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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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  1. Moved: Cyclone Vacuum Dust Separator

    Started by chy_farm, Apr 6, 2018 06:01 PM
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  2. Moved: Welder ruck with a couple of cantilevered tables

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  3. Moved: Toe Jack

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  4. Machine dogs, simple to make and use.

    Started by thehomeengineer, Apr 6, 2018 04:13 PM
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  5. Moved: [Woodwind instruments making] making reamers

    Started by Christophe Mineau, Apr 6, 2018 12:27 AM
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  6. Unhappy Woven wire roller and stretcher

    Started by Priemsy, Apr 6, 2018 04:45 PM
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  7. Gas bottle garden roller

    Started by Steved53, Apr 4, 2018 03:28 AM
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  8. Moved: Steam-driven computer

    Started by mklotz, Apr 2, 2018 08:22 AM
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  9. Moved: Low Profile Milling Vice

    Started by editor@glue-it.com, Apr 2, 2018 02:40 AM
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  10. Drill press slop

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  11. Moved: Large Flycutter

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  12. Moved: Paint bungs

    Started by thehomeengineer, Mar 31, 2018 02:48 PM
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  13. Phenolic resin faced plywood

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  14. Moved: Homemade 25 ton hydraulic press

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  15. Moved: Automated Pimped Router Table

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