My daughter Shelley and I became well invested in our craft projects last night. We are taking wax carving and lost wax casting workshops at the Craft Guild of Dallas. Investment is the plaster like material that surrounds our wax carvings and forms the molds for casting our work in silver. The wax is melted and burned out of the investment (the wax is lost) then the cavity is filled with silver, Sterling silver actually....
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Planned Obsolescence
I have a very nice DeWalt battery powered drill model DW929K2 that I have been using for ten years. The model number is superfluous after ten years. DeWalt has probably created and sold over a hundred new models since then. My problem is the two 18 volt ni-cad battery packs that it came with are now in their final days. One won’t charge at all. I consider that no shame after all this time. The...
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Best or Cheapest I just made an investment in a USA made quality product. It is a Dazor (brand) task lighting fixture which is a heavy base desktop fluorescent lamp swing arm type. I am not writing about the desk light per say, but a reflection on why I made this purchase. My cost for this fixture is a little over $250.00. At first I thought, “Wow! That’s a lot of money. That’s not cheap”…...
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The project is a low, slide out work bench. I just finished the build and install stages of creating this new work bench for my shop. Actually it is a work bench attachment that added a low level work area to my old large workbench. I posted the video above to You Tube to show how it works. Here is the link to the actual article I wrote for The Hobbyist’s Workshop as I was...
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