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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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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Best Homemade Tool of the Week - $100 weekly award

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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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  1. Bench chisel - video

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  5. Build a Mag-base drill press!

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  6. Sander/Planer Flipcart!

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  7. Adjustable holdfast - video

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  8. Metal bender - video

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  9. Bottom quill nut, spacer for my 3hp Enco mill

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  10. Turning outside calipers inside

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  11. Moved: A Tool for Hanging Pictures on the Wall

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  12. Sheet and pipe bending machine - video

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  14. Using a fixture to make button cutters - video

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  15. Belt grinder - video

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  17. Rail anvil - video

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  18. Table saw taper jig - video

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  19. Mini stator winding machine - video

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