I designed the cabinets in, of all things, powerpoint (don’t worry, I’ve since learned Sketchup). But all I was really doing is using it as a notepad as I adjusted dimensions, and I have to say it wasn’t bad for that. At the time, I had done a lot of european style frameless cabinets (used to be some great tutorials…

When I built my shop cabinets, I went with a lot of very narrow drawers for precisely this reason. I highly recommend: (i) the exercise of building your own shop cabinets, (ii) building as many 3” drawers as you can; and (iii) using full extension slides.

Hmm... I went the other way. “All that work”... to avoid cooking? For fuck’s sake, there are plenty of easy, but tasty recipes out there.

Besides, if their url is www.youtubered.com, sounds too much like a site that does things to you with a potato.

But: I’ve found that extra five minutes provides time for the moisture in the rest of the mushroom to leech out and you get a leathery, not so tender shroom—the oven dries off the surface and allows you to get a nice brown, but still plump mushroom. And timing isn’t an issue if you just turn on the oven while you wash…

I can’t take the credit. Think I started doing this after Tom Colicchio approvingly commented on Kristin Kish’s technique for doing this in Season 10 of Top Chef.

You want to get rid of surface moisture for better browning. Wash ‘em/don’t wash ‘em, but stick ‘em on a sheet pan and throw them in the oven for a couple minutes to dry off before throwing them in the frying pan...

My experience is that turning seems even more conducive to sucking money out of your wallet than other woodworking pursuits. It also seems to be obsessive—I’ve seen a number of woodworkers who buy a lathe and then, in rapid order, all they do is turn. No more “flatwork.” That said, there are deals out there, because…

My sense is the fatalities are all the direct result of attempting to turn things that are large and fractured—things a newer turner wouldn’t likely be tempted by. There are some really spectacular turnings of bowls and hollow forms with wood that has voids, but a catch with something like that can easily send a 25 lb…

Specifically asked about mentoring. Local chapter is utterly, totally, unresponsive. So, again, YMMV. I’ve got a Jet 1642 EVS Pro, so it wasn’t even like I was trying to cadge time on someone else’s kit. And I’m an experienced woodworker, even though I haven’t spent a lot of time on the lathe since HS 35 years ago, so…

I’m in a fairly major market and went to my local AAW chapter (probably has a membership in the hundreds) looking for some turning mentoring and got absolutely no help. So the AAW benefits are strongly regional. I also learned that if you wonder where all the old white guys are in my area on the third Sunday of the…

“Woodturning is a safe and relatively inexpensive hobby.” I frequent a woodworking forum that has a large wood turning contingent. Odd thing is that the only woodworking fatalities I remember from the site are woodturners (sadly, more than one). And they keep referring to woodturning as a financial “vortex”—I gather…

On a hot day, the sun might do it for them. But, certainly, heating up their allen wrench with a lighter would melt the wax. You might have to do a little more to remove the BB. I’d be inclined to use a security bolt instead.

As a parent, when my child has a fever, I’ve got a pretty good mental handle on how the fever is trending. Maybe I’m extra-responsible, but that has never been an accusation I’ve faced in the past, so I question the need for this type of trending/data acquisition.

As a parent, when my child has a fever, I’ve got a pretty good mental handle on how the fever is trending. Maybe I’m…

Ah yes, and for some of us, woodworking is more about bragging about how true craftsmanship can only be achieved with neanderthal tools in a shop lit by candles.

My issue isn’t with the video. It is with the statement in the article that strongly suggests that this is “high precision” and “provides a consistent depth of cut and better feel than a powered router.” I.e., that this produces a result better than a router.

I guess the question is what the purpose is. Making a good, adjustable and accurate router plane isn’t hard. But this is sort of bodged-up—perhaps OK if you’re in a spot, but not what I’d use for things requiring “a precise tolerance.”

I like a good router plane, but I’m not sure I see how this provides a more accurate or consistent depth of cut than any of my electric routers. All of my big electric routers have fine thread adjusters—maybe not my Bosch Colt, which is more of a laminate trimmer anyway, but certainly both my Festools, my table…

I think planes and airports occupy a kind of “purgatory” status within the diplomatic world (going Catholic allegory here in deference to Poppa Francis bein’ in town). If you think about it, you haven’t actually “entered” the country until you have passed through immigration & customs—occasionally you hear of people…

I was waiting for my wife at the finish of a marathon and watched some dude cross the line in a sweaty white tank that had blood trails emanating from his nipples that went all the way down to the bottom of his shirt... Basically you could hear the entire crowd do that teeth-clenched-grimace-sudden-intake-of-breath…