This one is nuts! Jimmy DiResta not only fabricates a kris-style blade from Damascus steel, but then fabricates a spring-loaded brass mechanism that allows him to pop it in and out of a cane/scabbard:
Prior to this video we never heard Matthias Wandel say he's nervous, but here he has good reason to be: He's attempting a rather unorthodox method of using a bandsaw as a sawmill. I almost bit my nails while watching this:
Now that he's had a few months to live with it and abuse it, Izzy Swan shores up the design of his innovative fast-action bench vise and demonstrates it in use:
Izzy lays out safety, efficiency and maintenance tips borne from years of experience. I hadn't thought of the baseball cap issue:
Frank Howarth attends the auction where his wooden handprint art piece is on the block, first fabricating a bowtie for himself from the original piece's cut-offs:
Still no shop, but April Wilkerson's making do working off the back of her truck. Here she knocks together a picnic table at her folks' property:
Steve Ramsey has become Kondo-ized after reading Marie Kondo's Decluttering Bible. Here he comes up with a simple contraption to make her prescribed method of T-shirt storage work better:
Bob Clagett repurposes an old hard plastic toolcase, kitting it out to carry all of his drone gear with protective foam fittings:
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Best tablesaw tip: get a tracksaw instead.