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8 Types of Trash Every Maker Should Be Stoked to Score
You know what they say about one man’s trash. Keep your eyes on the curbside to come up on these perfectly useful items.
How-To: Upcycled Tire Table
Turn an old tire into stylish and useful piece of home decor with this upcycled tire table tutorial!
How-To: Recycled Tire Flower Planter
Turn discarded tires into festive summertime decor with a recycled tire flower planter!
Joan of Arc Armor Made from Cardboard and Bicycle Tubes
Grace Duval created this suit of armor by first hot gluing together a frame of cardboard, then priming and painting it. Atop this base she built out the exterior from upcycled bicycle tubes, stitched together with an awl and fastened with screws and capped nuts. The results are stunning and novel.
How to Fix a Bicycle Tire Flat
In this how-to, mountain biker Chris Nodder outlines how to deal with punctures on both tube and tubeless bicycle tires.
Incredible tire sculptures
So often creative-reuse and found-object art has a “junky” quality that’s hard to escape because…well, you know, it’s basically made from junk. I always applaud the effort to turn trash into treasure, but it’s rarely done so well as in the case of these amazing sculptures from reclaimed tires. That the material is such an […]
