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the big house

Canyon Country Homes

Azusa Homes

Covina Homes

A cutting board for mom

Turning a small, wooden, juggling pin

DIMG Tele-meeting with Kelowna

90+ days of beard

71st Annual MacAbree Manor Masquerade Ball

DIMG Halloween 2010

Sewing a BABYBJÖRN for Halloween

Tom & Rebecca's 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

DIMG Welcomes D Learning

Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom

Nacia's Wedding "Surprise" Work Party

old portfolio sketches (c. 1996)

summer party at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Sam's New Place

becoming a full-time Disney employee

finally dry olive slabs

Dave's last day lunch at Ernie's

Back to Skool lunch

Sam's new railing

The rebuilding of Mexican Restaurant

DIMG office events

birch end grain cutting board

kitty in a sunbeam

modifying Orn's speedometer mount

Mangaris™ cutting board

Tom & Rebecca's 1920s party

more poplar scrap glue-ups

Beautiful Jacaranda

veneer-thick scraps glue-up

new Jet 16-32 drum sander

attempting to propagate blue passion vines

clean garage panorama

garage - post mom cleanup

random sites in west LA

The trees of North Hollywood Park

scrap wood scrap wood rolling cart

lathe reverse turning holder plate

new work drive to North Hollywood

Eucalyptus spp. branch from Venice Blvd.

several small jacaranda bowls

west LA trees blooming in early spring

Springtime trees in west LA

A new handle for my 36" crosscut saw

Sawing up some Chinese elm logs

Chinese elm logs - FINALLY

restaurant lumber rescued from trash

big beard just before shaving

pallet end grain cutting board

fixing the dryer's tensioner

Spring walk among west LA's trees

Cora's Restaurant remodel = free wood

Chinese elms and fern pines in west LA

A very foggy morning in west LA

Branch buttons

finishing up some fig bowls

bottle tree (Brachychiton sp.), etc.

big beard

cleaning up morning glory mess

Silk floss tree and Italian stone pine

The darkened shop

16" red oak lazy susan with black streaking

Home Depot (west LA) - now has alder!

Trees on walk to hardware store

March 1st late-night neighborhood walkabout tree samples

Hollywood Juniper - finally cleaning up the pile

Wizards of Waverly Place - Marc's episode

scrap cutoffs rack

Anderson Plywood "Tools of the Trade" Old Tool Swap Meet

Jury Duty - trees (etc.) downtown

some minor garage storage solutions

Another messy garage update

JET JSG-96CS 6"x48" belt/9" disc sander

being artsy with some walnut shavings

Modesto Ash hollow form vase

Crown 8 EZS camera

The Woodbook

Christmas 2009 presents

Router table drawer chest

Bruno the tinsel dog

Designing a log tenoner for smaller branches

Mom's family party and decorations

Fixing the ice-fused heater

red oak router planing system

backyard and log racks before flight home

walnut/maple cutting board for mom

A cheap rolling lathe stand

Marcus & Amanda's Decemberween Dinner 2009

Terribly Messy Garage Cleanup

In-N-Out's Yeddo Hawthorn

Thanksgiving 2009

Travel Town Museum, Griffith Park, LA

processing windy-day euc #4

Crafstman 13" planer - stripped bearing

Modesto Ash log cake stand

Modesto ash logs

The trees of Village Green

70th Annual MacAbree Manor Masquerade Ball

[partial] Making-of - cardboard Roman soldier helmet

Pumpkin carving party 2009

Trees back home in NJ

Jack o'Lantern beard

My one-man heavy-duty crosscut saw

switching from septic tank to sewer

A new place for my growing saw collection

truck ramps

Growing some trees from seeds

Rockler purchases

Ficus Chamber Pot

Chinese Flame Tree (Koelreuteria bipinnata)

Wood Storage Shed - final shingles and gables

Turning a simple bowl from Indian Laurel Fig

Making English Walnut Ink - second batch

Marcus & Amanda's Bounce House Party 2009

First [failed] attempt at hollow form turning

Turning tools from mom for my birthday!

