Month: April 2007

HOWTO Fillet a Whole Salmon

HOWTO Fillet a Whole Salmon

bbum acquired a bunch of excellent salmon, and shows us how to fillet it without making an awful mess: …if you are willing to exercise a bit of knife work, it isn’t hard to breakdown a whole fish into fillets. What cost $15/pound fully processed, can be had — typically much fresher — for well […]

Homebrew lava lamp

Homebrew lava lamp

PsychicGoldfish writes – Here’s my home made lava lamp. The container is simply a gallon jug wine bottle. Because of this, a friend once referred to it as the “White Trash Lava Lamp.” The wine was Ernest and Julio Gallo, if I remember correctly. I do remember that it stank to high heavens when I […]

The week in tools

The week in tools

Right on time, Chuck has the week in tools – This week we put a new lightweight mobile workstation to the test to determine whether a carefully-designed aluminum and plastic rig (that converts into a two-wheel dolly and has on-board power as well) can replace your trusty wood-and-steel clamping table. In our tests it held […]