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I like this idea. I think you might consider some sort of fairing to put the pegboard away from the insulation/vapor barrier (so the hooks wouldn't snag them). The cheapest 1" material ripped to 1 1/2" width and fastened to the studs would do. Even osb ripped to that width would work. I...

So, repair watches, do you?

Like several of the posts above, I used plywood to mount the reel to, then mounted that to the wall. Actually, I had two pieces of 3/4" ply lying around, so I glued/screwed them together, then cut a bevel around the edges to keep the dust off a little. I bolted the reel to the wood and used...

Really nice joinery on the framework. That's going to be important to keep the drawers working smoothly. My only concern is the solid pine you use on the dividers and outside. This is summer, humidity is high, and the wood has expanded in width. This winter the humidity will drop like a rock...

10/15 and I feel good to get that many.

Well, I don't understand exactly how satellite tv works, either, but it seems to muddle along successfully just the same. I have already reported that folks with a lot more experience than I feel that acid-sharpened files don't have quite as long a useful life as a newly-cut one, but they claim...

As to your designs, I guess I prefer what you're calling the brown lattice. I'm a linear kind of guy and making all those diagonal cuts in the diamond pattern just for the sake of fashion bothers me. Plus, if you don't get them dead on, the errors are going to start adding up. The one foot...

I went through the same decision process as you about eight months ago. I have a three-bay, 651 SF garage. When I had the house built 17 years ago, I put down a clear top coating that the guys at the paint store swore would look great. And it did until the first time I drove a car with hot...

I've never seen one that big, but a pop rivet and a washer should do the trick. Touch up to the paint color of the door and it should pass all but the most critical inspection.

While the acid did serve to clean out a lot of gunk, some of the dull files were quite clean. After the acid, they were definitely sharper. It does seem counter-intuitive that a destructive process like acid etching can sharpen, but I am convinced of it. My net research prior to my experiment...

Righto on both points, fellows. I have a box of washing soda somewhere that I got in preparation for some rust-busting by electrolysis. If I had been a bit more ambitious, I would have found it and mixed some into the water to wash off the acid. And for the acid rusting stuff, I wondered...

Cleaning out the attic storage over the garage, I recently found a gallon of muriatic acid the brick masons left here after they did their job 17 years ago. I had read somewhere on the net--including here, I believe--about acid sharpening old files. The information was all over the map...

When you buy that ratchet/combo wrench/screwdriver at the flea market/pawn shop/yard sale even though you already have seven identical ones "just to keep it from falling into the wrong hands."

Ellroy is on to something. Have to say I like what he has done. Elegant and easier to read the sizes. think I will follow Ellroy's lead here. Maybe add some pinstriping or discreet flames.

I bought a bunch of Craftsman wrenches, combo and gearwrench type a few months ago the next town over. They came from the estate of a fellow who had recently passed on. He had laid all the metric wrenches down and shot a band of yellow paint across both sides of the handles to tell them apart...

Thanks for the kind words, Dan. I made that cabinet when I moved into this house 17 years ago, so the details are a bit fuzzy, but I think the fronts and sides were dadoed leaving a 1/4" notch after they were glued and nailed. Then I just glued in strips of mahogany about 3/8" square and...

I guy I used to work with before my retirement has a son who was doing some halfassed remodeling work. My friend asked if the son could borrow my floor stapling gun which I had used to lay a couple of small rooms. I said sure. About a month after that the son got arrested along with his wife...

In my shop on a wall is my main hand tool cabinet. It's 3/4" birch ply with mahogany strips in the edges. Here's a view from the side. And one of the main doors spread open. The small drawers inside are mahogany and joined with box joints. Last is a sea chest I made to copy the one's...

I've worked in wood more than metal, and I like making boxes and chests, so this is up my alley. Here are a few examples of how I've wasted time in the past. First is a simple box I made to house my Stanley #45 molding plane. This plane was made exactly 100 years ago, which I think is pretty...

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