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Tyler, do check out VTrain (www.vtrain.net/). We're using it for the kids' Latin (with the Henley lessons), but Greek is also very usable. Well thought-out piese of software.

On the other hand, Kurt uses ("wouldn't use anythiing but") http://www.aleathersource.com/Dyes.htm Note too that Rad and others use an alcohol-based wood dye from http://www.woodworker.com/cgi-bin/search.exe?search=aniline%20dye&ov=13 Mebbe-so we should rethink Tandy. Tandy is handy bu...

Scott, Though Tandy dyes have often been mentioned here, thanks for the link; saves me a search. After my first few pipes, I had decided that I'd be a purist --- nothing but a carnuba finish. Then came the revelation of using shellac. Horrors! And then I saw that a LOT of you were using it, and very...

Not particularly germane, but related: I have one of those cute little lathes from Harbor Freight. Not enough bed for an aircraft bit, as things stand. What I'm going to try is boring into the tailstock chuck --- it's solid steel --- deeply enough that I can then over-chuck the drill bit, then move ...