Pork Ribs – Sous Vide & Smoke
Mark Bronkalla For the last 30 years or so Drunken Ribs has been my “go to” for ribs to serve family and friends. Typically these are “baby backs”. Meat prices have been…
Isla’s Bed – Staining
This is another project where I am finishing first and assembling the completely finished pieces. This avoids issues with glue squeeze out and having to sand inside corners (which I…
Isla’s Bed – Tenons and End Panels
With the mortises complete, it is time to start on the tenons. Now is the time that careful stock prep and thickness planing will start to pay off. The cross…
Isla’s Bed Stock Prep and Joinery
The seemingly boring part of the project is preparing the stock. This includes cutting to rough length, jointing the faces, planing both sides, jointing a clean edge. Finally, ripping to…
Isla’s Bed Design Features
I have made a number of beds. The design and construction techniques have evolved along the way to simplify the joinery, minimize fit-up trimming as well as sanding of the…
Laser Rotary Axis installation
I have the OMtech AF3555 130 watt CO2 laser. I wanted to add a rotary axis device that could be shared with my CNC router. After looking around, I chose…
Laser Beam Combiner
Having a “red dot” pointer is a nice accessory for a C02 laser. It provides an easy way to align the head indication to the material, do “framing runs” to…
Pork Tenderloin Wellington
As we dug further into the stash of delicious meat from the half pig from Sidie Hollow Farms, looking for some more meat to cure (future Capicola), I came across…
Laser Power Calibration
I am running an OMtech AF3555 130w laser with a Ruida 6442G controller, Yongli H6 laser tube and ZYE MYJG150W-1 laser power supply. The tube is rated for 30mA max.…
Isla’s New Bed
I had made a convertible crib / bed for my grand-daughter Isla a almost 4 years ago, see: https://bronkalla.com/blog/2018/03/04/crib-construction-start/. It had been successfully converted from crib to bed. However, Isla…