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Same and although I generally agree it’s a different kind of wax entirely and really closer to renaissance wax (minus the crazy price) so if I wanted a similar experience I’d use Trewax.

It looks pretty decent from here.. but sometimes it's hard to see in pictures. I suspect Les may well have some good idea, he has previously helpfully described his finishing method here: https://familywoodworking.org/forums/oversize_attachments/Les%20Elm%20Pen%20Finish%20Dipping%20Method.pdf

I guess I'd prioritize whatever is easiest to get flat and level for that use case. Layered plywood or maybe a torsion box would be on my short list. Consider waxing it (avoid silicone because contamination can cause fish eye's in finish.. but plain old paste wax like Butchers works well) if...

My hand tool bench is 2x4's cut square, laid on edge and glued up leaving it about 3" thick which is IMHO a decent thickness for most stuff. I really like using holdfasts and bench of various types for some things and that's about thick enough that they grab well but not so thick that they...

Yeah I’ve figured out what unit I’m in and even figured one maybe two of the several dozen or so hunts in that unit that land owner preference is eligible for (I know there’s more but I can’t find out how to find out). But holy cow it’s complicated. They have a how-to slide deck that’s...

It's actually interesting (to me anyway hah) to note that while we have lot more deer here the actual pressure from them isn't nearly as bad as it was further east. There's so much more browse and natural food available here that I can get by with what would have been wildly inadequate fences...

The elk come through mid Jan through Feb but they’re only really around my place for maybe 3-4 days tops as the herd seems really mobile (there’s a field a bit further south they hang at for a few weeks after that it seems). I can get land owner preference tags but they managed to make the...

We have found that there are very definite tradeoffs around such things hah. Our last two garden places were a lot drier (the one a LOT drier).. Hotter and drier worked a lot better for peppers and tomatoes, here we pretty much have to have the big hoop house to get them to ripen well. OTOH...

Progress continues! 30 new apple trees (mostly cider a few mixed use eating/cooking/cider in there) on the nearest field ditch bank. The upper orchard also got a decent expansion... I didn't get a good picture prior to clearing but it looked a lot like this next one down... But with the...

You can also use a baking sheet grate (available whereever baking sheets are sold basically) to cut the cooking time a little and get more crispy. More to clean though, the foil has a definite advantage on cleanup. It's also a great way to cook a lot of it for a crowd, much more efficient than...

The type of handle there is colloquially a KIPP handle although other companies make them as well.. Knowing that.. it's also useful to know that they make extensions...

I don't smoke or chew and neither does LOML.. but we've started growing some tobacco anyway just because it seems like a good idea hah (I actually like the flowers.. so there's that). People are so ridiculous... When my grandpa was dying of cancer my aunt used to give him a ton of grief over...

My neighbors uncle built a circular saw sharpening contraption he inherited.. it's built out of pieces of plumbing parts, several DC motors and some hand ground cams to advance the blades at different rates. Apparently he made a fairly reasonable side business running it back in the day (I...

I'm wondering if you're overly discounting your memory here and it did have 260v at one time. That would certainly be concerningly high and possibly could have nuked the steppers if it had happened. I'm not sure what would cause that either. I do realize that the 245v leaves you a bit out of...

Nice one. I'm reminded of my one grandpa who had build two mounds by the gate into the ranch. He'd stuck a pair of old gum boots sole up at the foot of them and at the head was a pair of rough wooden crosses with "trespasser 1" and "trespasser 2" carved into them.

Question - does this need any tuning? That's just adjusting the face screws right?

We do that a lot as well, recently swapped the oven and it has a "convection roast" mode that really crisps things up. Doesn't have to be real fancy to be real tasty!

Obviously not the redneck drinking game we played when I was young whippersnapper That involved a case or three of beverages, a roping dummy, and a bunch of people standing around with lassos. You had to "call your shot" (i.e. full head catch, catch it by the horns, throw a figure 8 around...

Man that closes hard and fast hah. Reminds me of one time I was on some really good south swell on Maui at a little point break and I got up on a nice wave.. it was going well until I looked down and saw bare sand and coral heads.. That was definitely one of those "don't biff it" moments hah (I...

Preach! What we need is not more software but less software of higher quality. Which is much harder to achieve.