Australian Bush/Brush Cherry (Eugenia myrtifolia, AKA Syzygium paniculatum)

Robyn's birthday party at Picanha

Baltic birch turned wine glass failure

Jacaranda bark-edge goblet

A turned Jacaranda bowler hat

turned red oak dimensioned lumber dishes

Home Depot Shopping Trip (after budgetary dry spell)

Jacaranda bowl

Cutting up some Jacaranda logs

Jacaranda natural-edge pedestal bowl

Jacaranda natural-edge bowl

Pink Honey-myrtle (Melaleuca nesophila)

orange eye butterflybush (Buddleja davidii)

Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)

Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) in West LA

Silver Dollar Gum? (Eucalyptus cinerea?)

Turning a nearly 10" Ficus bowl

Blue Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea)

Turning a small champagne glass in free Jacaranda wood

Making a bowl from free Jacaranda wood in <1hr.

Fallen Jacaranda = free wood!

Eucalyptus wine glass turning

European Olive Wine Glass Turning

Failed Ficus plate

Baltic birch plywood wine glass failure

free wood cutoffs - mostly Superior grade alder

Seed pods of the Gold Medallion Tree (Cassia leptophylla)

Some free pallet wood

Manually resawn Ficus bowl blank

resawing and sealing a large European Olive (Olea europaea) log

resawing a telephone pole crossbar

Resawing a very large Eucalyptus log

immature English Walnut (Juglans regia) nut

Another shaving day

Mystery Branch #6 - some kind of conifer

4th of July at Robin's place

The 6-hour 2x4 Chair

A pleated filter for my Delta AP400 dust collector

A quick test 'dish' turning in Ficus Microcarpa

Plants and trees around a Culver City neighborhood

Morning Glories Break Into Everything

Anchorseal disaster

European Olive (Olea Europaea) bottle stopper turning blanks

Weighing a huge Eucalyptus log

proper stickers at last (kiln-dried Douglas fir)

English walnut (Juglans regia) - inside an unripe nut

resawing some Victorian Box and Eucalyptus sp.

Huge Eucalyptus haul - 2nd load from Canoga Hills

First resawing (Ficus microcarpa log)

Resawing Jig

Buck Bros. 3" Block Plane tryout

Ficus microcarpa - 3rd and 4th loads

Fig tree haul (Ficus microcarpa "nitida") - second load

Log Racks - all 5 sections finished

An improvised dolly

Fig tree wood (probably Ficus microcarpa 'Nitida')

giant Eucalyptus haul from Canoga Hills

Local Cat Pal

Log rack sections 4 and 5

An under [garage] door shelving unit for flat stuff

Jacaranda mimosifolia seed pods

Plume Moth

Verizon Phone Dudes Working on my Lines

A rolling base for my planer

Tree ID #10 - Angel Trumpet (Brugmansia arborea) in LA

Mini roses for mom for Mother's Day, planted

Hollywood Juniper (Juniperus chinensis) - branches

Tree ID #8 - Naked Coral Tree (Erythrina coralloides) - in bloom

New Lathe and Bottle Stopper Gift Stuff from Rockler

OH YEAH, A TRUCK!!!

Marcus and Amanda's Wedding at the Santa Monica Pier

White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moths

An accident in front of the office

Unidentified tree branch

Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)

European Olive - (Olea europaea) bucking and sealing

Log drying rack is filling up

Fallen Eucalyptus - cut-up, cleanup, sealing

Heavily trimmed Hollywood Junipers

cutting up some paperbark branches

A cranefly

Fallen Eucalyptus - second pickup run

English Walnut (Juglans regia) next door

Olive Tree (Olea europaea) - free wood from tree trimmers

Paperbark Tree - finally got my hands on some branches

Log Drying Rack - A place for found wood

Ford Focus hatchback toy w/ mini logs in it

Mystery Branch #5 Identified: Bottlebrush

Home Depot tree and bird

Sealing some freshly-cut Victorian Box (Pittosporum undulatum)

A photo booth for Marcus and Amanda

Wood Storage Shed - Let's put a lid on it

Ted's Mystery Branch

A tree falls in LA (Chinese Elm vs. truck)

Fallen tree = free wood on a windy LA day

Turning a Eucalyptus pen/pencil holder

Cutting up a fallen/found Eucalyptus (gum tree)

Found wood - Some kind of Eucalyptus?

Mystery branch #3

A coral tree stump

free wood - pallet from outside restaurant

Free lumber

The tiniest woodshop: resawing

cutting up some of first unidentified branches

Some unidentified branches from my green trash bin

Another big shave and haircut day

Making Walnut Pegs

New Band Saw Blades

Beard's gotten pretty long again

Tree ID #4 - Mystery Tree

Tree ID # 3 - Orchid Tree (Bauhinia variegata)

Tree ID #2 - Silver Birch

Maple Lazy Susan for Ronne

Woodworkers Source 30pc hardwood samples kit

first attempts at turning sawdust back into logs

Tree ID #1 - Coast Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra)

Lemon-Scented Gum Tree (?)

New Rockler Vacuum and too many tiny Jet C-clamps

Pocket hole peg cutoffs glued and turned

Incredicabinet: building some multilayer shop storage

Assembling my new Delta JT360 6" Jointer

The Great Garage Cleanup Begins

Wood Storage Shed - moving in the lumber!

Second Turning - attempting a tiny bowl

Ambigary

First wood turning on my mini lathe

Very thorny plant part found behind my garage

Hanging New Bar Clamp Racks and Old Magnet Strip Racks

Trying out my new Work Sharp WS3000

Wavy birch from Home Depot

2 Days of Rockler Sales

Wood Storage Shed - final doors work

Pre-holidays 2008 Rockler order arrives + garage mess

Christmas get-together at Dave and Gina's House

Hollywood Juniper - cutting up a limb

My PC setup, c. 1993

turning blanks from home

log splitting pile back home

The trees back home (South Jersey)

Rockler Hardwood Assortment Box

old homemade plotter printer carriage

Bruno's new mat

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet doors

Wood Storage Shed - roof edging

Wood Storage Shed - roof finishing work

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet decorative wall

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet doors and kerfing

Wood Storage Shed - RAIN

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet roof

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet outer wall

Wood Storage Shed - long lumber shelves

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet inner wall

Wood Storage Shed - large sheet floor

Wood Storage Shed - small sheet roof pocket hole plugs

Wood Storage Shed - hanging small sheet doors

Wood Storage Shed - small sheet door assembly begins

Most Interesting

Wood Storage Shed - fixing small sheet door horizontals grooves

Wood Storage Shed - grooving small sheet door horizontals

Wood Storage Shed - small sheet doors work begins

Wood Storage Shed - small sheet roof install

Wood Storage Shed - installing Small Sheet Stall Walls

Wood Storage Shed - small sheet stall walls - full redo

Wood Storage Shed - attaching small sheet side and back walls

Wood Storage Shed - attaching small sheet floor to base

69th Annual MacAbree Manor Masquerade Ball

Savage Halloween

Hagrid Halloween Costume

Making a birch wand

Wood Storage Shed - countersinking aluminum extrusion through holes

drill press gets a mobile base

ultra fine grit sanding pads

Wood Storage Shed - grooving Small Sheet Side and Stall Walls for adjustable shelf standards

Wood Storage Shed - routing rabbets in small sheet floor and roof for aluminum channel

