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How to Cast a Concrete Mallet Using Legos, Work with Leather or Fix a Part You’ve Cut Too Short in This Week’s Maker’s Roundup

Leather Knife Sheath

Fun with leatherworking! Here Jimmy DiResta makes a sheath to hold the big-ass knife he made last time:

Reviewing a Tool Bag and a Tap & Die Set

We have a rare bit of sponsored content from Matthias Wandel this week. The notoriously picky Wandel has agreed to review some tools for Canadian Tire’s Maximum brand, and he’s opted to cover their tool bag and a tap-and-die set:

Cantilevered Shelf Supports

Wandel’s also got a build video for this week. Here he whips up some cantilevered shelves for his shop, using his self-built horizontal boring machine to cut mortises and tenons:

Mobile Lathe Cart

Also doing a utilitarian build this week is Jay Bates, who creates a rolling cabinet to store his newly-acquired lathe. Bates gets an assist from fellow YouTube maker Matt Lane.

How to Patina Copper

For those of you branching out into metal, here April Wilkerson shows you how you can patina copper with some common household items:

Cutting Dovetail Joints

Jesse de Geest shows you the painstaking process of cutting dovetails almost entirely by hand:

Under-Cabinet Drill Bit Storage Organizer

Steve Ramsey builds a storage organizer for his drill bits, and mounts it beneath a cabinet for easy access:

Getting Shellacked

Marc Spagnuolo continues demystifying the finishing process, this time showing you how to mix up some shellac without having to measure or weigh:

Why You Shouldn’t Throw Your Scraps Away Until the Project is Finished

Here Shannon Rogers shows you a classic screw-up we’ve all made, which is mis-measuring and cutting a piece too short, then shows you how he fixed it by digging into the trash can:

Wine Crate Endtable

This week La Fabrique DIY builds an endtable incorporating a wine bottle crate. Note that they use that crazy European variant of a jobsite table saw, where you have a circular saw mounted upside-down to the bottom of a table and you pull it towards you to cut:

Making a Mallet with Concrete, Epoxy and Lego

This week Linn from Darbin Orvar shows you how to cast concrete (well, mortar) mallet using a form made from Lego bricks. I’m not convinced I’d want a resin-coated mallet for chisel work due to how it might affect the impact, but it’s an interesting technique nonetheless:

Faux Weather-Worn Paint Finish

I’m highly impressed with Sandra Powell, a/k/a Sawdust Girl, and her persistent finishing techniques. This time around she takes a fiberglass door–which of course does not take stain well and has no grain–and figures out how to get a convincing-looking weather-worn paint finish on it:

How to Get a Level Line Across a Compound-Curved Surface

While none of you reading this are shipwrights, there is much to learn by watching one. Here Master Shipwright Louis Sauzedde shows us how he solves a tricky problem: How do you get a perfectly straight, flat line across a surface that consists of compound curves?