http://toolmakingart.com Timeless Tools, Speculation, Husbandry, Making hand tools. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seriously, I love this tool rack system! It looks to be economical, flexible and functional.  Plus the modular system allows you to rearrange things as you get more tools.  The only real down side, is that tool storage systems that you can't close are a bit more suseptible to dust ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/07/03/a-nice-rack/ Here are the tomato varieties that I will be trying from seed gathered at the Tomato Festival! #1 Tipsy and #2 Green Giant x Yellow Submarine F1 #3 Dice's  Mystery Black #4 Jaune Flamme a wonderful French heirloom tomato #5 Sungold #6 Purple Haze F1 #7 OSU Blue #8 Paul Robeson #9 Tennessee Green #10 Morovsky ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/06/29/my-new-tomato-friends/ When I started out exploring and sharing experiences on woodworking using the web, I took the handle 'Cedar Slayer.' Between allergies and my enjoying the smell of the wood, I was cutting and using a reasonable quantity of the stuff. I grew to love this wood, and ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/06/22/texas-cedar/ This weekend, I traveled to Washington on the Brazos to see the South East Texas Tomato Festival! The bridge was out, so we had to take a detour, but it was all worth it. The folk there are testing, and comparing heirloom and a bit more recent varieties of ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/06/15/south-east-texas-tomato-festival/ I could not resist posting this delightful game. It is a work of art! What is it in us that lets us create and enjoy such pass times? Bob http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/14/delightful-time-waste/ I hope I am this good when I grow up! He also give good explanations of how he does it. Jameel shows what woodworking is all about.   He is no stranger to power tools, yet hand tools abound in his work. Khalaf Oud Luthiery is a site well worth exploring! Bob http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/13/carving-rope-columns-by-hand/ On the Jointmaker Pro front, John's Blog shows off the ability to make cubes.   My thoughts went to the checkerboard inlay borders.  I think I will try some inlay experiments shortly.  This looks like fun. Bob http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/08/pixel-inlay-posibility/ Right now my lettuce is at a turning point. This one is beginning to produce seed.  The one below is ready to eat. If I remove all the mature leaves, it will grow more, and the pruning will prevent it from going to seed at least until it gets a little bit ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/07/cut-and-come-again-lettuce-use-it-or-lose-it/ I have been needing to shape and temper a bit of steel for quite some time, but have put it off with one thing or another.  My belt grinder has been acting flakey, so I really need to put together a bunch of parts I have been collecting and make ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/06/working-hot-steel/ I prefer to avoid pesticides, at times however I want crops and plants I love are being destroyed. One of the safer pesticides to use is soap. Additionally I would rather add potassium to my crops, than sodium.    Most soap these days is made from Sodium Hydroxide, it is ... http://toolmakingart.com/2009/04/03/soap-making-with-potassium-hydroxide-part-1-the-process/