Free Ubuntu 8.04 disc arrives

mini aluminum circular saw - part 3 - finishing

TV Stand for Mom - Part 20 - final fixes, packaging

mini aluminum circular saw blade - part 2 - facing and machining

TV Stand for Mom - Part 19 - new hinges and name branding

mini aluminum circular saw blade - part 1 - test profile cut

AT-AT Costume: 3 years later, the sketches

Wood Storage Shed - Part 12 - large sheet outer wall

Wood Storage Shed - Part 11 - large sheet inner wall

Wood Storage Shed - Part 10 - long lumber shelves

18" band saw gets a mobile base

Wood Storage Shed - water sealing small sheet side walls

Wood Storage Shed - Part 9 - small sheet roof

TV Stand for Mom - Part 18 - Spar Urethane sealing

TV Stand For Mom - Part 17 - refinishing cabinet boxes

Behind Garage Storage Area - rake-out

Wood Storage Shed - Thompson's Water Sealing the Base

Wood Storage Shed - weather stripping and sealing

Wood Storage Shed - full garage

Wood Storage Shed - Part 8 - Small Sheet Back Wall

Wood Storage Shed - Part 7 - Small Sheet Stall Walls

New Craftsman 18" wood/metal bandsaw

Craftsman 18" wood/metal band saw arrives

Wood Storage Shed - Part 6 - Small Sheet Side Walls

Wood Storage Shed - Part 5 - The Small Sheet Floor

Just before shaving

Wood Storage Shed - Part 4 - The Base

Wood Storage Shed - Part 3 - foundation work

Gary Fixler: The Brand

TV Stand for Mom - Part 16 - dyeing boxes

Wood Storage Shed - Part 2 - shopping + first cuts

Wood Storage Shed - Part 1 - The Plan.

Dust Collection Ducting - Part 3 - A second stage

TV Stand for Mom - part 15 - cabinet door pulls

TV Stand for Mom - Part 14 - staining at last

New Fluorescent Light in the Workshop

Dust Collection Ducting - Part 2 - finished run to miter saw

Laundry room/hallway floor - I'd love to tile this.

Behind my garage - good log-drying spot!

Wood Storage Shed - day 01 - previsualizations

TV Stand for Mom - Part 13 - side cabinet boxes

TV Stand for Mom - Part 11 - magazine organizer

Cleaning up my old benchtop drill press

Dust Collection Ducting - Part 1 - first run

homemade oil brush cleaner can

TV Stand for Mom - Part 10 - cabinet box panel glue-ups

new tarps on the tomato gate

Finally, some centralized dust collection!

TV Stand for Mom - Part 8 & 9 - shelf back stops & cabinet door shelf relief

TV Stand for Mom - Part 7 - rounding, and sanding

TV Stand for Mom - Parts 4-6 - stain test, biscuit joining, cabinet hardware

Making new stock from scrap cut-offs

TV Stand for Mom - Part 2 & 3 - planing, routing, hinge mortising...

Kitty Litter Keeps Biscuits Healthy

A little bit of lightning over west LA

Makeshift test indicator holder - testing saw runout

TV Stand for Mom - Part 1: top and bottom

Mother and baby possum in my backyard

New Treadmill

Timb - 30 Days

Incra Dovetail Box - Third Attempt - Success

Incra Dovetailing - Second Failed Box Attempt

Las Vegas/Grand Canyon Trip 2008

First attempt/failure to make a small dovetail box

Setting up the Incra LS Super System

Assembling the Woodpeckers Router Table

Unboxing Porter Cable 7518 Router and Incra LS Super System

Checking my saw's runout

vibratory tumbler - polishing aluminum

Piano hutch addition: mouse platform

Mill Vac - days 6 & 7 - through holes

Mill table and saddle destroyed :(

Mill Vac - day 5 - square O.D.

Mill Vac - day 4 - button caps

Sizing A/C window panel leaf with mini mill

Second office reorganization

X-Keys Desktop 20-Key Programmable Keypad Mill Controller

Aluminum sacrificial plates for Sherline mini mill

Mill Vac - day 3 - Manifold Mounting

Making a wiggler ball dial test indicator clamp

Possums on my Garage

Shuttle KPC Arrives

New Juggling Clubs From Jack

Wixey Digital Angle Gauge

Finishing the suspension lifting rings at last

Field-stripping, cleaning, de-rusting, reassembling, and recalibrating the mill

Another stab at machining suspension-raising rings

Mill Vac - days 1 & 2 - lathe work

Mill Vac - day 1 - Loc-Line Manifold

Test Milling Suspension Ring in Pine

cutting large suspension-raising rings

Debearding Day

A larger 45⁰ angle table saw miter sled

Finishing up the Piano Hutch

Aluminum L-extrusion 45⁰ cutting jig

Adding casters to my bin storage unit

Staining the Piano Hutch

Lawn Frog's graduation from bang. Improv Studio

Making an oversized-part rotary table jig

post-it car

another giant beard

Making A Piano Hutch

calibrating my table circular saw

And now, a trench

5 homemade 2.25" 3-panel red juggling beanbags

Making a 2.5" 4-panel red & black juggling bag

Making 3 2.25" 3-panel red juggling beanbags

New Workshop Sign

Fixing some Curtains

Making A [Crappy] Juggling Beanbag

Speed Bag!

