Musing

All fans of the Star Wars movies know that Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi was a Jedi Knight, raised and trained by the Jedi Master, Yoda. Since prospective knights were seperated from their families as infants to first become Padawan, their true family history is lost to them. Extensive investigation of intergalactic birth records and disturbances within the Force, now reveal that Obi-Wan had a brother named Poinohoh-Wan (Peter) Kenobi. He apprenticed under master machinist Dustin Fue-Tence...

I see a slow growing trend of the hobby light duty machine shop in the United States. There is a definite niche for the smaller size high quality high speed machines that are fairly common in the European hobby market. This includes such brands as the Proxxon, Prazi and Emco and others. The English Myford is on the small list. Also included are the US brands of Sherline and Taig. I am talking about small machine...

I recently read a long review of a fairly expensive CO2 laser engraving product. It was an import to the United States market. It actually is a quality product but the review was written by a curmudgeon who wanted to display he was a patriot. His “standards” bias disturbed me to the point that I need to make this comment. First let me state I can hold my “patriot badge” as high as anyone. I...