Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Tips of the Week is our weekly peek at some of the best making tips, tricks, and recommendations we’ve discovered in our travels. Check in every Friday to see what we’ve discovered. And we want to hear from you. Please share your tips, shortcuts, best practices, and tall shop tales in the comments below and we might use your tip in a future column.
I love this tip from Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), a writer for The Atlantic, shared on Twitter: “Simple copy editing tip from somebody who sucks at copy editing: In your last pass, change the font to something unfamiliar. Then change the font size. When you’re familiar with a piece, your eyes gulp whole passages and miss typos. New fonts focus your eyes on each letter.”
It’s been a while since Jimmy DiResta has done one of his tips videos. They are always jam-packed with great shop ideas, techniques, and short-cuts and is no exception. Jimmy covers everything from setting up a miter saw to cutting tips to shortcuts for accurate and repetitive cutting. And the best thing about the video? Spike the cat is back!
In the video from Punished Props that I posted earlier this week, Paige shows how you can use kitchen tinfoil…
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