Build your own metal foundry, learn to make patterns and cast metal and then use your skills to create an entire machine shop. It’s the most basic step in the industrial manufacturing process and fascinating for anyone who loves machinery.
Workshop & Tools
Working with your hands anchors you to the real world, makes you a better thinker and may cause actual changes to your brain as a result of your interaction with things.
The conversion of a classic English shed sized workspace into a very well laid out shop for working on motorcycles, a beautiful example of efficient use of space.
Machine tools make much of what we see and use in the world around us, enabling a skilled machinist to create almost anything out of basic blocks of metal. With today’s relatively low prices and high precision, you can find small home shops turning out incredible work from lathes and milling machines hidden away in [...]
