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This is my favorite paper plane design of all time. It is a completley flat glider that can soar and loop. enjoy!
I will show you how to tie a monkey's fist knot, and what you can make with them. I had aways wanted to know how to make these, and one day someone showed me how. They are really fun to make and whack people with.
Here's a little hack that'll save you needless minutes logging in.
There are limitless possibilities for using cardboard. This instructable shows many projects, short descriptions, included photos, mouth watering ideas, can't wait to get started prompts, where does the time go, I can't do it all, I LOVE cardboard , ad infinitum ways to envision it, design it, cons...
This is a super simple recipe that can be made quickly and enjoyed after a few days. What you'll need: A Jar Enough carrots to fill that jar A backup Jar incase you cut up too many carrots. Rice vinegar, Siracha Hot Sauce Sugar Salt Water 5 simple ingredients an...
I love to shop in thrift shops. I also love to repurpose clothing, this scarf is what happened after I bought a pair of pajama pants that I knew I would not wear but loved the print. It is so feminine and yet so comfortable. You have to know that I intend on buying up all of the cotton jersey pajam...
This is an instructable for a small, remote controlled Lego Power Functions tank. The Lego Power Functions parts you need to build it are: - (2) Small Motors - (1) Batter Pack - (1) IR Receiver - (1) Remote Control If you need Power functions, you can get them off the Lego Shop website. (Click ...
Salsa and picante sauce have been giving ketchup a run for the money for awhile now. Even when you could buy HOT salsa it wasn't really hot (IMO) but at least locally it can be difficult to find anymore. Usually I just add some habanero hot sauce to the jar, mix and eat but sometimes that's just not...
aquire : one powerful motor with prongs on the bottom dvd player power cord 6 volt battery sawblade r/c car the blade attach the sawblade to the spinning part of the motor so when the motor spins it spins the sawblade the body remove the top part of the rc car where ther is only the part with...
This is a very easy-to-make project. It just requires a fair bit of cardboard, hot glue (I like hot glue more than duct tape), and string. To play it, you will need a ping pong ball and a ping pong racket. If you would like to challenge yourself by using a smaller ball, I recommend using the smal...
I originally used this instructable as a demonstration to explain osmosis to my classes. Over the years many of my pupils told me they'd tried it for themselves at home (got their interests, half my job was done). I've started using this method as a practical with some of my classes with great resu...
A friend of mine sent a pair of over-the-knee stockings, and asked me use them to make a pair of fingerless gloves. The picture she sent of her vision showed a thumb piece (as opposed to a thumb hole), so I sat down to figure out how to go about creating these gloves. As it turns out, it's pretty da...
A friend of mine who own a shoes store, since he had some missing articles, asked me a way to monitor the door of the stock. He just want a cheap system, connected to a pc, which will be able to send emails alarm when the stock door will be open during the days-off. I decided to hack a old usb mo...
Hot Wings! It's classic American fare. And with sports parties in the near future, something we'll be seeing a bit of in the new spring season. So why not change it up a bit? Give something that's classic and loved a slight twist to make it different? Here's my take on giving it a bit of an upscale...
Homemade pastry bag for churro machine This intractable is for the homemade churro machine, check my other intractables for a regular homemade pastry bag. Materials and tools: Zissors Sewing machine. Any measurement tape. An old not too thick fabric, And the tip for the pastr...
If you're under the impression that Wasabi (Japanese Horseradish) is too holy-heck-hot for your delicate tastebuds, I'm happy to say this mouth-watering Teriyaki Sauce will definately change your mind. Used In controlled amounts, wasabi adds a subtle, irresistable warmth that almost makes your mout...
These suckers are not for the kids! They have a creamy coffee taste and can be made in any shape, of course. Make them into hearts and you have a great Valentine's Day gift for co-workers or your kids' teachers. You will need: 2 cups sugar 2/3 cups light corn syrup 3/4 cup coffee or espresso 1/2 te...
As you know the capacitive touch screen, unlike the resistive, needs to feel the electric charge of your finger. While in the resistance, which is formed by a membrane mobile, simply touch the screen with any object, the capacitive screen works only if you feel an electric charge, then the pen must ...
