Mississippian Hillar Bergman is known, first and foremost, as a musician—he plays the fiddle. His YouTube channel, as catinnahat, has several videos describing his wonderful “apocalyptech” potter’s wheel, and demonstrating his skillful use thereof. It’s just an old wheel and tire, mounted on an oak stump with a pair of pipe flanges and a short nipple, and spun up to speed with a tire iron stuck through the holes in the hub.
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If you find yourself annoyed at the waste of valuable man-minutes and materiel that went into this effort from Instructables user spookylean, I can only congratulate you on your strong management potential. Me, I just want to zoom it around my desk and make pewpewpew noises.
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An easy, useful, inexpensive, and delightful improvisation from model-maker and Instructables user WiredWebbo101, who needed a handy tool to sand primer in some hard-to-reach places on his models. So he modified a disposable electric toothbrush by flattening and pointing the head and attaching a dart-shaped piece of sandpaper. Wonderful!
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Shamus built this cool guitar using a flea-market aluminum roasting pan as the resonator body. Sounds good! Click play above to hear it sing at 1:50, or rewind to hear the build deets. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
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Great find over on Recyclart, from Carey Dougan, aka Flickr user lovedc. Somebody needs to put a curse on it and put it up for sale on a dusty corner shelf in some out-of-the-way antique shop.
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These are from deviantART user dkart71. Back in 2007, we covered similar work from a Brazilian artist who goes by Blancosur. [via Boing Boing]
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Simple, cheap, and attractive. Looks comfy, too. Nice work by Instructables user Twotim221.
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