Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places: Bottle Cap Tables, Tree Branch Coat Racks, Cigar Box Guitars, and Other Cool Ideas for You and Your Home

Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places: Bottle Cap Tables, Tree Branch Coat Racks, Cigar Box Guitars, and Other Cool Ideas for You and Your Home

Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places: Bottle Cap Tables, Tree Branch Coat Racks, Cigar Box Guitars, and Other Cool Ideas for You and Your Home

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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Overview

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:
  • 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620877050
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 07/01/2013
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Noah Weinstein is an editor at Instructables.com, co-founder of SF Media Labs and spends time making things both big and small at his shop in Oakland, CA. He has worked as a white water rafting guide, custom speaker builder, sheep shepherd, and tractor driver. He earned a BA from Brown University where he concentrated in environmental studies and visual art.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Section 1 Furnish 1

Bottle Cap Table with Resin-Poured Surface 3

Wine Barrel Beer Table 7

Recycled Tire Coffee Table 12

Concrete Lamp 28

Road Sign Coffee Table 38

Reclaimed Bowling Lane Table 45

Section 2 Decorate 51

Concrete Light Bulb Wall Hook 53

Wooden Candle Holder 61

Simple Branching Coat Rack 65

Desktop 3D String Art 68

Section 3 Backyard 75

Rocket Grill! 77

Sand Fire Garden 89

Concrete Cylinders from Cardboard Tubes 96

Bentwood Birdhouse 103

Disappearing Water Fountain 109

DIY Concrete Stepping Stone Fossil 115

Section 4 Accessories 119

Paracord Bracelet with a Side Release Buckle 121

Handyman's Valentine Gift-Screw-Nut Ring Pair 126

Wood Ring 128

Section 5 Entertain 131

Build a Programmable Mechanical Music Box 133

Birch Bark Flask 142

Build an Inexpensive Cigar Box Guitar at Home 145

Wooden Beer Bottle Crate 158

Wooden Beer Mug 163

Section 6 Kitchen 165

Scroll-Sawed Wooden Bowls 167

Universal Knife Block 175

Test Tube Spice Rack 180

Shape-Shifting Wood Trivet 182

Section 7 Metal 187

How to Make a Miniature Plane from a Coin 189

How to Make a Steel Vase 191

Make Your Own Rifle Cartridge Pen Blanks 196

Entwined Aluminum-Cast Hearts 203

How to Make a Metal Rose 206

Conversion Tables 210

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