Jimmy DiResta's Skull Ring Video
In this video, Jimmy DiResta shows how to make a skull ring.
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Tuesday January 3rd, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Craft, Workshop | 3 Comments
Metal Skill Builder
Seriously Impressive Metalworking Skills
I love clockwork things. (I've built a couple of clocks myself) and so I am seriously impressed by the work of Chris Raynerd over at the raynerd.co.uk site. He's only...
Posted by Steve Hobley | Monday September 12th, 2011 2:00 PM
Zero to Make: Crash Course in Welding
There's something about the process of joining two pieces of metal together that captures people's excitement and curiosity. Outside of a romantic idea of welding masks, torches, and flying sparks,...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 6th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, Workshop | 14 Comments
How-To: Car Battery Welding
Welding! Welding is a glorious, mystery-infused, thoroughly bad-ass way to stick things together. Welders move in their own cloud of mythos and danger- they are dirtier, tougher, and sexier than...
Posted by hackett | Thursday September 1st, 2011 12:30 PM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | 14 Comments
iNecklace and Massive Jewelry Roundup
To match the iCufflinks: The iNecklace is a gorgeously machined aluminum pendant with a subtle pulsating LED. Perfect for the playa or with Prada. Made for women who celebrate art,...
Posted by Becky Stern | Wednesday August 31st, 2011 5:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Workshop | 3 Comments
Skill Builder: Fabricating Project Boxes from PCB Cladding
Here's something I didn't know about. Radio geeks and hobby audio enthusiasts use PCB copper cladding material to fabricate handsome project chassis. The main method of assembly is soldering. In...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday August 31st, 2011 4:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Workshop | 9 Comments
Jeri Ellsworth Builds a Pure Stock Car
Those of us who are Jeri Ellsworth fans have heard about her race car builder/driver past, but most us know of her through her electronics engineering exploits. In this Building...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday August 29th, 2011 4:30 PM
Categories: Home, Workshop | 13 Comments
Metal Shop Tips with Tubalcain
Anybody who's interested in metalworking and machining, and has spent any time online, has likely bumped into "Tubalcain." And anybody who has encountered his amazing metalworking/machining videos is almost certainly...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday August 26th, 2011 4:30 PM
Categories: Workshop | 7 Comments
Colossus: Zachary Coffin (video)
Zachary Coffin's Colossus is a large-scale sculpture of wood and steel that holds massive granite rocks suspended above the ground. Ropes hanging from the rocks are pulled by attendees of...
Posted by Becky Stern | Monday August 22nd, 2011 10:05 AM
Categories: General, Workshop | 3 Comments
How to Remove Anything from Metal
Calling all parts recyclers, pick-and-pull repurposers, and lovers of all things metal! Back in MAKE Volume 17, John Todd shared a veritable catalog of ways to remove various substances, from...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday August 18th, 2011 6:37 PM
Categories: Workshop | 2 Comments
TARDIS Cufflinks
Looking for that classy Dr. Who touch? Simon Jansen made TARDIS cufflinks from an N-scale model train Police Box. It just took some light metalworking (basically using a razor saw)...
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Thursday August 18th, 2011 2:00 PM
Metalheads at Maker Faire Detroit
Joe Sandor and the crew from Chicago Crucible demonstrate an iron pour at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. These metalheads collected metal from old radiators and coke from a Detroit power...
Posted by Becky Stern | Wednesday August 17th, 2011 10:30 AM
Categories: General, Workshop | 3 Comments
