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A Woodrough Genealogy

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 5:14pm
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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Chronicles Of The Chronicle, 6

Sun, 11/09/2008 - 2:13pm
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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VOTE

Mon, 11/03/2008 - 8:21pm
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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Woodies, British Adverts & Leather

Wed, 10/22/2008 - 3:19pm
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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Why you should be reading eShavings.

Sun, 10/19/2008 - 8:11am
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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DELTA Bandsaw Prototype

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 8:36pm
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 Bookshelves

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 8:53am
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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Granfurdeus Begats

Thu, 09/25/2008 - 3:45pm
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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You say tomato...

Sat, 09/20/2008 - 10:10pm
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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Chronicles of The Chronicle, 5

Fri, 09/19/2008 - 7:01pm
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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Unplugged Needs A New Socket

Fri, 09/05/2008 - 7:11pm
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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Woodworking Handtool Forum

Wed, 09/03/2008 - 6:56pm
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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Did Diderot Know?

Tue, 09/02/2008 - 2:34pm
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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The Right Tool For The Job

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 2:31pm
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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Old Tools & Old Tradesmen

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 8:36pm
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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The British - Dutch Plane Link?

Tue, 08/26/2008 - 3:06pm
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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The Importance of Chisels

Sun, 08/24/2008 - 3:54pm
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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Two for the money

Mon, 08/18/2008 - 8:01am
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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How Google Does It

Sat, 08/09/2008 - 12:15pm
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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Moonshine Scanning

Fri, 08/01/2008 - 9:48am
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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