We facilitated a business alliance with international signatories. Each contract signer received a handmade pen from indigenous spalted Texas pecan. They thought it was a nice touch.
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Any suggestions for pen refills? The ones that come in the slimline pen kits skip a lot and make the pen more of a decorative piece than a functional pen
I’ve used these cross refills before:
Pen talk
I refinanced my home and decided to turn a pen for the signing. When I got there I pulled out my fancy new pen only to find out black ink is a no go…the notary handed me a blue BIC.
Moral of the story, get blue refills 
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I’ve been busy making my table saw workstation… I got it all mocked up last week. Found a few problems and I have been address them all week. This weekend I’m putting it all back together and will install the t-track… One of them was beefing up the bench base. It was just to flimsily for this heavy craftsman Contractor saw… I’ve put together a video you can see it on it YouTube channel
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Lemonade Recipe Completed
In my 7+ decades riding this rock around the sun, I’ve learned a ton of lemonade recipes. Thanks to an embedded scroll, the grandson’s plaque no longer has extra letters! Here’s the (finally) finished product!
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The scroll is a very nice touch!
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I finished my paper piecing quilt!
I’m a slow quilter, but I like that with paper piecing I didn’t have to keep track of anything except how many blocks I’d done. I just kept everything in one project bin and came back to it between other projects. I think that this would be really easy for any beginner to do, and would be a great stash buster. I printed my blocks on velum and reduced my stitch length to 1.6 mm, which helped perforate the paper better and make it easier to peel off.
For the quilting stitches I just found some animal (fox, raccoon, owl, and bear) and tree blocks online and basically just printed them on vellum too so I could trace them with free motion quilting. This was actually my first time free motion quilting, and I made a TON of mistakes. But it turned out cute anyway. The little animals puff out a little due to the loft of the batting, which makes it look a little bit like stuffed animals are hidden in the quilt.
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So the past couple days I have been doing an annual inspection on a Medium Voltage Drive. During that inspection I was checking balance resistors for any deviation, all were good however I found that many of the screws that had galvanic corrosion on the zinc. I put the screws back in but I had one in particular that I felt was too tight & I stopped. This afternoon I went to replace the screw, turns out my gut was right about it feeling too tight. The screw head sheared off while attempting to remove it.
So I took the bus bar off & took it to the Bridgeport. I faced the broken screw flat with an end mill.
I then centered up & spotted the center of the screw. I drilled out the screw with a number 29 drill bit & chased the threads with a 8-32 tap.
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Saved 2 sets of garden bench legs and a glider from the landfill in the past 10ish years, finally getting around to making new slats, cypress. Was cutting tennons for the back of bench #2 tonight when the power went out in the middle of a cut, complete darkness as the saw coasted to a stop while I held the piece and reached for the stop switch. Quite an adrenaline rush. I’m also working on restoring a 1970 unisaw that I’m realizing will need to have a magnetic starter added.
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That sounds like a story.
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A fun, at home project without access to the makerspace. I added a hidden door to my under stairs closet.
Had to invent my own jig for the Soss 216 hinges and build out the framing on the door to handle it. It was a lot of learning. The door is held in place with a maglock.
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That’s an awesome build! More houses need hidden doors in my opinion!
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And scooby doo rooms
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Good write-up.
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Hadn’t made a cutting board in a while. While not perfect alignment it was pretty good and butter smooth.
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I have one just about like it, but with only 64 squares, that I made at DMS, but I use it to play chess. 
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