Crafts. Page 24

The decorative wire twisting technique is widely used to make door handles, wrought iron gate decorations and staircases. At first glance, such elements are very difficult to manufacture and are made exclusively by blacksmiths or on special

To fully illuminate garden plants, paths and gazebos, you need at least a dozen lamps. Although they are inexpensive, buying them in large quantities is not cheap. To save a lot of money, you can do the necessary

When working with steel wire and thin reinforcement, you can use homemade lever scissors, which have a very easy-to-make design. This is a powerful working tool, for assembly it is enough to have welding, a grinder and a drill.

After one use, plastic bottles and kegs usually gather dust somewhere, take up a lot of space and eventually end up in a landfill. But this is an excellent material for making roofing slate or tiles for a gazebo, shed, shed, etc.

To cover a large cauldron, cauldron, smokehouse or tandoor, you can make a wooden lid. However, given the specifics of its application, it is impossible to use wood glue, and it is also advisable to abandon metal fasteners. Let's see how

When working in a workshop or garage, many tasks have to be done while sitting. To do this, you can make a light pouf from a plastic bottle. Its advantage over a regular stool is that it has a storage compartment, which will allow you to keep various necessary little things.

Everyone has an old, fully functional tool with broken or damaged handles. Most of these problems can be solved with several layers of electrical tape, but this is done more reliably with PET tape cut from plastic bottles.

I admit right away: this idea is not new, and I do not encroach on its authorship. But articles, videos, even entire master classes on this topic had one significant drawback: the completeness of the information.They were all scanty, gnawed and incomplete, from the opera “here

To safely carry a knife, sheaths and sheaths of various designs are used. Usually they are sold with a knife. If there is no sheath, then you can make one with your own hands from an ordinary plastic bottle. They will turn out to be very light and practical.

What do a glass goblet with a long stem and a brutal iron nail have in common? It seems like nothing. But only by combining dissimilar objects can you show something unusual and, at the same time, demonstrate your ingenuity, dexterity and

To carry a knife comfortably and safely when fishing, hunting or mushroom hunting, it is optimal to use a belt sheath. It will never fall out of them, and most importantly, it will always be at hand. Belt sheaths for a knife of absolutely any shape can be made from

To quickly connect boards, beams and slats, perforated steel plates are used. For many structures, their rigidity is excessive, so you can use homemade plastic plates, which, unlike steel ones, are

When going on vacation to the forest, especially with long walks, it is very important to take light equipment with you.One of its components can be a homemade folding mini grill made from a grate from an old oven. It is designed for

Among all the methods for installing a knife handle, the easiest is mounting. It does not require glue, bolster, rivets or other fasteners, which allows you to equip the blade with a handle even in the field, for example, if the old one is cracked. To

A lathe is a universal piece of equipment that allows you to perform various types of work, including the production of taps for threading. Let's look at how to do this using an M14x2.0 mm tap as an example.

A drilling machine is a useful thing, but expensive and bulky, so for most workshops a drill stand is better suited. You can make such a device yourself from old shock absorbers and unnecessary scrap metal.

If you need to join 2 pipes of the same diameter at an angle without welding, you can use one trick that will solve the problem quite reliably and beautifully. This method is applicable almost everywhere except assembly

Purchased factory hoes lose their sharpness during operation, so they need to be sharpened periodically. It's not too difficult, but it's much easier when the hoe sharpens itself and doesn't require any attention at all.You can make such a tool from

A universal puller for disassembling connections with guaranteed tension (pulleys, bearings, bushings, etc.) will come in handy in a home workshop. You can make it from a bottle-type hydraulic jack, spending a little time and effort.

Old broken hard stainless steel scissors can be used to make a pocket knife. This is an interesting project, for the implementation of which all you need is a basic tool, maybe even a manual one.

The so-called Turkish tourist burners are equipped with a large 5 liter gas cylinder. This makes them prohibitively large for walking and cycling. However, they are equipped with very reliable shut-off valves that exceed the service life

To care for plantings of potatoes, tomatoes, onions and other vegetables, you can make a manual cultivator. It loosens and weeds out weeds from rows many times faster than can be done with a hoe. By sacrificing an old bicycle for its production,

If it is necessary to disassemble a wooden window frame for repairs, it is very difficult to dismantle the glass held in place by dried putty. It takes hours to scrape it off with a screwdriver, chisel or knife.The process can be accelerated using a mechanized method,

A simple way to color eggs that does not require special skills, but the result is amazing. Each egg has a unique pattern that is never repeated.