These simple hand warmers are easy to make, and they really do keep your hands toasty warm! They are a perfect way to show your love to someone this Valentine's Day! You will need: Wool felt Embroidery floss Rice Prepare Felt and Embroider For each hand warmer, cut a piece of felt measuring 4 x ...
Let's be honest with one another - Unless you're looking for something specific, the Instructables you choose to click on are those that grab your attention, right? Also, let's admit that a pretty picture definitely gets our attention better than a mundane one. And here, where users choose which Ins...
I had previously produced a guide to build a handset to connect to the phone via cable, but then I withdrew after discovering that they had several different connections from other terminals. With this model eliminates these problems. This realization is not very simple in some passages, but with a ...
Biting your nails is one of the top 5 bad habbits in America. It can permenatly damage your nails and lead to bacterial infections. A way to stop fast is the Hot Sauce Method. Youll Need: Hot Sauce-Hotter the better Bowl 5 Minutes Sink Get the hottest hot sauce you can find Put the sauce i...
If you've seen some of my other business cards, I like the idea of giving away cards that are useful in some way. Most of my others have been more proof-of-concept, but this one is not only fun but easy to make, inexpensive and has a real wow factor. It's a simple ultraviolet torch, but the basic ...
In this Instructable you will learn how to build a light activated dancing Snap Circuits programmable robot. First, you will learn how to install the PICAXE Programming Editor (the PICAXE is the microcontroller, or computer brain for your Dance Dance Roverbot). Next, you will learn what a simple PIC...
Because there are so many problems that you can have with a wireless microphone system, I have decided to write an instructable on how to troubleshoot wireless systems. This can apply to other wireless systems besides microphones, but I will be focusing on microphones, since that is what most of my...
Using Autodesk Inventor Pro 2012 with a free 6 mo license from a membership with the TechShop SF http://techshop.ws I designed this Turner's cube for my beginning milling project: http://www.instructables.com/id/Turners-Cube-A-Beginner-CNC-Milling-Project/ In this two part video I'll show you the ...
See the original tutorial on my blog, www.honeybearlane.com Materials You will need a tank top with wide straps like shown. You will also need about a fat quarter of fabric. Cotton, preferably. Last you will need fusible interfacing and thread in the color of your choice. First start by ir...
I've been teaching for 14 years but at only 2 schools. Both of the schools have whats called in our district "inner city" status. This doesn't mean we're in a big city, it means that a significant number of the students are living near the poverty level. Many of the kids come from some pretty impove...
I've been building chimes with my Grade 6 students for a few years now and they really are an excellent metal-working project. What i've found with metalwork is that its tough to come up with cool projects that young kids can actually make and have real success with. Most of the typical metal projec...
These instructions demonstrate how to fold a fun, two-person origami game. Time required: approx. 5 minutes. What you will need: - One standard sheet of white/colored paper (8.5" x 11") HINT: As you do each of the following steps, make each fold as precise and neat as you can. This will help your ...
It's here. The best valentine's fix for a cheesehead- the cheese heart. I created this last year, and it was a major hit. I think it's good to get away from the cookie-cutter gifting every now and then. I'm no Troy Landwehr, cheese carver, so this isn't entirely anatomically correct; but you ge...
It's high summer in Melbourne and (some of) the nights are warm. I wanted a refreshing hot weather drink, I had half a bottle of red wine. I Googled sangria recipes and there was nothing that was simple enough for me. So I don't thinki I can call this a real sangria recipe, but it's a delicious drin...
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through building a Lego computer, I gain hours and hours basement of sitting in a basement (lol) Welcome to the Lego computer build instructable! Through this tut...
Cookies: 3/4 C. sugar 1/2 C. butter, softened 1/2 C. oil 3 Tbs. water 2 tsp. vanilla 2 1/4 C. flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt Oreos (crushed) Finishing: 1 large package of chocolate Jello pudding (you will need 3 cups of milk for this, I used 1% but it's up to you which kind you want to use)...
