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Showing posts with label bad tool advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad tool advice. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2022

Plate Grooves for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCXLI

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shelf with plate groove It's Monday, and we're in kind of a hurry. Bear with us... Being in a hurry seems to have been  requirement ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Construction and Tools for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCXXVIII

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tools for builders An old adage would have it that if you ask a stupid question, you'll get a stupid answer. That may not necessarily be...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

DIY Sharpening Jigs for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCXIV

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shop-built blade jig The more savvy "contributors" to the website eHow.com quickly learned that they could, to be frank, bullshit ...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Crosscut Jigs for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCIV

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Shop-built crosscut guide The model on which the original eHow.com was built was simple: figure out what people are searching for on the int...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Belt Sanders for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCX

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Belt sander We don't know about you, but we prefer that our questions not be answered by people who, before they googled the topic, w...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Shovels for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCVII

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13 Different Shovels It's always seemed to make good sense to us that when you want useful information about a topic, you get it from so...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Narrower Doors for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCXLIV

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Using a saw guide Face it: there must be about a bazillion websites out there that offer do-it-yourself instructions, a lot of them written ...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Hex Bits for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCXXIX

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hex bit socket (note square drive hole) If it were not so painful, it would be amusing to watch some of the journalism majors our staff enco...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Sharpening Jigs for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCXV

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one guy's blade sharpening jig If the work by wannabe citizen journalists we tap for our awards isn't out-and-out bull, it usually f...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Angle Finders for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMXCVII

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In the bad old days of content farms, certain freelancers decided that the quickest way to amass a fortune in so-called "passive income...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Building a Planter Box for Dummies

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raised planter boxes It seems as if it's been forever since the last time we visited Seekyt.com, but it's really only been seven mon...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

A Tenon Cutter for Utter Dummies

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One type of log tenon cutter  If the Antisocial Network staff had a motto, it would have to be something like "Never ask a massage ther...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Domino Racks for Dummy Woodworkers

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Stack dado set Antisocial Network staffers are rarely, if ever, surprised to find self-appointed "freelance journalists" who'v...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Plexiglass Crafts for Dummies

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Not made with a band saw  It's bad enough to find one of those old eHow.com posts where the "contributors" (as the site called...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Fake Nailer Reviews by Dummies

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Wire-collated nail coil Some of the staffers here at the Antisocial Network wrote at one time or another for review websites like Epinions.c...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Dovetails for Dummies

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Try cutting that with a straight bit, Cam A lot of the staffers here at the Antisocial Network dabble from time to time in woodworking, ...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Woodworking Instructions for Dummies

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Trapezoid Box Our staff woodworkers, and we have several, are generally appalled at the level of bogosity they find in woodworking proje...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Convex Fences for Dummies

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curved-top fence One of the staffers moved from the south to the Midwest a few years ago and was taken aback by the prevalence of so-cal...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Nail Guns for the Dummy DIYer

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A staffer pointed out not long ago that sometimes you don't even have to read the text of older eHow.com content (most of which is now...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Tiny Stripped Screws for Dummies

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Very small screw Some of our staffers are starting to think that we're in a rut here at the Antisocial Network. They've come to ...