Addressing Murphy's Elephant right off the bat here - Things certainly are... "Interesting" these days aren't they? On the Best of Times End of things this week: My Steel Wheel Fire Pit write-up is featured on the Instructables home page! This is my first homepage featured article so I'm pretty stoked! Check it out here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Upcycle-Old-Steel-Wheels-Into-a-Fire-Pit/ And I hit 250 followers on Instagram! I know that's not a huge number, but it's a

I don't think so. Especially since mowing season has officially started here in the PNW! But looking at my desk right now I have a multimeter, a gas cap, a stuffed smurf, a chunk of spalted maple wood, some magnets, a 12v DC fan, a hubcap clock and a bunch of 3D printed steering wheel center caps within arms reach soooo.... Maybe I'm biased. What's that? Don't believe me? Pics or it didn't happen?!>! Fine. Bluff called - BOOM! I have no idea what that proved. Wait, no, now I

I know, groan, another pandemic virus post thingy on the internets... But come on be honest - By this point you need a new snack right?! We can't make stuff if we don't eat... I present to you Quarantine Crackers! So spicy they'll burn just about anything out of your system! (Not really.) ((And actually they're called "Fire Crackers.")) (((But they are tasty, and I did make them all by myself!))) Alrighty, so basically the plan is we turn boring unsalted saltine crackers into

We did! Checkout part one here if you haven't already. You can clearly see the treated side is much harder than the untreated side in the super duper official siceney "Tappy Tap Tap" test video below! That's great! How far did it penetrate?! Um... Yes? I haven't quite figured out how to measure it... But I can tell you for certain, it penetrated further than if it hadn't been thinned (I didn't tell you yet... After I did the "TappyTapTap" test I coated the opposite side witho

I heard a rumor that if you have soft wood, you can make your own viag... er um "penetrating resin." No I didn't type that with a straight face. Lol... OK, mind out of the gutter, time to get on with it (get it on?!?!? No, dammit - focus!) OK, back on topic. For real this time. Honest. So. We're talking about live edge wood specifically. I have a piece that's highly figured and spalted, that I want to make into a bench or table. However, because of spalting and other "charact