{"id":2569,"date":"2012-12-29T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:19","slug":"bring-it-a-little-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/bring-it-a-little-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring It a Little Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on the post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/2012\/2560\/\">refurbishing the Disston saw<\/a>, Ralph mentioned he had trouble focusing on things that small. I&#8217;m not sure whether &#8220;focus&#8221; meant a real vision problem, or interest that wanders away. If a vision problem, this might help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2570\" alt=\"photo of block and lamp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lamp-300x115.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m shamelessly stealing the idea from Megan Fitzpatrick who recently wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularwoodworking.com\/woodworking-blogs\/editors-blog\/a-long-overdue-workbench-modification?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PopularWoodworking+%28Popular+Woodworking%29\">updating her bench<\/a>. She included pictures of how a ubiquitous magnifying lamp was adapted for use on the workbench. The lamp stands on a column 1\/2 inch in diameter. My bench as a whole bunch of 3\/4 inch holes for holdfasts. I took a block of scrap 2 by something. drilled a 1\/2&#8243; hole all the way through, flipped it over and drilled a 3\/4&#8243; hole most of the way through, and glued a 3\/4&#8243; piece of dowel in that hole. Now, I can locate that magnifying lamp almost anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on the post about refurbishing the Disston saw, Ralph mentioned he had trouble focusing on things that small. I&#8217;m not sure whether &#8220;focus&#8221; meant a real vision problem, or interest that wanders away. If a vision problem, this might help&#8230; I&#8217;m shamelessly stealing the idea from Megan Fitzpatrick who recently wrote about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hand-tools","7":"category-shopmade","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}