Category Archives: MacGayver

How To Make George Foreman Grill Glasses

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: December 18, 2009
Last month, the professor in my graphic design class asked us to each think of a pair of glasses that would be instantly recognizable as those of a celebrity, but not a pair they already owned.  (So no round wire John Lennon glasses…)  Then we had to draw them on the board for everyone else [...]
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Matchstick Rockets

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 2, 2008
This is something my brother and I learned from a book many years ago.  We used to do this in my grandmother’s yard.  Today, I showed Jen how to make rockets from matchsticks for her In The New blog.  I thought the video was so cool I’d cross post it here. These are wooden matches, which [...]
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How to Fix a Compressed Neck Cork

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 8, 2007
WARNING:Be sure to tape up the lacquered part of your neck near the cork with a good insulator! Otherwise, the steam could crack and peel your lacquer. I learned that the hard way with my Yanagisawa S991. Thanks to Pete Thomas’s Saxophone Repairs page, I learned how to fix something that’s peeved me for [...]
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How To Repair an Ethernet Cable

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 9, 2007
I’ve had a broken Category 5e Ethernet cable lying around for a while that I finally decided to fix. Actually, the cable was fine, but the spring on one of the modular connectors was broken, so it wouldn’t stay in a network jack. Since I’ve never done this before, I figured it’d be [...]
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