Leave it to Izzy Swan to come up with an ingenious way to place a lathe inside a crowded shop. It not only flips into position when needed, but check out how he's rigged it up to slide the existing cabinet-top, mounted with a spindle sander, out of the way:
After noticing undue vibration in his bandsaw, Matthias Wandel shows you how to examine each component, to investigate the cause and come up with a fix:
This one's probably not for the hand tool uninitiated, as some knowledge is required to understand the vid. Here Jay Bates runs down what the real differences are between a Wood River smoothing plane, and a Lie-Nielsen smoothing plane that costs about twice as much.
Endgrain cutting board? Not for April Wilkerson, who's got a knife-throwing habit. Thus, she makes an endgrain target board. It sounds like a simple project, but she shows her talent for thinking ahead and discarding the typical design, instead devising something much easier to maintain. (Also, Green Bay fans are advised to not watch the ending of this video!)
Steve Ramsey runs down some tips for those of you who need to buy tools but are on a budget:
This is crazy! The "How to Make Everything" channel literally made everything required for spectacles, making the glass from scratch. And grinding the lenses to match his prescription. And harvesting and milling the lumber to make the frames out of. Not everything goes according to plan, of course:
And here's David Picciuto creating the frames seen in the alternate pair, with more success:
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