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Ways You Could Lose A Finger

MysteryMan and I have an ongoing battle about whether or not to leave the blade guard on the table saw. I can tell you I vote for the blade guard…

April 18, 2010 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

Things I Learned About Myself While Cleaning My Workshop

We have potential buyers coming in to look at the house, all the way from my old stomping grounds in Florida. Next week. Maybe I haven’t been clear about the…

Loves Tools, Needs Life

I’m not one-hundred-percent sure, but I think that the fact that I get a warm-fuzzy feeling when I take pictures of rusty metal objects makes me just the slightest bit…

December 21, 2009 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Badass or BS? Things for around the home.

One of the many blessings in my life– a list which includes having the good fortune to use a lot of big, bad tools and still retain all of my…

December 2, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

For Your DIYdiva: Holiday gift ideas for the badass woman in your life.

Even though I’ve done everything short of tattooing the word “GRINCH” on my forehead to make it clear that the holidays aren’t coming to my house this year, my family…

December 1, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

What’s in YOUR Toolbox?

Does anyone actually carry a tool box anymore? Usually my tools are at either one house or the other, but recently I’ve been running simultaneous projects at both houses, which…

November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Wishlist

With work picking up on the old gas station new workshop I consolidated my wishlist of tools to a new page on this site. See the Workshop Wishlist page for…

April 28, 2009 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article

Grizzly Hand-held Pneumatic Drum Sander = LOVE

For each Crookedbroom I make I spend between two and three hours of quality time with sandpaper. But I’d really never found a significantly faster or easier way to get…

April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article

Contest: You Need This (Courtesy of DIY Network)

The DIY Network and I want to give you something so that this… … never happens to you again. Here’s the deal. In honor of the Cool Tools holiday blitz…

November 6, 2008 | 18 Comments | Read the Full Article

Someone at Makita must read this website.

Or else they’re just really intuitive about how many women are in the market for really good power tools these days. Oh, baby. I think this is love. My relationship…

October 6, 2008 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Another reason why boobs are singularly annoying appendages.

(aka The Death of a Dremmel) This is now the third time my breasts have tested the limits of my dremmel, and this time, they won. Black and Decker… you…

April 24, 2008 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article
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