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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: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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

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  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: 173 Best Homemade Tools eBook - FREE

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  1. Moved: EDM (electric discharge machining) Machine

    Started by scorch, May 10, 2016 11:05 PM
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  2. edger attachment second wheel

    Started by sossol, May 21, 2016 11:48 PM
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  3. Edge trimmer chamfer plane - video

    Started by Jon, Oct 20, 2022 02:12 PM
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  4. Edge protection 1: inner tube

    Started by Philip Davies, Mar 23, 2020 07:08 AM
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  5. Moved: Edge Milling Vise

    Started by rossbotics, May 22, 2018 12:32 PM
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  6. Edge Finder Laser Cross Hair and Cordless

    Started by jjr2001, Dec 5, 2016 07:15 AM
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  7. Moved: Edge finder from a pin chuck.

    Started by olderdan, Jan 2, 2018 10:57 AM
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  8. Moved: Edge finder / Centering tool

    Started by doubleboost, Dec 19, 2013 02:34 PM
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  9. Edge finder - video

    Started by Jon, Dec 5, 2023 04:30 PM
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  10. Moved: Edge FINDER - DIY

    Started by machining 4 all, Sep 1, 2020 12:51 PM
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  11. Moved: Edge finder

    Started by threesixesinarow, Sep 8, 2018 11:57 AM
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  12. Edge Finder

    Started by Improvised DIY, Sep 2, 2023 12:23 AM
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  13. Moved: EDC Knife

    Started by Sam's Workshop Diary, Feb 27, 2020 02:37 AM
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  14. Ed's out feed table

    Started by special ed, Oct 17, 2016 10:37 PM
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  15. Economical Micro Lathe Tooling

    Started by uv8452, Sep 16, 2021 02:36 PM
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  16. Eccentric Turning Setup for 3 Jaws Chuck

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  17. Eccentric grinder from angle grinder - video

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