Category: Woodworking

  • Giza 66 clone – 8 shot rubber band gun

    I really enjoyed making my clone of the ogg craft modotchao rubber band gun, and decided to take a crack at another which caught my eye.This one is the giza 66, and it is a much simpler gun than the modotchao. It has a single moving part, but there is some complexity to the gun.

  • Rubber band gun – MODOTCHAO clone

    I would love to claim that I designed my latest project, but all I did was find this video, and be inspired to try to copy the design. I have always been a fan of making things with mechanisms, and so the incredible collection of rubber band guns that ogg craft has designed and built…

  • Spalted beech playing card case

    Over the last couple of weekends I have made myself a wooden case for a deck of playing cards

  • Custom MakerGeek playing cards

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I have the best wife in the world. On this occasion her awesomeness is demonstrated through the medium of playing cards. A deck of cards designed by her just for me!

  • Learning CAD, Designing with openSCAD

    F2!? seriously openSCAD F2!!!???what the hell? It was an hour into my first experience with designing with openSCAD, when disaster struck. But I’m jumping ahead, lets go back to the beginning…

  • Adjustable oak book stand

    This christmas my wife and I agreed that we would make our gifts for each other. Given we made the decision a month or so before christmas it allowed plenty of time to figure out a plan, order supplies, and have some weekends to actually start making.. 

  • New workshop!

    I  figured it’s about time I wrote about my new workshop. In truth I’ve not spent a huge amount of time building or making in it yet. I’ve mostly been doing setup stuff to get myself in a position to make something.

  • Phone camera stand – going paperless

      Recently I’ve read a couple of articles on ditching the filing by using evernote to take pictures of important documents and just shredding the originals. Or at least be less worried about how they’re stored since you can always search for and recover the digital version.

  • Custom Headphones – Part 3: Headband and finish

    I mentioned in the first part on design that I had guessed that the metal in metal coat hangers might be just flexible enough to form to a shape I want, and just stiff enough to provide some springy tension. It was this that formed the basis for my headband design.

  • Custom headphones – Part 2: Speaker housing

    Following on from my first post on the design of my custom headphones, in this part I walk through the construction of the speaker housing. The most obvious place to start construction is in the piece that will hold the speakers.