How-To: Sharpen a Chisel (When You’re Serious About It)
Keep those shop chisels serious and sharp.
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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.
Bendy Corner Arduino Box
I’ve been meaning to do some tests with this relatively new technique for creating flexible parts on the laser cutter. I’ve been meaning to build a new project box for my Arduino. Oomlaut beat me to both! Ever since we came across this amazing technique for laser cutting hinges we’ve been thinking about what we could […]
Tool Review: Mr. Heater HERO
The Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn get cold, REALLY cold. We took pity on them and had a review unit of the Mr. Heater HERO, corded/cordless space heater, sent to them. Here is Hackett’s review.
Star Trek Enterprise NCC 1701-C Coffee Table
I would not have thought, if you had just described it to me in words, that an Enterprise-shaped coffee table could be “classy,” but I believe Etsy seller Barry Shields has done it. It’s sold already, of course, but I bet he’ll be making more. [via Dude Craft]
How-To: Add a Laser Head to a CNC Mini Mill
David Prutchi, whose surplus plutonium probe shenanigans we covered last week, received Micro-Mark’s branded version of the popular Sieg X2 mini mill for a recent birthday, then retrofitted it with a CNC kit from CNC Fusion, and then retrofitted it again with a CO2 laser head he built himself from a surplus tube. David writes: […]
Gutted Guitar Reborn as Spice Rack
A guitar will often die a slow death by peeling its own wood bottom from the glue that binds it to the rest of the body. This might very well relegate the instrument to firewood, but Asaf Tz’rtkof saw potential in the exposed brace work.
Turning A One-Piece Wooden Lamp Shade From a Tree Section
Kiwi master craftsman Sören Berger is a woodturner, teacher, and inventor with 35 years at the lathe. It shows. In this amazing and slightly terrifying video, you’ll see him turn a giant tree trunk section that starts with the bark still on it, inside and out, until it’s perfectly smooth and translucent-thin. Inspiring and wonderful. […]