MetaFilter posts tagged with craftmanship

HTBYERRF

Harald74 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:19:09 -0800

A few years ago Charles Guan was a teacher's assistant in MIT's 2.007 introductory design and manufacturing class. To help out his fellow students he made a guide to building robots quickly and efficiently. Now he has expanded the original guide, retitled it How to Build your Everything Really Really Fast (HTBYERRF) and published it on Instructables, available for anyone wishing to progress from the "zip ties and duct tape" stage of building things.

The Work Magazine Reprint Project

Harald74 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:16:20 -0800

Brooklyn-based Tools for Working Wood are in the process of weekly reprinting every single issue of Work: An Illustrated Magazine of Practice and Theory on their blog, having just finished the first year. The original magazine's first issue was published March 23rd, 1889, and the blog is republishing 123 years after the original. The latest issue has instructions on sign-writing and gilding, how to make a piano, electric clock fitment, construction and application of kaleidoscopes and much more. Earlier issues feature everything from brooches to gas engines. For easier navigation an index is available.

Tools for the 1/12 scale craftsman

Harald74 — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:20:00 -0800

The Toolchest Site does what it says on the tin. Possibly the most mind blowing tool chest on the site is this masterful 1/12 scale reproduction based on the Hewitt chest at Colonial Williamsburg, done by celebrated miniaturist William Robertson. Everything works like the original, down to the lock and the included tools like the plane and the folding rule.

From Steel: The Making of a Soulcraft

AndrewKemendo — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:16:50 -0800

Sean Walling invites us into his machine shop to show us in great detail how each and every Soulcraft frame is hand designed for the individual customer based on their fit needs and riding style. [SLV]

Building a bow

Upton O'Good — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:35:35 -0800

Arnold Smit shows, step by step, the crafting of a bow. More of his beautiful bows here. (Also available in Dutch.)