Year: 2014

As a furniture designer I work in a range of materials but primarily with wood and metal. I like to use a bandsaw for both of these materials but I only have a small woodcutting saw. Why can’t someone cut both materials on the same saw?

If you happen to have a lot of snow and food coloring on your hands at the moment, then you might consider turning you local slopes into a canvas like artist Olaf Breuning did with this recent work called Snow Drawing.

Frequently, as I read the various articles in MAKE, I come across stories from young folks indicating that they want to become mechanical engineers when they come of age so they can continue to “make things” for a profession. I would like to guide them into perhaps a more suitable profession — one of being a manufacturing engineer.

Yesterday was the 50th birthday of one of the strangest characters and films ever to hit the silver screen, Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).