Sites Around My New Office

Satellite dishes

Savage's new digs - move-in day

homemade PC stand

New Year's Fireworks Outside My House

Jer in the Silvered Bulb

Setting up my new Ridgid table circular saw

Confetti Birthday Card concept, c. 1995

Ridding the world of a Mac Performa 6400

Christmas Dinner With Bob and Bonnie

New Pocket Tool From Greg and Michelle

Greg and Michelle's Christmas Party 2007

King Bruno in the Kitchen

Fixler Christmas Party 2007

Melted Extension Cords

Surprise Holiday Chores

Marcus And Amanda's Christmas Party 2007

Marcus In "Pinata" At Bang Studio

SPUNKY's Thanksgiving 2007

Late Night Power Pole Fix

Ubuntu 7.10 3-Display Wallpapers (3840x1024)

Setting Up The New PC

Origami Frog Unfolding

Mitsubishi Logo in Koch Curves

Zombie Hunter

Savage Halloween Party

new hardware: pellet guns

68th Annual MacAbree Manor Masquerade Ball

Moon through Elph SD500 and binoculars

garage floor mat edging

A few of mom's Halloween decorations

Frame extension - Making it more haunted

Pics of home, and "the barn"

Late Next Door Neighbor's House

new deck progress back home

Me, Dad, and Aunt Sandy

Router Table Setup

Miter Saw Wings - Grip Lining

house tool cleanout - filling the garage

Garage Floor Paint Previs

Setting up an Incra TRACK system

Miter Saw Side Tables - day 3 - second table

New Garage Pegboard

Miter Saw Side Tables - day 2 - table assembly

Temporary Drill Press Handle

MagNuts!

Quantum Storage Bin Shelving Assembly

Angle Grinder vs. Drill Press

Pink Martini And Carol Channing at the Hollywood Bowl

New Craftsman 17" Drill Press

Miter Saw Side Tables - day 1 - cutting panels

Garage Rearrangement

Home Office Reorganization Process Panos

Home Office Reorganization

Home Office Pre-Reorganization

Garage cleanup, and 8' table assembly

Lunar Eclipse in LA - 2007-08-28

Shag Carpeted Rental Van

At the Carwash... Finally

BUTTERFLY!

Two flatpanels at the office now

Thumby Troubles: Bar Chord Edition

Harry Potter Book 7 Arrives

Savage Entertainment's 7th Year Dockweiler Beach Party

2007 US Penny vs. Muriatic Acid

Savage Entertainment's 9th Year Venice Beach Party

Transformers: The Movie premiere

Kwik-E-Mart in Los Angeles

Building a mini-mill enclosure

Lunch at Sloopy's in Manhattan Beach

Woodpecker's "GRR-Ripper System" arrives

fixing an iPod screen

unexpected tomatoes

computer speakers taped to chair: R4WK!

Amanda's Beach Birthday Party

Amazing Magnets Sample Packs

Maker Faire 2007

Secret Bookshelf Door!

Old Apartment Bedroom Wall Repairs

Old Apartment Move-Out Cleanup

New House Messtastrophe

BASIC Stamp BS2p40 spotted in "24"

Creation Entertainment's Grand Slam XV: The Sci-Fi Summit

Restickering Rubik's Jr. Cube

Diet Coke Plus?

Mallard Pair

New House Laundry Setup

Happy Hacking Lite 2

New Apartment '07

Stage and Period Juggling Balls from Dubé

Welding/Machine Shop

Transformers Mask

A Day of Changes

Fill Flash Assignment Reshoot, January 19th, 1999

Fill Flash Assignment, January 13th, 1999

Epson Perfection 3170 Photo working in Ubuntu!