How to Make a Lightsaber

For Star Wars day, Bob Clagett fulfills a longtime goal and figures out how to build a lightsaber with convincing sound and illumination. Along the way he has to overcome multiple setbacks, but he pulls it off:

Update on the Design of the Mobile Woodshop

Ron Paulk is eager to "start making sawdust," to get to work on his new mobile woodshop. "But the design is king and must come first," he says, and here he pushes himself to make some crucial last-minute design changes, going over them in CAD:

How To Build a Queen Size Modular Bed

Linn from Darbin Orvar shows how to make a queen-size bed with integrated storage, and which is built in modules thatmake it easy to transport:

Small Tall Freakbike

Laura Kampf builds a crazy tall bike by splicing small- and regular-sized bike frames together:

DIY Steel I-Beam Table

In an effort to push out of his comfort zone, Ben Uyeda makes a table out of a steel I-beam—using nothing more than a $45 angle grinder:

Pentagon Pencil Cup in Walnut and Aluminum

Ben Brandt makes a nifty pentagonal pencil holder, using a simple method that doesn't require doing a lot of math:

Building a Plastics Shredder Out of Wood, Part 1

Jeremy Fielding has been recycling his own plastic, melting it down and re-forming it to use as raw material. Now he wants to build his own shredder to make the process easier. Here he's starting with Dave Hakkens' DIY shredder design, and seeing if he can make it without needing to weld, and at a very low cost:

Making 70 Hammers! Part 1

Here blacksmith Alec Steele uses a forge and a power hammer to turn billets into mallet heads:

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Classic Toolbox

In this Rockler-sponsored vid, Jimmy DiResta builds a classic tool chest using traditional techniques but some fancy hinge hardware: