This first maker video's got nothing being made in it, and instead has to do with you. Izzy Swan has pulled together sponsorship for a furniture design competition, where the winner's piece will go into production and the designer will get royalties! You can learn about the competition at this link, and you can also hear Izzy tell you about it himself:
From La Fabrique DIY comes this French gent, who's got a view of the Eiffel Tower—kind of. If you stick your head out of the window of his Parisian flat and crane it a bit, you can see it. But he wanted to see it all the time, particularly at night when it's lit up, so came up with this:
I almost didn't watch this one because it sounded too basic, but I'm glad I did, because Ana White's got a clever trick up her sleeve to quickly build some utility shelves:
Some of you own some of Festool's expensive products, and those of you that don't hate those of us who do, either out of jealousy or because you think we're overpaying idiots. In any case, here homebuilder Ron Paulk explains the best way to clamp the track—and explains why, to him, the tracksaw will not replace a table saw. For those of you who've been debating whether you could replace your tablesaw with a tracksaw, you'll want to watch this and see if your needs line up with Ron's.
I don't even know where to begin with this one. It's not nuts that Jimmy DiResta made a metal chess set using a lathe. It is nuts that he freaking freehanded all of the designs! Some cool details in this vid: Check out how he adds the knurled texture to the cylindrical base—I had no idea that that's how it was done—and how he mills the crenellations for the rooks, the crown for the Queens, etc. And of course, there's some pieces that can't be done on the lathe, like the knights; he shows you how he did those too. At the end he uses the originals to make molds and then casts duplicates.
Frank Howarth got his hands on a beast of a vintage tool: An old-school drum sander, the old-school jointer-style kind with no top. There's a lot of problem-solving here, starting with how to get something so big and heavy out of one person's shop and into Howarth's, which is down three steps. And once it's in, well, that's just the beginning….
This last one is a bit of sunshine. Steve Ramsey, the woodworker with a heart of gold, co-sponsored the 2015 Makers Care project, which asked makers to send in self-made toy airplanes for charity. Ramsey and others pitched in $5 per plane, and raised over $8,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation! Ramsey then stitched all of the planes together in a single video, and somehow cleared the rights to a certain catchy Katrina and the Waves tune:
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