"Sometimes, if a pen stutters, you can get it going again by shaking it. But
sometimes it seems to take a lot of shaking.
So I figured, what if I could shake it really really hard?
What if I built a centrifuge to get the ink flowing again? And so this project came about!"
Hand tool overkill. Don't miss the video (and the other projects by Matthias Wandel).
Via Make Magazine.
"Replace the intricate wheel casting with wooden spokes and it’s
possible to believe that the Wovel was designed and built a thousand
years ago". Read more.
A hand powered sawing machine to harvest trees. Click on the illustration to see the full plans. Source: Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, june 1822.
The Jointmaker pro R2 is a great example of a modern tool being high-tech and low-tech at the same time. And it's already sold out. Video here. Update: there is a new version available, the Jointmaker Pro v2.
Alloy Artifacts: online resource for 20th century hand tools and the companies that made them. Via Makezine.
