Make: Projects – Concrete Candleholder
Instructables superstar Ray Alderman guest-stars on Make: Projects with this quick, cool, easy method for casting a custom concrete candleholder using a cookie-cutter as a mold. Thanks so much, Ray!
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Bench Made from Upcycled Wood and Concrete
Using wood end pieces from other projects, A&Ré design mated the resulting slab to simple and clean looking legs made from fiber concrete. The legs were made in collaboration with betonWare, making for a unique look while still being sturdy. The result is called the Essence Bench, a piece of furniture I certainly wouldn’t mind […]
The Concrete Lathe Project
The origin of mechanical precision is a classic chicken-and-egg problem: If you need a precision machine tool to make a precision machine tool, where do precision machine tools come from, in the first place?
How To: Mix and Mold Glass Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (GFRC)
Concrete expert Brandon Gore on mixing and applying glass-fiber reinforced concrete.
Patterned Concrete Tables
Kami of Austin Tinkering School wrote in to share these cool concrete tables that her friend Elena Eidelberg created. She works in ceramics but has been experimenting a lot with concrete this year and I think she’s been making some amazing stuff. She’s casting into high relief fabrics and then tinting the concrete and even […]
Concrete Coffee Table with Cast-in Saucers
I bet Brandon would sell you one, if you’re interested. Or, you could try making your own by pouring concrete into a melamine mold box (as in this tutorial from DIY Network) with upside-down saucers mounted in the bottom.
How-To: Homemade Castable Refractories
Two easy DIY recipes for high-temperature cement: one starts from ready-made stove repair cement, and another uses only bulk mineral products.
