For those of you that own table saws, have you ever had to take yours apart? I'm not talking about swapping out the blade, I mean actually getting inside the machine and removing parts to perform maintenance. That's what Frank Howarth had to do when trying to diagnose and repair the sticky adjustment handwheels on his Powermatic.

While most of us would try to complete that job as quickly as possible, Howarth realized he had a prime opportunity to create one of his killer stop-motion videos revealing the process. And after "5 days and 5,888 frames," here's what he came up with:

Unbelievable, as always. And is it just me, or animation and storytelling skills aside, is Howarth's sound design killer or what? In the following "making-of" video he not only shows you the work that goes into capturing his shots, but also shows you how he creates some of the sounds that he does. As a bonus, you also get to see the DIY creations he came up with to pan and rotate the camera, and he reveals how he gets certain parts to "crawl" up vertical surfaces:

Longtime Howarth watchers will note the new watermark in the first video. Yes, it's finally happened, unscrupulous folks have begun stealing his videos and reposting them to cash in on the traffic. Same thing happened to Izzy Swan, and just yesterday I stumbled across a website that rips off Core77--I'm talking blatant cut-and-pastes of entire posts, word-for-word--with no attribution whatsoever. The internet giveth, and the internet taketh away.

Howarth putting in the hours