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How to Cast a Human Head, Build a Shoe Rack, Make Efficient Use of Storage Space, Stain Wood with Kitchen Materials & More

DIY Shoe Storage Cabinet

Working with humble materials and tools, Ben Uyeda builds a shoe storage cabinet that doubles as an entryway bench:

The Drill-Powered Through Wrench

Izzy Swan shows off the prototype of his nifty new invention, the DPT Wrench:

A Tool for Easily Cutting Flawless Miters

When Swan looks at a tool invention and thinks “Why didn’t I think of that,” you know it’s got to be something special. Here he reviews the ingenious MiterSet:

Sub-$20 DIY Tail Vise

Swan’s a machine this week, here’s another invention: A quick-action tail vise you can construct for less than $20.

Different Ways to Make Mortises and Tenons

A bit of Maker Crossover this week, as April Wilkerson teams up with Jay Bates and Nick Ferry to demonstrate a variety of ways to cut mortises and tenons:

Bedside Table w/ Drawer

Here’s the video April was referring to above, where she, Nick and Jay all work together to produce a bedside table for Nick’s son:

Staining Wood With Beets, Coffee, Red Wine & More

Steve Ramsey experiments with using five things in your kitchen that you can use to stain wood:

Dealing with Disc Sander Frustration

The Samurai Carpenter shows you the best way to remove and replace the sandpaper on your disc sander:

Acrylic Bathroom Shelf

It’s downright strange to see Matthias Wandel working with plastic rather than wood. But the missus has requested a bathroom shelf, and the wet environment’s a no-go, so Matthias tackles it with acrylic.

“Maple Clouds”

Frank Howarth returns to the wonderful animation and filmmaking style that first put him on our radar:

Suspended Utensil Shelf w/ Hand-Cut Dovetails

This is classic Jay Bates, where you see how his meticulous planning and attention to techniques results in a smoothly-executed project in a spotless shop.

How to Cast a Human Head

Bob Clagett goes to a prop-making house to have a life cast made of his head:

Basque-Style Birdhouse

“We made a bird house in the typical style of [the] Basque region (south-west of France),” La Fabrique DIY writes. “Birds seem to like it, maybe there are Basque?”

Building and Installing “Map Drawers”

Talk about production work! Here Sandra Powell bangs out a LOT of “map drawers” to make very efficient use of an angled-ceiling space:

DIY Bathroom Towel Rack

More space efficiency: Linn from Darbin Orvar wrings some practical use out of an unclaimed piece of bathroom real estate.

Laura’s Maple Table, Part 2

This week Laura Kampf whips up a steel base for the maple tabletop she produced last week: