Recent content by Parallelism

Here is the finished bee house. The screws on the roof and the screws drilled partially in the wood in the back is comical. I had fun, and it wasn't THAT bad of a first project, haha.

Just built a little bee house for mason bees today. My stepdaughter (7 yrs old) helped a little bit. Going to make a list because I could write a book about today. -Used a Makita corded drill. Absolutely loved it. My dad has had it for ~20 years. Started to hurt my hands after about 10 holes...

Signature and information post test: I've called my dad, we're both taking the day off, so we're going to do my first project together, with my stepdaughter. I've already got my plans completed, just need to stop by HD and pick up some wood and nails. He's mainly going to be teaching me about...

Perfect response, thank you. Sounds like I'll be trying out Milwaukee tools as my primary brand. My girlfriend recommends them and I've heard that name a few times kicked around this forum. Never heard about the DeWalt fire issues, but I don't want to play with fire (pun intended). I think...

Okay guys, a lot of great quality responses. Greatly appreciate them all. A few questions: 1) What brand of drill is the best? is 18V sufficient or should I go 20v? What are the rankings of name brand? What's are the top 3 and bottom 3 brands? 2) Y'all said some mentions of a power drill and...

Good evening guys, A brief background about me (very brief). I used to be a video gamer, I recently started trying that whole real life thing and got an amazing girlfriend, a 5 month old baby and we just bought a house. During my upbringing, my father literally never taught me a thing about...