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Talk about homemade tools and ideas for homemade tools in this forum. If you post any of your homemade tools, they'll be automatically added to the HomemadeTools.net directory of homemade tools, and credited to your username. The best tools are awarded a $100 weekly prize. Tool tips and tricks should go in the Tool Tips and Tricks subforum.

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  5. Looking to add a treadmill motor to a JD Wallace vintage bandsaw.

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  7. PTO driven timber trailer - video

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  8. Making a new Vise for the Flat Iron Bender

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  9. Low profile jack - video

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  10. Sliding angle grinder - video

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  12. Disc sander lathe attachment - video

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  15. Angle plates - video

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  18. Two piece mill table vise - video

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