One advantage of DIY is you can make stuff no respectable professional craftsman would, unless you offered a lot of cash and he still wouldn't sign it. :haha:

Pass.

On both.

I find this hard to believe, no splitting and I didn't see drilled pilot holes. I guess it's like the 2x4 through a phone pole from a hurricane. I suspect the "nails" have to be fresh, plus the right phase of the moon and weight of the jockey.

That is cool.

Easy to drill out if one is defective, but hard to know whether one is defective, before or after use. I would expect the relative hardness of the woods to matter. Beech is fairly hard, and "compressed beech" is probably harder. If there's any other treatment/infusion to keep it compressed, it would be even harder (and may compensate for defects in the wood grain).


Not sure I'd trust it as the sole fastener for the use shown in the video (fasten 2x4 as table leg, fasten corners of a bedframe), but I probably wouldn't trust a metal brad for that either. To keep a real joint from slipping, though, it ought to work fine.

Interesting concept.

It's basically dowel joinery, without the glue. But the glue doesn't matter if the "lignin welding" actually does bond between the wooden nail and surrounding wood like they claim. HM is right, though, that it's not going to make a very strong joint all by itself.

I can see it being used to nail decking down. Gravity is holding those boards in place anyway and the wooden nails just keep them from shifting.

Here is the technical data they offer for the strength of their LignaLoc wooden nails. I'm not smart enough to understand what that means. I think shear strength is probably the most important value. They talk about "Shear resistance" being 362 Newtons for the wooden LignoLoc nails. When I look up values for screws to see if they compare, I found this one reference that talks about Simpson screws having "fastener allowable steel strength" in shear of 800 lbf. One lbf is 4.45N, so the steel screws have 3,560 N of shear strength vs. 362 N for the wooden nails.

So steel is ten times stronger than wood.

But maybe you don't need all that strength for everything you make.

Very useful if you're sneaking a deck through airport security.

"Sir, are you hiding something in your pants?"

"Just my deck."

Mama said, if you're going to have vices make sure they are clean ones.

I like. It's very ornate, of course, and I would be afraid to really whale on that little anvil surface at the front by the clamp. But it's perfect for smaller more precise tasks.

Get out of my head.

Tricky case...

Hell no. A thousand times no.

The butterfly is pretty.

If you're going to fill in the voids with resin, why not be honest and make it visible.

I would do that with a different color.

Like transparent blue.

That's a lot better.

Because it looks like shit.

My shit ain't blue. :headshake

Alien shit, then.

Then be some fancy stairs...

much like

Beautiful. I like it lot.

I've seen a Dutchman holding a crack together before, but never in a structural element. It looks sturdy, but I wonder if the builder did any calculations.

A little pool? Or would that be billiards?

Another table...

And one more table...

This is just crazy, DIY racing game...

So unrealistic!

I mean, who has that much cardboard just laying around?!

Nice pool tables.

I don't like six-legged pool tables.

No idea why, just prefer four legs.

This one is sectional...

Make your own mosquito breeding facility...

Thats why you have fish in it to eat the larvae. The coons love fresh fish when they come by in the night.

If you find a crashed flying saucer move right in...

Before you tackle the creation of your dreams you must know about tools...

Tools explained.

DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light . Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh--!'

SKIL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.

PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.

BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.

TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans.. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.

HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.

UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.

SON-OF-A-BITCH TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BITCH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

Haggis!


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I can testify to the truth in that post, xoB.

Regular Walt Disney circle of life thing.

For when I can't find the SOB tool, I keep the GDMFCS one handy.

I started my acquaintance with tools under my future brother-in-law's '48 Dodge. He had holed the pan and offered me 20 bucks to put a new one on. Pliers and 12" crescent wrench were my arsenal.
My shop was the driveway under my mother's at-home office window.
"Jimmy! Where did you learn those words?"

Bwahahahaha. :thumb:

I've made a bunk bed from bamboo and I used several techniques she demonstrates.. It's a very satisfying material to work with.

Why buy a lawnmower when you can knock one together from an old axle...

Genius.

Deadly af, but, genius.

DYI rockslinger.

Winter is coming which means more indoor time. Holidays are coming which means big bucks, steal stuff, or make gifts.
Cutting boards are usually a safe bet because every home needs one.
No matter how serviceable the resident board, what Mom/Wife/Sister wouldn't willingly chuck it for a hand crafted gift from a Son/Husband/Brother.
And If you accidently build a pretty board, they can hang it on the wall as culinary artsy fartsy.

DIY bicycle...

"for" 200 hours. Weird how prepositions give non-english-as-a-1st-language-speakers trouble.

OK, the government/landlord/Mom says you can't have an elevator so you have to use the stairs, but you can redecorate.
So you'll be using these stairs at all hours of the day/night, and various mental/physical conditions.
Which is safer the plain or patterned treads?

If pattern or plain doesn't matter how about lighting, dark or bright?

If that's the pattern, I'll take unlit.

Cutting boards... the hard way.

I hope those are tails...

An Escher cutting board?


WANT.

Wow, look at 'em all!

The problem is they are distracting when you are using a pointy slicey tool around your fingers.

This is how you can save a bunch by building your own safe...

I built my own safe about thirty years ago. Is there another link that works better for that site?

Better link? There is no link, only a video.

All I see is "Unsupported Viewing Environment"

How can they possibly know your viewing environment?

Go to Vimeo and search Forged and Filed. There ya go.

It works for me, but then I'm special.