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Yes, it feels good to be making sawdust. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I have but honestly it's been a long time since the Festool collection was put into play. Long enough that opening the systainers felt like I inherited else's shop and was thrilled at what I was finding. What? I have...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and I feel like the house is a highway of things I've intended to finish and haven't. Lara helped me build these cabinets in 2018? It was an attempt to add storage space to a house that didn't have much. I went overboard to make them go the full...

Damn, that is some incredible imagery. Yeah, I'm actually working right now to estimate a project for a client that I've worked with for 20 years but they've approached me not as the photographer but as the subject/creative director/ producer/director and I suppose in there somewhere is...

Thanks! Yeah, the body needs to outlive me (easily), most of the other members and probably the club which isn't exactly the most solid structure having been built in the 40's by the members. The clips.. I tried to find a superior solution but in the end the simple one was the best. They can...

Amazing Sean. I'm planning to build out some drawers for the back room office and desperately want to print out this sort of organization for them for all the small photo chargers, filters, batteries, etc. Gregor

So I left you hanging on the target hangers... They are finally finished. I made the project more complicated (surprise!!) by trying to do video as a way of teaching myself editing in Davinci Resolve. I'm 90% done with that but I want to wrap it up here. It was a fun project and also...

So an update here is in order. I took Nadia in a for a checkup and at a certain point the doctor asked some innocuous questions and she started to cry. Much like on the trail in Moab. He asked to speak with her alone and then talked to me and I told him about Moab, about the random breakdowns...

Getting close on the target hangers. I rinsed them with baking soda to neutralize the vinegar. Supposedly you can use Coke to strip mill scale but it's a weaker acid and will take longer. White vinegar is less caustic than muriatic acid which is another way to go. Vinegar is the happy medium...

You know I was convinced there was a better solution and spent the better part of a morning looking for German or Japanese clips or clamps. I briefly considered adapting small sections of restaurant order rail which works by using marbles in an angled extrusion... Which is an ingenious method...

I'm not really too keen on the whole New Years resolution thing although I've done it. I could say that my goal is to spend more time in the shop but that's always the goal. Maybe completing projects is the goal, but again... So months ago I volunteered to build new target carriers for our gun...

I have all the same questions as you Grant. I'm sure Matt and others who are somewhere near the bottom of the rabbit hole we're jumping into will have advice. I've done a few hours of Fusion tutorials and I like it so far. Lots to learn. G

I kept finding references to it but no explanations. It’s one of those things that the “in” crowd takes for granted because of it’s ubiquity within the 3d printing world but if you don’t have a printer you’d never discover it. So, yes, I have been poking around and knowing that Fusion has...

Thanks. You're right. I've found that the more accepting I am (even if I don't feel that way) the better it goes. Her gift for xmas was a new camera and it's been fun to see her creativity in a new medium. I have to edit myself because I want to teach her but I'm prone to over explaining and so...

I think that's required after you print the tug boat if I'm not mistaken... I wanted to print the largest moon lithophane that I could with the most detail. I'm just starting to grasp some of the settings but so far this one has been very detailed and taken forever. 100% infil and .15mm...

Okay, it's been a while. And there are updates, some projects, some photos... Two years ago we attempted to go to Moab for Thanksgiving. It was a disaster on almost all fronts but we had fun. This year I turned 60 (yes, I do not believe it either!) and so I wanted to mark that milestone by...

Thanks. We just wrapped up the season and I have to say that I've never been more impressed with Lucas. This season his goal after the first race was to make the second lap cut off time. He missed it by a few on the second race because he thought he had more time, he missed it again on the third...

That is a small world - I've subscribed to to Jeffs YT for a few years. It was illuminating as he had been honest about the struggle it was to maintain a living from that. I like his content and he's part of the reason I ended up with that Chromag Rootdown for the hardtail. G

Yeah, his mom really hates video games - a lot. I have fond memories of playing PacMan and Defender at the arcade for hours with my friends. They were new and exciting. And during Covid the kids started to play while communicating through headsets with their friends so it was a giant group call...

Yes, getting Lucas a 21 pound XC bike made a huge difference to him. The loaner bike the team gave to Nadia fits her but is 25lbs and while it might not seem like much it really does make a big difference. Lucas was able to do the climbs with his new bike whereas on my full suspension he...

Same. While I'm not yet a coach (there's a lot of training and classes) the other coaches have started to refer to me as "coach" as I'm around a lot. Last night I was going to go ride on my own but the team did two practices - a hard session of laps at Rocky Point (above) and an easier...