Kristin Roach of Craft Leftovers fame shares a very useful tutorial for turning beat-up old frames into beautiful like-new ones. She covers removing mold, tightening up loose corners, and adding a fresh finish. That box of ancient frames in my garage finally has a future!
Make: Projects community member Josh Burroughs restored his grandfather’s old pen knife, and shared his step-by-step photos and instructions with us. For a point of reference, below is what the old knife looked like before he got to work on it. Nice job, Josh!
Her name is Daniela. Built by Portuguese master craftsman Carlos Alberto and named in honor of his daughter, this faithfully reproduced Vespa motor scooter is hand crafted almost entirely out of laminated hardwood. What’s truely amazing is that it’s an actually fully functioning scooter!
Sometimes I think I should have been born in the “olden days.” I totally swoon over handcrafted furniture, especially vintage sewing benches with little pegs for spools of thread. This gem was outside at Mr. Ryder’s Antiques, a super sweet shop in Graton, California. The best part about this stool was that the drawer had […]
A couple years ago, I lived with some friends that had a baby boy. From the time he was six months old until he was a year-and-a-half, I became closely acquainted with the world of baby toys. Of course, he always wanted to be in my room drooling on my toys, but he had some […]
Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper. Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has come up with a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material. When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear […]
Swedish industrial designer Erik Björk built this fantastic Do It Yourself Wooden Bicycle.
