• Musing: food-safe finishes for your hand-crafted wooden utensils and other kitchen items

    I have a PhD in Chemistry and am a student of historical finishing technologies. I’ve also been a woodworker and woodcarver for nearly 50 years and have made a lot of kitchen items and utensils in wood. Centuries of trial and error provided suitable finishes to our woodworking ancestors. In the last 100 years an explosion…

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  • Twelve Strategies = No More Failed 3D Prints

    Benefit from my sixteen years of research, development, and testing in fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing! My new e-book, Twelve Strategies for Creating Great 3D Prints, distills the essence of thousands of forum posts and dozens of RepRap Festival presentations into one comprehensive guide. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you’ll learn to print beautiful…

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  • Bye, Bye Adobe

    After 40 years – seriously, 40 years – using Adobe Photoshop and decades using Illustrator, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Lightroom, and as an early Adobe Creative Suite subscriber, I have finally cut the cord and abandoned Adobe products for my creative design applications. I am not a professional designer but I am a power user (especially…

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