Brush knuckles
Brush knuckles designed by Ken Goldman – for the toughest cleanings via BoJ. Wooden knuckles. Cupcake Knuckles. Brass knuckle cup & purse.
Toolbox
Gripples – Rope locks…
Doug writes in – I use a lot of aircraft cable for installing/building artworks, often with pressed ferrules and turnbuckles to make adjustable lengths. Kind of a pain, but it works. At the ArtBots show this weekend I was introduced to Gripples — they’re kind of like zip ties, but for aircraft cable. Some of […]
Tool explosion
Damián Ortega’s “Controller of the Universe” uses a variety of hand tools suspended as if frozen in mid-explosion. Evoking the human response to – DUCK! – Damián Ortega @ White Cube – Will the Revolution Be Museumized? @ NYTimes
How to: Joint boards without a jointer
Anyone who works enough with wood wants a jointer. What do you do if you need one, but don’t have one? Improvise! Check out this great instructable on joining wood without a jointer. A planer/jointer is not always available to the home woodworker who wants to do fine cabinetry. Look at the piece of cabinetry […]
Power drill take-apart (and put-together)
In case you wondered what the insides of a wired Dewalt power drill looked like … [via Take It Apart dot net]
Bike-borne lunch bag
In this week’s Evil Mad Scientist project, Lenore shows you how to sew a cloth lunch bag that can be carried on the frame of your bike. Bicycle Frame Lunch Bag
Scratch-built espresso machine
By way of our resident coffee gadget guru John Edgar Park comes word of this… er… homebrewed temp-regulated, lever espresso machine, called the Robo-Pavoni. Robo-Pavoni ; learning to make an espresso machine from scratch