On my blog, this has been a hit for two years now, so I thought I might share it here too. This is a tutorial of how to make gorgeous fabric carnations! What you need This is what you need: Light jersey with a lot of elastic/ stretch for an amazing look and a pair of scissors. Cut a long, th...
What you see pictured above are Ringers Gloves’ model R-21 “heavy-duty Kevlocs,” and they look like some of the most badass gloves for heavy automotive work I’ve seen. Seriously, with crazy-tough puncture resistance, high-tech padding in all the right places, and specially-designed grip surfaces, these put the scores of low-buck work gloves I keep around the shop to shame. Then again, they MSRP for $45 freakin’ dollars.
What do you get for $35 more than your average pair of work gloves? To start with, you get a specially-sewn palm that meets the European “CE 4342 EN388 Level 2 standard for cut and puncture resistance.” WTF-BBQ? Yeah, I had no idea what that was, either, so I did a little digging, and here’s how it works:
To get gloves certified to the “cut” portion of this standard, companies send them off to a test lab, which mounts them on a machine that “uses a counter-rotating circular blade that is constantly moved back and forth across a sample by the test machine.” [Here's my source.] Then they look up the results on a table to determine the performance level. (Samples received the highest fully-achieved level.) So a “level 2″ glove survived at least 2.5 cycles, but less than five.
The puncture section of the test pushes a sharp object reportedly similar in nature to a roofing nail into the sample at ever increasing force, measuring the force at which puncture occurs. Again, a level 2 rating indicates a force of more than 60 newtons, but less than 100. That’s about 13.5 pounds to 22.5 pounds of force, for those of us who’re metrically challenged.
To put all this in perspective, “level 5″ gloves — the top-rating category, and the one required for really, truly scary crap like dealing with infected hypodermic needles and picking up broken glass all day in factories — would withstand at or over 20 cut cycles and more than 150 newtons (33 pounds) of force.
Next you get a whole bunch of special padding materials, like “impact gel” padding in the palm and “shock-absorbing” knuckle pads, plus some cool tacky material on the fingertips to help you hang on to little screws and so on. The specs also list a “non-binding Supercuff” which makes me think of Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, but probably mans that it’s short enough that it doesn’t cut into your hand when you’re bending your wrist a severe angles.
So yeah. In short, you get a reasonably-tough glove — about as tough as you can realistically expect without it becoming so thick that it’s completely unusable — with some damn cool protective features that looks like the sort of thing the Master Chief would wear to change the oil on his Warthog between firefights, assuming he’d selected bright safety yellow armor. You know, for camouflage.
Do I need these? Not really. But I want ‘em. And if reading any of the above makes you wonder what gloves that meet different versions of those standard look like, check out the rest of Ringers’ offerings. They make gloves for everyone from mechanics to cops and oil and gas workers. Interesting stuff.
Slightly good news: the MSRP is inflated. I found ‘em online for $38. Still, $38 will buy a lot of electricity. Or the speedo cable and crank sensor seal my Mazda needs.
R-21 Heavy Duty Kevloc Gloves [Ringers Gloves]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
The larger li-ion battery packs tool companies are putting out today are getting closer to giving us the kind of power and duration they’ve been promising since the eighties. Just slide a pack in and do whatever you need to do — like mow the lawn. Sure, Ryobi isn’t the first electric mower or even the first to use a battery. What it really does is prove engineers are still working on solving all household issues with reusable battery packs; hell, Craftsman’s even got a 48v mower.
The specs for the Ryobi show a 50-lb. mower sporting a 16″ cutting deck that takes about an hour and a half to charge the battery, so multiple batteries for a larger yard wold be advisable. This rig isn’t a giant sod-trimming monster and doesn’t look like it would handle stubborn grass that’s been left uncut for a few weeks. That’s strictly opinion, but seeing how a gas-powered lawn tractor had trouble on my Texas weeds, I’m guessing this little mower would as well.
We’d love to see how much it would actually take to stall one of these green machines vs. how long it would run (we’re guessing 20-30 minutes for most folks). It does look good, and the Aussies say it runs very well — as far as we can tell the Ryobi 36v isn’t available here in the states yet.
