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Backlit Skeeball Marquee

How can I make the house more like an arcade? Day-glo carpet, spilled soda, and gangs of surly teenagers were all ruled out, so instead I made a light-up Skeeball backglass.

• Spring Mustache Sale

  To clear out stock and raise some funds for other projects, I’ve reduced the price of the Mustachiod Neckwarmers on Etsy by $3 each.  Get your neckwarmers now so you’re ready for the first flakes to fall next winter.

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• Measure Twice, Cut Once

  Good advice, but lacking one important instruction:  make sure you’re actually cutting the right piece of wood!

  Aaaaargh.  My latest project called for two 28″ pieces of wood and two 16″ pieces.  To make things more manageable while I routed a groove in it, I cut a single long board into three pieces of approximate length to be trimmed later — 30 inches, 30 inches, and the remainder of the board at 36 inches or so.  The two 30″ pieces would be trimmed down to 28″ and the 36″ would be cut into the two short pieces.

  So what did I do?  You guessed it, I measured (twice, at least) and cut an amazingly accurate 28″ length out of my 36″ board.

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• Facebooked

  In case you didn’t notice the giant banner in the right-hand column, I’ve set up a Facebook fan page for Mustachiod Neck Warmers.  After 24 hours, it’s already got 34 fans.  Sure, most of them I know, but a few I don’t.

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