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Week 2 of Garden Expansion
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Progress On The Garden Expansion
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Growing Corn in the Basement
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Author Archives: Bill
WD-40 is Amazing Stuff
WD-40We’ve all used WD-40 for various things. Hinges, bicycle chains, squeaky wheels, stuck bolts, you know the uses.
Well, Marisa picked up a can of Spot Shot to try clean some spots in the carpet. This stuff is amazing! Spray it on, let it sit for 5 minutes, and blot it out. The spots disappeared before our eyes!
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14 Inch Cherry Pepper Mill
I’ve wanted to turn a pepper mill for some time. I also wanted to make a large one, like the kind you see in fancy restaurants where the waiter comes to your table and grinds the pepper on your plate for you.
With our middle son in college, we are trying hard to not spend a lot of money. Marisa’s birthday was approaching, so I decided I’d turn her a pepper mill.
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Acrylics
It seems that every time we go into the Rockler store, Sam is drawn to the acrylic pen blanks. So every now and then, I let him get one, along with a pen kit to go with it. I had never turned acrylic, but the pens made with them look absolutely beautiful. Well, this went on for over a year before I finally worked up the courage to try turning one.
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Three Mini Stylus Pens
Sam and I turned three mini stylus pens as gifts for his guitar teacher, voice teacher, and band coach. They all have iPads that they use for teaching, so it seemed like a good gift to give them.
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Cutting Bowl Blanks – Wood-Mizer Style
I recently watched a video of someone making bowl blanks from a log using a chainsaw. Now, this is my normal method as well, but I thought I’d try something a little different. I used my Wood-Mizer.
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Cherry Rolling Pin and Benjamin’s Best Roughing Gouge Review
A few years ago, I turned a 34″ long French rolling pin for my wife. Every year at Christmas time, she makes a traditional Slovenian pastry called potica. She got the recipe from my aunt. Making potica involves stretching dough out paper thin over the entire 5′ by 3′ kitchen table. She tried using her normal marble rolling pin, but this didn’t work very well. She thought that a French tapered pin may work better, and a really long one may work even better. So I got a 3′ long piece of 2″ x 2″ purpleheart, and turned it for her.
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Oak Candle Holder
We were decorating for a dinner at church, and my wife wanted some candle holders for some pillar candles. We found this one at a local store. After looking at it, I realized I could turn a pair of them pretty easily.
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Sam’s Watermelon
This spring, Sam planted a single watermelon seed in the flower garden by the front walk. It grew. We watched the little melon grow all summer, and grow it did!
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