strongly biased toward avoiding new ideas and maintaining the status quo. And for a piece of work as large, broad and complex as A New Kind of Science, even the basic mechanics of it seemed completely impractical."
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Linkage: May 9th, 2012 to May 13th, 2012

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world
Video of the "Kuroshio Sea" tank in Okinawa, Japan. The ultimate fish tank screensaver.
Hold Off On Proposing Solutions – Less Wrong
I need a "Jump to Conclusions" mat.
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Can we please get everyone on SSL sooner rather than later?
Fix It, The Repair Manifesto
Some folks in .nl opened up a bunch of "Repair Cafes" where you can take in broken stuff and have it fixed.
Adirondack Foods: Violet Jelly | The Adirondack Almanack
Quickie on making jelly from wild violets.