Kickspace Heaters – Flippin’ Sweet
It’s not terribly often that I get excited about heaters; I have a “fur coat” on me year round so I am rarely cold. However, I do have a wife who stays cold when the …
Written by: Leroy
ShopSmith Mark V Review
Ladies and gentlemen: I almost don’t have the words to describe the beauty of this piece of machinery. Ahhh…the Shopsmith Mark V! It will make you sweat just to behold it. If you are a …
Written by: Liz
Luminaria Project – It’s Christmas Time Charlie Brown
So, just in time for you to stop thinking about Christmas, here is a pretty cool Luminaria project from Woodworker’s Journal. If you have any artsy-fartsy friends like I do, you’ve probably seen these. Or, …
Written by: Leroy
Crazy Holiday Decorations HomeFixated Style
Being passionately HomeFixated, you would think our house is something like the house Chevy Chase lights up in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, complete with “250 strands of light.” Instead, if it wasn’t for the tree …
Written by: Marc Lyman
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 …
Written by: Ty
Sketch-It Clipboard – Say Goodbye to Sketchy Drawings
Earlier this year we spent some time at the National Hardware Show, which is a great place to hunt for innovative new tools and products. We always love home-grown innovation, and the Sketch-It clipboard was …
Written by: Marc Lyman
Festool RO 90 DX Torture Testing
Festool recently announced their new RO 90 DX Sander, billed as “The one sander that can do it all.” It’s scheduled to hit the market officially March 1st, 2011, and it has more than a …
Written by: Marc Lyman
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?!” …
Written by: Ty
SKIL Project: Caboose Inspired Toy Chest
If you have children or grandchildren, you probably know that one of the side effects of Christmas, Hanukkah and the myriad of other holiday celebrations is the need for more storage. Even if the kids …
Written by: Jen
Nupla Dead Blow Handi-Hammer – ToolGuyd’s Handleless Hammer Find
Call me old fashioned, but I thought all hammers have handles. Or, at least the ones I haven’t broken are supposed to. Given that I spend a lot of my spare time hunting, testing, abusing, …
Written by: Marc Lyman