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Vermont Table
For our property in the Champlain Islands of Vermont, my goal is to make all of the furniture that we would need for it. My first major addition is a table for the dining area. I decided to base the build on the farmhouse table in Ana White’s The Handbuilt Home. In the book, the…
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Vanity
My wife and I bought for our Georgia granddaughter a vanity for Chistmas. It had not been put together yet when I visited in February. So I decided to put the vanity together while I was in Georgia. I started the process when my granddaughter come up to me, and after asking what I was…
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Diresta Toolbox
In learning Fusion 360, I watched some Lars Christensen YouTube videos. One was on the Diresta toolbox. I made the toolbox, and then took some stencils from my wife to customize them.
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Drill Press Stand
One of the goals of my shop has been to make as many of the tools mobile as I can. I do not have enough shop experience as I would need to put anything in a permanent location. My second build of a stand for a piece of equipment is a stand for my drill…
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Father & Son Collaboration
I may have mentioned before that I share my shop with some friends. A friend made a nutcracker with his young son. I think it came out pretty well!
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3D Printing
I recently acquired a 3D printer through a kickstarter, the AnkerMake M5. It was pretty easy to set up and the first two files printed well. The first one came from the pre-installed library. It has some complicated features to it, but printed fine. The second, the bookmark, I designed in Fusion 360 while following…
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Unavailable Thoughts
My son said a while ago that there were thoughts a person could not have if he only spoke one language. I said I had trouble believing there were thoughts I could not think. Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, has some Koreans tell him that thinking in a language with…
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Blue Mars
I recently read Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. From the highlights I made, gardening and terraforming, including ecopoiesis, dominated. According to NASA, “Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable of supporting life. It is the concept of initiating “terraforming” using physical, chemical…
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Physical Journal
In a Ryan Holiday YouTube video on journaling, he suggests a physical journal on the basis that in the future it will be available, whereas digital copies may not be. One of the reasons I like Obsidian is that it creates text files. They are unlikely to be unavailable in the future. Like physical books,…
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Planer Stand
This afternoon, I designed my first project from scratch using Fusion 360, a stand for my planer. I found a design I liked from a You Tuber, Daniel Demir (video at Thickness Planer Stand). I modified Daniel’s design dimensions to my needs and lost myself for a few hours in the design. The design is…
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