This is a fun build: Jimmy DiResta creates--predominantly freehand!--a pirate-style treasure chest. Sheet metal brake? Not needed. Also check out the innovative way he uses the vise to create the small curved braces for the top:
The last one was fun, this one's funny, at least for NYC residents: DiResta builds a birdhouse (for pigeons?) in the NYC tenement house style:
This is fascinating: Matthias Wandel has a mouse problem in his country shop, decides to add complexity to his mousetrap design by adding a maze, then leaves a camera on to see what happens. As Wandel keeps tweaking the trap, we see he's got an extremely smart--and savings-minded--mouse.
The meticulous Frank Howarth designs more modifications and optimizations for his radial arm saw workstation, then builds them on-camera:
This week Jay Bates has to come up with a space-efficient design for a small router table. Space-efficient because, given limited room in his shop, he needs it to nest within his existing drill press stand:
April Wilkerson, who must secretly be a general contractor, rips up her yard this week and lays in a paved patio for her new firepit:
Bob Clagett finishes building his childhood dream vehicle
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