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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 $250 monthly 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 Month - $250 monthly award

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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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  1. Moved: Tool for centering a punch mark in a lathe

    Started by Cascao, Mar 18, 2019 04:36 PM
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  2. Home Made Garden / Lawn Sprayer

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  3. Circular Saw Crosscut Jig - Video

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  4. 30hp Rotary Phase Converter

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  5. DIY Plywood Sawhorses

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  6. Milling a small Drill Press vise

    Started by TheArsonSmith4242, Mar 23, 2019 11:02 AM
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  7. Moved: Make Amazing DIY Star Knobs

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  8. Moved: Belt Grinder / Belt sander ...built in 2018

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  9. Lathe tailstock bed clamp

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  11. Contour duplication tool

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  13. Look, built a fence...

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  14. Moved: Repairing Nicked Extension Cords

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  15. Moved: Sawing Handheld Round Stock Safely

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