A New Addition to House 173 (it's not what you think)
Ramblings Introducing Charlie! Every beagle has left its own paw prints on House 173. Charlie is s…
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Made at 173: A Shop-Made Router Bit Storage Box
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Made at 173 A Legacy Project One of the earliest projects built in the workshop, this simple wooden…
Things Inherited: Giving Old House Treasures New Purpose
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Ramblings New Purposes Sometimes the most meaningful inheritances aren't valuable antiques, bu…
Leopold Bench Build at House 173
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Made at 173 A Long Time Comin' Sometimes the best outdoor furniture projects are the simplest …
The Back Stoop 2024 Part 4
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Porches The Punch List In our last post we had finally reinstalled the railings, many of them new …
The Back Stoop 2024 Part 3
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Porches The Railings Old railings return, new ones take their place, and one design decision has me…
The Back Stoop 2024 Part 2
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Porches The Decking Eleven 2x6s, a mountain of sawdust and another confrontation with geometry giv…
The Back Stoop 2024 Part 1
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Porches Second Remodel Eight years after its last rebuild, weather, loose decking and aging railin…
Chainsaw on a Stick: A Quick Pole Saw Tune-Up
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Puttering A Tuneup A few damaged drive links, one small file, and a favorite tool ready to trim ano…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 8: Done!
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Porches Wrapping it Up! Fresh caulk, carefully chosen trim paint, and a few final details bring th…
Monitor Stand Upcycled!
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Puttering From the Poor Man's Flea Market A free office castoff gets a simple repair, fresh pa…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 7
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Back Porch Giving the Old Window Trim Another Go The old PVC trim gets cleaned, modified and put ri…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 6
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Back Porch Siding the East Wall With the long sill finally finished, the east wall gets its Flagsto…
Scrap Wood Pallets
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Cold Cellar A Scrap Wood Project The heat wave here in the Northeast has been a bit uncomfortable …
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 5
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Porches Building the East Wall Window Sill Two straight 2x4s, two major mistakes and a lot of caref…
Restoring Dad's Vintage Utica 39-7 Diagonal Cutters
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Tool Restoration Dad's Old Cutters A simple cleanup of one of Dad's old tools, and another …
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 4
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Porches The East Wall Surprise After years of worrying about what I'd find beneath the east win…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 3
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Porches Siding the South Wall The new sill goes in, PVC replaces the old bottom trim, and the first…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 2
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Porches Building a New Window Sill A custom sill, an eight-degree slope, a router, and one measurem…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 1
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Porches Teardown The final phase of a porch project we started in 2016... and apparently weren'…
The Grill Spot
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Back Yard A Place for Everything A Saturday-morning idea, six matching pavers and one more little c…
Repairing the Window Screens
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Back Porch A Whole New Skill! Sometimes maintaining an old house means fixing the quiet little thin…
Legacy Project: The Front Walkway
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Outdoors Non-traditional Fun! An unexpected sewer repair led to a creative front walkway solution t…
eBay Texas Birdhouse Re-Installed
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Repairs Finally! After years on two different potting benches, a favorite handmade birdhouse finall…
Scrap Wood File Handles: Simple Shop-Made Tool Upgrades
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Puttering A Smidge of Yankee Ingenuity Inspired by inherited tools, these simple scrap wood file ha…
A Day of Puttering
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Outdoors Little Chores Sometimes ya' just gotta putter. You know - those hours or days when yo…
My First Rifle Restoration
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Something Different ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1976 Glenfield Marlin Model 30A 30-30 Lever Action ━━━━━━━…
Cleaning Up a Vintage Plaster Trowel
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Tool Cleanup Sometimes the smallest workshop projects turn out to be the most satisfying, especiall…
Building a Paver Base for a Rain Barrel
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Back Yard A Firm Foundation After years of faithful service, one rain barrel needed something simpl…
A $20 Vintage Tool Haul: Right Place, Right Time
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Ramblings Sometimes Life's About Timing Sometimes the best additions to a workshop arrive when …
Out of the Blue: A $1 Kraeuter Linesman Pliers Find
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Tool Restoration 1380-8 (8 Inch) Sometimes the best tool finds are the ones you never knew were wai…
Restoring a $3 Vintage Blacksmith's Hammer
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Tool Restoration Another Hammer for the Stable! Not every tool restoration starts with a rare find …
A Little Workshop Time
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Tool Restoration Bringing Old Chisels and Gouges Back to Life A workbench cleanup turned into a few…
No-Name Needle-Nose Pliers Restoration
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Tool Restoration Sometimes the best restorations aren't about famous brands, they're about …
Trimo Monkey Wrench
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Tool Restoration 12-19-1911 Patent A four-dollar flea market find becomes a handsome restoration wh…