Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Restoring a 1914 Vacuum-Grinder-Buffer-Blower-Pulley(?) I wrote about Hand Tool Rescue, one of my favorite maker channels, in the early days of this newsletter. If you weren’t around then and don’t know...

An eSim User Experience Claudia from our sister newsletter Recomendo just got back from South America and sent this tip: I usually stay offline while traveling abroad and use my phone only when I’m connected to hotel WiFi. However, toward the end of my recent trip to Peru, I tested out the Airalo app and installed an eSIM on my phone. I bought...

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. Grey Forge LeFey is an author, dramatist, artist, and performer living their best life at the edge of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Member of the hi desert sketch comedy troupe “The Laughing Bones” and resident artist at Shangri-LeFey Studios along with their huzzband,...

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. 50 MUSEUMS TO BLOW YOUR MIND 50 Museums to Blow Your Mind by Ben Handicott and Kalya Ryan Lonely Planet...

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage recommendations as is because the possibilities they inspire are new. Sign up here to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox. ...

Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. How to do a walk-and-talk I am about to leave on a walk-and-talk, which is a week-long moving salon. A group of 10 people walk 100km in a week, while in conversation, including a 3-hour conversation each evening dedicated to one topic, suggested by the participants. Craig Mod and...