I always enjoy seeing other people’s ideas and projects. Even if it’s something I may never build myself, I like to see how other people do things because it gives me ideas and sometimes I will learn a new way of doing something. One of my favorite things to read are the Boy Mechanic books.

My two favorite Boy Mechanic books are The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Series and The Boy Mechanic: 200 Classic Things to Build. These books are filled with many different projects. There are so many projects in these books that I would love to do one of these days when I have the time and money. For example, one of the projects in the “Best projects from the Classic Series” book is “Build Your Own Canoe”. It gives plans and steps on how to build your own canoe. That project is for sure on my To-Do list, it just may be a while before it happens. Haha. Some of my other favorite projects from that book tell you how to make a blow gun that has a breech loader for rapid fire, plans to machine your own model internal combustion engine, and how to carve your own bow and arrows.

The other book is also filled with awesome projects. It has plans to build a real glider that you can use to glide down a large hill, a really simple, yet effective, lock mechanism, and a hand held mechanical fan. What I love about both of the books is that aside from some of the main projects, they are filled with little tips and tricks and ideas. Normally at the bottom corner of a page there is just a small picture and a short description of a really good idea/tip/trick.

I normally try to go through these books about every few months because they are so interesting. I’d highly recommend that you buy them for yourself just because of all the great projects in them.