RYOBI 36V TV Commercial: Astronaut [YouTube]
RLM36 Li-Ion Mower [Ryobi]
Pretty much everyone is producing one of these now, and here’s Skil’s version: the 2 amp model 1400. Not surprisingly, they chose to go corded, keeping the price down and the functionality high. (I love the fact that Skil, by the way, still offers corded drills, and that most of the big box stores choose Skil as the token corded drill they carry in-store. If you don’t own a corded drill, get one today. You know, like I suggested you do back in 2009.)
Specs are similar to others you’ll see: 12,000-22,000 OPM (oscillations per minute) with a nice variable speed controller. It’s pretty heavy at 2.75 lbs, but do you really care for a corded tool?
I’m not enough of a remodeling guy to know exactly how everyone uses these, but I’ve read literally thousands of product spec sheets. This one screams to me “targeted at the one-or-two project guy who wants the right and functional tool but isn’t going to spend hundreds of dollars on it.” And by “one-or-two project guy” I don’t mean a guy who wants the tool to only last through one or two projects, but rather the guy who’s not remodeling every day — the guy who has a project in mind when he heads to the store. That’s very much Skil’s market, of course, and in my experience they serve it pretty well. Sean, for example, still has his cheap-ass $25 Skil sidewinder circ saw — the same one you’ve seen featured here in TM as well as in the pages of Popular Science. (No, really. A picture of *me* hasn’t appeared in PopSci. But Sean’s Skilsaw’s mug has.) We used Skil jigsaws to build the plywood dino a few years back, and volunteers helped us beat the crap out of them. The jigsaws still work, and I still have one kicking around.
Street pricing for this thing runs around $90, with deals as low as $75 if you shop hard. That may seem high, considering that you can find the Bosch PS50 — the upscale, li-ion version of this — for around $75, too. But remember that that’s the PS50 in tool only configuration. You’ll need batteries and a charger. The full PS50 kit’ll set you back about $160. Plus, you have to keep it charged — or if you have a long job, you’ll need enough batteries for continuous use.
Model 1400 2.0 Amp Oscillating Multi-Tasker [Skil]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Hi everyone thank you for viewing my instructable If you enjoyed it please give my instructable a vote :) Thank you. I'm a 17 year old student in South Africa with a passion for RC helicopters quad copters and planes RC Quad-copters are becoming a craze throughout the RC world, and its no surpris...
I occasionally throw out cartridges of ink and noticed how full they still are even though the printer doesn't think so. I thought to attach some dried out old cheap markers on the end opening that connects to the printer. It is really simple. And works. you will need: 1. not really empty ink car...
STAMPEDE. Years ago I wrote a book (in English) full of abstract paper games: "100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper", (Walter Joris), Carlton, London. It was translated in several languages. Several titles also now. Most of the games were invented by me. It got a lot of response. I cannot publish...
Unable to purchase the hat I wanted at H&M, I decided to make my own. After I gave up on being upset about not being able to buy it, I thought, "hey, at least this way I can customize it to suit my needs". Its basically an improvement on an 'ible I posted in '09. Link below: http://www.instructable...
I say this is 1950s, because it was based on a 1950s-style pattern, but I shortened it quite a lot. The ladies of the 1950s probably didn't show of this much leg! I don't have a tutorial for this one, because I made it a little while ago. But I thought I would share it, because I'm pretty proud of h...
or seat, stepstool, endtable, coffee table, poster bed, nightstand, etc. Just as versatile as it's electronic component integrated circuit counterpart, use cardboard or "card" in the UK, to make this dandy piece of furniture. Besides being appropriate for electronic musicians, this is the geeky thi...
When I saw these beige - gray speckled socks I knew I had to have them. They are kids' size but that was exactly what I needed for this project. This is a simple tutorial how to transform socks into wrist-warmers. You need a pair of socks. Cut toes' part Cut off the toes part. Work on sock T...
A chimney chase cover is a cap that seals off the top of a wood framed or brick laid chimney chase. Chimney chase covers are typically made from low grade steel, which will rust over a short period of time. The smallest gap or hole on the chase cover can lead to expensive water damage. If you're n...
