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.
Young UK woodworker, Matt Estlea, had a thought. Finishing and polishing waxes are made out of wax. And so are crayons. He wanted to know if he could finish wood with melted crayons mixed in liming wax. The results are pretty impressive.
Our pal Alex of French Guy Cooking recently teamed up with blacksmith Alec Steele to create his own meat hammer. Once he got it back to the kitchen, Alex decided to experiment with all of the various ways one can use a hammer in the kitchen.
Via Donald Bell’s latest Maker Update comes this useful web app. Type in any text and the app will render it in stencil form. You can upload fonts and you can save the resulting file as an SVG.
Testing Tolerances in 3DP
Donald Bell recently ran a contest on his Maker Update YouTube show to give away three copies of my new book, Tips and Tales from the Workshop. Viewer Jonathan Whitaker submitted this winning tip: Before you 3D print a large mechanism, or part of one,…
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