Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Tips of the Week is our weekly peek at some of the best making tips, tricks, and recommendations we’ve discovered in our travels. Check in every Friday to see what we’ve discovered. And we want to hear from you. Please share your tips, shortcuts, best practices, and tall shop tales in the comments below and we might use your tip in a future column.
Here’s a tip from The Family Handyman. To keep your wood putties fresh, keep their cans submerged in a paint can filled with water.
I love this tip from the always-entertaining Bobby Duke. In this video of him transforming a DiResta ice pick into a tiny sword, he shows how he turns 3M sandpaper that has a heat-activated adhesive backing into small sanding sticks. All you do is heat up the backing, burnish the sticks you want to sandpaper-ify onto the paper backing, and then trim it.
I got to do something truly wonderful this past week. Every year (for the past three years), my grown son and I spend a week on a Gamecation. He takes off from work and comes home so that he and I can do nothing but play tabletop games, paint miniatures, and build…
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