One work bench is never enough, I had enough reclaimed notty pine to hack together a simple tabletop and some spare 2x4 chunks. This isn't a how-to on making a bench but more of an inspirational piece for others hopefully. I was inspired by a pic I had seen in another inst'ble Someone had a miter sa...
This video shows the explanation of a DIY project: An adaptor that connects to the audio input of any smartphone. This adaptor has a microphone and a button, allowing the user to connect any headphones (your personal, expensive fancy ones) and at the same time have the feature of pausing/playing th...
These treat bags are great for handing out candy to your class rooms, family or friends. You can customize them to your liking and add your favorite treat in them. Although these are Valentine's Day theme, you can change the theme throughout the year. What you'll need One package of clear celloph...
HI I'm Jenny from I Heart Jenny's Art. I wanted to share this tutorial with everyone because I really think everyone can paint. So this is a really easy to follow tutorial with minimal free-hand work. Give it a try! What's cuter than love birds? Love owls of course! (yes I know they are a type of b...
Build a great-sounding glockenspiel out of copper pipes! The pipes, when correctly mounted, have a lovely bell-like tone. This glockenspiel (a glockenspiel is like a xylophone, but with metal slats or tubes) is based on a project in this book, but with a larger range and tuning information based o...
This is a super easy project for which you do not need any knitting / crochetting skills. All you need to know is how to use a sewing machine, because you will be sewing this cutie. For the scarf shown in the photo I used 100 gr. of chunky yarn skein, and the yarn does need to be chunky so that the...
I love sauce (some people call me the "Saws Baws") but for some reason my mouth can not handle the heat of hot sauce. Something happens when hot sauce hits my tastebuds that sends my mouth into a frenzy, gives me a cold sweat, and makes me want to rage out like The Hulk. That is why I don't eat it. ...
I had just modded my game cube and didn't have a case, so I made one out of lego
We love writing about flashlights here at Toolmonger, mostly because flashlights are incredibly useful but somehow almost always seem to end up as the least-thought-out “extra” in a combo count. We think (and suspect you do, too) that flashlights are good for more than just increasing tool count. So I couldn’t help but give a mention to Makita’s new offering, the excitingly-named (kidding) LXLM01. The name might be forgettable, but I thought one thing when I saw this sucker: it looks exactly like those awkward lights everyone carried around on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
No, really. Consider:
Every time I saw someone on Trek carrying one of those things, I thought, “Why don’t they carry it like a normal flashlight?” Makita seems to get this. Yes, the Makita is a very similar shape. But they seem to have incorporated some improvements that clearly escaped Trek’s imagination.
Mentally remove the grip strap, and the Makita’s form factor looks pretty similar to the DeWalt light we thought so highly of. Of course, Makita opted for a six-LED fixed array instead of the DeWalt’s single bright LED in a swivel mount. The downside of this is that you lose the DeWalt’s awesome ability to sit upright on its stand and swivel to provide light in almost any direction. I like the grip strap, though, as at least 50% of the time I find myself carrying the DeWalt light around like a normal flashlight, gripping it around the edges. That strap would make it a lot more stable.
Another consideration is power. The Makita is a lot bigger than it looks. That’s a whopping 18V battery attached to it, instead of the small, compact 12V you see on the DeWalt. That easily accounts for its 50-hour runtime; any battery that’ll drive a recip saw will easily drive six LEDs for long enough for you to forget the last time you charged it.
Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see one of these in person, both to get an idea of whether the strap is really a good thing or not and to find out whether or not this shape of light really works in such a scaled-up size. The light streets for around $20, tool only, and you’ll (surprise) find it included in lots of various combo kits.
18V LXT Li-Ion Cordless LED Flashlight [Makita]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
We wrote about Craftsman’s Hammerhead “Auto-Hammer” way back in 2008. Our initial take: It was an interesting solution to a pretty rare problem. When came in possession of one a good bit later, we were surprised to discover that it worked as advertised. (For those of you not familiar, a small anvil inside the hole you see on the head drives a nail with hundreds of short but powerful blows. It feels a little like a pneumatic palm nailer, but it’s battery powered and — as we mentioned back in ’08 — features a much different shape.) But we just couldn’t see it as a serious solution for driving thousands of nails. Rather, we suspected it would find a home more as a specialty tool for tasks like, say, driving a nail in between studs or in other tight spaces.
