Clever Homemade 3D Router Table
A wooden router table that allows for quick drilling, routing, and 2D and 3D milling jobs when a CNC machine is overkill.
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Turn Your Hammer Into a Multitool
Easily turn your everyday hammer into a multitool with ruler, bottle opener, screwdriver, and nail carrier.
Make a Stylish Flashlight Out of Kitchen Trash
Make this handy and handsome AA flashlight made out of little more than a soda can and a cereal box.
Obsessive Tool Building: Turn a Metal Scriber from Brass
Turning your own metal scriber tool is a great first project for a metal lathe.
Blacksmithing Basics: Forge Your Own Flatter
Learn basic blacksmithing techniques as you forge your own flatter hammer.
How to Make Spring Clamps Out of Plastic Pipe
If you find yourself needing a lot of clamps for a workshop job, you can easily construct a handful by cutting down a length of plastic pipe
Fire, Stone, and Wood: the First Tools
At Maker Faire you’ll find any number of cutting edge technologies—3D printers, CNC routers, flying robots, and gestural interface devices. But the fair is also the place for primitive technologies and tools, the technologies that form the basis for every other technology that followed. The Maker Faire tent is big enough to have room for both.
