Very weird, this guy seems to have moved into our garage. Just saw it again!

I saw my first Praying Mantis yesterday.

At my wife’s church people honk at each each other trying to get out of the parking lot. Brotherly love lasts about one minute after leaving the building.

This is what I did for you our kids. Used a bull nose but in a router for the engraving. The graduations were done with a straightedge while the numbers were freehanded over pencil lines.

I then spray painted it black and sanded off the paint from the flat surfaces, leaving it paint in the engraving troughs.

Their heights are simply penciled on.

We’re pretty pleased with it. It looks nice and doesn’t feel out of place.

I like the hamster & wine bottle decor

I think that would be a perfectly good jaw vise. But only put in a few dog holes, as shown in their product photos, to maximize rigidity.

Give CopyQ a try. Open source, cross platform clipboard manager with tons of features.

One example option is being able to only ever paste plain text. It also has lots of programming hooks, I have a few for doing things like converting a line-feed delimited list into one delimited by commas and quoting the values.

We have the Brother HL-L3230CDW and are happy with it. Works fine with inexpensive toner cartridges from Amazon.

What was your project?

There’s a groove on the insides of the walls that the plywood fits into.

Plain wood glue for the corners but the bottom is not glued in order to let the sides move with humidity changes.

Our toddler messing with this glass scale was the inspiration! I bet an off the shelf letter holder would work.

Router table but yeah a table saw would do it too.

https://youtu.be/HQXHzvJNsoA?si=RymjYrCY8YK__Foe

Same, also my favorite.

Yep FB is the way to go for local sales. I’m in a large metro area and exclusively use it.

He still does Red Meat?? That was my favorite part of the reading the (paper issues of) Onion way back in the day.

What was it for you as a kid?

Canada, awful wild fires last summer.

Yep! They let the top expand and contract with the seasons.

Gotta spend about 10% of your “shop time” on organization and cleaning!

Thanks! We’re joking that it’ll wind up as a dorm room coffee table some day.

I haven’t done a shop post. I’m lucky to have a large, clean space for my hobby and posting about it would feel like bragging to me.