WoodworkingIdeas. Folding Workbench. Overview Here’s a workspace that’s huge and accessible from all sides yet folds up and stows away easily. If you don’t have room for a full-size permanent workbench but really need space to spread things out, this workbench is it. It opens to a solid 4 x 7-ft. surface with both wings up, yet closes and rolls into a small 4-ft. x 18-in. spot in a corner of the room. It’s a perfect workspace for the garage or basement. It’s also a great surface for making repairs, working on hobbies, cutting sewing patterns, wrapping gifts, folding laundry, doing stained glass crafts or even just holding a mechanic’s parts.
This project has no complex wood joints. Just straight cuts, careful measuring and some nailing and screwing. Cutting and Shopping Lists Exploded diagram of workbench Figure A: Folding Workbench Details With this illustration, and the Cutting and Shopping Lists, you have the basics for building your own folding workbench. Assembly is as simple as glue and nails 1 of 3 Photo 1: Cut the pieces. Amateur Woodworker: Japanese Lamp. It has been said that beauty comes from simplicity. If so, then this lamp is a classic example. It has a delicate appearance and looks difficult to make, while it is actually very simple to construct and should take no longer than a weekend to complete from beginning to end. The result is an appealing lamp that makes an excellent gift. And what better time to make one than just before the holiday festivities! Construction Wood Type: Cherry. Building the inner frames 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Building the legs 7. 8. 9. Joining the frame to the legs 10. 11. 12. Building the lamp top 13. 14. 15. Image Result for.
How to Make a Three Axis CNC Machine (Cheaply and Easily) A salute to those who have laboured through to this point (and to demonstrate that it is reproducable) Here are some pictures of other peoples machines. Photo 1 - Chris and his friend put together this unit; laser cutting the parts out of half inch acrylic. Not only does it look super it must weigh a ton. But kudos, anyone who's worked with acrylic knows laser cutting it is great but it is a very very unfriendly material to drill and there is a lot of side drilling in this design. Good job guys, check out more details (and photos including some testing with circuit boards) on Chris's blog rainbowlazer.com. I particularly like his work with making 3-d objects out of 2d cuts (here) . Photo 2 - Sam McCaskill has finished his desktop CNC machine and it's looking really really nice. Super impressively he also resisted the urge to cheat and cut all his pieces by hand. Photo 3 - Angry Monk's - With MDF pieces cut on a laser cutter and drive converted from toothed belts to threaded rod.
3D printers DIY plans and build instructions. 1. Darwin RepRap 3D printer - The first RepRap RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" is a rapid prototyping machine that is capable of making the majority of its own component parts. Instructions and all necessary data are available completely free under the GNU General Public Licence from this website to everyone. As RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" can copy itself, once you have one you can make others for your friends; or if they have one you can ask them to make one for you. Of course, you can also make as many as you want for yourself; the more you have, the faster you will be able to make other items. RepRap etiquette asks that you use your machine to make the parts for at least two more Darwins for other people at cost, as well as using it to make whatever you or anyone else on the internet can think up...
Darwin consists of a frame made from rods and printed parts. How to build RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" 2. Mendel RepRap 3D printer build manual 3. Prusa Mendel RepRap 3D printer build manual 4. 5. Morovian style hinges. For the live auction at the conference Al Olson made a sturdy wooden tool box and I got to make the hinges, hasp and bale handles. I took some in-process shots of the tops of the hinges and figured I would share them here. Attachment: Image resized to 20% of its original size [2448 x 3264] Morovian hinge design.JPG [ 2.29 MiB | Viewed 327 times ] This is the design I came up with.
Morovian hinge tops split.JPG [ 2.48 MiB | Viewed 327 times ] After some quick napkin math I split about 3 1/4" of a 1 1/4" by 1/8" stock . Morovian hinge one side forged.JPG [ 2.24 MiB | Viewed 327 times ] I then turned and welded the barrel, finished splitting the little horns, and roughly shaped the first side of the hinge. Morovian hinge tops shaped.JPG [ 2.25 MiB | Viewed 327 times ] I shaped the second side of the hinge and went back to tweak the other side getting them to match and to fit within the 2" strip it was going to have to mount on. Morovian hinge tops and bottoms.JPG [ 2.29 MiB | Viewed 327 times ] Free projects. The Free projects category is dedicated to people who find pleasure in making various useful things from wood or metal.
Every single man that has done something with his own hands knows what a great satisfaction it is to look at a finished assembly. That satisfaction comes out from the quality time he spent, applying of knowledge and experience, overcoming many challenges and obstacles that emerge during the manufacture and also from the fact that he made some useful thing with his own hands and does not have to buy it. People are much more attached to the things that they made by themselves than to the industrial products, even if their own handwork is usually simpler. And because of that pleasure, here we are offering you the plans for manufacturing various items, regardless whether they are rarity in the market or common everyday objects – from a completely simple to quite complex ones.
The individual manufacture of various useful or decorative items is not just a hobby. Wooden puzzle box plan. How to make a Framed Mirror with a Shelf. Woodturning Options for Creating Pen Blanks and Where to Get Them / Rockler How-to. Pen blanks can be made from just about anything, from scrap bin wood to deer antlers to interesting woods you find in stores or online. Pen blanks can be made from just about anything you can turn ... from antlers to synthetics to wood salvaged from your favorite tree. Once you start turning pens, you’ll probably find suitable pen blanks every place you look.
Since the blanks are so small, they’re good projects for using the tiny scraps you can’t bear to throw out. I collect those small-but-precious scraps in a bin in my shop. Once I’ve accumulated a pile, I cut them to pen size (3/4" x 3/4" x 6" works well). If you want to take a shortcut, you can purchase pen blanks from a variety of places. Engineers Edge - Design, Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions. Free DIY Furniture Plans to Build a PB Teen Inspired Display-It Storage Mirror. Do It 101.com, Carpentry for Boys Chapter 4 - How To Design Articles.
Fundamentals of Designing. —A great deal of the pleasure in making articles consists in creative work. This means, not that you shall design some entirely new article, but that its general form, or arrangement of parts, shall have some new or striking feature. A new design in any art does not require a change in all its parts. It is sufficient that there shall be an improvement, either in some particular point, as a matter of utility, or some change in an artistic direction. A manufacturer in putting out a new chair, or a plow, or an automobile, adds some striking characteristic. This becomes his talking point in selling the article. The Commercial Instinct. It would be impossible, in a book of this kind, to do more than to give the fundamental principles necessary in designing, and to direct the mind solely to essentials, leaving the individual to build tip for himself.
First Requirements for Designing. Conventional Styles. Mission Style. Cabinets. Harmony of Parts. Harmonizing Wood.