Enter now the updated version, the Hammerhead G2, pictured above. What, you ask, might they add? Try a light. And a rotating head.
Which actually makes a lot of sense, right? The whole point of this thing, at least as we see it, is for driving nails in hard-to-reach places. So anything they can do to make it more space-flexible seems like a good idea to us. If anything, the rotating head would seem to indicate that Craftsman has finally dropped their vision of a guy in a flannel shirt building a deck with the damn thing and instead accepted the tool’s clear role as problem-solver. Check out the pic they include on the Craftsman site (link below), which shows a guy reaching above his head to drive a nail in what looks like a basement ceiling.
So the bad news: It’s still waaaaay too expensive. $90 seems like too big an ask for a specialty tool that’ll only exit the toolbox on rare occasions. Of course, it’s those specialty tools that (as we’ve pointed out many times) save your ass. Or arm.
What do you think?
NEXTEC 12V G2 Hammerhead [Craftsman]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
In the furious battle to provide the “complete” project experience, many outlets and home centers are putting packages together to help you get home projects and honey-do’s done. If you stop by the Lowe’s site, the front page has a link to the Home Profile Creation page. I have mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, it’s pretty cool to be able to plan projects and have list items, pricing, and the total material sums for the the project, as well as pictures of how it might look when completed. On the other hand, my projects never seem to wind up going exactly to plan anyway. And a certain amount of (ok, to be fair, almost all) home projects I’ve undertaken require tweaking followed by some fairly serious swearing.
Add to that I’m not crazy about my house plans, future projects, and buying history being stored and collated on the Lowe’s cloud, and I’m hesitant to run out and inventory my appliances on an online database — it’s like begging for targeted email campaigns.
While I’m not quite ready to be fitted for a shiny pyramid hat just yet, I am a little gun-shy about giving a retailer that much access to my abode and project planning. It may be a great service — I’m guessing for folks overhauling their place or doing major work, it would be a godsend. For me, though, a shop pencil, scratch pad, and a lot of arm waving will do nicely. Then again, that may be why my projects grow legs on me too.
Home Project Planner App [Lowes.com]
For years I’ve carried a 1 gig USB drive on my keychain because you just never know when you might need a little storage. It appears the new Swiss Army Duo 2x is taking that just a touch further with an available 128 gig onboard their newest blade. You’ve probably seen it at trade shows, and it’ll surely appear on the most elegant of desktops very soon — but not without cost.
This hot new storage draped in Victorinox aluminum with a crossed shield will run you $523 retail. That’s not a misprint; that’s what they want for it. It’s true that this knife — a knife in much the same way a Harley Davidson T-shirt will do 70 on the freeway — is sexy and cool, but you can buy some low-to-mid-range laptops for that. We love these badass looking blades, but I don’t think we’ve consumed quite that much kool-aid just yet.
There is also a $40, single-stick, 4-gig version for sane people who want to spend too much on data storage.
Slim Duo 2x 64gig [Victorinox ]
The road to bunkbed build completion was actually pretty quick on the carpentry side of things. Getting to this final stage of awesome completion did take a little in the way of staining, though. Okay, a load in the way of staining. But more of that later.
Retaining trim was added to receive the head and footboards. Since this wouldn’t be a structural piece, just gluing them in and popping a few brads home did nicely.
With the slots in place for the boards, the rest of the build happened in a matter of a few hours of work. The headboards were driven home and a roll guard was added to the front of the top bunk so restless little ones don’t face plant from a 5-foot drop.
The ladder assembly was a simple one that allows the climber to get on the bunk at the lowest point possible by making the ladder part of the foot board. Bigass carriage bolts held the ladder rails in place.
Slats were cut from a pile of white oak that had been left outside for a while and, due to cracking, wasn’t really great as full plank material anymore. It was, however, perfect for the 16 slats of 3″ x 1″ material needed to hold the mattresses. The slats were later planed, routed, sanded, and sealed. This wasn’t a quick process, but anything times 16 tends to be a while.
