Epinions Recent Reviews for gamblin_man

Comfort and Balance for All and Good for Diabetics Too

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:57:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - A couple of years ago my A1C numbers and fasting blood sugar confirmed diabetes. Since then I have been careful about my feet. About a year ago, KingSize
Direct had a sale that included these New Balance 811...

Why Is Stuart Woods Calling Every City Dead - Even Beverly Hills?

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:57:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - I had the misfortune to pick up the latest paperback from Stuart Woods, Beverly Hills Dead, and start reading it just after finishing a novel
by another author, David...

A True Value For the Weekend Handyman

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:06:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - One of my favorite places to browse since moving to the left coast is a hardware store. This should be no surprise to those who follow my reviews. This store is Parkrose Hardware and is a True Value member store. There I happened on a line of cordless...

The Camel Club, Part III

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:10:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - The Camel Club is back in the novel Stone Cold by the suspense author David Baldacci. This ragtag group of misfits, led by Oliver Stone whose career now involves maintaining a quiet cemetery but whose past has put him there, that hover on...

Making Space in a Garage Workshop

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:25:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - I got used to a 500 square foot shop on the right coast. Now I have to share space with a car and all the junk my Honey accumulates. The Stanley Mobile Project Center helps me cope. Stanley Mobile Project Center This nice...

Buying the Best to Start With - Robert Sorby Lathe Chisels

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:58:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - Robert Sorby has been making turning tools since the mid 18th century in Sheffield, England. They actually trace their parentage directly back to the early 1500s, when their name was Sawsby. It became Soresby, then, by the time their name was registered...

Smoked Meats and Cheeses Ummmm

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:59:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - We have been using smoke to enhance our outdoor cooking for a lot of years. At first we added wet chips to a standard charcoal grill. One birthday an electric smoker was a gift and we went to the slower smoked method, turning our back on using the grill...

A Good Taiwanese Knockoff of the Venerable Jacobs Chuck

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:35:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - About the turn of the last century A. I. Jacobs barked his knuckles badly trying to tighten the chuck on his drill press with a spanner wrench. By 1902 he had invented a keyed chuck and founded the Jacobs Chuck Company to build and sell them. After the...

If You Have a Wolverine Grinding Jig...

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:42:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - I rate sharpening just ahead of sanding as the least fun part of the woodworking hobby. Anyone who has had to sand can empathize with the angst even if they have never had to sharpen a fine tool to a good edge. So when I decided to take up lathe work...

How Do You Dress a Grinding Wheel?

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:13:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - A grinding wheel can be casually dressed or dressed formally. I chose the formal dress when I purchased a Woodcraft 8” Grinder. To do this you need a formal wheel dresser. Many grinders come equipped with a rectangular stone for truing the face of the...

Slow and Easy For Us Amateur Sharpeners

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:45:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - If you have things with sharp edges that get dull with use, a grinder is one of the ways to fix that edge. In my case the edges were on lathe chisels. Sharpening has always been a challenge for me and I look for anything that will make the job easy and...

Sharpening for Those With Two Left Thumbs

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:01:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - Getting a new toy like a lathe is just a good excuse for a tool junkie to do the favorite part of woodworking for them – acquire more toys, errrr tools. With my Jet lathe I also needed lathe chisels. Lathe chisels need sharpening. Rockler, or in my...

A Good Foundation

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:53:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - When I got the Jet Midi Lathe I could have set it on a bench or made a base for it, Many people do. With minimal space in the current garage for my hobby and with limited tools I chose to get the Jet Lathe Stand for JWL-1220 Midi Lathe 708378...

A great Accessory From New Zealand

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:34:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - One of the fun things for a tool junkie when s/he gets a new tool is all the tool accessories now available to fill your workshop. I can only think of a couple of tools that have more accessories I really need than my Jet Midi Lathe. One of those...

How Do You Make a Candlestick?

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:09:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - One should always answer the title question. When I was watching a carver once in Silver Dollar City a similar question was asked about how to get a dog out of the block of shapeless wood he held in his hand. The answer was to just remove all the wood...

Kick Your iPod Up a Notch With the iKicker

Sat, 17 May 2008 02:03:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - The other day a package came to my door. I had been expecting it. It was from SCC Grossman, a public relations firm, and I knew it contained an amplifier for my Apple Photo 30GB iPod. Upon opening the package I determined it was the iKicker from...

McGrath's Fish House: Seafood for the Masses

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:56:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - In the past when we wanted seafood and couldn’t get to a good seafood restaurant quickly enough we settled for Red Lobster. Since moving to the beautiful Pacific Northwest we now have fewer nearby top seafood choices than on Maryland’s Eastern...

Sometimes the Jury Gets it Wrong

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:56:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - I tend to read the fiction of John Lescroart as his books are published. Somehow I missed this one. I have now corrected the error and am glad I did. Until his most recent works, John Lescroart has had as his main protagonist a fellow named Dismas Hardy...

Bad Luck is Losing a Coin Toss

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:55:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - Let me start by saying this is my favorite Jack Reacher adventure since his first, Killing Floor. Lee Childs has filled in some of the blanks in the past of his imaginary super sleuth in this novel of international intrigue and multiple murders that...

Blackjack Can Be Beat

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:07:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - A recently released movie tells the story of a team of students at MIT that found a way to regularly beat the blackjack tables of Vegas, Atlantic City, and Foxwoods as well as the casino boats in the Midwest and casinos around the world. They used...

When Only the Best Will Do - Review number 300

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:41:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - Last summer we made a decision to move to the left side of our country. Part of the decision involved a commitment to get rid of a large collection of power and hand woodworking tools. We agreed that we would use some of the funds to purchase a scroll...

If You Just Want to Hear Your Computer

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:09:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - We had some Epinions earnings that had built up over the last year and the check finally arrived in the mail. Our computer system was showing its age. A quick trip to Best Buy handled both the burning effect of money in our pocket and the aging Computer...

It Can't Do Everything, But...

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:15:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - When we left the East side of America for the left side, we left most everything behind. This included a small collection of upscale kitchen knives. When we arrived at our new abode we were greeted with an esoteric collection of inadequate cutlery. We...

Conflict - Israel, Palestinians, and Lawyers

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:13:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - I have hesitated to write this review for several days. That is partially because I am not certain how to describe this novel by Richard North Patterson. It is more, however, because I am not at all certain that I can convey with my poor skills the...

Can a Wild Fire Make the Grass Greener?

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:16:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gamblin_man - Nelson Demille has been around, writing in the popular fiction action/adventure genre for quite awhile now. Until he fictionalized the controversy over TWA Flight 800, my favorites were The General’s daughter and Up Country. In Night Fall, a story of TWA...