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THESE ARE SOME OF MY ILLUSIONS/PUZZLES THAT HAVE BEEN ORDERED BY VARIOUS CUSTOMERS.SOME WEIRD SOME WONDERFUL.THE ARROW THROUGH WASHER BOTTOM LEFT HAND –THE COKE COLA CAN  SENT TO HEAD [...]

Stanley Toolworks unveiled three new hand tools today at a press conference in New York City , two different kinds of chisels and a shoulder plane. I couldn’t attend the press conference, [...]

See hot pipe bending first hand.     Elegant Tabletop Fasteners.     Learn how to make perfectly fitting miter joints.     See how to build an easy-to-make [...]

This week Delta heard “Everybody into the pool,” and joined the fun. With all the recent tool news , General’s new distribution center, Grizzly’s Polar Bear Series and [...]

THIS IS A 25 MM DIAMETER WASHER WITH A 4 MM HOLE IN MIDDLE SOLID MILD STEEL. THE WOODEN ARROW IS 54 MM  INCH LONG THE ENDS ARE 12 MM EACH END AND THE BARREL/SHAFT IS 4 MM DIAMETER.AND 3 [...]

There are few “smoking gun” historical documents dating from the 18th century. Moxon’s “Mechanicks Exercises” was written in the late 17th century. Peter [...]

MORE FUN WITH A PACKET OF POLO MINTS. NOTICE I MADE THIS SO THERE IS LITTLE MOVEMENT WITH THE PACKET OF POLO MINTS .THE WOODEN ARROW WHICH IS SOLID AND WHICH NON BELEIVERS???!!  WILL THINK I [...]

People often divide our country into North and South using a variety of metrics. There’s the Mason-Dixon line, of course. The Barbecue Line (the word means “grilled meat” in the [...]

A PACKET OF POLO MINTS.I THINK YOU MAY GET THEM IN YOUR COUNTRY?AS ALWAYS SCRAP TIMBER PUT TO USE PLUS A PACKET OF POLO MINTS. I CUT THE TOP OF TIMBER TO SHOW YOU THE MAKERS NAME ORIGINAL POLO [...]

I love getting paid to read, so today was a nice day…at least for the few minutes it took me to read Mark Lovett Wells’, “Daddy, Can We Play in the Workshop?” This cute [...]

I love getting paid to read, so today was a nice day…at least for the few minutes it took me to read Mark Lovett Wells’, “Daddy, Can We Play in the Workshop?” This cute [...]

In the world of infill planes, there are several tools that stand out as iconic designs, including Karl Holtey’s “bad arse” A13 and his groundbreaking No. 98, which laid the [...]