Building a Barbie Dream House
Who’s the toughest client an architect can face? For Frank Howarth, probably his little girl. After she rejects his design for a modular Barbie Dream House, he goes back to the drawing board and builds her a version more in line with her design vision:
Multi-Axis-Adjustable Drill Press Table
Izzy Swan fabricates an impressive drill press bed that can be adjusted, via handcrank, on two axes. He also hints at why he built such an unusual piece of kit: He’s cooking something up that presumably could not be made without this particular table rig. Can’t wait to see what that is!
DPT Wrench Invention Now Market-Ready
This might be the first product invention we’ve watched unfold on YouTube. Izzy Swan’s nifty invention, the Drill-Powered Through Wrench, was designed for folks who work with all-thread rods. He’s shown us various iterations in his weekly vids, and now it’s ready for market:
Big Bandsaw Build, Part 1
Matthias Wandel goes MacGyver this week, harvesting the cheap plywood from a shipping crate and turning it into the wheels for a 20" bandsaw. He needs to true and balance the wheels, then fashions the belt from a bicycle inner tube. As always, there’s a lot of great problem-solving on display:
Why You Should Make a Shooting Board
Here Jay Bates shows you how and why to make a shooting board, assuming you own a handplane of any sort. (As a shooting board user, I have to say this is one of my favorite things to use in my own shop.)
Building a Scrap Wood Burn Pit
April Wilkerson’s got a new toy—a plasma cutter—and puts it to work building a burn pit for her larger wood cut-offs:
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