http://www.n5ebw.com Crazy thoughts, notions, and madness of a sleep deprived man. Enjoy! Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:36:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey Everyone, thanks for visiting my site! If you linked here from "The Daily Matt" (I'm noticing A LOT of referrer traffic in my logs), let me be the first to welcome you on your arrival!  I have taken the liberty of organizing all of the hand planer restoration articles ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2010-02/welcome-visitors-from-the-daily-matt/ I've got some things that were from past projects that are up for sale.  Take a look at my sale page to see if any of it catches your fancy! http://www.n5ebw.com/2010-01/spring-is-coming-the-crazy-man-electronics-sale-is-here/ Wow, a tremendous response from some of you who are following my restoration articles! Thank you all for your kind words and support! For those of you just joining us, we've been discussing how to refurbish an old Stanley #4 hand plane that I inherited as a family heirloom. If you ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-11/refurbishing-old-hand-planes-pt4/ For those following along, welcome back! For those of you just joining us, we've been talking about how to restore an old Stanley #4 hand plane. If you'd like to catch up, feel free to check out part 1 and part 2 beforehand. We've got our sole flattened and ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-10/refurbishing-old-hand-planes-pt3/ Welcome back! If you're still with us after reading part 1, you are a most curious soul. I mean, how could you not be to withstand so much of my boring writing in the name of woodworking?! So now the sole of the plane is flat.  I would have ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-07/refurbishing-old-hand-planes-pt2-2/ A couple of weeks ago, I decided on a whim to refurbish a couple of the tools I inherited from my father-in-law: A Block Plane and a Stanley #4 hand plane.  Both had really bad surface rust, and were REALLY cupped from years of heavy use.  To give you an ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-07/refurbishing-old-hand-planes-pt1/ Hey everyone, a quick note that I have received a press release from Earth911.com and I am happy to report that they have a new mobile iPhone application called "iRecycle"!  The application allows you to pretty much do everything that you can do on their website search engine with some ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-05/earth911-releases-iphone-application-irecycle/ As we continue through Woodworkers Safety Week, many resources that were previously unknown to me have surfaced.  A new one, is Earth 911.com.  This was brought to my attention by The Woodwhisperer Woodworking Video podcast, Episode 88 - Safety Q&A.  (Before I forget, keep voting for Marc in the BHG ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-05/earth911com-the-hazardous-material-disposal-search-engine/ Hello faithful readers.  In conjunction with woodworkers safety week, I am happy to present to you with an article I have been working on, and some of you have seen in rough form.  Many of us think about woodworkers safety as using the correct guards on our saws, using pushblocks ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-05/rewiring-a-sawi-should-be-dead/ Hey Everyone, This might be considered spam for some of my non woodworking readers, so please bear with me...I'm trying to help some one out who is deserving. For those of you who don't know, Marc Spagnuolo, The Wood Whisperer, has entered into the Better Homes and Gardens 48 Hour Challenge.  Please ... http://www.n5ebw.com/2009-05/vote-for-marc-from-the-wood-whisperer/