Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places
Bottle Cap Tables, Tree Branch Coat Racks, Cigar Box Guitars, and Other Cool Ideas for You and Your Home
Published on 1. July 2013
224 pages
978-1-62636-351-9 (ISBN)
Description
Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places features more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all.
Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct:
Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct:
- Bottle cap tables
- Concrete lamps
- 3D string art
- Sand fire gardens
- Screw-nut and wooden rings
- Paracord bracelets
- Cigar box guitars
- Wooden beer mugs
- Test tube spice racks
- Metal roses
- And more!
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Instructables.com | Noah Weinstein
Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places
Bottle Cap Tables, Tree Branch Coat Racks, Cigar Box Guitars, and Other Cool Ideas for You and Your Home
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07/2013
Skyhorse Publishing
€13.00
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
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Instructables.com is a bona fide Internet sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes to gadgets that defy categorization. The site hosts more than 100,000 projects. More than 15 million people visit the site each month, leaving comments and suggestions on the ever-growing list of do-it-yourself projects.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Disclaimer
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Furnish
- Bottle Cap Table with Resin-Poured Surface
- Wine Barrel Beer Table
- Recycled Tire Coffee Table
- Concrete Lamp
- Road Sign Coffee Table
- Reclaimed Bowling Lane Table
- Section 2: Decorate
- Concrete Light Bulb Wall Hook
- Wooden Candle Holder
- Simple Branching Coat Rack
- Desktop 3D String Art
- Section 3: Backyard
- Rocket Grill!
- Sand Fire Garden
- Concrete Cylinders from Cardboard Tubes
- Bentwood Birdhouse
- Disappearing Water Fountain
- DIY Concrete Stepping Stone Fossil
- Section 4: Accessories
- Paracord Bracelet with a Side Release Buckle
- Handyman's Valentine Gift-Screw-Nut Ring Pair
- Wood Ring
- Section 5: Entertain
- Build a Programmable Mechanical Music Box
- Birch Bark Flask
- Build an Inexpensive Cigar Box Guitar at Home
- Wooden Beer Bottle Crate
- Wooden Beer Mug
- Section 6: Kitchen
- Scroll-Sawed Wooden Bowls
- Universal Knife Block
- Test Tube Spice Rack
- Shape-Shifting Wood Trivet
- Section 7: Metal
- How to Make a Miniature Plane from a Coin
- How to Make a Steel Vase
- Make Your Own Rifle Cartridge Pen Blanks
- Entwined Aluminum-Cast Hearts
- How to Make a Metal Rose
- Conversion Tables
