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That curry looks amazing, Grahame! We went to a Vietnamese owned BBQ joint yesterday for lunch I'd read about. The BBQ is fairly traditional with prime brisket, ribs and jalapeño beef sausage, but the BBQ fried rice had brisket and a Chinese sausage that was a bit sweet and yummy. They also pickled their jalapeños in a soy concoction that was delish. Overall, high marks. Place is called Brisket & Rice for those that like to wander Houston... HS

Picked up an open box BES920XL for about 2/3rds retail. I’ll be back up and fully running soon, hopefully!

The difference is absolutely helical heads vs. standard planar knives. Plus, they send the best straight grained Sapele to the USA, because that's where the best woodworkers are! 😝

Television - Marquee Moon (1977)

Fancy nibbles! Are you with some Brits? Obviously, I didn't say other Brits given your current citizenship.

Awesome news, Jacob! I bet you'll get many a year out of the replacement. I opened the single origin Guatemalan Francisco Martinez from Intelligencia and it's very good. The dry cherry notes definitely jump out at you. It reminds me a tad of the Yemeni cherry bomb coffee from the Austin joint that was recommended I believe by Voltron? Not as refined as that but similar first note. HS

First dry fit did not have any disasters so now break it down and sand everything and I believe I am going to put a coat of finish on before glue up to try to limit annoying glue scraping.

It did not explode, so now a ton of sanding and some finish to make it match the bench.

I disagree. I think that's a pretty cool design.

Trying to burn through work bench scraps still so I built my first, rather boring end grain cutting board.

One funny here, I've been working on a Stax SRM-007tA today and it is one of those long rumored units that use GE 8CG7 tubes and not the EH 6CG7's. It must have have been a fuck-it-Friday though at Stax as did they use a different heater supply for the 8.4V tubes? Nope... they jumpered the 1ohm resistors in the heater supply but it is still run off the same 12.6VCT winding, fed through a bridge and some caps. End result was a blown heater in one of the tubes as it was being run at 6V... 😂