Here’s some engraving I did recently on the LCD border for The Clacker PC I’m sure any “real” engraver would laugh at this method, but I think it’s a great trick for the hobbyist to add some eye-candy to a piece of polished metal.
(The brass still needs to be repolished in these photos)
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Don’t you hate how tool companies change the design of the batteries on their cordless power tools every 2-3 years, forcing you to buy entirely new tools because they’ve discontinued your old batteries? Yeah me too. Instead of throwing away perfectly good tools every few years, I like to save them in my scrap box [...]
Hello fellow tinkerers, I recently needed to rabbet a thin groove into a piece of wood to sink a piece of glass into. On a straight cut this is a very simple task that can be achieved with a table saw or router, but in this case, the groove was on a swooping, curved piece [...]
Here’s a method I discovered that helps to keep your drill press chuck key from wandering away. Home Depot and Lowes sell a small $.99 gadget called a “Pencil Pull” (teeheeheehee ok, keep it together, Doc) which is a small, retractable spool originally meant to have a pencil wedged into it. You can repurpose this [...]