Epinions Recent Reviews for charlesj68

A nice 'inexpensive' dado set

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:01:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - A quick dado tutorial A ‘dado’ is a square cornered, U-shaped slot cut into wood. Technically, it is a slot cut across the grain. A slot cut with the grain would be properly termed a ‘groove’, but most people just call both forms by the...

An okay grinder

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:29:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - I received this grinder as a birthday gift in early 2003. In the year since it has ground a lot of coffee, this is what I have found. It does not really seem to matter what grind I set the dial to, it always comes out at a grind level...

DeLonghi KT54 Cool Touch 4-Slice Toaster: Tough darkness control

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:16:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Our older toaster finally, er, toasted itself and the time arrived to buy a new one. My requirements were for four-slice capacity and slots big enough to hold a bagel half. We found this model on sale at SmartBargins and took the plunge. When...

A drill for square holes

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:34:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - I have built a number of pieces using mortise and tenon joinery. Finally, I tired of using a combination of Forstner bits and hand chisels to make the mortises and I took the plunge to buy a dedicated mortiser. There were several models from...

Monitoring your health

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:19:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - I start this review with a fair bit of background information. If you are just here for the review then jump forward to the heading: “The Review”!

Background

When you live a largely sedentary lifestyle, managing your weight can...

Taking a powerful plunge

Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:48:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - I purchased the 1613EVS back in 1997 after trying a co-worker’s model and liking what I felt. It has been my sole router ever since. I have used it freehand in plunge mode and in a table. As gcavener mentions in his review, a plunge router is not...

A good toddler mess mitigation tool

Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:10:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - The mission: clean the floors. The battlefields: one kitchen/dinning area with tile and three bathrooms and a laundry room with vinyl. The added challenge: two toddlers learning to eat at the “big table.”

This is a job for …...

A better mousetrap ... er, filter

Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:21:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Come on! This is a filter for a vacuum cleaner. How much can you talk about that?

Apparently, quite a bit!

I have a woodshop in my basement, and the processing of raw wood into … well, other things usually results in piles of...

A razor that works for me

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:55:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Norelco Quadra Shaver 6865XL

You will find men obsessing over shaving everywhere it seems. During a sporting event it seems that every third commercial is for some form of blade, razor, cream or gel that purports to make the process...

A nice camera for the jump into digital

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:19:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Before I even get started, you need to know that I work for Hewlett-Packard. I do not work on the digital camera products (unfortunately!), but some people may wish to apply some quantity of salt to what I say based on that information.

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Clear, comfortable and cordless

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:42:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - (This review actually covers the TRU446-2, which is the identical product with an extra handset included)

We set out to get a new phone in the house with several goals in mind:

- We have CallerID and we use it to screen out
...

Sony SAT-T60 DIRECTV Receiver with TiVo: You're in control of your DirecTV

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:18:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - After hearing other users extol the virtues of TiVo to us, we finally succumbed to their persuasion and joined the TiVolution. After reading a great many web sites I came to the conclusion that the Philips and Sony units were practically identical, but...

Strength training without weights

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:42:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - We bought a Bowflex for our family in February of 2002. Up until that time we had used a treadmill and a stationary bike for our exercise routines. We determined that some form of strength training would be good to include since there were areas of our...

DesignCad DesignCAD 3000: Nice CAD; Nice price

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:51:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Background

I have been using DesignCAD since before it the name was DesignCAD! ProDesign II was the first version I used and the year was 1986. My parents bought it for me as a high school graduation present for me to use in college...

The fence is now more accurate than my saw!

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:58:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charlesj68 - Why?

I bought the TS-IIIa after I grew tired of trying to get repeated cuts from the Delta Unifence that was mounted to my Delta Contractors Saw. Do not get me wrong; the Unifence would repeat cuts at a given setting just fine. My...