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Category Archives: MacGayver
Matchstick Rockets
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 [...]
How to Fix a Compressed Neck Cork
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 [...]
How To Repair an Ethernet Cable
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 [...]




How To Make George Foreman Grill Glasses