A Spherification Rack, A quickly made Fixture from Split Prone Cedar.

Creme De Menthe Caviar on Haagen Dazs Vanilla Ice Creme

 

Sometimes you need to do molecular gastronomy, and you need to do it now!

Spherification is a rather nifty process where you react juice with sodium alginate in it and a calcium containing fluid to make little juice filled gelatin balls.

While adding […]

April 18th, 2012 | Category: Chemistry, Hand Tools, Recipes, Tool Making, Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | Leave a comment

Making Tools with HSS Blanks

    For under $5 you can obtain a set of HSS blanks from Harbor Freight. Do this at a store, I have been so amazingly and expensively burned by online shopping with HF that I will never ever do that again. The stores however are great as long as your are careful what you […]

April 16th, 2012 | Category: Hand Tools, Metalworking, Tool Making, Tools, Tutorials | 4 comments

Remaking a Snap Blade Knife or How to Work Wood that Splits Easily

 

I love mesquite wood. It is beautiful, tough, weather resistant, hard and the worlds most stable wood. It does have a curious weakness, a screw will split it in half despite it being able to survive years as a mallet. The wood can split.

So there are methods you learn, that you would not […]

April 12th, 2012 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Tools, Tutorials, Woodworking | 5 comments

Is There One Bevel Gauge to Rule Them All?

We may know what someone else is saying when they mention a Carpenter’s Bevel, Sliding T-Bevel or any number of phrases with two or more of the words, Carpenter’s, Universal, Adjustable, T, Sliding, Bevel, Square, Angle, or Gage combined, but there is no guessing what they might end up calling it. Perhaps this oddity […]

April 9th, 2012 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Tools | Leave a comment

Tools with Octagonal Handles

Here are a few tools that I made with octagonal handles. I detailed how to make them in my post on making octagonal handles.

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March 7th, 2012 | Category: Hand Tools, Tool Making, Woodworking | 2 comments
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