Skill Builder: Building Woodworking Low Horses
Hone your woodworking skills while creating a useful shop tool by creating these simple, lovely, and very useful Japanese “low horses.”
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Hone your woodworking skills while creating a useful shop tool by creating these simple, lovely, and very useful Japanese “low horses.”
MakerBot Industries blogger MakerBlock is working on a clockwork spider, and went the route of designing his own gears. He’s sharing his observations of designing and printing his own clockwork parts on the MakerBot blog. Here’s a sample: Don’t make parts too thin. The parts I printed tended to be designed too thin. If you […]
Even given all that, the floors are lovely, and the concept—we’re going to use computers to cut trees more efficiently and beautifully—deserves a nod. Here’s looking forward to the hobby CNC community’s homebrew version… [via Boing Boing]
Bart Bakker of Utrecht, Netherlands sent us these images and a link to a short piece about his mini home fab lab. He built it for around US$4K. The lab consists of an A4 Laser Cutter, a vintage Ultimaker 3D-printer, a Mantis CNC mill, and a CraftRobo vinyl/papercutter. Bart built the Ultimaker and the Mantis […]
This week I’ll show you some more metalworking techniques including files, rotary abrasives, and how to make a ball-head rivet with a butane torch. http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/08/craft_video_intro_to_metalwork.html
Learn the basics of piercing and texturing metal with just a few tools. I show you how to use a jeweler’s saw and copper etchant to create a get-well card for a friend. More info and supply list: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/08/craft_video_intro_to_metalwork.html
Aww, nuts! Learn to make your own from chocolate with this mechanical chocolate box tutorial by annahowardshaw.