Well, I guess today’s post is a little self confession. Like many of you I do construction work. I have been doing it since before I could drive. I have also gotten into the bad habit of taking shortcuts when it comes to safety. Saturday I was finishing up on a wainscot job, but I had to do a detail cut to fit the wood around a central air intake. Read More…
Extreme How-To and Lee Valley Tools are proud to announce the winner of July’s Reel Mower Sweepstakes, Samuel Balsano of Gamaliel, Arkansas. Congratulations Sam and don’t forget to register to win one of 55 prizes being given away in August. Go here for information on this month’s prizes and be sure and register to win, with 55 prizes this is the best opportunity to win since I have been running the sweepstakes at EHT.
It’s funny, but one of the simplest devices we encounter has so much impact on whether things work or don’t. Here in the EHT office, we have our favorite fastener companies, and they are the ones whose fasteners not only do what we expect them to, but actually outperform our expectations. These products are few and seem to be getting fewer Read More…
Some weeks stand out for various reasons, some good, some bad and others reach that level that make us shake our head and wonder what wrong we must have done to be singled out by nature for punishment. One week ago Sunday, my mom’s house greeted me in an eclipse of darkness that had engulfed the entire area. A large cable lay in her front yard and the power was obviously out. A summer storm, had obviously taken its toll, wind, lightning and heavy rains. Upon entering the darkened house, the smell of candles gave a Christmas Air to the otherwise oppressive Read More…
In August, our friends at Lee Valley and Painter’s Pyramid have gone overboard with the amount of prizes, the most ever for our sweepstakes. Lee Valley is featuring its Matrix Storage and Organization Systems, giving away three $100 gift cards to go towards building your own Matrix custom solution. Painter’s Pyramid rocked the woodworking and handyman world several years ago when it introduced the Original Painter’s Pyramid, and now they have updated the design, making it more stable, and more versatile. Read More…
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