Top Corbel Rotunda Shelves

Artisan at the Holidays #2

     May the holiday season bring you the joy of gathering with friends and family as well as a deeper appreciation for the important people in our lives.
     For those of my readers who are artists and craft people this is also an excellent time of year to show appreciation to our patrons.
     For those of you who are instead, or additionally, my own patrons I myself offer now heartfelt appreciation, and I hope my works have provided some added joy to your everyday lives.
     You may even find, embedded in each piece, a unique gift, not just for the holidays, but deriving from the attentions proferred.  Open and enjoy it every day...and thank you for your patronage!
                         

Flying Hint #6: Flight Bag & Seat Slippage

The tendency of the front seats in single-engine Cessna aircraft to come unlocked and slip backwards on their rails has been addressed and likely fixed by Airworthiness Directives.  But I say, "What the heck?"  I put my venerable and indestructible Sporty's flight bag behind the pilot's seat, and just in case I find myself suddenly traveling aft, I won't go very far.  The bag is unlocked, and I can actually reach around and grab things if needed (the arrangement of the contents is well memorized).  This is hardly a problem for the back seat passenger as the density altitude at Flagstaff's 7000' elevation often transforms this 4-place Cessna Skyhawk into a 3-place aircraft.  Of course, if I take the advice I gave to my flight students and keep a gentle touch on the yoke, any surprise seat slippage would result in loosing one's grip rather than having the nose point skyward.

15 Woodworking Tips

Woodworking Tip #15 -- Pseudo Tabletop -- a way to maintain proper alignment of a table top and it's base during fabrication

Woodworking Tip #14 -- Norse Fasteners for Tabletop --  using these very strong and adaptable fasteners to attach a table top to its base

Woodworking Tip #13 -- Doublesticking Drawer Faces  --  a method to keep drawer faces properly positioned on a drawer while the two parts are screwed together

Woodworking Tip #12 --"Pre-square" Large Glue-Ups -- a major helping hand in maintaining the squareness of a structure or carcase while the final glue-up is done

Woodworking Tip #11 -- Curvaceous Corners -- a decorative and error-concealing treatment to solid wood edging applied to plywood shelves

Woodworking Tip #10 -- Traction for Plywood -- keeping extra weight over a pickup's rear wheels while still allowing the space required to transport plywood sheets

Woodworking Tip #9 -- Wedges for Hungarian Shelves  -- a quick way to make wooden wedges for Hungarian shelves or most any other purpose

Woodworking Tip #8 -- Anti-Skid Miter Gauge -- preventing lateral movement of a piece of wood placed against a miter gauge and enhancing safety

Woodworking Tip #7 -- Doweling Jig Stability -- a sure method to keep a doweling jig from tilting while boring a dowel hole in end grain

Woodworking Tip #6 -- Magazine Storage -- a small addition to shelving for magazine storage that keeps all the issues parallel and vertical

Woodworking Tip #5 -- Velcro's New Coat -- an obvious way to use a PSA sanding disc on a sander equipped with a hook and loop type pad

Woodworking Tip #4 -- Level Biscuits -- attaching a line level to a plate joiner in order to keep a biscuit slot parallel to a board's surface when the joiner's bed is unsupported

Woodworking Tip #3 -- Old Sole Eraser -- a cheap and usually available "eraser" to clean sanding belts or discs

Woodworking Tip #2 -- Corner Cut Outs -- a method to assure equal multiple corner cut outs using a table saw sled

Woodworking Tip #1 -- Precision Chops -- pushing a miter saw to the same precision slices produced by a knife trimmer