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Top-ten posts, photos and bookmarks (Related Tags: kitchen, tools, recipe, cocktail, gear, woodworking, craft, utensils, drink, skillset) There are drinks that are fairly easy to serve, such as beer and wine, as you simply need to open and pour.

top-ten posts, photos and bookmarks (Related Tags: kitchen, tools, recipe, cocktail, gear, woodworking, craft, utensils, drink, skillset)

Many spirits can be enjoyed in nearly the same way: whiskey neat, brandy in a glass, sake warmed. There are the highballs that are fairly easy to figure out: the vodka cranberry, rum and Coke, gin and tonic. 1181-1340220830-6.jpg (500×1221) Looptaggr. Basic Construction And Carpentry Techniques. Tree House Plans - How to Build a Backyard Tree House. A chain hoist helped raise a heavy pile of green oak, barn siding and pine flooring up into this formerly unoccupied Kentucky coffee tree.

Tree House Plans - How to Build a Backyard Tree House

Make your own Airsoft machine gun with a soda bottle. Would you like to own an Airsoft gun, but can’t afford to buy one?

Make your own Airsoft machine gun with a soda bottle

How about making one instead using a soda bottle? Better yet, how about making a machine gun that only requires 4 cheap and commonly available parts that’s capable of firing hundreds Airsoft BBs before a reload is required? The informative video below shows you exactly how to do that for around $15. The parts you’ll need include a plastic soda bottle, a quick release air compressor adaptor, an air compressor blowgun, and a 7mm by 6-inch brake line. The other thing you will need is a compressed air supply. The instructions make this look simple to do. Any concerns over the pressure inside the bottle are laid to rest in the comments on the YouTube video.

The Deal – Building An Ultra-Budget Bouldering Cave - The Deal. Ghettofabulous.

The Deal – Building An Ultra-Budget Bouldering Cave - The Deal

If you go by the book, you can easily piss away well over $1000 on a small home bouldering cave. Fortunately, there’s no need to go by the book, and you can piece together a fun little wall for under $200– holds and all. Disclaimer #1: Your wall probably won’t be as pretty as a more expensive wall. It will, however, have more character and probably offer more climbing options. If your wall turns out anything like mine, a high school wood shop teacher would give you an A for creativity and an F for finish carpentry. Disclalimer #2: Nothing described here falls within the bounds of professional craftsmanship or is by any means up to “building code”. How To Make A Ring Pull Smoke Grenade. Sansa Clip+ recorder external input hack.

Here’s (one of) my shiny new $20 4 GB Sansa Clip+ MP3 recorder/players from Woot.

Sansa Clip+ recorder external input hack

It’s smaller than I’d pictured – but that’s fine. The little “R” melted into the back of the clip might well mark it as refurbished, but I don’t know. The first step was to install the open source RockBox firmware. That provides essentially all the features the hardware is capable of – far more than the manufacturer chose to expose. It’s fantastic. The only recording input is a built in microphone. A good tool to start cracking the case open was a watch case opener from a cheap set of watch repair tools from Woot or somebody.

With the back off, the battery dominates the view. The outside of the battery had two little strips of double sided tape – probably to make it really hard to get the case apart. I managed to lift the PCB enough to see where the mic was soldered in.

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How to make a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months. Off-Beat DIY Project Pictures - More Show Me How Review. In the early 19th century, the civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard's eloquently rendered charts convinced us that sometimes infographics trump text.

Off-Beat DIY Project Pictures - More Show Me How Review

They don't always work, of course—imagine how boring On the Road would have been if Jack Kerouac had drawn it as a time line—but the medium lends itself to lists and how-to guides. The folks who published the book Show Me How understood this: Graphics explain things, and lots of graphics in comic-strip form can explain several hundred things. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. How To Build a Cajon - Wood and Frame. So, the wood.

How To Build a Cajon - Wood and Frame

Wonder How To » How To Videos & How-To Articles. How To Replace Struts - Car Strut Replacement Photos and Step By Step - How To Install New Struts. Compress the Brake Piston - How to Replace Your Brake Pads. Carbon Fiber Primer. It seems as though nearly everything “high performance” these days boasts some amount of carbon fiber in its construction.

Carbon Fiber Primer

Originally used in aerospace, carbon fiber has moved into the mainstream and can be found in luxury automobiles, mountain bikes, and sports equipment. Some laptops and cellphones even use printed decals to simulate this lightweight material’s cutting-edge look. The good news is that you don’t need a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to work with carbon fiber composites. In fact, you can do it at home. This article discusses some of the basics of carbon fiber construction and explains how to create a carbon fiber iPod case. It should be noted that the techniques demonstrated in this project are simplified so that the average hobbyist can perform them at home.

Understanding Carbon Fiber Composites are created from two or more dissimilar materials that act together as one. Top 10: Easy Woodworking Projects. Skill Set: Making A Butterfly Spline (Or “Arikata”) For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques.

Skill Set: Making A Butterfly Spline (Or “Arikata”)

Here, he presses into service some of the tools covered in previous articles. — Gareth.