7 Beginner Machining Tips, Learned the Hard Way
Sometimes learning is painful. Avert your eyes if you can’t witness mistakes.
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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
This Week in Making: LiPo Battery Tips, MakerBot Downsizes, and Table Saw Projectiles
learn about the care and proper use of LiPo batteries and more
Tips of the Week: Measuring Tape Mods, Mold Making, Vinyl Testing
A few of the top tips we’ve come across this week.
6 Ways to Repair Broken Plastic
Don’t throw away that broken plastic, fix it!
5 Indispensable Shop Tools You Can Make Yourself
Some excellent space-saving and work-enhancing tools that can be inexpensively homemade.
Tips of the Week: Cheating a Wrench, Fire-Cleaning Tools, and More
A weekly roundup of some of the best shop tips we’ve seen online.
See Woodcut Topography Come to Life with the Turn of a Crank
It starts out flat, but when you turn the crank something amazing happens.