Category Archives: How To

Homemade R2D2 Costume

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Kirby

My son decided he wanted to be R2D2 for Halloween and it fired up my creative streak. Here’s the finished costume: It started out with a $6 collapsible laundry hamper from Walmart. I looked at a number of photographs of … Continue reading →

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Making a Star Wars ‘Han Solo’ Blaster

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Kirby

The tiggeriffic son wants to be Han Solo for Halloween, so I decided to make him a “blaster”. It’s scrap plywood, hardboard and dowelling that I had in the shop, with some washers glued to the outside. I had no … Continue reading →

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How to Make a Crosscut Sled

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Kirby

The bed of my table saw isn’t that large, so if I have to crosscut anything more than about 10 inches wide the miter gauge is pushed off the front of the table, making it very awkward to cut properly. … Continue reading →

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The Basement Workshop

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Kirby

Ever see a magazine cover story with a title like Dealing with a Small Bathroom? Then you open the magazine and flip to the article and see that their idea of a “small bathroom” is a bathroom that only has … Continue reading →

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Playmobil Castle Blocks

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Kirby

For Christmas, we made each other gifts, and my eldest son had the idea to build my youngest son a set of building blocks to make a castle for Playmobil-scale people. The boys love playing with their Playmobil knights and … Continue reading →

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Homemade Toy Musket

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Kirby

I’m getting a lot of hits for this article from google searches. If you came to this page via google and it was useful, leave me a comment! If it wasn’t useful, please let me know what you were looking … Continue reading →

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Flash Cookies. Not so Tasty.

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Kirby

A “cookie” is a little bit of text that a website can store in your browser. For example, an ad company can store a bit of text saying where you saw an ad and when. When you see another web … Continue reading →

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Lignum Vitae Utensil Handles

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Kirby

It was a sad day. A great silicone scraper broke. All the Pages loved this scraper. It worked well and it was easy to clean. What a sad little scraper. I slipped out of the mourning crowd and entered the … Continue reading →

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Back Yard Ice Rink, Mark II

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Kirby

Two years ago I put a skating rink in our backyard and it didn’t go so well. This year I decided to follow my own advice, use a plastic liner and try again. The plan: Use 2×6′s to make a … Continue reading →

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Didja Know?

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Kirby

A little bit of keyboard trivia has improved my life more than I care to admit. Did you know that if you type something into the URL bar of your browser, you can hit CTRL-ENTER and it will add “.com” … Continue reading →

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