Build Your Own Festool Style Work Station

I needed a way to clamp awkward guitar bodies and necks to my bench and I didn’t want to pay a grand for the Festool Multi-Function Table and the clamping elements to go with it, so I built my own version.  You can make one of these in an afternoon with 1/2 a...

My Home Built CNC Router

Watching a CNC machine that you built with your own hands come to life is one of the more exciting event you’ll ever witness (child birth excluded!)  I spent a few months designing, welding and tuning up the stepper motors on my CNC machine.  This was the first...

Back Yard Boat Building

Let’s take a look inside one of the most exciting projects being built on the internet today.  Doug Jackson is building a 73′ Origami Chinese Junk Boat in his back yard.  While I visited him in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I helped with some aluminum welding, some...