Check out this excellent workshop Jim added to the MAKE Flickr pool. He’s got his setup divided into two — he calls them the “tool side” and the “nerd side.” How about you, readers? Do you designate separate parts of your bench for different kinds of work or do you mush it all together?
Combine a disposable syringe and a cheap hot glue gun into a pistol-applicator for solder flux paste.
As much as I admire the Dremel-on-a-Makerbot projects… wow. [thanks, Brandon]
We asked you, our readers, to share some of your favorite shop organization tips with us. Here are some of your suggestions.
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
I never knew this little tool was so useful! I know what’s going in my next parts/tools order! Joe Saavedra shows us how to use a wirewrap tool in this informative video.
Some of us are lucky enough to easily find room for a workshop. Others, well, have to get creative. Make: Online reader Kenneth Lee converted his pantry (above photo) into an excellent workshop (bottom photo). I especially like his magnetic shop lamp with exactos and hemostats dangling from it. (Click on the “after” image to […]
