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Hello!One of my favorite sites that I’ve been visiting for the past year or so is Instructables.com. Instructables is a site where lots of creative and crazy people like me share their projects in a...
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Seth and the "Markwood Mafia" heading down to the chapel.
I love this picture. L to R is:Jason aka "Waffle",My Son-in-Law Nathan aka "TBNL"Best Man Josh aka "CoonDawg"My Son Seth, aka "Boy"/"SPAM"Adam aka "Tex"In fact, it wasn't until I read the name Adam in...
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Here's the "Chapel" from Seth and Allie Markwood's Wedding
Nice view, huh? This is Camp Mundo Vista, and to my eye this is one beautiful vista! Click the Pic to Biggie-Size it.
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Let's talk about Cheese!
What good would a cheese fountain be without a quality cheese? Our thoughts exactly. After reviewing a bunch of videos on youtube we determined that melting solid cheese for a fountain is a huge...
View ArticleMaking Augers for the Six Cheese Nacho Cheese Fountain Pumps
What did it take to make the wooden augers inside the pumps of the Markwood Six Cheese Nacho Cheese Fountain? Turns out quite a bit. This video shows the initial spiral being cut on a tablesaw of the...
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What else can we do to keep the cheese flowing? Ask Cal Markwood
As I mentioned, the cheese will begin coagulating from the moment it enters the pump and heads to the "drop zone". One suggestion that my dad had was to preheat the entire fountain.My dad (Cal...
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My bride says this blog is taking too long
It's been a week since the wedding and my bride says it's taking me too long to get the cheese fountain pictures posted. I told her the point of this blog is to show how we made the fountain, but I...
View ArticleIt's Alive! Here's the Six-Cheese Nacho Cheese Fountain in Action!
Six Cheese Nacho Cheese Fountain
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One cheese fountain with six sides, or six individual cheese fountains?
Of all the things that were decided over biscuits, the most important change in plans came when we scrapped the idea of making one huge fountain with six sides in favor of six individual fountains...
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How will we power the six cheese pumps?
We know now that we will be driving the six cheese pumps on our cheese fountain with one motor, but what's the best way to drive them? The design we are planning has the six pumps arranged in a...
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Headin' to the Woodshop to make some Wooden Cheese Fountain Augers
So here's the thinking: We need six augers for the cheese pumps outlined in the previous post, and we are woodworkers. It didn't take us too long to decide that we would give our favorite material a...
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So how do you pump six different cheeses?
Pistons were ruled-out because of their complexity and cost, and we weren't about to purchase six submersible pumps for what would likely be a one time use. As is my habit my next stop was a search of...
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It all started with the pump
We knew we wanted to pump six cheeses so immediately I remembered a roller pump that captured my imagination while watching someone who was going through dialysis. These pumps are made to move blood...
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A Cheese Fountain? You've got to be Joking!
A few months back my son Seth announced that he was planning on having a six-cheese nacho cheese fountain at his wedding, just like the one in the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. It...
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