Thomas Martinez

You can’t buy firewood without trusting someone at some point: before you load that wood onto your truck or stack it up against your home. … Read more

If you’ve run a cutter down into the material on your CNC machine after setting the depth stop, then pulled it back out to discover … Read more

The threads aren’t really the thing; it is usually the taper that gets ignored. Usually the issue is a taper that was overlooked. When tapered … Read more

It’s not always as simple as putting together two points with a straight line of pipe. In the field you’ll find lots of obstacles. A … Read more

Measuring handrails looks easy…until you actualy do it. There’s a rail, a few posts and some vertical picket. It seems like simple math, right? But … Read more

Woodturners is familiar with the special kind of frustration that accompanies spending three hours cutting out segments to discover ring is an oval. Why? Because … Read more

On drawings, it might say something like a Morse taper at.5986 inches per foot. To offset your tailstock or set your compound slide, you must … Read more

You’ve tightened the bolt as hard as the wrench would go, sweated thinking you had the thing locked down and turned it over. Instead, that … Read more

Here you are standing in your partially framed wall with a tape measure and staring at the space where there once was a load bearing … Read more

Laying out common rafters is something most framer can do in their sleep. Pull the chalk line. You got your run, you got your rise, … Read more

When ordering crown molding, you tend to order based off the face width. You see “five-inch profile” and think that must mean it’s going to … Read more

When cutting a branch off a straight run pipe you’re faced with a seemingly straightforward geometry: A straight run pipe with a branch coming out … Read more

Crown moldings are cut different than they usually are for standard flat ceilings. Look closely; you’ll see the crown is lying straight on the shelf, … Read more

Steel stairs is frequently viewed as being too industrial and cold. That’s the C-channel stringer keeping them up there. It appears straightforward but is in … Read more