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Category Archives: metalwork
Scrapyard Milling Machine Gets Work Done on a Budget
Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we are told, all other machine tools can be built, including a …read more
Posted in casting, compound, cross feed, lathe, metalwork, mill, milling machine, spindle, taper, tool hacks
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Giant LED Display is 1200 Balls to the Wall
When you’re going to build something big, it’s often a good idea to start small and work out the bugs first. That’s what [bitluni] did with his massive 1200-pixel LED video wall, which he unveiled at Maker Faire Hanover recently.
We covered his prototype a while back, a mere 300 …read more
Shop-Made Tools Turn Cheap Steel into Telescoping Tubes
Beginning metalworkers are often surprised at just how cheap steel can be. It’s a commodity made by the gigaton, and there are always plenty of extra pieces and scraps left over from big projects that are available for pennies a pound. But what you’ve got is often not what you …read more
Posted in high speed steel, HSS, metalwork, seamed, seamless, Shaper, tool hacks, tubing, weld
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Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated: Let’s Talk About Anvils
When you grow up with something as the constant backdrop to your life, it’s easy to forget as an adult that not everyone else shares your instinctive knowledge of the subject. My dad is a blacksmith, he’s now retired, but as I was growing up his very active forge was …read more
Build Your Own Metal Roller
Metal fabrication is a useful skill to have. There’s plenty you can achieve in your workshop at home, given the right tools. There’s lathes for turning, mills for milling, and bandsaws and dropsaws for chopping it all to pieces. But what do you do if you need to make hoops …read more
[Ben Krasnow] Drills Really Small Holes with Electricity
Drilling holes is easy; humans have been doing it in one form or another for almost 40,000 years. Drilling really tiny holes in hard materials is more challenging, but still doable. Drilling deep, straight holes in hard materials is another thing altogether.
Luckily, these days we have electric discharge machining …read more
Posted in arc, cnc, cnc hacks, drill, EDM, electric discharge machining, machining, metalwork, tool hacks
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Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated: What is a Forge?
Blacksmiths were the high technologists of fabrication up until the industrial revolution gained momentum. At its core, this is the art and science of making any needed tool or mechanism out of metal. Are you using the correct metal? Is the tool strong where it needs to be? And how …read more
Posted in blacksmith, blacksmithing, forge, forge work, Hackaday Columns, how-to, metalwork, Original Art, Skills
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All Things Enigma Hack Chat
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the All Things Enigma Hack Chat!
This week’s Hack Chat is a bit of a departure for us because our host, Simon Jansen, has tackled so many interesting projects that it’s hard to settle on one topic. Simon is a multidisciplinary hacker …read more
Posted in animation, ascii art, cypher, enigma, Hack Chat, Hackaday Columns, hacking, horology, metalwork, Microcontrollers, watch
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Blacksmith Elevates the Craft with this Fabulous Strongbox
For most of human industrial history, the blacksmith was the indispensable artisan. He could fashion almost anything needed, from a simple hand tool to a mechanism as complex as a rifle. Starting with the most basic materials, a hot forge, and a few tools that he invariably made himself, the blacksmith was a marvel of fabrication.
If you have any doubt how refined the blacksmith’s craft can be, feast your eyes on [Seth Gould]’s masterpiece of metalwork. Simply called “Coffer”, [Seth] spent two years crafting the strongbox from iron, steel, and brass. The beautifully filmed video below shows snippets of …read more
Posted in blacksmith, brass, classic hacks, iron, latch, locksmith, metalwork, security, spring, steel
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Scooter Hauls Kids With A Little Heavy Metal
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Similarly, where there’s a paying customer and a well stocked metalworking shop, there will also be a way. That’s about all the backstory you need to understand this latest creation from [Richard Day] of 42Fab. A customer asked him to build something that didn’t exist, and in a few hours he not only fabricated it from scratch but documented the whole thing for our viewing pleasure.
The object in question is a mount that would allow the customer to pull a “Burley Bee” kid trailer behind their electric scooter. The trailer is only …read more
Posted in electric scooter, fabrication, hardware, metalwork, scooter, trailer, transportation hacks, welding
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