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Buying tools is an option, sure - but many can be made at a fraction of the cost and to your specific needs! You're guaranteed to learn a lot in the process; check out a few [[YouTube|Maker channels on YouTube]] (especially the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuKoJWkcJCp5xXP6ijx4g3lUxwcob9Lv5 Homemade Tools & Jigs playlist] by "Pask Makes") | Buying tools is an option, sure - but many can be made at a fraction of the cost and to your specific needs! You're guaranteed to learn a lot in the process; check out a few [[YouTube|Maker channels on YouTube]] (especially the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuKoJWkcJCp5xXP6ijx4g3lUxwcob9Lv5 Homemade Tools & Jigs playlist] by "Pask Makes") or these '''collections of plans''', for example: | ||
* [http://www.stumpynubs.com/homemade-tools.html "Stumpy Nubs Woodworking Journal"] | |||
* [http://www.homemadetools.net/ HomemadeTools.net] | |||
* [http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/index.html "In the Woodshop"] | |||
"Helper" tools, e.g. for making frequent steps more repeatable, are called [[jigs]]. | "Helper" tools, e.g. for making frequent steps more repeatable, are called [[jigs]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:41, 14 May 2020
Buying tools is an option, sure - but many can be made at a fraction of the cost and to your specific needs! You're guaranteed to learn a lot in the process; check out a few Maker channels on YouTube (especially the Homemade Tools & Jigs playlist by "Pask Makes") or these collections of plans, for example:
"Helper" tools, e.g. for making frequent steps more repeatable, are called jigs.
Ideas
Here are a few tools that you could make:
- wooden mallets
- foam brushes
- clamps & vises
- e.g. "Moxon vise"
- similar & simpler: "mobiler Bankhelfer am Werktisch" HolzWerken
- toolmaker's clamp
- check out the list on ibuildit.ca!
- right-angle welding clamp
- Izzy Swan's wedging corner clamps
- e.g. "Moxon vise"
- sanding tools
- sanding drums (for rotary tool or drill press)
- sanding mops/"sanding stars"
- sanding block, e.g. this one
- woodturning tools
- marking knives
- measuring gauges, e.g. angle checkers/bevel gauges or bore gauge
- easily laser cut!
- "French curve" drawing aids
- also just easily made 2D shapes
- draw knife (e.g. from an old saw blade)
- "mini hacksaw"
- safe capacitor discharge tool
- "Lötfanten" third hands for soldering
- inertial sander (a.k.a. bowl sander/rotary sander for woodturning
- metal bar bender to integrate in a workbench
- three-way wood splitter to prepare stock for woodturning
- coping saw
- and many more!
Pages in category "Self-Made Tools"
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