Archive for December, 2006

new tool in the shop

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

It seems like only yesterday that Stu Weibel, Thom Hickey and myself split a 500 bd/ft haul of 8/4 hard maple. Upon deeper reflection, however, I guess it was more like eight years ago. go figure… Well, two moves, two jobs, and one (and a half) kids later, I’ve finally used the last of it [...]

HeNe laser tribute

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Over the weekend, in an end-of-the-year cleaning frenzy to free up some much needed space, I stumbled upon my old stash of laser supplies. 30-ish years ago my father and I built a helium neon laser for a grade school science project (in the 70′s I was really into lasers and holograms). After about 60 [...]

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