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_posts/2018-08-27-night_photography.md

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 This is a stub post that I will eventually add more content to.
 
-I used to do a lot of night photography. At some point, I need to go back though my old hard drives and actually find all the good images, but for how, here are a couple that I ran across on an old flash drive.
+I used to do a lot of night photography. I need to actually go back though my old hard drives and find all the good images, but for now, here are a couple that I ran across on an old flash drive.
 
 Click on the photos and they will enlarge.
 
 
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-_Huntsville at night_
+_Huntsville at sunset_
 
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 _Fireworks behind the Saturn V_
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 _Seattle at night_
 
 ![img_desc](LRM_EXPORT_20170702_122621.jpg)
-_Somewhere in California_
+_Somewhere in California. The glow on the left is a distant forrest fire_

_posts/2020-04-06-monitor_madness.md

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-        <td style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;">Literal insanity. Please don't tell anyone, but I honestly can't remember the last time I used 8 monitors to their full capacity. They do look fucking awesome on my desk tho.</td>
+        <td style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;">Literal insanity. Please don't tell anyone, but I honestly can't remember the last time I used my 8 monitors to their full capacity. They do look fucking awesome on my desk tho.</td>
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_posts/2024-04-30-wooden_handplane.md

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-I've always liked the idea of making a wooden handplane, but have never quite gotten around to it. You see, making all the metal parts seems like a royal pain in the ass, so reasonable people tend to steal the important metal bits from antique plane bodies. And although I love the glimmer of oil on freshly shaped mahogany as much as the next guy, it's always seemed a shame to cannibalize a antique like that.
+I've always liked the idea of making a wooden handplane, but have never quite gotten around to it. You see, making all the metal parts seems like a royal pain in the ass, so reasonable people tend to steal the important metal bits from antique plane bodies. And although I love the glimmer of oil on freshly shaped mahogany as much as the next guy, it's always seemed a shame to cannibalize an antique like that.
 
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 Which is how I found myself in my local antique store looking specifically for a broken plane. I think I went to three stores before stumbling across this beauty. It's a 112 year old Stanley #5 jack plane manufactured sometime between 1910-1912, and gloriously, the previous owner managed to break the cast iron body cleanly in half. 
 
-You can see that they tried to repair it with that metal plate on the side, but they weren't able to get the sole flat, rendering it less than useful without some significant restoration work. And to top it off, the even helpfully broke off part of the handle, which gives me the perfect excuse to remake the whole thing from scratch.
+You can see that they tried to repair it with that metal plate on the side, but they weren't able to get the sole flat, rendering it less than useful without some significant restoration work. And to top it off, they even helpfully broke off part of the handle, which gives me the perfect excuse to remake the whole thing from scratch.
 
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-I had a big chunk of mahogany laying around from an old ukulele project, and I was able to just barely get a handle sized piece from it , cut at an angle. Although I eventually whipped out the power sander, I did the bulk of the shaping with a 9in Shinto Saw Rasp. These things are absolutely incredible, and I cannot recommend them enough. 
+I had a big chunk of mahogany laying around from an old ukulele project, and I was able to just barely get a handle sized piece from it, cut at an angle. Although I eventually whipped out the power sander, I did the bulk of the shaping with a 9in Shinto Saw Rasp. These things are absolutely incredible, and I cannot recommend them enough. 
 
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-I was very careful when shaping the handle to make it as comfortable as possible, constantly gripping it, finding high spots, and sanding them down. However when you actually use the plane, the angle that it attaches to the body is also of upmost importance. To find this, we held different sized gauge blocks under the back of the plane and tested moving it around until finding the perfect angle. The handle will be held into the base with a simple mortise and tenon joint, and we used a second gauge block to scribe out a line, and then an OLFA to score an initial cut. 
+I was very careful when shaping the handle to make it as comfortable as possible, constantly gripping it, finding high spots, and sanding them down. However when you actually use the plane, the angle it attaches to the body is of utmost importance. To find this, we held different sized gauge blocks under the back of the plane and tested moving it around until finding the perfect angle. The handle will be held into the base with a simple mortise and tenon joint, and we used a second gauge block to scribe out a line, and then an OLFA to score an initial cut. 
 
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-I really didn't like the grip that Rex used in his plans, and I had originally decided to carve a traditional knob directly out of the mahogany. However, as I did my test grips, I actually ended up preferring larger shape that lacked radial symmetry.  
+I really didn't like the grip that Rex used in his plans, and I had originally decided to carve a traditional knob directly out of the mahogany. However, as I did my test grips, I actually ended up preferring a larger shape that lacked radial symmetry.  
 
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_posts/2024-05-14-plane_holder.md

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 To put it simply, I have a ton of hand planes. And they are taking up my whole damn workbench.
 
-I've seen a bunch of YouTube videos where people have their planes hanging on the wall, and not only does it look sick, it also looks easy to build.
+Every woodworking YouTuber seems to have an epic, wall-hanging storage solution for their hand planes. It turns out they are relatively easy to build, so I figured it was time for me to join the club.
 
 ![20240514_205613](20240514_205613_background.jpg)
 
-Here's the current collection. Soon I'll add a post going through each plane, their uses and history.
+Here's the current collection. I've got [another post]({% link _posts/2024-05-01-plane_collection.md %}) that goes through each plane, their uses and history.
 
 ![20240511_141913](20240511_141913.jpg)
 
-Here I'm testing out a possible layout. I've got 1/4 inch birch and two thicknesses of oak. Thicker for the borders and thinner for the dividers. You can see that I originally wanted to include my block plane, but it's geometry makes it very difficult to retain.
+Here I'm testing out a possible layout. I've got 1/4 inch birch and two thicknesses of oak. Thicker for the borders and thinner for the dividers. You can see that I originally wanted to include my block plane, but its geometry makes it very difficult to retain.
 
 ![20240513_083647](20240513_083647.jpg)
 
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-Making these circular cutouts can sometimes be difficult. Here, I used double sided tape to stick the oak to a 2x4, punched a starter hole in the 2x4, and then drilled it out carefully on the drill press. I later tunes it up with a half round file.
+Making these circular cutouts can sometimes be difficult. Here, I used double sided tape to stick the oak to a 2x4, punched a starter hole in the 2x4, and then drilled it out carefully on the drill press. I later tuned it up with a half round file.
 
 ![20240511_164006](20240511_164006.jpg)