Month: January 2022
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a Roman woodworking vise
I remember reading about this vise in an article from a magazine… it was about the city of Pompeii, down on the shore there was a shed, open on the side facing the sea. Inside the shed was set up to build or repair small boats, and chained to the workbench was a man… on […]
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How to Make Very Nearly Everything: Introduction
I have this book I’m writing. the working title is “how to make very nearly everything”. I’m not a very good writer. I’m rather poor at it actually, but I’ve been working on it for decades, just to get my ideas all put down somewhere. Thus I have decided to use some of it on […]
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Broom Machine B
The original of this is owned by Mark Hernig at Kick and Stitch Brooms. He did the hand sketches that you will see, and provided the critical dimensions for me to make the CAD drawings so that anyone building this will end up with a working machine. There were a couple of sneaky angles that […]
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Do all the things!
(the Title line is borrowed from “Hyperbolae and a Half” online comic) Hi! First post of 2022! First day or 2022! First; I need to clean all of the things! Desk , first floor, stairs. Then finish up some (many) long unfinished projects and get rid of them. (AFTER taking pictures!!, I forget to do […]