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If you search for "AFD" on their website you will get a list of all their April Fools Tools they've announced over the years.

I always meet the nicest people buying stuff over the internet... maybe it's just me.

Good luck with the saw. I missed buying one of those a few years ago. Bandsaws are so simple, it should be...

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I have a new Grizzly 1023RL and a 1995 Minimax Lab 30 (a sliding table saw, shaper, jointer/planer combo). I would say that it's perfectly valid to consider (some) Grizzly against the likes of the...

I started keeping honeybees last year. I have a pound or so of wax that was left over from the honey harvest that I've been using where possible in my woodworking projects. The best thing about...

Festool bits are just as amazing as they are amazingly expensive. Colt "Twinland" brad point bits are cheap and work very well. (Available via Amazon). I have a few Fische bits that are also...

Have you considered the Festool OF1010? As excellent as the OF1400 is (and it is excellent), I believe it is out-shined by its smaller and larger (OF2200) mates... the result of each being more...

Eleven replies and no one has waxed rhapsodic about the Festool Domino?

I made mine out of 4/4 red oak I sourced for $1/bf. Needless to say, the wood was a little squirrelly and gluing up that many pieces to make the top wasn't all that fun... but the result was worth...

I personally have used the 55" Makita rail with the TS55 and I can report that it works fine. I believe buying the 118" Makita version because it's cheaper is fairly common practice for those who...

Check out LED strip lights. I have a 5m long strip, with 300 white LEDs on it. The strip features a self-adhesive backing. Draws about 24w for 1000 lumens. $16 on Amazon.

The format is quite...

Some plumbing and electrical to install my new Japanese super-toilet, which features warm water jet wash, heated seat, hot-air dryer and deodorizer. Finding a way to get power to where the toilet...

3/4" round in my split-top roubo. In addition to doubling as somewhere to put hold fasts (The Gramercy ones are excellent) it aslo simplifies construction. To make the square holes first you need...

They have "self-destruct" circuitry that will irreversibly render the battery unable to charge if there are 3 charging faults in a row. What constitutes a charging fault can be pretty dumb and/or...

Do like I did: Use epoxy paint. Then build a plywood subfloor over it. After than paint it with an exterior porch/floor paint. Then cover that with 3/8" rubber interlocking tile.

Each step was...

Another one in the plus column for this floor: as I often do, I found myself sitting or kneeling on the floor while I was assembling something. It's much nicer on the rear and on the knees than the...

In my case, I really didn't have a choice. My floor was way too far from being flat. I think you can install over bare concrete... although I suspect you might want/need to do something to control...

I need to come up with something more sophisticated... it's being held up by two giant washer head spax screws. I only got the wall up a few days before the floor went in. Figuring out a good place...

I do. But my friends have already called dibs on them... that's if I don't decide to do the garage floor too while I'm at it.

Like Todd in the message below, I got mine from an exercise studio. ...

Found this shot of the shop from a year ago, before the latest (most dramatic) round of shop upgrades.

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I spent a bit too much time squatting (sitting on my heels) on concrete and standing on a ladder last year... I got swelling in my forefoot (capsulitis). It took a few months, but better shoes,...

Absolutely. The Minimax is about 800lbs and doesn't even make a dent. It's about as dense/firm as the rubber on a car tire.

I can't say with certainty what brand it is, but what is shown on this page looks absolutely identical:
http://www.greatmats.com/products/rubber-mats-interlocking.php

It's just a regular MFT1080 (previous generation, but I think the same dimensions)

Ah, on second look... it's an artifact of using an extreme wide angle lens (10mm on my Nikon D300 SLR) that is...

I've become rather practiced at tool herding. The Minimax has wheels and I was able to slip a furniture dolly under the workbench which made it pretty easy to wheel around. It was a lot worse a...