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No Glue, No Glue, What to do!

I need some glue, lots of glue, epoxy preferably.  I have looked around, I have lots of glue, a couple of boxes of glue, all of them are now  strange hazardous waste.   They are all well over a year old.  Glues, most glues are dead in a year.   Some may go a few more [...]

Food Safe Glue

My next glue purchase is going to be a gallon of Ecopoxy.

I have been looking for a waterproof, food safe glue for quite a while.    A lot of people advertise that their products are made with food safe glue, and a lot of people say that this or that glue is food safe, [...]

Is a Copy of a Copy a Crime?

I have waded through a lot of discussions about copies being made of other tool designs. It is quite interesting to see where people stand. It seems that there are several issues that divide how we think about these things. The variations on ethic make this a pretty heated issue. Personally I like this. [...]

The Slope, and 'Needing' new Tools.

Hand tool users online, often talk about the slope.   It is a reference to the constant pressing need for new tools.  It is really a fairly honest thing.

To start out making the simplest projects out of wood, you need to be able to cut wood and stick it together.   A saw, hammer [...]

Tobacco is pretty!

A lot of gardeners use tobacco as an organic pesticide.  I decided at one time to grow some, so that I would not chance introducing tobacco mosaic virus to my tomatoes and peppers.  Since then have found the only pesticide I like to use is homemade soap.

So now I grow tobacco for my [...]