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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Best Homemade Tool of the Month - $250 monthly award

    Started by Jon, Jul 15, 2024 07:21 PM
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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Thousands of homemade tool plans

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  1. Radius sanding block

    Started by Christophe Mineau, Dec 12, 2014 11:59 AM
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  2. mechanic

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  3. Moved: Work holding clamp

    Started by mars-red, Jun 29, 2017 10:29 AM
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  4. Moved: Wire Binding Tool

    Started by brianhw, Jun 29, 2017 02:48 PM
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  5. Moved: Miniature boring head

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  6. Moved: Shear

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  7. Moved: Getting more from your angle grinder

    Started by Tuomas, Jun 26, 2017 09:06 PM
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  8. Moved: Hand hmmer

    Started by frugalolegeezer, Jun 27, 2017 10:15 PM
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  9. Moved: 8" linear DRO scale for my Atlas lathe.

    Started by oldtimer, Jun 28, 2017 09:50 AM
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  10. Moved: I like to do bench grinders

    Started by h7eh7e, Jun 10, 2017 09:15 AM
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  11. Moved: Quick and simple line boring bar

    Started by Frank S, Jun 28, 2017 09:42 PM
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  12. Moved: Another lathe "work truing" tool

    Started by Christophe Mineau, Jun 26, 2017 04:04 AM
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  13. A Diagnostic Tool for Arduino Software

    Started by rgsparber, Jun 20, 2017 08:40 AM
    arduino, debugging, software
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  14. dividing head

    Started by Laties11, Sep 4, 2016 05:19 AM
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  15. Moved: [Cooking]Cookie stamp

    Started by Christophe Mineau, Jun 26, 2017 12:46 AM
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  16. Low profile manual counter

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  17. Moved: torch cutter bar roller guide

    Started by oldtimer, Jun 25, 2017 03:25 PM
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