PRANG! is a brand new retro-style game - Play PRANG!
Friday, January 10, 2020
Play PRANG!
By Mike on Friday, January 10, 2020, 19:36
Friday, January 10, 2020
By Mike on Friday, January 10, 2020, 19:36
PRANG! is a brand new retro-style game - Play PRANG!
Saturday, February 25, 2017
By Mike on Saturday, February 25, 2017, 21:58
Coconut shell is quite an interesting material - underneath that bristly exterior, there is a lustrous dark shell that can be polished to quite a lovely finish.
In this article, I take a coconut shell and make it into a little musical instrument.
Monday, October 31, 2016
By Mike on Monday, October 31, 2016, 22:30
The wooden tops of my trusty old folding workbench were starting to look really beaten and worn - time to make them over with some lovely new hardwood.
After I finished doing that, I also had a great idea for repurposing the old scarred and worn bench tops into something unique and new.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
By Mike on Saturday, October 22, 2016, 04:18
More tinwork fun with drink cans. This time for a star-shaped box with a convex profile - the design is still a bit half-baked, but I'm putting it up here in case anyone wants to experiment with it.
(Article updated October 2016 with video tutorial to make this item into a shabby-chic Christmas tree ornament)
Thursday, August 4, 2016
By Mike on Thursday, August 4, 2016, 23:09
I wanted to make a one-off little knife to use when I go foraging for mushrooms. I made this one out of cheap junk.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
By Mike on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 21:59
A few years ago, I salvaged a collection of small but powerful rare earth magnets from old computer hard drives.
They've been sat there (well, actually stuck to a bit of shelving), waiting to be used for something. OK - let's go Magnet Fishing!
Sunday, April 17, 2016
By Mike on Sunday, April 17, 2016, 15:42
This is a project based on a woodworking technique that I discovered (or maybe invented!) completely by accident.
It's a wooden bowl made from slices of tree trunk - the clever part is that nature provides the curvature...
Sunday, March 1, 2015
By Mike on Sunday, March 1, 2015, 12:50
My daughter is working on an art project related to postal services and asked for my help with a bit of metal casting - this seemed like an ideal opportunity to do something I have heard of, but not yet tried - pewter casting into cuttlebone moulds.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
By Mike on Sunday, December 7, 2014, 19:49
This was a quick Sunday afternoon project to make a metal sculpture out of old tableware...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
By Mike on Saturday, September 13, 2014, 20:41
Here's a fun little project to convert an empty instant coffee jar into a storage jar with a wire clip top - using a wire coat hanger.
When I was thinking the design through, it occurred to me that it might be useful/fun to preserve the coat hanger hook and make this into a jar that can be hung up on a hook, for example, under a shelf.
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