WoodTreks is a well-produced video blog about traditional woodworking with hand tools. Many of the videos are aimed at the beginner.
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posted by jedicus
on Oct 31, 2011 -
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Every day, our world gets a little bit smaller and a lot more complex. So much so that even minor decisions can have major consequences. Not just for trees or frogs or polar bears, but for human lives, and livelihoods. At its core, sustainability is about people.
The Living Principles for Design aim to guide purposeful action. It is a place to co-create, share and showcase best practices, tools, stories and ideas for enabling sustainable action across all design disciplines.
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posted by netbros
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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"My brother says that some day two men in white coats will come and take me away. Someone said that if they are men, after looking at the shop, they will forget what they came for and I should remain free". A
photo tour of the home workshop of Mr. Jacques Jodoin, including
a video walkthrough.
posted by woodblock100
on Sep 8, 2010 -
31 comments
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The multifunction folded shovle (sic) boasting a happy combination of a spade, pickax, trowel, hewing, knife, saw, scissors, hammer, operner
(sic), shield, anchor, and oar is perfect design and refined making, making a pioneer in tools family!" I can guarantee you that never before (or, likely, again) will you be
so inspired by a multifunction shovel commercial. The music is exhilarating! (PS: This shovel does freaking
everything.) (SLYT)
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posted by GatorDavid
on May 7, 2010 -
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B-Rhymes is a rhyming dictionary that compares words based on their sounds, making it ideal for finding near-rhymes.
posted by archagon
on Feb 15, 2010 -
28 comments
Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.
posted by Mitheral
on Mar 15, 2008 -
35 comments
Kwout,
Use it to grab a quick quotation or other screen shot from a web site and embed it into a blog or other website (one click to Flickr and Tumblr).. [
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posted by nickyskye
on Dec 26, 2007 -
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Hannu's Boatyard is a site by a Finnish guy who offers free plans for two dozen simple plywood boats you can build, along with photos illustrating the build process of each. He also describes basic woodbending technique and some of the design process, in a pleasing writing style that makes me want to get off the internet and make things. My favorites:
Portuguese style dinghy; tiny stubby
halfpea; round, Welsh-style
coracle -- if you click on no other link today, click on the coracle link and scroll down at least to the black and white photo.
posted by LobsterMitten
on Oct 12, 2007 -
31 comments
Baseball Race. "[A]n online application that allows you to view any Major League Baseball season, split by league or division (even wild card races), as an animated, date-by-date race between the various teams you choose."
posted by brain_drain
on Sep 11, 2006 -
22 comments
Old Wood Working Machines. Covering only North American manufactures, the OWWM website (referred to as the mothership) has 1160 scans of manuals, flyers, catalogs, and sales literature dating back over 100 years. The
FAQ is extensive and has exploded spinning off many pertinent
articles. OWWM also has almost 2200 user submitted,
machinery profiles showing machines as found and/or restored. One of the highlights is a write up on what appears to be the very
first (PDF) Delta Unisaw which was built before WWII and aside from mostly cosmetic changes is still built today.
posted by Mitheral
on Jan 24, 2005 -
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Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary Containing over 3000 pages the Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary was billed as
A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary. Published in 1876 it is a great resource for those trying to figure out how things were done in the time of our great (great?) grand parents. Ilustrations,
upwards of 5000 engravings, include a ride inside
monocycle,
trestle bridges,
compound microscope,
clod crushers,
washing machines,
spoke driver,
hydraulic wagon-tipper, and a
farmers tool-house. Warning: the book has been scanned in and all the item links are to 100-150K images.
posted by Mitheral
on Jan 12, 2005 -
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The forgotten technology - "I am a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction ... I have began to build a replica of Stonehenge with eight 10 ton blocks on end and 2 ton blocks on top. One man, no wheels, no rollers, no ropes, no hoist or power equipment, using only sticks and stones."
(some slow loading clips on the pages)
posted by madamjujujive
on Jul 22, 2004 -
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