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Silver and Oatmeal Johnny are coexisting. He has figured out that Silver is mostly bark and little bite. She produces very resigned-sounding hisses, especially when they are both on the bed with me at night. Oatmeal Johnny is a wonderful cat. I got lucky.

Green stuff, lots of green stuff. .

First episode of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Another good show, I think.

Seizing the Means of Audio Production In the 1980s the Egyptian government was determined to stop the spread of the “vulgar” cassette.

Wait until you have your unit in hand as there are so many different versions of the 313

And now South African Milk Tart, Thanks to an honorary Brit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melktert Goes well with Tea .

Holy fuck, what a pain in the balls. Finally got all four bolts out since this piece has to come off for the new spindle mount. The last bolt would not move with heat, mallet, etc. and the impact was just going to round it out. Ended up having to use a rubber mallet on the router mount to twist it around and finally broke the last bolt loose.

Joscho Stephan & Peter Autschbach - Sundowner https://album.link/es/i/1567580177 Qobuz

U Mad, Bro?

Heyoka - Marklar (2010) This is an odd "post dubstep" album that absolutely CANED a dozen years ago. I haven't listened to it since 2013. Revisting it, it's ...alright, but very much of its era. TBH it's more "dubstep" than "post." Heyoka does keep things varied enough that his music never gets monotonously boring like so much dubstep does. He also varies the tempo all over the place so it's not just a 70 bpm snoozefest. Where he's really lacking is in synthesis. I've been spoiled by listening to some of the best sound synthesists artists ...ever (from Geir Jenssen to Oliver Lieb to Boards of Canada). Heyoka is a softsynth preset patch compared to any of them. Overall his music is amusing, but there's a reason I don't play much of it on my show.

Love my boy....he surpasses me in sarcasm and is almost Bernie-left....but we had this fun exchange when he told me he was going back to Spotify instead of the TIDAL family plan (more selections and features for him and his g/f).

Coquille St. Jacques Six-Onion Soup Lamb Chops with goat-cheese grits and a mushroom,apple and baby kale medley with Crème Brûlée for dessert

Looks like I will be spending the next few months trying to figure out how to work my magic side table. V Carve seems reasonable enough for really basic designs, my forte, but there is a ton of stuff to figure out.

Doug's idea would be the right one for your next shop or for now if you can fit the size of jointer/planer into your garage that you will want later (which I thought was unlikely). For now, you have the Dewalt planer with the helical head and can live without a jointer if you really want the CNC. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Steve and I have completed the miter saw station countertop and installed the Woodpeckers StealthStop system. It went in very easily and is well designed. It seems to work with precision and I have two stops on each side of the blade, or could move 3 or 4 of them all on one side. The countertop is still fully usable on both sides because the track is slightly recessed and surrounded by laminate. If I want to extend the track on one or both sides, i just need to remove the thin inserts that we cut separately.

Air – Pocket Symphony

Neither is the correct answer. A Hammer A3 (or similar) is the right answer - it is physically smaller than the Powermatic jointer, yet still will give you a wider jointer, and will allow you to get rid of the planer which will free up space for a bigger CNC.

Both is the correct answer. The CNC will be limited in size but there is still a ton you can do and more importantly learn. When you finally get around to moving somewhere you can have a proper shop you will already know what you are doing on a larger machine.

Nice caddy! I haven't been home lately and haven't done any woodworking since this cabinet project for my nephew. I can't remember what I have posted about them previously but the ask to make one or two simple cabinets to hang kids clothes morphed into a much bigger thing. Two cabinets that are almost seven feet tall, with two sets of pocket doors to save space in the small room, six foot tall basic shaker doors with inset trim I made from two different pieces of molding, and six shelves in each section and no clothes hanging. Oh, and all painted with latex enamel shot from my HVLP sprayer. Designing and building and painting these monsters kept me up at nights. Steve very astutely took a pass on this one, but thankfully agreed to install them with me. They are super happy with them and filled them with kids crap within two days.

Karen is out of town and Peter is hanging with his girlfriend so decided to check out a local seafood market/restaurant. They specialize in fresh, locally sourced seafood so everything below uses fresh, local seafood. Started with a dozen raw oysters since they are my favorite Followed by a bowl of their blue crab gumbo with a main entree of grilled grouper with hush puppies, Cuban black beans and coleslaw for desert I had key lime pie and a cup of coffee (no picture because the second Tiki drink was catching up to me - See Drinking Thread)

100% home made dinner from last night: jalepeno poppers, mac and cheese, brisket, slaw, cornbread. The teenager took this to snap to her friends, so excuse the perspective, clipping, etc.

Finally decided to just go buy the Shop Fox sander at the local place and was surprised to find it over $100 less than the Amazon price. #Winning

I wasn't sure about posting this but it kinda had to be done. Pic is from HF and the usual nonsense in the peanut gallery there: So this is the Sirrah V3 from high-amp.de...aka yet another slight twist on the Stax SRM-1 Mk2 or derivatives. For me it is just the build here and well... the total shitbox we have here. First off, what's up with all the hotglue? As somebody who has built hundreds of amps at this point... I don't even own a hotglue gun nor would I ever think of using this crap. Some other goodies, top of the transformer sanded for it to fit in the chassis, no insulation on the mains plug which means this would fail even the basic CE tests, nice bit of cloth underneath the pot there to presumably stop it from shorting something on the board and I just love all the transformer leads, not twisted in any way, coming really close to the input wiring. The hand cut heatpads on the output transistors are also nice and I very much doubt that tiny ballast resistor for the bias supply is rated to 600V.... On top of that, look up the design of this thing. Basically a SRM-212 with a full size power supply and some things changed. +/-200V rails, no CCS for the VAS stage and very little power.