Learning the Hard Way: Dealing With Disastrous Mistakes
The Samurai Carpenter starts out cutting one of those sexy Japanese lightning-bolt scarf joints, then cuts to footage of the deck he’s building, where a series of mistakes have created problems. He takes the setbacks in the way that all of us should recover from mistakes:
How to Make a No-Pour Concrete Topped Coffee Table
Ana White’s quick, simple design uses just $25 of raw materials:
DIY Upholstered Queen Size Headboard w/ Linen & Mahogany
Linn from Darbin Orvar uses upholstery techniques this week, building a button-tufted headboard for the bed she made last week:
Quick and Dirty Screen Printing (No Emulsion)
“Sometimes Screen Printing is the best option to get the Job done,” writes Laura Kampf, “but I don´t always have time to burn the screen properly and I usually don´t have the light sensitive emulsion at hand…or a darkroom. So here is how you can make a quick print without any of the professional equipment:”
DIY 2×4 Bench
As part of a self-imposed “2×4 Challenge,” Ben Uyeda creates a small bench using just two $3 2x4s:
Designing and Building a Kid’s Bench Using Two 2x4s
Ben’s podcasting partner, Chris Salomone, took the same challenge:
Lumber Stack Levelers
Matt Cremona designs and builds a system to keep the massive slabs from his self-built sawmill level when dried for stacking:
Forged Hinge Prototyping
Blacksmith Alec Steele starts making a rough version of the hinges he’ll put on the tool chest built for him by the Samurai Carpenter:
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