Sandra Powell, a/k/a Sawdust Girl, shows us how she put together her functional, organized, multilevel drill-and-driver-bit storage drawer:
Back in that sweet Parisian workshop, the La Fabrique DIY channel shows you how to add some highly-visible, waterproof LED lighting to your bike wheels, for better nighttime safety:
Talk about eyeballing skills: Matthias Wandel makes a wooden-body block plane, without taking a single measurement that we could see, basing the design on his tiny modelmaker's plane. He ergonomicizes the form and even makes the freaking blade:
Frank Howarth has an easy way of lifting extraordinarily heavy items and machines in his shop and moving them around: His DIY gantry crane. You've undoubtedly seen it in the background, or in use in the foreground, in his other videos. Here he explains how it's put together, and why he designed it the way he did.
Bob Clagett comes up with a great way to make changing filaments on his 3D printer, which requires getting around to the back of it, quicker and easier:
April Wilkerson spruces up her bathroom counter and sink with some unconventional design techniques, adding countertop storage and dividing a large single mirror into two smaller ones, without having to cut any glass:
Steve Ramsey tackles the problem of not being able to access under-sink storage in a tight bathroom space:
Homebuilder Ron Paulk shows you his tricks of the trade for hanging and installing kitchen cabinets. Here we see how decades of experience pays off with careful forethought, smart preparation and gathering the right (sometimes surprising, in the case of the bucket) tools:
It looks like Ana White's TV deal may have gotten extended. She reveals the surprise that while she and husband Jacob were building a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness and being recorded by HGTV, they weren't going back to a hotel at night; they were living out of a tent, with their two kids! To remedy that living challenge, they're working on a tiny house they can live in, and feed crews out of, during future in-the-wild builds.
You can't get a lot of building done without some sort of workbench. It's common for beginners to start off with something as humble as a door across sawhorses, but when you're ready to build your own, check out Jay Bates' demo:
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This is the most entertaining how-to video I've ever watched. I love the way you sped up the repetitive parts & slowed down for the more interesting parts. It must take some work to edit all the footage into something like this. Hat's off to you!