To Our HomemadeTools.net Community,

We've been amazed (and pleased!) to see how many people love homemade tools as much as we do, so we thought you'd appreciate a good excuse to spend more time perusing the site - and the opportunity to win some prizes in the process!

Toward that end, we're announcing the first monthly HomemadeTools.net Contest. Eligible forum members may nominate entries as replies to this thread. Nominations should include both the name of the tool and its HomemadeTools.net link.

We've chosen a broad theme for this first Contest: Best Homemade Tool

The official rules:

  • Forum members with at least five (5) posts or who've been members for at least 30 days may nominate and vote
  • A member may not nominate his own tool, but he may vote for it should it be nominated by someone else


Prize structure:

  • 1st = $100 hardware-related gift card (winner's choice of several) + HomemadeTools.net T-shirt
  • 2nd = $50 hardware-related gift card (winner's choice of several) + HomemadeTools.net T-shirt
  • 3rd = HomemadeTools.net T-shirt
  • Bonus = The nominator of the 1st prize winner will also receive a HomemadeTools.net T-shirt


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The Contest's nomination phase will last for two weeks, followed by a ten day voting period conducted via forum poll. The three tool entries garnering the most votes will be declared the winners and announced on Monday, November 11.

OK, tool fans: get to it!! Reply directly in this thread with your nominations.