Mistakes? What mistakes?

Geometric Self Opening Die Heads I’ve made simple die heads. Some driven by a tommy bar, others by a pin in the mandrel that can be set up come out of the groove and free spin when it reaches the stopping distance. recently I started researching my $350 Lin Huan TL-25 lathe score in the…

SLJ #1 – Busted Laundry Hamper – Video Yep, its just like it sounds. Guy hacks his way through a “simple” repair of a laundry hamper.

Merry Christmas to me. – TOOL SCORE!!! I bought a second machine that uses the Kwik 200 tool holders.  I didn’t really want to split up tool holders between the two machines.  Not for stuff I would routinely use.  I ran across a discount listed in the title that wasn’t shown in the actual price…

If you have followed me for very long you know I can do a lot of things and take on a lot of projects and repairs myself.  Its not because I’m cheap or because I don’t have any money… Okay sometimes it is.  Often however if I just worked at MY JOB I’d be money…

Ha! Thanks for the mention Joe. Thanks for being a good sport about the cardboard tube Joe. I usually use a little larger tube, but that’s the one that was laying on the lathe tools cart when I thought to send it to you. So much stock comes in cardboard tubes I always have some…