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DIY Idea: Make Your Own Taxidermy Bicycle Hanger
Austrian artist and designer Andreas Scheiger came up with this clever, functional piece of art: a taxidermy inspired wall-mounted bicycle hanger. The project combines two of my favorite previous...
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How to: Make Your Own Fire Cider to Cure a Cold, Allergies, and Boost Your...
Like many of you, I suspect, I'd never heard of Fire Cider until a few weeks ago. It's a homemade tonic, and it wasn't historically something you could buy, and it wasn't a tradition in my family....
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Turning Hardwood Bowls from Fallen Trees
I love reading this story of Yale faculty member Scott Strobel, who takes fallen trees from the Yale campus and mills them into large hardwood blanks, which he turns (literally) into hardwood bowls.Dr....
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A New Twist on the DIY Standing Desk - How to Build a Wall-Mounted Work Station
I've gone on record countless times about my love of the standing desk, the research I've seen on the perils of sitting all day, and my own personal solution for long days on the laptop: the 5-second...
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Good News: Socializing in Pubs with Friends is Good for Men's Health
It's comes as a surprise to no one, but there's now some official scientific evidence that drinking with your friends is has a positive impact on your mental health. A Scottish study revealed looked...
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How to: Make a Secret Compartment Plywood Lamp
Delno, a maker from the Twin Cities, MN, built this guy above...which looks like a simply plywood box with a lightbulb inside. But, the project is actually a great experiment in hiding secret...
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Before and After: Adding DIY Legs Gives this Mid-Century Dresser a Total...
As a full time DIY blogger and editor, I see my fair share of furniture makeovers. Dresser makeovers, in particular, since their strong bones and relative low-level of use make them great fodder for a...
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ManMade Guide: How to Celebrate a Rad (and Not Cheesy) Valentine's Day on a...
Gentlemen, Cupid is in the hood. What are you going to do? Freak out? Nah, that's for amateurs. In this guide, we're showing you how to rock V-Day like a pro. No matter whom you're celebrating...
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Will It Beard?
"Will It Beard?" is a new series by art director Pierce Thiot and his wife Stacy. I'm guessing you can figure out what it's all about. Pierce told Buzzfeed " 'Over Christmas break, my mom had her...
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5 Ways to Fix that Worn Out Piece of Clothing
Face it. Sometimes, clothing wears out. Even hard working denim... We've all got that favorite piece of clothing that we refuse to throw away. It's comfortable, and the fit is perfect, right? Yeah,...
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How to: Make Your Own Wool Fisherman's Hat
Depending on where you live, these are are known by different names. I'd just call it a "knit cap" or "stocking cap"...some call them tuques, wool hat, toboggan. My hat-loving friend from the Southwest...
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How to Build Your Own DIY Photography Light for Under $15.00
This ManMade guest post was written by Tj Cosgrove of Explosivo NetworkIf you’ve ever done any kind of videography or photography, you’ll know that having enough light on your scene and your subject is...
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How Many Ways are There to Tie a Tie? About a 177,000 More than You'd Think...
I know how to tie a tie in three different ways...though I really only use the one (Half Windsor). I figured there were, oh, seven or eight other ways to do it, and perhaps I'd learn them at some point...
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How to: Make Quick and Easy Leather Storage Bins
We all need an inexpensive way to store little sets of goodies: the ingredients for a project, that paperwork you've meaning to get to, your daily carry items that you take off and out of your pockets...
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World Backpacker Documents His Adventures with a Huge Back Tattoo
Backpacker Bill Passman has a goal. An understandable goal for any adventure traveler: he wants to visit every country on Earth, and see what there is to see. So, to keep track of his adventures, Bill...
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How to: Update Your Old Speakers by Simply Replacing the Foam
A fine pair of audio speakers is a common sight at a secondhand store, but, of course, there's a reason the original donor got rid of them. Perhaps it was a failure in the wiring (easily fixable), a...
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The Cocktail Every Man Should Be Drinking This Winter
Some guys have their go-to libation: no matter the time, no matter the place, they want this beer or that drink, and the matter really isn't up for discussion. Others are constantly switching up their...
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Cheer On Your Favorite Olympic Athletes with the #ItsOurTime App [Sponsored]
In 1980, the U.S. men's ice hockey team was made up of a collection of amateur and collegiate athletes hardly known for its hockey prowess in any region south of the Great Lakes. In a medal round match...
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Blow My Mindsday: February 19, 2014
Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can't-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web. New York artist Calvin Seibert recently visited Hawaii, where he spent 10...
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Design Inspiration: Bread From Scratch
The backyard earth oven has been taken to a whole new (accessible) level...Designer Mirko Ihrig came up with the stunning Bread From Scratch. As Mirko mentions, bread has been a part of our diet for...
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