Next the hell that is finishing time arrived. I won’t bore you with details, but this process takes longer than most anybody who hasn’t done it will ever recognize. Five coats of tinted shellac went on to make a nice, lively, and warm red color that managed to hide the fact that four different types and shades of wood were used. It sucked, but turned out nice in the end.
Final install was of course a happy time for all concerned (except when they were made to hold still for pictures) and much little girl screaming could be heard among the climbing and shuffling of little feet.
Building things to make life better around the home is almost what woodworking was created for. There is often no better way to make things happen than putting some timber together. In this case, Reader Litcritter has fixed his daughter up a way to get in and out of bed with ease.
It’s not only that the project looks great or that it will last a long time — it’s that Litcritter has made everyone’s life a little easier with time in the shop and a few tools. The ladder hooks over the bed frame and lets the little one run in a out of bed without fear of falling and without running down other furniture as a makeshift step-down. It’s a win for all concerned.
Well done!
Toolmonger Photo Pool [Flickr]
Since the time humans have been keeping “stuff,” we have enjoyed the happy task of finding someplace to put said stuff. For years, fasteners, bits, and bobs have lived in a draw in my workbench. For the last year of that time it has been increasingly harder and to get closed — until the last time I shut it. Apparently it really had reached that magic capacity where truly nothing else would fit, and in doing so, the final compression of the drawer closing popped a tube of two-part epoxy stored there. The resulting mess meant I was in the market for fastener storage.
After the trip to Lowe’s for the 22-container storage bin, the resulting mess on the floor was a little embarrassing. For years I kept saying “I don’t need one of those storage things,” or “folks in India turn chess pieces with their feet on a hand-cranked lathe; I don’t need plastic storage bins.” This logic was, of course, moronic and just an excuse. After the glue ball in the drawer and the second trip to the store for screws I knew I already had but couldn’t find, organization won out.
Even after a weekend of using the thing, I still marvel at being able to find my fasteners. It was worth the $20.
22 Drawer Storage Cabinet [Lowe's]
Hardware Storage [Google Products]
Based on a USW - Receiver Kit and the idea to have a Radio with a really good sound I decided to make a radio wit a special speaker system. The Radio is incredible because of its sound. The sound fills the whole room. Let´s see how to make it. The green "tube" looks like the old "magic eyes". T...
I made a pair of floorstanding/ tower speakers. I am planning to make another instructable guide but this time its a tower speaker. My guide will probably be released during my summer break (March 31, 2012). Its model is ASCAS FS-13 I was inspired when my dad bought a pair of bookshelf speakers (Po...
I gave these away to my sisters for Christmas. I originally saw these in woman's day catalog and thought they looked super neat. You can get really creative with these. I made a ton of these for under 10 bucks! I wouldn't recommend eating off them, but they make neat change plates or knick-knac...
115g/4oz butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 115g/4oz cast sugar 1 egg 100g/3 1/2 oz porridge oats 1 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla extract 125g/4 1/2oz plain flour 1tbsp cocoa powder 1/2tsp baking powder 350g/12oz milk chocolate. 2.Preheat the oven Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/GasMark4. 3....
I am in the process of designing all the lamps and lights in my house. For my living room I wanted to create a nice mood light. Its a little bit inspired by the commercial available mood lamps with my own personal touches. The final result is a bowl that can stand upright or its a side on the flo...
I work offshore or on site for months at a time , I needed a place to stow or carry my laptop,Ipad and additional stuff. I found a Pelican Case thru my work (around $300) the case itself is pretty well built and it floats and is supposed to be water tight I found the foam at work in the back. then...
This is my wooden bed bench, it took not to long to make, it once was a old single bed that was going to waste so I made it in to a bench. the back rest and the back legs are the head rest of the top of the bed, the front is the front of the bed the sides are the sides of the bed and the acctual sea...
This is how I made a small hand carved wood sign from katsura (Japanese Judas tree wood). Katsura is a popular wood used for relief carving in Japan. Materials used - One 11 x 22 cm piece of Japanese Judas wood (2 cm thick) Cedar, cypress, and bass wood are also good for carving. Make sure you sele...
