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The Bravest Warriors, Episode 1
11/11/12, 09:51
If this had come out during season 3 of Adventure Time I'd think he was losing it, but season 4 has been enough of an improvement that I'm still confident in him. |
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Nicky Da B - Hot Potato Style
11/11/12, 09:26
So what's his username here? |
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Young woman articulately defends thoughtful Facebook critique of Obama
11/11/12, 09:21
"white people" tag please. |
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It's getting hot in here
11/11/12, 09:18
http://youtu.be/Wm9rDkzQurI |
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It's getting hot in here
11/11/12, 09:16
How? |
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Magic School Bus: The Movie
11/11/12, 00:24
I want Sweet Pickles Bus: The Movie |
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POETV watches people make stuff: Al Carruth demonstrates the Carruth scraper
11/10/12, 21:36
I can only make one big enough to be sailed by a single woodchuck, though. |
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POETV watches people make stuff: Al Carruth demonstrates the Carruth scraper
11/10/12, 21:34
I approve of this idea. |
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Cuica Solo
11/10/12, 21:31
Nah, if anyone invented that thing it would have been a dadaist. |
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Human Poutine
11/10/12, 17:28
This is an accurate depiction of the poutine experience, and I don;t mean that in a complimentary way. |
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POETV watches people make stuff: Al Carruth demonstrates the Carruth scraper
11/10/12, 16:28
After about a year of dicking around figuring out stuff on my own I ended up getting together the money to spend a month here:
http://www.vermontinstruments.com/
I can't recommend it highly enough to someone who wants to get into this, especially if you don't have any serious woodworking experience yet (I'd been building stuff since I was in grade school but I'd never had a proper shop or any training, just a few hand tools and the basic around-the-house necessities like a hand drill and table saw).
I'd say it was worth at least two 40 hour a week years worth of trial and error for me, and George is without question one of the two or three best teachers I've had in my life. You are given a LOT of space to figure things out and make your own mistakes, but enough theory and guidance that you are learning from every mistake you make. One of the best investments I've made in my life.
I've actually found myself not playing much music this year because building is so gratifying (and without having to deal with the egos and eccentricities of other musicians - just my own). |
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POETV watches people make stuff: Al Carruth demonstrates the Carruth scraper
11/10/12, 16:21
I'd say building an acoustic guitar is closer to building boats than to building furniture. |
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POETV watches people make stuff: Al Carruth demonstrates the Carruth scraper
11/10/12, 16:16
Functional stuff but nothing fancy yet, I've really only just gotten serious about this stuff in the past year or so and I went straight to luthiery. I'm going to be making a finger-jointed cabinet for the tube amp I'm building pretty soon, but I haven't done anything serious in that area. It's pretty different, there's not much joinery in luthiery at all, and it seems like it's pretty common for cabinetmakers and furniture makers to find it either frustrating or boring, and vice versa.
If you're curious enough to do some reading I'd recommend "The Guitar Maker's Workshop" by Rik Middleton (building a classical guitar using mostly traditional hand tools) and "Building Electric Guitars" by Martin Koch (a really good overview of making solid and hollow electrics in a modest shop, but he also has solid introductions to pickup winding, seasoning wood, building truss rods from scratch, and even making your own stains and dyes from bark). |
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Cuica Solo
11/10/12, 16:01
Better:
http://tinyurl.com/bynb9wm |
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Cuica Solo
11/10/12, 15:41
http://tinyurl.com/bjt2hp6 |
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Manufacturing the Porsche Crest
11/10/12, 15:36
Yeah, you're right. |
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Cuica Solo
11/10/12, 15:32
Appropriately enough, "cuic" is the French onomatopoeia for getting your throat slit. |
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Breakfast TV show anchor Phillip Schofield hands PM a list of 'rumoured' paedophiles
11/10/12, 12:52
There should probably be some kind of screening process required before they give people internet access.
P.S. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2227986/Phillip-Schofield-ate-guinea-pig-TV-presenter-blasted-boasting-scoffing-pet-Peru.html |
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5 Second Films - New Voting Method
11/10/12, 10:05
They're pretty inconsistent but the good ones are great. |
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Manufacturing the Porsche Crest
11/10/12, 09:44
That said, this is edited deceptively to make it look like these things are handmade. That guy's just making the master that they use to make the stampers or dies or whatever they call them in that industry. The actual emblems are made with the same mass production techniques that are used to make a tacky belt buckle at the mall. |
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