The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
This project shows you how to build a compact DIY router table using a large piece of MDF at the top. Pretty nice construction set at the link below on building this structure to enable lots of potential future makes. DIY Router Table
ToolCrib has a roundup of free sawhorse plans, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for in a sawhorse there, I don’t know where you will. Unless, of course, you’ve designed your own. Please share your plans with us in the comments! Via Core77. Image from Woodworkingtips.com.
Lenore Edman has some more pics and info about our recent Foo Camp field trip to Sturgeon’s Mill, a steam-powered saw mill being restored near Sebastopol, CA. A Visit to Sturgeon’s Mill, a Steam-powered Lumber Mill More: Sturgeon’s Mill field trip
Neale writes in: Here’s a quick and easy DIY project to make a shelf out of a ski. It’s a decent use for something people might have lying around, or can at least find pretty easily at yard sales (well, easy up here in the north). More: Snowboard bench
Milk crates are very versitile, and for many, a college staple. Often it doesn’t take more than a few bungee cords or a length of rope to turn a few into whatever storage or furniture solution you need. Here’s a chandelier made from several. The linked article also has several other milk crate furniture mods. […]
Steve sent in his latest project, the RoboStool. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip, and motor mount kit, to navigate in 3 different ways. It can use a “beacon” mode to navigate or be controlled via a universal remote. It can even be put in “follow” mode, which uses thermal sensing to follow the user […]
I always wondered what went into those high-end speaker cabinets, and instructables user billbob has resolved my curiosity. He covers electrical construction, but mainly focuses on making really stellar speaker boxes, and has tons of pictures and tips. I know just as well as anybody around here that electronics projects aren’t always that great looking, […]
