Tag: D.I.Y.

  • Cheap Cedar Planks for Grilling

    If you use Cedar Planks alot when grilling fish, you can save a good amount of cash by purchasing your wood planks at home depot or any other hardware store.  The kitchen planks at the store can go for $5 a piece, which is way overpriced for what you’re really getting….. a plank of cedar…

  • White Castle Sliders

    White Castle is a great burger shack that is so popular, it even has movies based on just getting there to enjoy one of those greasy cheesy sliders. They are incredibly simple to make and are dirt cheap for the quantity that you get out of a tray. Give it a try and see if…

  • Big Mac Special Sauce

    Here’s the head chef of McDonalds explaining how to make the Special Sauce for the BigMac at home.  Worth a watch.

  • KFC Secret Herbs and Spices Recipe

    Kentucky Fried Chicken is up there in terms of secrecy surrounding it’s recipes. the 11 secret herbs and spices have a ton of theories behind them.  A writer named William Poundstone has done a ton of research on the recipe from talking with employees to hiring cooks to reverse engineer some fried chicken. He says…

  • Fender Silverface Twin Reverb Schematics

    Yep, The title says it all. These are the electrical schematics for a ’74 Silver Twin Reverb. In case you need to change any wiring, pots, resistors or tubes, this print will help keep it all organized for you. MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you do not know how to properly discharge the capacitors on the amp…

  • Larry Graham Funkin’ Around

    While I’m on a music kick, I figured I’d throw this old school funkiness down.  It’s Larry Graham going over his slap techniques, but you can lift a ton of great riffs and lines just by watching some of his changes. Part 1

  • Herman Li Guitar Tricks

    Here’s a youtube vid I found of Dragonforce’s guitarist Herman Li explaining how he makes all those wacked out noises using just his guitar, a Floyd Rose and some distortion. The guy really does have some chops for having such a computerized sound, they use a ton of overdubbing tho so at times there’s 8…

  • Monitor Your Site For FREE With Google Docs

    I found this little tool for use with Google Docs that will automatically monitor and alert you on whether your website is up or down. Plus you can set it to alert you by the minute, hour day or even specific times. The document can be downloaded at the link below along with instructions for…

  • Survival Go-Bag

    So I was browsing around and found this site, 72hours.org which is a pretty good resource for getting ready for any type of emergency situation where you will be out of your normal element for a few days.  After browsing around, I came up with a basic necessity list for what would be needed in…