PS21 Pocket Driver from Bosch
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Buck Knives Introduces New Folding Filet
Do you remember the first real knife you ever had? I mean a knife that didn’t come from a gumball machine or a discount store and was made in Pakistan. It was probably a Schrade, Boker, Gerber or a Buck. Well mine was a Buck 110 and I will never forget how different it was from my other pretend knives. The blade stayed sharp and it didn’t rust at the first sign of humidity. I kept up with that knife through college, which is amazing since I lost sunglasses at a rate that kept many offshore sweat-shop mini factories in business. I discovered Ray-Bans in college, the aviator glasses I was told were a good way to attract girls. I still have Ray-Bans from college. I think there is an innate desire in us to hold onto items we perceive to have quality. So the extra money spent on such items, I came to see as an investment.
Before I did this…
It is springtime in Alabama. Forsythia is already blooming, jonquils and crocus are beginning to drop their blooms, but the nights are still cool and the grass is still brown. Spring is a time of rebirth for plants, animals and even careers. How does one become an online media person? Well the road has many […]
ShopBot Jamboree
ShopBot is bringing its annual Jamboree back to Durham this spring. The ShopBot Jamboree celebrates industrial design and digital fabrication by demonstrating how CNC machines can be used to make everything from cabinets and furniture to signs, molds, models, toys, do-it-yourself projects and much more. There will be presentations on the specific applications of digital […]
Trends in Tools
I was talking with my good friend Doug Mahoney yesterday. Doug is editor of ToolSnob, and writes the tool columns for Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, but his real job is as a builder in Boston. One of the subjects we talked about was upcoming trends in tools and products. We have seen the new […]
Survey Results of EHT Readers
About a week ago I polled 10,000 readers regarding various areas related to Extreme How-To. Thank you to all who participated. Surveys help us better target future “How-To” articles to areas of your interest. I wasn’t surprised by the responses on the numbers of you planning on painting or gardening/landscaping, but the numbers of you planning bigger […]
Latitude3 Media’s Hal Jones, elected to Harbert Center board
Hal Jones, Online Media Director with Latitude3 Media, Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to the Harbert Center’s management board. Officers of the board, include Colin Luke of Balch & Bingham, LLP, who will serve as 2010-2011 president, Kent Graeve of Arlington Properties as immediate past president, Chip Pierce of Brown Mechanical Contracting,treasurer, and Hal Jones of […]
Is Your Contractor Deceiving You? Read about our Experience.
(Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up post to an earlier post that generated more responses than any post to date, to see the earlier posts see The First Post Here, identify the black substance in the picture and the next post related to the up charge for the Cabinetry. These two previous posts lead us […]
Stupid Home Improvement Tricks and Other Things We Have Done and Hoped No One Was Looking
Several times a year, home improvement editors and trade magazine editors travel to see new products, tools and etc. Now some of the time we spend traveling together to meals and activities, and this gives us a chance to talk shop. (This is what we tell our employers anyway.) Actually we talk about the things […]
Favorite Demolition Tool
A few years ago, Matt Weber and I did a review of demolition tools. I don’t know that any other category of tools gets our testosterone pumping like this one. Well, maybe chainsaws and log splitters, but other than those this is true electronic machismo. The Bosch Brute is the big boy of the group […]