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Let's see, you must be 35 by now? Have an incredible birthday old man! Time does fly! You were my first friend in this headphone hobby. I have enjoyed that friendship immensely. First closeby, and now further apart. Your entire family is beautiful! Though I wouldn't recognize half of them today! 🙂

Late skillet breakfast.

There are a couple of YouTube woodworkers from the UK that I watch now and again. The main differences are their shops. One can literally touch both side walls at the same time. All of them seem tiny in comparison to US shops. It's amazing that they can create what they do.

Upstairs Dave and Sherri are making some kind of bacon scramble. I'm taking up pancakes.

Pffft. I could cut all of that out on a scroll saw. It'd only take me 372 hours. Seriously though... A kit is a great idea, because parents love to get their kids involved in these type of holiday crafts, and there's nothing dangerous left to do.

^ You Got That Right! 😉

Have a very purple day!

I feelie like that one is even too easy for me. Insert your own gay/banana/feelie comment below. But yes, that is indeed some kinda love. Fruit to fruit love!

They're only getting more valuable! Hang onto them!

The scariest thing I can remember doing is using a hand router with a quite large spiral downcut bit to cut a piece of soapstone. This was an old project of Marc's. He was making a plinth for a turntable project. I think the soapstone was about 2" thick, and I believe we were trying to cut a section out for a Lenco idler drive, if memory serves. Maybe Marc will chime in with a better memory. Anyway... I thought how hard could it be, it's soapstone. I remembered carving things out of soapstone in elementary school art class, with a plastic tool. Well, this was Brazilian Soapstone, and it was a whole other beast entirely. We ended up killing my Porter Cable 2 1/4 hp router on that attempt. Marc also set the router on it's head, but let go before the router had stopped spinning. This caused the router to topple off of the workbench, and my brilliant first response was to lunge after it, instead of letting it hit the concrete slab. That giant bit skimmed across the outside of my pinky finger and hand. It looked bloody and potentially bad, until I went inside and washed up. It turned out to be pretty superficial. I do however have a pretty cool looking swirling scar that always reminds me of a day that could have been catastrophic. In my own defense, I wasn't a complete idiot trying to save a $100 router. It was just a knee jerk reaction with no time to contemplate any outcome.

I would caution that you don't use that tablesaw. In the hands of an experienced woodworker it would be less than optimal. With an inexperienced person it would be quite dangerous. I can see from the pics that the fence is out of parallel from the blade. Not at all uncommon for that type of fence system. And the older they are, the worse they get. But the most dangerous thing about that saw is the lack of a riving knife. Most saws didn't have a riving knife back in the day, and indeed I used saws without one up until the last 7 years or so. But being aware and being experienced is a giant plus. I wouldn't want to use one today if I could avoid it. The riving knife keeps wood from bending back onto itself while cutting. This happens from pressure in the wood itself, and it causes the wood to bind the blade. This causes kickback which can be very dangerous, even to a very experienced wood worker. No one knows this better than Dr. Wood himself!

How did you know that's exactly what I was craving?

Don't get excited Brent, that's a scone.

Not sure if this qualifies as a TV show, but I've been watching a few different YouTube series about off grid building and living. One is called 'Life Uncontained'. It's about a couple and their (eventually) two children. They build a home in rural Texas from steel shipping containers. Then later buy a plot of land as a vacation home and build a road, ready the land and build a cabin, again from a shipping container. They're a cute couple and very willing to get their hands dirty The second I just found in the last few days. It's called 'The Outsider'. It's a Father and Son who build a log cabin from scratch in Northern Ontario. Both are very skilled and I get tired just watching how much they achieve together. I find both shows fascinating. I know that the young couple make their entire living from their YouTube channel. And it's obviously a decent living. That's also quite fascinating to someone of my generation.

Skillet breakfast. Potatoes, onion, red bell pepper, tomato, avocado, link sausage, cheddar cheese and eggs. This is going upstairs to divide three ways with Dave and Sherri (landlords). Oh yeah, mushrooms too.

I liked the old SDA series too. Remember the ads with Matthew Polk in the White lab coat?

Happy to see no cocktail sauce on that plate. Fish and chips should be served with tartar sauce. And malt vinegar!

I still have a lot of chili left, so... I'm normally not a big fan of American cheese, but for chili and grilled cheese sandwiches, it's so melty.

Glad you left satisfied! That's the usual affect.

Ask your contractor for a mock up first, or a "stool sample".

If you choose the stool route that Al suggest, you could mount those on full extension drawer slides. Making them quite easy to pull in and out, without having to try to tuck them in carefully.

This type of mortised hinge is completely hidden when the seat extension would be up, and only visible when folded. Assuming you'd leave the seat extension upright most of the time.

It can certainly be done, but you'll have to attach wood under the current cubby holes, then build that up to support the seat extension. That support piece should be at least 8" deep. With about 2" to 3" sticking out past the cubby hole. Does that make sense? The other alternative, that might look more purposeful, would be to make a 4" or so seat extension. Hinge it to the existing seat, so that it can fold down when not needed. You can make triangular support pieces that are also hinged, and would fold out from the sides of the cubby holes to support the seat when upright. Fold them back in and the seat extension folds down. You loose a little bit of cubby space while it's folded, but none when it's extended.

^ Is that a sex game?