New Guy Interested in DIY Tool Ideas

**SlimB** · Oct 21, 2018, 09:40 PM

Hey. My name is Keith.

I decided to join this site because I've been interested in fabrication for a long time now...half my life. I started working on cars when I was 14 years old. I tore them apart to see how they worked then scrapped most of them. As time went on I was able to tear them apart and put them back together. Now I'm 31 years old, and I'm interested in fabricating an off-road dune buggy. I bought the dune buggy plans online for nearly $100, and now I've decided to make the tools to make the buggy because the overall cost of this project is already in the $7,500 - $10,000 Canadian Dollar range. Therefore I want to keep my costs down but hopefully keep my quality of product at par or exceeding the tool manufacturers expectations. If I see that a tool I built in the past is not up on this site, I will be more then glad to post it myself. Take care!

**Jon** · Oct 22, 2018, 10:02 AM

Hi Keith - welcome to HomemadeTools.net

What tools are you planning on building? Tube bender?

**SlimB** · Dec 4, 2018, 11:27 AM

Hey, I apologize for the delayed response. I'm interested in building as many great quality homemade tools as I possibly can. However, you hit the nail on the head...I'm starting with building a tube/pipe bender. What kind of tools do you build?

**Jon** · Dec 4, 2018, 12:32 PM

Here you go, this should help: Homemade Tube Benders - HomemadeTools.net

**SlimB** · Dec 6, 2018, 12:51 PM

Thanks Jon, I'll be sure to look into it. I can't wait to start building it. I just have 7 projects ahead of it thus far, so I'm going to complete them, then move onto the pipe/tube bender.