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Cigar Box Ukulele
For those who are buried in empty cigar boxes and lacking in ukuleles, this is for you. A Brief History Cigar box instruments date back to the 1800's, when cigars began to be packaged in smaller...
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Grand Wooden Orrery
Hello fellow space-lovers! Firstly, a little background. An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar systems built to show the relative positions and motions of the planets. A grand orrery...
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How to Bind a Paperback into a Hardback (single sheet binding)
Hello friends! This is a simple (but time intensive) way to pay tribute to that paperback you've read a thousand times. While not perfect, it has saved a few of my very favorites and is also a...
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Ladder Bookshelf
I found this amazing, dingy old ladder in the trash around the same time I discovered half-price bookstores. I can't bring myself to buy those canned pressed-wood department-store bookshelves anymore...
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Bookshelf from wooden boxes
I recently came into possession of three old plywood boxes used by a professor to cart his books around. This is just a really simple way to maximize that potential new bookshelf space!By: action...
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Wooden Architect Lamp
You can never have enough lamps! Sure, they're easy to buy, but they're fun to make. This is a fairly simple way to make a wooden architect lamp, modeled after the metal kind you can buy in a store....
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Podium-Mounted Votive Candle Holders
Some years ago I found a podium set out into the rain, waiting to be thrown out. It had a horrible coat of dark varnish, was held together with wire, wobbled from side to side, and had one shelf...
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How to Design and Build Astronomical Clocks
In this instructable I'll discuss my techniques for designing and building astronomical clocks. There is no one right way to do this sort of thing but in the process of learning I have found a lot of...
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