Well I had my day in family law court. Then because I wanted two nerve wracking defeats in one day I drilled the holes for my sink in the granite counter top, seemed to go well. I guess I will know for sure when it is on top of the sink.

Got all my free cabinets installed, half of the granite tops, buffed out the 1/16" wave that the two pieces had at the joint with the wet polisher, epoxied in 3/8" rod for the undermount sink, if it seems to have set up enough I will flip it and do the sink cut out tomorrow, if not I will install the tile backer on the floor for the slate tile, ( Read more... )

I am renting a u-hual and driving up north of Bellingham and picking this bad boy up tomorrow!! $800!! The guy said he would throw in a #70 milling vise for $50 as well. ER32 collet chuck is on order, now I just have to pick it up and make room in the shop, might be time for another addition. BTW what a pain ebay makes it to copy images!


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Gave myself a haircut today and noticed one of my eyebrow hairs is like an inch long.. WTF ? would be cool if I had one on the other side to match. Maybe I am part Mentat! Maybe this is what happens when I go too long without singing them with something.

This long weekend I actually feel like I got some interesting things accomplished so I thought I would post since it has been awhile. The first is my electro-etching experiment, I think it turned out nicely, the first one didn't, this is really the third attempt, I ended up using a PC power supply and salt water for the etch baking soda for the ( Read more... )

Am I the only one that thinks this is the best thing ever?

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Some pictures of crap I have been working on just so livejournal people don't think I died.

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This year instead of going to my company x-mass party alone I posted a pathetic add on Craig's list! several gawker already! Also I will not be forging and firing half my presents on x-mass eve, I am already shopping, so organized this year! I got a bunch of stuff from "Archie McPhee", they are so fast and even included several things I didn't ( Read more... )

It feels like someone decided to replace my brain with candy and use it as a piñata. Ether it is a brain tumor or a flue bug.