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Two actually. I’m frugal so didn’t spend for the strong neodymium magnets, but rather bought two tool holding magnets at Lowe’s and touted two dados leaving 1/16” of wood, and used a little CA glue to hold them n place.

Not too bad - seems to hold an edge as well as most of my other knives.

Old OXO knives with rubber handles getting sticky so I cut the handles off and made Amboyna burl replacements

Franklin M155 stud finder - does quite well with wood or steel studs, and good for tracing electrical, too The fellow up on the pick with me is a friend who was a machinist at the local Chrysler plant for 30 years. Trickiest part of the job was finding odd jobs for the less ably endowed to keep...

Hung an 85” TV in the classroom of the local woodworking store yesterday. The sixteen 1/4” toggle bolts through commercial steel studs held a 36” x 52” piece of 3/4 plywood. The tv mount was held by four lag bolts into studs, and six smaller lags into the plywood. A total overbuild as the tv...

Burnham, It was a radio repeater node a friend had set high in a tree. They are Meshtastic, LongRange (LoRa), rechargeable and/or solar-powered, 915MHz radios which create a mesh network, passing messages from one to the next. It is an off-grid communication system which would be a way to...

Another 8” of snow starting tomorrow through Monday.

Rescued a LoRa Meshtastic node from a tree twenty minutes south of me this morning. On the way home I bought some magnetic tool holding strips. I’ll use them placed in a routed out slot in the back of a nice piece of wood to mount the kitchen knives on the wall… Now off to see a play: Pygmalion.

After nights in single digits and highs in the teens, 38*F today was warm. And, it was warm enough to open the hoop house to water the Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Spinach, Radishes, and Arugula.

I like a coarse-ground Dijon.

Single digits at night with high winds; folk nw of us with no power; excuse to sit by the fireplace and catch up on reading; when Karen retired a friend of hers congratulated her by saying, “ Enjoy being able to sit and read in the daylight”.

Today I am refinishing a newborn crib I made 38 years ago which our two youngest daughters each slept in for their first few months, then used by our oldest grandchild. Now readying it for our ‘second son*’ and his wife, who are expecting their first. *(his father died when he was a teen and we...

Darwin Award Winners: # 1 I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to...

I use the “Libby” app to get books from our local library. They have that book listed… Better than spending $28

Italian made Oregon 511A. Looks like I have three thin grinding wheels (smaller pitch chain), one medium wheel ( I think it was sized for 73LP) and a new raker wheel still in cardboard.

Nice. Simple.

I think I might have one of those file guides in a box somewhere that someone left at a worksite. I have always hand sharpened. Back when I had my business I bought a grinder and would have my main groundie sharpen beat chains on rain days. In retirement it’s just gathering dust… I ought to sell it!

It’s been busy - but with two snow days it was nice to be home and busy yesterday 🤣. Refinished our breakfast table, finished rebuilding carbs on snowblower and generator, and a flat tire on the snowblower. Neighbor saw me out front of the garage working on both and thanked me - saying “You know...

Hope everyone enjoys their holidays, no matter your system of belief, and here’s to a more sane New Year!!