Tools

14
Mar 11

Wooden Toolbox

As I mentioned before, I’ve been trying to clean up and organize my workshop. As I work on various woodworking projects, I toss the scraps into a bin beneath my workbench. I can pick up the scraps and immediately know if they came from my kitchen island, my coffee table, my guest bedroom furniture, etc. We use this scrap wood when we set up a fire pit in the backyard, but the unseasonably warm weather this year is causing my bin to overflow. So I decided to use some leftover pine and birch to make a travel toolbox.

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7
Mar 11

My Workshop

Despite all the furniture I’ve built in my workshop, I never got around to truly organizing it. I built a workbench and hung some tools on the existing pegboard, but I’ve had a huge pile of hardware laying around for years. I could pick up bags and boxes of miscellaneous hardware and tell immediately that it was what I took with me after moving from one apartment in DC to another, or from DC to Greenville.

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23
Jun 10

Calibrating An Instant-Read Thermometer

An instant-read thermometer is indispensable in the kitchen and at the grill. Unfortunately, they’re often wrong. I discovered that recently when I slightly overcooked a small rack of lamb. Something had knocked my thermometer out of alignment, causing it be be off by a whopping 12 degrees. Luckily, it only takes a minute to recalibrate.

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