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If there is any real downside to living in Japan it has to be the distance from a really good burrito. There are some people over here who do their best, but there are just too many critical compromises that must be made to be able to really make something respectable (I don't say authentic...

A pizza oven with a motorcycle trailer hitch?

Getting good at doing 3D modeling in Fusion 360 has helped my woodworking immensely, the side effect of applying to 3D printing and hobby machining is just a bonus as far as utility. I tried Sketchup years ago, it was unpleasant to me, maybe it's better now. I was a 2D CAD user from the old days...

I'd tease you about not having a 3D printer and just printing some of those adaptors up, but honestly the wood looks nicer!

There was a break in the summer rainy season today, so I took advantage of the brief bit of sunshine to do a final scrub of the cast iron surface plate. The sides were still very encrusted, but because they were machined relatively smooth I could use a sharp scraper to get off the bulk of the...

Great question. The truth is, the initial spindle I am using (Mizoguchi C10 collet system) on the yet to be built CNC is only able to handle small 10mm and under tooling. My mini-mill is similarly limited, and my mini-lathe has an MT2 tailstock, which was where I figured I could get a bit of use...

I bought another vise. I know, you're not at all surprised by that. I guess I shouldn't be either... it had a wood box, it was $50, it was a JAM. I keep telling myself they will come in handy, at least the wife can use them to weigh down my body after she kills me for filling the house with...

I hear you, if I had a precision cabinet saw with a nice dado stack and a big garage I would be a lot more open to the technique. My router table could be contorted to work with a lot of effort, but the whole procedure requires manipulating large panels while cutting them which ***** for a...

I ended up ordering a Brushless DC motor system out of China. I paid about half the total price for shipping and tariffs/taxes, so it wasn't really as cheap as it seemed on its face, but I'm still hopeful that it is a workable drive. More on that once it arrives in the next few days. I also...

Yeah, it was the first thing I thought of. The bottoms of the jaws are unground, so that eliminated the possibility they were upside down. The witness marks on the backsides, and the pin alignments which were not even close (nice precision there guys), convincing me the jaws were on the correct...