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Creative Clamping
Barb Noren’s YouTube channel has become one of my favorites of late. She always has interesting projects, thoughtful ideas on making and creativity, and lots of great shop tips. In , she shares some eye-opening ideas on clamping down work, especially work in odd shapes. In the situation illustrated above, she shows you how you can securely clamp an angled workpiece by clamping down a block next to it and then clamping the workpiece to that.
In this year’s “Sunday Sermon” by Adam Savage at Maker Faire Bay Area, he shared about his current self being kind to his future self by cleaning up as a gift to future self. As he points out, it rarely takes as long or is as hard as you fear it will…
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