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Awesome Video of the Day: A Mesmerizing Journey through the Center of a Tree
Cutting open a log or thick board is one of the most rewarding feelings a DIYer or woodworker can experience. Who knows what the grain will look like? Who knows if you'll find a burl, a beautiful...
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How to Say "I'm Sorry" Like You Mean It
Newsflash, amigos. Sometimes we mess up, and sometimes we need to say we're sorry. But if offering an apology starts with the line "I'm sorry if you," then you're not actually apologizing; you're...
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Timeless Inspiration: The Military Field Desk
I've had a generally mobile office for years. What this looks like to me is a laptop, random notebooks, and a mass of cables. While I've set up my "office for the day" in a variety of spectacular...
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ManMade Guide: Step Up Your Summer Drinks with Grown-Up Flavored Ice Cubes
Around here, we've moved past the short glass - the whiskey in a tumbler, the shaken 3 oz. cocktails of spring -and opting for the long and tall. With sunshine comes all-day drinks: those mixed with...
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10 Awesome Kitchen Items You Probably Don't Own...But Totally Should
There are those basic, essential tools that everyone needs to cook awesome food at home. ManMade thinks there are a solid fifteen, and we've shared them here - The Essential Kitchen: The 15 Tools Every...
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7 Things I'm Totally Obsessed with This Month (June 2017 Edition)
These are thoughts, the artwork, the news stories, the tools, the food, the conversations, and whatever else we just can't get out of our heads this month. The Song: "Another Girl, Another Planet" by...
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Weekend Project: How to Make a Simple Wooden Drawer Unit
This is my kind of woodworking project. It solves a practical problem (it's a monitor stand and desk storage unit), and it's built with solid technique and classic materials, treated minimally to show...
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How to Make a Better Vodka Soda
In wintertime, I'll gladly take a complicated cocktail. Something made with rich spirits, amber brown from barrel aging, made more tasty with fortified syrups, flavorful modifiers, and just-so...
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These Military Packing Secrets Will Make You a Better Traveler
The solar calendar has finally acknowledged what we've all know for a few weeks: it's summer. And with that most blessed of seasons comes the opportunity to get out of town and see the world in all its...
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How to Build a Modern Coffee Table from Scratch
Editor's Note: This project is an excerpt from the new bookThe Art and Craft of Wood: A Practical Guide to Harvesting, Choosing, Reclaiming, Preparing, Crafting, and Building with Raw Wood by Silas J...
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How to: Start a Campfire with One Match
Starting a fire is an essential life skill, for sure, and most of us have our preferred technique: the lean-to, the tepee, the log cabin. But, even though most fires aren't started in emergency, or...
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Yes, Every Man Needs an Apron
Men wearing aprons seem to be more of a novelty than a practical household item. In popular culture the apron on men seems to only show up on tacky backyard cooks (think Kiss the Cook) and wisecracking...
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How To: Make a Canoe from a Single Sheet of Plywood
In my neighborhood, we have an excellent urban bike trail that runs along the a fairly large river that divides my city in half. Often, while cycling, I'll see folks, mostly elderly men, pop out onto...
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The Easiest Way to Get Perfectly Spaced Marks for Your DIY and Woodworking...
Proper and accurate measuring and layout are key to a great looking project. When you're dealing in whole numbers, that's easy enough. But the smaller you divide those inches or millimeters, math...
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How to Make Your Bed in 30 Seconds
I wasn't always a bedmaker. It wasn't until I was living in the dorms in college, and my bed also had to serve as the sofa, chair, desk, laundry-folding area, and dining table that I got in the habit...
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How to: Mount Posters and Art to Plywood for an Affordable Modern Look
In my hometown there's a poster shop that makes letterpress posters for every band that plays at The Ryman Auditorium. The fun part is you never know what size the poster will be and you can count on...
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This Isn't the Only Way to Install a Screw Hook, but It Is the Best
Okay, friends. This is one of my all-time favorite DIY hacks. I learned it more than fifteen years ago from a book I got from the library, and committed it to memory. I only need it about once or twice...
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How to Make a Parallel Jaw Clamp Rack
When I finished my basement workshop makeover earlier this year, I couldn't have been more excited, or proud, about how far it'd had come. What was once two dark, dingy rooms full of plumbing pipes,...
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ManMade Recommended: You Need to Get Your Hands on these Sandflex Rust Erasers
Earlier this week, for the Fourth of July holiday, some friends and I decided to try our hands at roasting a whole pig. We were cooking for 60-80 people, and wanted to do something more special than...
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Stop Marring Your Wood: How to Make Leather Holdfast Pads for Woodworking
I'm a huge fan of having a few rows of dog holes in my workbench top. And, more than anything else, I use them to secure a holdfast - an ancient and genius piece of design that secures your work to the...
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