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Wooden Salt Cellar

Wooden Salt Cellar

A couple of years ago I whittled a wooden spoon as a thank-you gift for our family friend Valerie, who was my daughter’s elementary school art teacher. Valerie appreciated it so much that my wife asked me to make another wooden gift for Valerie’s upcoming birthday. I thought about it for a while and decided […]

Wind Your Own Guitar Pickups

Wind Your Own Guitar Pickups

The brilliant Meara O’Reilly describes how to wind your own electromagnetic guitar pickups on sewing machine bobbins.

Pagan Eggcraft

Pagan Eggcraft

There’s magic in your fridge or at least the makings of it. There, behind the OJ, there’s a carton of Grade A power objects. (Alright, so at the moment they’re just eggs, but with your help they could be so much more!) Turns out, what we’ve come to know as “Ukrainian Easter eggs” actually had […]