by Paul | Apr 24, 2020 | Farm & Homestead, Tools & Equipment
It’s Spring (we call it “Mud Season”) in Maine and it’s now time to service the lawnmower for our very short “warm season.” We don’t really have a lawn, but the weeds must get knocked down occasionally. I personally don’t care about such things, but my wife added this...
by Paul | Apr 13, 2020 | Arts & Crafts, Blacksmith Works, Boat Building, Building Projects, Contests & Giveaways, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Furniture Designs, Gamer Projects, Gidget McMidget, Guy Food Gourmet, Introduction, On My Mind, Promotions, Sailing & Cruising, Tools & Equipment, Vendor Displays, Wood Turning
Wow! It doesn’t seem like it’s been over three years since I started making and posting videos on YouTube. It’s also hard for me to believe I’ve posted over two hundred videos within that time frame! This is a compilation of video clips and pictures from several (but...
by Paul | Apr 11, 2020 | Arts & Crafts, Blacksmith Works, Boat Building, Building Projects, Contests & Giveaways, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Furniture Designs, Gamer Projects, Gidget McMidget, Guy Food Gourmet, Introduction, On My Mind, Promotions, Sailing & Cruising, Tools & Equipment, Vendor Displays, Wood Turning
Big Changes Ahead: I’ve been researching and studying social media, especially YouTube. As a result, I’ve determined the relatively slow growth I’ve been experiencing has to do with having a way too eclectic mix of subject matter. Here’s...
by Paul | Apr 8, 2020 | Boat Building, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead
I’m making this episode (Part 4) the final segment of the anchor build series. I make a jig to bend the 5/8” round bar in a semi-circle to make the roll-over bar for the anchor. I pulled out my homemade forge to heat up the round bar till it’s cherry red in order to...
by Paul | Apr 3, 2020 | Farm & Homestead
Since my new sailboat is being built outside and my new anchor fabrication job is also being done outside, not much is getting done as it snowed the other day and it has bee raining pretty hard yesterday and today. Of course, then there is the Coronavirus thing and...
by Paul | Apr 1, 2020 | Boat Building, Building Projects, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Sailing & Cruising
In the last couple of weeks, I posted Part 1 and Part 2 of a mini-series about how I’m making my own version of the Mantus-Rocna wedge style of anchor. In that first part I explained what I’m doing and why. I also obtained the steel I needed for the project and...
