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One of my other hobbies is woodworking (my whole upstairs is one big project right now). Thought this was funny, but I doubt I can wear it to any client sites <g>: Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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I hope you all have (or had) a Merry Christmas! I just finished up helping Santa put some presents under the tree for our boy (he'll be two in February). Now I'm down here removing all the old alphas and betas and installing the latest VS and
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My main website is pretty disjointed from my blog here, and with one exception, is rarely updated any more. I do plan to convert the main site over, prune out old stuff at somepoint, and make it as easy to update as my blog (WSS will likely be part of
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I'm in the middle of a never-ending home renovation project. As such, I tend to use my two Bosch drills a lot. My son (20 months old now) was obsessed with the "brrrumba" (his name for the drill, based on its sound), and would go nuts whenever
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In a previous post , I mentioned that I had won an APC Netshelter server rack on eBay. I just put in a dedicated 20amp circuit to power the computers on this rack. So far, 20amps seems to be more than enough. If not, it's easy to run another as the
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Last year, I started getting into Festool tools. Festool is a German tool company that manufactures the tools in Germany. Almost all other popular tools these days are made in asia by the lowest bidder. You pay a premium for the tools, but like nice German
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I've updated the kitchen cabinet plans several times over the course of construction. Here's the latest set (click to zoom): Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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I installed the base corner cabinet over the weekend. I assembled this in the kitchen as the cabinet is pretty huge. As of now, the two installed cabinets are the oven cabinet and the corner cabinet. The others in the photos are the temporary cabinets.
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I scribed the wall oven cabinet to the wall and permanently installed it today. After that, Melissa and I hefted that oven into the cabinet. It wasn't an easy task. I have had it sitting on a wheeled furniture mover (basically four pieces of maple
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During my two week vacation, I made a lot of progress on the cabinets. I still have a few days to work before I go back, but this is what I finished: Redesigned the cabinet legs and some details. I'm very happy with the design now. Milled all the
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Over the weekend, I assembled the carcass and face frame for the double oven cabinet for our Thermador C302BS . This was a bit of a one-off cabinet as I had to adhere to manufacturer specs for support and spacing. The cabinet is sized exactly for that
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Over the July 4th holiday, I managed to get some of the wainscoting installed in Ben's room. I decided to trim the alcove like I am the doors. The trim is primed 4/4" wood, except that on the inside which is unprimed 3/4". I'll paint
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There's nothing quite like the sound and feeling of wood you have so crisply milled you could cut your finger on the edge. You stack the wood and you get that air-cushioned "clack" sound from two pieces that are so perfectly square and true that they
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My father in law and I picked up the maple this past rainy Saturday. We figure it weighed in at around 2500 pounds, a little over the rating on his truck. Nevertheless, we made the almost two hour trip back in the pouring rain with no problems. The wood
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I made a trip up to Hearne Hardwoods in Pennsylvania today to check out and buy (if I liked it) the wood for the kicthen cabinets. I purchased an entire trees worth (about 420 board feet) of Ghost Tiger Maple, sometimes called Wormy Maple . This differs
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