Weekend Project: indieblog.page I spent the weekend scratching another personal itch and released it as a mini project at indieblog.page. … ▶

Tool Time: Zipper ZI-HB204 As hinted at in my last post, I got a new tool. The Zipper ZI-HB204 thickness planer and jointer. … ▶

Basement Upgrades Over the last weeks (mostly the weekends) I worked on improving our house's basement setup. As you may know (or have inferred from previous posts), our basement has two major rooms. One of them is my workshop, the other is used for laundry and storage.… ▶

Search for the Perfect Wallet I want to replace my wallet, but finding the right one is difficult. My requirements are simple but hard to combine: * small enough to be carried in my front pocket together with my keys * protection for my cards… ▶

The Great Wave I have always been a fan of Hokusai's “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and got reminded of it again when I saw it on “Great Art Explained”. With the “original” being a colorized wood print, produced in the thousands, I thought why not get a modern print for my self?… ▶

Podcasts Thanks to my Bluetooth Hearing Protection I can enjoy listening to podcasts while I muck around in my workshop. Time to share a list of my current subscriptions in no particular order. If you want, you can import them all at once into your podcatcher using this [OPML file].… ▶

Splashbacks! It's nearly two years since we have moved into our house and we finally came around to tick of another thing off our todo list. The one thing that was missing in the kitchen were splashbacks behind the counters. As a “temporary” solution we had a piece of plastic wrapped plywood leaning against the wall behind the stove. It was high time to finally fix this properly.… ▶

DIY Disk Sander (again) First I failed, then succeeded to build a disk sander and everything was good. For about a year. Then something failed catastrophically and the disk flew in a high arc through the workshop 😱. When disassembling the remains I found one of the M3 bolts that had secured the vacuum motor. It probably came lose from the vibrations and the spinning disk ran into it? I don't know. But I knew I needed a new sander.… ▶

Scroll Saw Adventures I'm slowly extending my set of tools in the workshop. One tool I always coveted for finer detail work was a scroll saw. The problem with scroll saws is that there is no real middle ground. There is basically one type of saw that everyone sells. The models are so similar you could believe they all come from the same factory in China… ▶

Syncmaster 2443BW Repair I own two 24“ 2443BW Samsung screens from 2009. They still use DVI instead of HDMI but otherwise they are perfectly fine monitors. That is until yesterday, when one of them suddenly turned off and refused to show any sign of life.… ▶