My Desultory Blog

RichC | November 25, 2020

Christmas is fast approaching and it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet! Yikes. Brenda and our neighbor Pam are already putting up the decorations around our Evergreen Farm Estates neighborhood … something they have been doing for the last 20+ years. I think they enjoy doing it, even though it is time for someone else to join […]

Category: Archive, Holiday, Misc, Personal, Photos, Woodworking | No Comments »
Tags: annalyn, brenda, christmas, decorating, dewalt, efe, ellerie, letterpress, maple, neighborhood, planer, printing, project, reuse, thanksgiving, trays, woodworking

RichC | November 15, 2020

On one of my sailing groups, a Sailrite Ultrafeed LSZ-1 user complained that the speed controller pedal was hard to regulate. I’ve found that to be true as well. Another person made the comment that they used a piece of flexible tubing/hose that gives the pedal a little more tactile feel … so I tried […]

Category: Hobby, How-To, Ideas, Personal, Photos, Sailing, Tidbits, Woodworking | No Comments »
Tags: control, cover, dewalt, hacks, hatch, holder, lsz-1, pedal, planer, sailing, sailrite, sewing machine, speed, tinkering, ultrafeed

RichC | September 27, 2020

When bragging that my latest sewing cart project had zero cost in it, I held off until the end of the post to mention that I was spending money and would post about that on Sunday. Well here it is: I bought my first planer; it’s a semi-portable DeWalt DW735, with the “X” option (extra […]

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Tags: amazon, dewalt, dw735x, hobby, jointer, makita, new, planer, tool, woodworking, workshop