I happened to run across a video demonstrating some nifty clamping tools. I always seem to run out of hands and these clamps look like a fantastic way to solve a common problem.

Watch the video and then get your own set of Clamp-It Assembly Squares, the
Mini Clamp-It Kit, or a handy-dandy Adjustable Clamp-It Bar.

Tags: tools, video

Built myself a cleaning brush to use when I clean the board edge sensor under the carving head. I took a couple of horsehair brushes and a squirt of glue to make a brush that has a 90º head.

Tags: tools, tips

I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a software tool I could use to modify image colors as I had described in my last post. I tried half a dozen different packages and none of them seemed to do what I wanted to do. It seemed like a fairly simple task and yet there was only one tool that held out any promise...
Then, I decided to do some reading and found my answer. I say I did some reading, because I really need to drive home the fact that even though I've been preaching about reading the manual, I failed to do so with a software tool I've been using for years.
When I read the manual again, I found that what I wanted to do was right there!!! What a dork I was - if I had only followed my own advice I could have cut weeks off of this process.
I will be making a screencast soon to illustrate the process.

Tags: Software, tools, design, pattern