• Making your own mirror blank: Cutting, Edging, and Bending a Glass Circle
• Making Light Weight Ribbed Mirror Blanks
• Correcting Print Through in Ribbed Mirrors
• Making tile and dental stone grinding tools and pitch lap foundations
• Working with pitch (refining, melting, pouring, lap channeling)
• Articles related to Testing

  Before grinding	During grinding	Before polishing
  During polishing	During figuring	After mounting in telescope

• Foucault tester Construction Ideas, some applicable to any precision linear positioning carriage
  • Making precisely calibrated knobs and dials
  • Lapping threads for improved accuracy
  • Kinematic design
  • What backlash?
• Spherometer Ideas
• Making Convex Surfaces on Your Drill Press
  • Pitch lap foundations
  • Molds
  • Grinding Tools
• History of the Sharpié test

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