A few years ago my grandparents gave me this really cool set of woodcarving tools. They belonged to my grandfather who used them for, well, wood carving! I’ve seen some of his carvings and they are incredible. One carving that I remember well was a wooden ball that rolled around in a little wooden […]
I have always been fascinated with catapults. Although I have built probably over a dozen, I haven’t built one in a long while. So one night over the past week I was sitting at my desk and saw my container of airsoft BBs and thought to myself that I had never made a catapult to […]
I really like to play ping pong. The only problem for me is that there is just no room in my house for a ping pong table, so I don’t get to play very often. I realized that the dinner table at my house is pretty big and would probably suffice as a ping pong […]
A couple of months ago I picked up a few cigar boxes at a yard sale for three bucks. I got them because they seemed great for projects and mainly to make a cigar box guitar at some point. So I guess it was about a week and a half ago I was sitting at […]
I normally try to save my money where I can. If I can build my own of something for cheaper than I can buy a commercial one for, I most often will. In this case it is a balsa stripper. I needed one of these tools the other evening but I didn’t want to spend […]