Of all the things to be bugged by, this one strikes me as dumb. Screws do not imply knock-down or RTA construction techniques. Screws are instant clamps, and probably confer some strength to the finished joint. Gluing ultimately is likely to be stronger than screws alone for joints under stress. If it bugs you,…

Oddly, for standard sizes, I've found that buying glass tops from Room+Board is actually cheaper than my local glass supplier. Must be some volume thing. But most of their configurable desks/tables allow you to buy tops of glass/marble/etc and they are relatively inexpensive.

I've got a fully fitted cabinet shop in my basement and metal shop/forge in my garage, plus I keep some tools at the local TechShop, since I prefer their TIG over my MIG and their full size mill and metal lathe to my mini ones. Plus, plumbing/drywall/picture hanging/outlet installation and other jobs never seem to be…

The Bosch "standard" seems to be LBOXX stuff, which is made by Sortimo, not Tanos, and I do not believe it is compatible. Notwithstanding that, I've now seen one-off pictures of at least one Makita, Bosch, Dewalt, Mirkos, Lee Valley, Hitachi and Bessey product in Tanos systainers (or something that looks awful…

Not much to defend in U.S. tool manufacturers. Except Lie Nielsen.

True, although the ledger board on the wall side will add considerable strength.

Should have prefaced with "here in the U.S." While systainers may have been used by some other manufacturers in the EU, the only systainers I've seen in the U.S. have been Festool and Tanos—the Hitachi stuff I've seen here has been in standard crappy blow molded containers. And the other manufacturers seem to have…

The Festool systainer system probably works better if you have a lot of Festool tools you need to tote around to the jobsite, since Festool tools each come in a systainer as well. Because of the modularity, it is more an add-on to their tool system than a standalone. I believe their containers are made by Tanos, and…

Agreed—and family makes it even more complex. I wake up at 6AM, work out, spend a little time with the kid before work, but am at the desk by 8:30. I leave around 6:45, get home, cook dinner, and then take the kid to bed or clean up on alternate nights. I'm clear by about 9PM, which doesn't leave a lot of time for…

I was thinking of a pin that went through the module and went into a hole in the cleat mounted to the wall. All it has to do is keep the module from lifting up. I'd think you could put the holes on a regular grid so it would look OK too.

I'm not sure you are comprehending what I'm writing. Some of your turns of phrase ("my source of food was only meat and eggs"? "that not being unfortunate"?) lead me to believe English may not be your primary language—if that is the case, some of the confusion may be because "privilege" has multiple meanings. I'm…

Yeah, maybe. But then you use the nice alignment. I think a cleaner solution—that is relatively easy but still retains the modularity and alignment—would be to have a pin that goes through the module into the cleat in the back. Maybe a small bit of dowel with a handle glued on. When the pin is engaged, the module…

Really nicely done. The only worry I'd have is lifting a whole rack out trying to remove a single bit. But I definitely like the modularity of it. I'm actually thinking this is what I need to do for all my router bits...

:( Bambuser is a paid service?

Thanks for the tip on bambuser—strikes me as a major, major benefit to be able to assert that your video is already backed up to the cloud.

"[W]hose only 'crime' was a poor choice of decoration at Winter Solstice holiday time..." Ah, so your ACLU hatred stems from your view that religion and state should not be separate? Pro bono can take many forms. And the ACLU's brand of pro bono isn't anything to sneer at. They, like EPIC and EFF, have to…

Disposable income is the money you have left over after paying your expenses. When you are struggling to actually pay those expenses, there is no disposable income. The fact that you haven't been in a situation where you are making choices between eating and paying tuition underscores for me that you have a…

I'd say "check your privilege" is warranted here. When I was in school, it wasn't a choice of working for electronic toys or relaxing with friends. I was trying to feed myself and buy core textbooks.

There are cheaper options—doweling jigs, biscuit cutters, clamping the living crap out of it. I've got a domino, so that's what I reach for. Agree tho', that Festool is pretty spendy. That said, I'm a big fan of the system and it allowed me to do a lot of woodworking when I lived in a space w/o sufficient room for…

I use them for cabinet carcass assembly, but find that I still need to use dominos to get accurate registration. That said, a cabinet carcass that has been glued, dominoed and pocket screwed is ungodly strong.