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Upgrade Your Grilling Game with These 8 Amazing Homemade BBQ Sauces
As grilling season is starting back up in force, I thought it was time to expand a bit from my well-used staple brown-sugar BBQ sauce. Here are a few completely different but interesting ideas to spice...
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How to: A Super Simple Way to Make Your Own Healthy Sports Drink at Home
We're no sports scientists, but every one of us here at ManMade are athletes - runners, climbers, cyclists, lifters, and hikers. And what those hours on the road, gym, or trail have taught us is: you...
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How to: Make the Pabst Blue Reuben
What started as a series of drunken emails between two food blogs birthed a sandwich that sounds almost too good to be true. As a non-ironic fan of both PBR and Reuben sandwiches, I've gotta say, I'm...
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10 Tips From Shop Class You Should Never Forget
Chris Lyons is the master craftsman behind Clyons Creations, where he specializes in handcrafted guitars and other DIY woodworking projects. He's also a "technology education instructor" at a local...
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How to: Make a DIY Beach/Camp Lounge Chair
There's no such thing as "too many camping chairs" or outdoor seating. Seriously, the more the merrier, particularly if they fold flat for storage and especially in the summer.The Merry Thought has put...
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The Process: Denim Jeans From Scratch
Here's a great look at how those denim jeans look so just worn enough before you even pull them on. From material cutting all the way to hand pressing the buttons on.Man, I love these process videos....
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How to: Make Your Own Fresh Pork Lard...and Instantly Make All Your Food...
In the last few decades, lard has gotten a bad wrap in the U.S. From playground name-calling to the low-fat (and high chemical) diet of the 90s, we became scared of pig fat. We imagined it as a heart...
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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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"The 501 Jeans: Stories of an Original" Documentary
The brand name Levi Strauss is so well known it's practically interchangeable with "jeans." And I'm a huge a fan of jeans in general. They're perhaps the most iconic form of American apparel. They can...
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Make This: Simple Countertop Bookshelf
If you're like me, there is a small stack of books close by. They're piled up on many flat surfaces in my house and slide off with no warning. Here's a simple countertop bookcase to spiff up that...
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10 TED Talks Every Guy Should See
If you're a consistent reader of ManMade, you're probably someone who's investigated a fair number of TED talks. From classics like Do Schools Kill Creativity? and The Psychology of Evil, I'm guessing...
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How to: Build a 50-Ton, Hand-Placed Stone Wall
In the 1990's Craig Bernhardt came across a pamphlet for Rockwater Ltd., a company that specialized in building gorgeous stone walls and benches. He didn't have a need for either of those things, but...
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Make This: A Cheese Slicer You Can Be Proud Of
With spring in the air, it's time to start thinking of long nights on the patio with food friends, and a bit of vino. Nothing goes better with that bottle of wine than the cheese plate, and here's a...
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Make This: Handcrafted Collar Stays
You may not even know you're wearing them, but there is a little piece of style in your closet that needs an upgrade. Those pointed collars have a little backbone in them called a collar stay, and a...
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How to: Be More Charismatic
We all know charismatic people. The people who have that extra "woo" capability, who you love being around, and who always seem like they're comfortable and having a good time. But what exactly is...
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Make It: The Perfect Tequila Cocktail to Help Celebrate Spring
Regular ManMade readers know we love a good cocktail. Whether it's a simple highball, a classic gin and tonic, a bright and fresh French 75, or a smokey Swedish Flame, we think knowing how to make and...
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DIY Idea: Make These Simple Rustic Wooden Crates to Use...Everywhere
This simple wooden box is part of the Crate series by London designer Jasper Morrison. It's made of Douglas fir and, as the designer suggests, "is suited to many applications such as a bedside table,...
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Breathe Easier - You Need A Shop Air Filter
I'm a fan of making some sawdust, and I produce plenty of it in my shop every chance I get. While it might be fun making the mess, breathing those fine particles is a major problem for your health....
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How to: Make Your Own Iced Coffee Soda
Now that the days are warming up the thought of a hot latte with milk and cinnamon sure adds a drop of sweat to my brow. It's usually this time of year, I swap my typical addiction to hot coffee to...
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Do This Now: How to Turn Your Rotary Tool Into a Tiny Lathe
When Scrap Wood Cityneeded a tiny lathe (smaller than a mini-lathe) to turn truly tiny things, he set out to make his own using a Dremel rotary tool and some wood blocks. A lathe this tiny allowed him...
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