Recent content by Andrew Holley

Fighting the ticket or not is one issue. As I see it there is a second issue, attitude of the officer. His job is to protect and serve. Being pissed off is not part of the job, in fact dealing with stressful situations is what the job is all about. I would be talking to his boss, chief of...

I built the Merrymeeting Bay scull boat several years ago based on Sandy Point Boat Works plans. It's a cedar strip boat, if you have a table saw, router and table, it's a fairly easy boat to build. I used it for a few years, then sold it off. As far as a scull boat, I didn't care for it that...

Strange how things pop back in your head. A few years ago someone posted a story about them being robbed, police caught the thieves, and whoever it was went to sentencing and spoke and I believe took the kids hunting (shortening the story considerably). My question is did anything ever come of...

That sounded like a fabulous trip, especially to take your sons along on.

For the past two years, my daughter has made metal yard art, mostly butterflies and dragonflies, selling to family, friends and having a couple yard sales. Kid has made some money, bought a plasma table and now has several different products. Had planned on hitting the art fairs and craft...

In the last two weeks, I have bought a milling machine, a flap sander and a drum sander. All of them I paid their asking price. Guess I have been doing it wrong, can I go ask for some of my money back?

I owe a Festool Rotex 150, you can switch it from random orbital sander to "forced" orbital sander which is more like a grinder. The tool is a beast, it has done everything I have asked it to do, from finish sanding cabinet doors to grinding steel. It has been used to build two stitch and glue...

Dani, my daughter walks by as I am looking at your post, stops and says "why can't I have a couple pink drawers out in the shop" and then keeps on walking. Andrew

Mark I need another pic, need to see where the wires go to in the mess of wire nuts. It's probably simple enough, power in and power out (without protection) and they just swapped the colors ( white became the hot and black became the neutral), this would be fairly common in the "do it...

Tod, let me know when you want to go, friends and neighbor take their vacation to go sit in a shanty staring down a hole for days on end. Neighbor has speared one since I have know him, one friend has been going the last 5 plus years, never thrown the spear.

Done, I even figured out the paypal link.

So I am going to sand blast and paint an old jointer I have been using for a long time. I want to remove and re attach the name plates once I am done, how? Grinder is to error prone, thinking a small chisel will remove the rivet, then drill the remaining portion out, do my clean up and then...

Your granddaughter will love the rocking horse. I have made one for each of my nieces, nephews and my own kids (7 total). Heck, my 9 year old daughter still "rides" her, standing on to see how fast she can rock it. When I started woodworking, 25+ years ago, I always bought the newest greatest...

Tod, where did you get your coat from?

So, I went back into the tool store on Monday, was going to buy a Shop Fox (made by Grizzly, but sold through stores). Just could get comfortable with the roughness and thinness of the head casting. Ended up buying a Jet for about the same money, but store had to order it, so won't be in until...