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Ideas for Making Desk Legs

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The correct desk legs can add character, style and personality to a handcrafted desk. Unfortunately, legs are often one of the most difficult parts of building a table or desk. While you can purchase a variety of metal or wooden table legs for your desk, making your own desk legs allows you to make

How to Shoot a Glock Pistol

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Glock pistols are considered to be one of the most reliable, easy-to-shoot semiautomatic handguns available today. Glocks depend solely upon their "safe action," a system of three internal safeties, to prevent accidental discharges. Like a revolver, there are no external safety levers to operate; th

How to Make a Cigarillo

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If you enjoy a good cigarillo, making your own can be very rewarding. If you can grow and cure your own tobacco leaves the end product will be made entirely by you. If you can't grow your own, you can purchase the tobacco to make your cigarillos and blend it to make it truly original. Many cigarill

Wood Boat Crafts

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Wooden boats come in all sizes and weights. They provide a great way to escape to the water, whether in a tiny model boat or a large vessel requiring crew to help out. Anyone who has ever owned a big, wooden boat is familiar with the long list of tasks required to keep it maintained. But there are a

How Clay Traps Work

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Years ago, pigeons were captured in special traps and taken to shooting ranges. The traps were designed to let one pigeon go at a time as targets for shotgunning competitions. Nowadays, the live pigeons have been replaced with clay disks thrown through the air out of machines, sometimes still called

Gifts for a Harp Player

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A harp enthusiast needs more than just her harp in order to play well. When a player sits down at her harp, she must tune her harp's strings, select sheet music, set the tempo for her piece on a metronome and finally begin to pluck her instrument's strings. Accessories or supplies that aid the harp

Tools for Tenon Making

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A mortise and tenon joint is strong and durablemur grange image by musicorso from Fotolia.comMortise and tenon joints are made by cutting a hole into one piece of wood and cutting the end of another piece of wood so that it fits into the hole. These joints, particularly when strengthened...