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Just when you think the internet is a vacuum, pulling all that dust and detritus into the black hole of server farms, macerating and dumping it back as a Google...

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I'm looking at 3.71 Gb's of PDF files. By 'looking', I mean just that. Looking. I've reviewed them so many times, I think I have memorized the entire contents of...

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If you're reading this, you should be out casting your vote. If you're a legal voter of the United States of course. If you're still reading this, what are you...

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No, this title is not a reference to 19th Century British 'gentleman's' literature. It's been a while since last I updated The Toolemera Press website. I've been busy with The...

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With abject apologies to Chris Schwarz, whose recent post Why you should be reading The Chronicle so aptly points out what you have been missing if you are not a...

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On occasion, protoypes of particularly famous tools show up. Sometimes we know for sure that this is a prototype because it's labeled so. Sometimes it's wish fulfillment on the part...

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Inscribed on the Doors of my BookshelvesYang Hsun-chi, c900 AD, Ming Dynasty, ChinaMine was a trading familyLiving in Nan-Hao district for a hundred years.I was the first to become a...

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While sifting through old documents, I came upon this little bit of history that I wrote up a few years ago concerning the famous British Planemaker, John Green and the...

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It's peculiar how the world is changing. The digital bandwagon seems to be overtaking us faster than we can run away from it. Over at work, we are all hellbent...

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When last we met, The Chronicle digitization project was wending it's merry way along the path to success. With an end in sight, I solicited and drafted a merry band...

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FolksLuke Townsley, creator of UnpluggedShop.com, is looking for a new owner for the blog. Alas, keeping a blog organized and running is a time consuming enterprise and Luke has his...

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Somehow, I missed this one. But, following the bread crumbs left by one Galooticus of rec.ww fame, I found my way to the Woodworking Handtool Forum. If I had to...

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We all do it. Watch Ebay auctions to see what the item will sell for. We can then either kick ourselves in the seat if it was a steal, or...

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On one hand there is the Chronicle project. On the other hand there is the Moxon project. On the third hand there is a box of Zomig for migraines. Sometimes...

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Every now and then I take the time to look back through some of the photographs in my collection. It's hard enough finding early images in good shape, let alone...

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Recently I picked Early Planemakers of London from my bookshelf for a re-read. Written by Don & Anne Wing and published in 2005, the book is sub-titled "Recent Discoveries in...

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What happens when chisels are sharpened to the end of their usefulness? Or at least what happens when the user thinks the chisel is no longer of use? The chisel...

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This past weekend I had nothing much to do. Well, with the exception of rebuilding the opening mechanism on an overhead skylight. A simple job of removing the old non-working...

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Ever wonder how Google Books and some of those other freebie book sites manage to produce those anemic looking book pages? You know, the ones that look as if someone...

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Everybody has their little secrets. Mine is moonshine. Moonshine works for me. It allows me to focus, to get the job done, in fact, without moonshine, I'ld have to find...

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