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	<description>A tinkerer's journal and look at life's debris.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Member in Good Standing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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I remember filling out the application that came stuffed in the liner of my copy of Duty Now for the Future.
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		<title>IBM Selectric Typewriter</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ibm-selectric-typewriter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ibm-selectric-typewriter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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When I was a kid, my dad had a green IBM Selectric typewriter with a black keyboard.  He used it to publish a stock market analysis and investing strategy newsletter, which he banged out on his Selectric in his bedroom.  Sometimes, to make money to buy Wacky Packages, or issues of MAD magazine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garage Sale Report  - August 22, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/garage-sale-report-august-22-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/garage-sale-report-august-22-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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There was a time when I was an avid garage saler, addicted to the thrill of the hunt and anxious to harvest the bounty of better than new, once treasured goods that the weekend had to offer.  Not so much in recent years. These days, I am pretty happy to live vicariously through Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garage Surf Motivational</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/garage-surf-motivational/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/garage-surf-motivational/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this Personal Motivation 7&#8243; about 15 years ago, thinking that I might someday do something with it.  Recently, I have been figuring out how to play the guitar, and decided to put it to use.  Here is  rough draft of a song that I am recording.  Guitars by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Robot Made This</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/my-robot-made-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/my-robot-made-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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I ran the first machining job with my newly operational Lumenlab Micro CNC robot (did you hear the champagne cork pop?).  I say newly operational, since I won&#8217;t consider this thing &#8220;finished&#8221; for a long time, if ever.  I anticipate fitting new tools to the machine to do different things for years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Micro CNC Machine Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/more-micro-cnc-machine-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/more-micro-cnc-machine-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I am now so close to joining the desktop fabrication/manufacturing revolution that I can smell it.  Unfortunately for me, that smell is the reek of burning semiconductor, but I&#8217;ll get to that later.

I got the PC controller (EMC running on Ubuntu) and stepper motor driver boards all wired up and working great.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro CNC Robot Update</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I started assembling my Lumenlab Micro desktop CNC gantry robot and &#8220;personal manufacturing workstation&#8221;.
All your base are belong to Lumenlab
I was originally going to save a few dollars by making a base for the machine out of MDF, an idea that I never really liked that much.  So I started looking for suitable aluminum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigar Box Guitar</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cigar-box-guitar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cigar-box-guitar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>

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Here are some photos and build notes for a cigar box guitar that I built.  I&#8217;ve wanted to do one of these ever since I read about CBG&#8217;s in Make Magazine several years ago.
If you&#8217;ve never heard or seen CBG&#8217;s in action, you should treat yourself to a few of the videos on Cigar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telecaster Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/telecaster-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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After about 3 weeks, I could no longer smell the lacquer, so I considered it dry and set about the task of making the guitar shiny.
Wet Sanding
To get the paint level and remove the slight orange peel texture that you will get with all but the most fortuitous rattle-can spray jobs,  I wet sanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grizzly Telecaster Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grizzly-telecaster-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grizzly-telecaster-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I really had my heart set on adding an edge binding to my grizzly telecaster kit.  The problem is that the guitar body comes supplied with the edges pre-sanded and rounded off to a 1/4&#8243; radius.  This curvature was too much to allow for installation of even the thickest edge binding that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grizzly Telecaster Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grizzly-telecaster-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grizzly-telecaster-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I had such a blast putting together the Grizzly Uke kit a few years back, that I thought I would try my hand at a guitar. Having always admired the iconic Fender Telecaster, i ordered myself the Tele&#8217; kit from Grizzly for $129.
If you hanker for a Telecaster kit, you are not limited to Grizzly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MicRo CNC Robot Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I love building things from kits almost as much as I love building things from scratch, and I think that it&#8217;s safe to say that the latest kit to show up on my doorstep is going open up a whole new world of scratch-building for me.

MicRo
The micRo is a 3-axis CNC robot being offered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Treat</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/tv-treat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/tv-treat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>

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Thankfully, my 6 year-old son has no interest in this outstanding vintage Towncraft blue ringer TV treat pajama top as a replacement for his worn-out favorite PJ&#8217;s.

My friend Pat gave us this shirt when we first got pregnant, and I&#8217;ve been savoring notion of someday outfitting one of the kids with it.
But since Harlan doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMW 2000 Update</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/bmw-2000-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/bmw-2000-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>

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Am I installing a Nixie clock in my car? 
No.
But I do like to sell off one hobby to finance another, and refurbishing and modding an old car can be a costly endeavor, so I am offering up this exquisite, Jumbo IN-18 Nixie tube clock for sale. I never got around to building an enclosure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Marmalade Label Selected</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/top-marmalade-label-selected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/top-marmalade-label-selected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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Our discerning judge, Pat Fisher a.k.a. Archibald Drinkwater a.k.a. Vladimir Kerchenko has handed down his decision, and explains his methodology in the following edict:
Pat says:
We Have a Lucky Weiner !
it was extremely difficult to select a winner amongst the many many entries ( um, 13?) in the Fink&#8217;s Orange Marmalade label design contest, and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange Marmalade Label</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/orange-marmalade-label/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/orange-marmalade-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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With not much interest being shown in the design contest, I thought that I might just enter myself.  I could really use that chair.
The contest is open for submissions until January  31st.
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		<title>Cracked Dash Repair</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cracked-dash-repair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cracked-dash-repair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>

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Update: This did not turn out to be a lasting repair.  after several months, the main crack started to re-emerge, and the truck bed lining started to blister in spots.  Please do not expect this procedure to be anything more than a last resort option.  If &#8220;dash caps&#8221; or replacement used dashboards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New in the Stable - 1969 BMW 2000</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/new-in-the-stable-1969-bmw-2000/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/new-in-the-stable-1969-bmw-2000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>

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Ther&#8217;s a new obsession in my life, and believe me, I&#8217;m obsessive.  Lately I&#8217;ve been spending all my free time, energy, and money refurbishing this &#8220;Neue Klasse&#8221; BMW.
 An Unlikely Orphan
This car came to me in the most remarkable way.  
My Friend Hugh, who is a fellow vintage BMW enthusiast was given this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange Marmalade Label Design Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/orange-marmalade-identity-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/orange-marmalade-identity-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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I had such a ball making grape jelly, that I decided to have a go at preserving some orange marmalade. 
One thing that a lot of home bottlers forget is that, just because the jars have cooled and the big awkward pot is stowed, you&#8217;re not quite finished.  That&#8217;s right, you need a label.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grape Jelly</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grape-jelly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/grape-jelly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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This year, our third season grapevine finally yielded fruit.  7 lbs!  I picked them all at one go, and decided to have my hand at canning.
I followed the first grape jelly recipe that I found on the internet, which basically said to peel the grapes, cook the grapes for a few minutes, set [...]]]></description>
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