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Jumbo Jenga: It is finished!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 21, 2010
After nearly 2 months, my jumbo Jenga set is fin­ished! I would have fin­ished sooner, but it kept snow­ing and/or being below freez­ing nearly every week­end for weeks. I rubbed the fin­ished blocks with some min­eral oil to pro­tect them stains and split­ting, and it had the ben­e­fi­cial side effect of mak­ing them look amaz­ing! And they [...]
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Lock a Deadbolt without a Key

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 3, 2010
I found this fun Instructable today that shows you how to lock a dead­bolt with­out hav­ing the key. I can think of a few sit­u­a­tions where this could come in handy: You are at a friend’s house and they leave you home alone but for­get to give you a key (or they give you the wrong one). [...]
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Jumbo Jenga

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 1, 2010
My friend Joey Novak recently posted about mak­ing some giant Jenga blocks, so I thought I’d give it a shot, too. First, I needed to know what kind of wood to buy. Jenga blocks are 0.57″ x 1″ x 3″ (height x width x length). The eas­i­est wood to get would be either 2×4 (1.5″ x 3.5″) [...]
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