Interesting user experiances, and has had a lot, on lazer cutters at www.inlay.com. Explains all the workings and various considerations/factors of material. Even if you will never own one, as I, it’s very interesting as he explains all the details on how they work as well as operation.
It’s no surprise with the extreme weather conditions that houses need a little extra advantage these days. Typar® StormWrap™ is a fiber-reinforced exterior wall boundary that goes a little above the normal stuff. Mostly conceived for hurricane or wind-borne objects by having a fiber-reinforced structure.
Read more and see the PDF files on the bottom right, here…
Of all the fine hardware Lee-Valley sells, even the mailbox is included. I live in the city but can remember my younger summers working on my uncles farm and running up to grab the mail only to find the poor helpless mailbox had provided some youngsters (probably same age back then) with a fine dose of stress relief! Sure, only happens once in a while so no need for mailbox improvement week or write a sceintific report on it unless you have tax dollars to waste.
Lee-Valley has this elegant solution, the Swing-Away Mailbox Bracket can be incorporated into nice weekend project…
Or maybe your aim is more revenge like my uncle had in mind before I discouraged him from digging a 10 foot hole to insert a telephone poll and massive steel box for the next weary batters up!
North Carolina State University currently has an active project in which they are building a high performance super car using wood composites. How much of it is wood? Well, the entire body is made from weaving strips of wood laminates. Joe Harmon is the designer and creator of this concept car and probably has a lot of splinters to count for given the enormous size of this project!
The web site features tons of details including videos of the veneer processes used, rigs, and detailed pictures as well. Here is a direct link to The Splinter project…
And this weeks Lazy Learn Something Sunday Tutorial Tool… or something like that? …Presents you with a great site with grat moto: Amateur Woodworker - “Limited tools should not limit one’s imagination“. They provide you with many detailed projects well documented. They guides and tutorials on joints, finishes, woods, tools to name a few. Best of all is the projects page that spans from fancy desk clocks to workshop shelving and even a carved owl coat hanger. Direct jump here…
Yes, here we are again with good old Lazy Learn Something Sunday Tool Talk chopped down to L2S2T2 as to demonstrate my laziness in typing. No one has suggested anything, that’s ok, I’ve got tons of them up my sleve. Therefore I offer this clean, straight forward as well as humorous article by Allan’s Wood Miser’s Workshop on Hinges and why the butt hinge is not always the solution. He shows us some of the more common cabinet hinges and getting the best for the best price. Here is a direct link…
Be sure to check out some of his other articles like the one on fasteners.
INCRA has come up with a cool little guide that allows you to make wooden hinges of various sizes.
The INCRA HingeCrafter makes for 3/8″, 1/2″, 5/8″ & 3/4″ hinges. Just combine your INCRA Positioner with the HingeCrafter drill guide and the results will be beautiful wooden hinges ready to glue right into your project
![AWDirect[In The Ditch] Folding Double J-Hooks](http://www.talkoftools.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/folding-double-j-hooks-300x123.png "folding-double-j-hooks")
Reader brought this to my attention. AWDirect [www.awdirect.com] offers these industrial strength “Folding Double J-Hooks” that appear heavy duty made - by “In The Ditch”. Also are less expensive then the other ones I posted few days back, so they don’t have powder coating, in a garage should be fine.
After some 20 years of meditation with the masters on top of… that mountain. Realized how plastic sucks for mother earth, as well as how much crap we throw out just because it’s made… well like crap. So now I’m looking mostly at buying long lasting and better: non-plastic stuff where ever I can. If you think I’m turning into a wild tool wilding yuppie - Consider this 12 part show, entertaining and educational video of “Toxic - Garbage Island” on www.VBS.tv and soon you realize we will have to change our ways soon - or more so, it’s almost too late.
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