Fun & Interesting

Making A Knife Handle From Epoxy Grout

I had a very small amount of epoxy grout left over from doing the base in my shower and thought I’d heap it up on this pie...
Making A Heat Treatment Oven

This project has been on my to do list for quite some time. About three years ago I bought the parts needed to get it done, but ne...
Making A Modern Retro HTPC Computer Case

I’ve built a number of computer cases over the years and most of them have been the flat, home theater style as opposed to t...
Making The Metal Pocket Knife

The basic procedures for making this version are the same as the wooden pocket knife, except the parts are metal and need to be wo...
Skyline Diffuser / Wall Art

Tastes can change over time, as do needs. When I started building the project that these blocks were made for – a big, thick...
Making A Shuriken Fidget Spinner

By definition, these toys do not serve much of a real purpose. But they are highly fashionable right now, so I thought it would be...
Making A Wooden Pocket Knife

I built my first wooden knife nearly three years ago as a mock-up for a real, metal knife. I never did get around to making the me...
How To Make Lincoln Logs

A Project by Pocket83. Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright in 1916. Just imagine: You have created a product that has ...
Making A Knife Sharpener

Here’s another use for a worn out saw blade. It works best with a blade that is an ATB (alternate top bevel) grind, like mos...
Making A Wooden Pocket Knife

I have been playing with a design for a pocket knife in SketchUp, an all metal folding lock-back with a 3-1/4″ blade. Sketch...
Making a Switchblade

I’ve been working on this for roughly the last year, off and on (mostly off), just in the design stage. It took a while to w...
Making Acoustic Panels

While this is a project that is specific to those of us that make videos in our shops and want to reduce the amount of reverb (ech...
Pry Bar Knife

Recently it occurred to me that I have been spending a bit too much time in front of the computer. Doing website work, editing pro...
Can Paper Cut Wood?

This redefines “paper cut”, I guess. And while this really doesn’t have any practical applications, it was inter...
Painting T-Shirts Experiment

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while: paint a pattern onto a T-shirt with regular house paint. It happens that right now...
Making A Mini Electric Forge

First, a word of warning: this project deals with mains voltage, and if you have any doubts or concerns about working with it, thi...
Mig Welder Damascus Steel Experiment

This is something that I tried before, but really didn’t put much effort into it, and the results were less than encouraging...
Making A Cleaver From A Worn Out Saw Blade

I actually did this project a bit more than three years ago, but didn’t put a build article together for it. I also didnR...
Homemade Micarta

Micarta is a composite made from layers of various materials and held together by a plastic resin. The materials can be nearly any...