Rockler Work Light: LED is FUN for Me
It has been kind of a woodworking theme for me this month. Not that I claim any type of real skill in that area—but hey—if I can fool someone into paying me to do dangerous …
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Sanding 101 – Basic Sanding Tips for a Necessary Evil
Sanding is one of those things that can often be the “make or break” part of a wood working project. Sanding can mean the difference between an “Oh, cool.” or a “Wow! You built that?!” …
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Dremel Trio Review – Triumphant or Trivial?
Dremel is at it again—this time with the Dremel Trio. Dremel kicked us one of their Trio tools to try out and I ran it through my usual Home Fixated torture tests. This little guy …
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Wall Mount TV Installation How-To: Wall Hanging the Awesome
As my wife will tell you–it is a pretty safe bet that I will find a way to build something new, destroy something, or otherwise make permanent any new electronic gadget I get. I kid …
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Slidehammer- Break Concrete with Your Bare Hands
When a job sucks–like breaking up concrete, tamping in posts, or even breaking the bead on a tire–it’s nice to have help. I like when bad jobs are made easier by companies that invent tools …
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Building Materials, DIY Discussion, Green
Bamboo House – Grow Your Own
Sorry, Brahs and Brah(ettes)? Sisbrah? What is the preferred nomenclature for the female version of “Brah”? Yes, I am out of my element here. I also think that Jeffrey Lebowski would really think that growing …
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Taylor Folding Wheelbarrow – Fixate or Terminate?
Since I’m past my college days, I gave up things like this idiotic website a week years ago. I think there should be some sort of revival however, and we can have tools, beer, TVs, …
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Flip-Out Screwdrivers- Revolutionizing Screwing
I am pretty in love with my 6-in-1 screwdriver. It’s handy. Two sizes of standard, two sizes of Phillips, and I can use two different sized drill bits of any type I need. It’s one …
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Caulking How-To in Pictures
Caulking is one of those things that seems pretty easy to do…but in reality it’s a big pain. It’s not very fun, glamorous, and if you need an example of this…there is no such show …
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Home Resource: When Bad Fixaters do Good
Every once in awhile, something comes to my attention that doesn’t benefit me directly. So, every once in awhile I feel it’s worthwhile to give a bit of a shout-out to people doing good things. …
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