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Welcome to the February 25, 2023 Borouz newsletter! Here are some of the things we've been working on.
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Repairing a Harbor Freight Ultrasonic Cleaner
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A while ago, while repairing my old Jonsered 2050 Turbo chainsaw, I bought a Central Machinery Ultrasonic Cleaner from Harbor Freight. I heard they were really good for cleaning carburetors.
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Hello once more friends of Borouz Woodworking for this Wednesday with Wolf Studios I wanted to touch on some of the more recent projects I've been working on.
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Recently I've had some orders put in for some family members who want some custom pens. After receiving all the requests and purchasing the kits and blanks, as well as creating a couple blanks for the orders, I was finally able to start work on the project.
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I've always been interested in spray finishing, whether it's painting the castle fort, painting our house, or applying finish or paint to woodworking projects. Over the years I've tried various systems and solutions, from our first Wagner Power Painter, to a cheap LVLP siphon spray gun from Home Depot, to the Wagner Spraytech FLEXiO 5000 HVLP system. This last one we used to paint our house, and it did an excellent job.
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Odoo Inventory - Product Entry screen shot
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Here are the things that I really like about the Odoo software:
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- I can put a picture on the record. If you are just scanning through what we have in stock it's helpful to actually be able to see what that blank looks like. Plus you can quickly see how many we have in stock.
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You are never to young or to old to try
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Hello Friends of Borouz Woodworking. My name is Samuel, this'll be my first post for the site and I just wanted to give a little idea on how I like to turn and which materials I prefer and how I started out.
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We've all heard that using painter's tape to mask off parts for gluing can save a lot of time later on when we are unclamping and cleaning up the squeeze-out. But how many of us actually take the time to do that?
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Blue tape is a shop hero. Heck it's a life hero. About the only complaint I have is that it can be difficult when you only have one hand free. If I know I'm going to be needing multiple pieces I will try and pull them off before I am knee deep in project. But I'm not always thinking that …
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Yea, that's right I said it. We have tried so many different "ideas" to get the shop organized. Keeping it that way is another story. One of the biggest issues has been not knowing where things are when we need them. Now in our defense it's been a crazy few years since the shop was built. For a while we …
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What you can't see can hurt you
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Or at the very least make you think. The request is for a Footprints in the sand pen. The idea was to create a blank that used wood from Bethlehem and an acrylic pour for the water. There may have still been some moisture in that blank or something happened in the pressure pot, or rather didn't happen. After cutting the five blanks from the mold Sam felt like he wouldn't know which one to use until he actually saw them closer to the final state. After all how can you tell how the two parts meet unless you can clearly see them? In turning this one down several small holes were revealed.
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Bird of Paradise seeds are cool
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These seeds are almost to pretty to plant. They have tufts of bright orange hair in a deep purple or black seed. The package suggests making a cut in the seed and then soaking them for 48 hours. A random video suggested removing the orange hair, not making the cut, and soaking for only 4 hours. So I soaked for 3 days, removed the hair, and made the cut after the soak. Following instructions might not be in my wheel house.
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Are you a half full or half empty mold kind of person? While it's always great when something works the way you were intending it to. It's also great when it doesn't. In this case the fail happened because the color swirls did not penetrate deep enough. No swirling or mixing was done after the color pours either. The fear is that when the pen is turned all the colors will be removed. New plan, redo the pour and change the way the swirls are added. Any suggestions on how to use these pieces?
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A tale of three seeds from the islands
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Recently I received these three seeds as a gift. While I love seeds and playing in the dirt is my favorite, I feel sorry for the seeds. We shall see if I can get them to grow and keep them alive. The lemon tree behind me doesn't think I can do it.
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Creating a pen blank perfect for a princess. The recipient picked out the princess pen kit and it is shown with a white pearl blank that has swirls of gold and black. Can't wait to see this one cut into blanks.
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Silver mica powder is a lot more opaque than you would think. It creates a dove grey color when completely mixed in. This moment is what creating blanks is all about. The energy, the movement, the possibilities. Let's all just take a minute and stare at it in silence.
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