For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques.
Posted by Len Cullum
Categories: Tools, Woodworking, Workshop | 1 Comment
Archimedes said, “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.” The lever is one of the six classic simple machines. A simple...
Posted by Andrew Terranova
Categories: Education, Kids & Family, Science, Woodworking, Workshop | No Comments
Build an Airsoft gun target and BB catch to save your walls from destruction and to improve your accuracy.
Posted by Billy
Categories: Home, Woodworking | 4 Comments
Anyone who’s ever taken on an ambitious home-improvement project knows what it’s like to have spare wood lying around – and to want nothing more than to get rid of...
Posted by Sonya Nimri
Categories: Craft, Kids & Family, Woodworking | No Comments
This improved rubber band gun can be used for more dangerous missions!
Posted by Tom
Categories: Fun & Games, Woodworking | No Comments
It’s possible to draw a fairly straight line with a pencil, but if you want to be accurate, you must use a ruler or straightedge to guide the pencil as...
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder
Categories: Tools, Woodworking | No Comments
I enjoy just about any kind of woodworking, so I decided to make the wooden stand for my Giant Bubble Machine project instead of just buying one.
Posted by Paul Spinrad
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Fun & Games, Kids & Family, Woodworking | No Comments
A local Sonoma County tradition is the Occidental Farmers market. It is every Friday evening, and this Friday was my first time attending. Surprising to me was the large amount...
Posted by Jake Spurlock
Categories: Woodworking, Gardening | 1 Comment
Embroidery became an obsession of mine about six years ago. Then it took a turn: I wasn’t content stitching only on fabrics; I wanted to intersect new planes with stitches....
Posted by Jenny Hart
Categories: Craft, Woodworking | No Comments
My architect friends Lorenzo Bini and Roberta Pezzulla made this little project for a very young and dynamic client: Lorenzo’s 6-month-old goddaughter. They wanted to make a box that the...
Posted by Claudio Bernardini
Categories: Woodworking, Home | 2 Comments
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