Homemade tools: TOP 20 best tools for the workshop

If you like to make something useful with your own hands (in a small workshop or garage), you have probably already thought about purchasing various auxiliary equipment for work.

But not everyone has the opportunity to buy branded tools and equipment for a home workshop - the prices are quite significant. And delivery in some cases is also expensive.

However, many home-made craftsmen, as you know, do not look for easy ways, and can always use an alternative option.

For example, you can bet on homemade machines for the garage and workshop, which will not be difficult to make yourself from inexpensive and accessible materials.

Even simple “handicraft” devices can greatly simplify and speed up the processing of metal and wood workpieces.

If you need to save money, homemade machines are perhaps the best option. All the necessary diagrams and drawings can be found on the Internet, including on our website.

Crafting table

Dimensions of the workbench
The height of the surface of the tabletop should be such that a worker can operate tools and equipment while standing. The workshop owner determines the height of the workbench himself - according to his height. The height of the desktop ranges from 75 cm to 80 cm.

The size of the countertop is determined by the area of ​​the utility room. The table should not impede free passage around it.

Workbench material

• Tree. A wooden table is often used. The workbench is made of timber and boards. The legs of the table are secured with diagonal crossbars for reliability.
• Metal. The most reliable workbench design is a workbench welded from a metal profile. Manufacturing a welded product requires having a welding machine and experience working with it.

The table top is made in the form of a shield from knocked down boards using pieces of timber. The shield is rested on the legs of the table and fastened with nails or screws. The connection parts are made from angle steel.

The options for assembling a wooden workbench are different, but they have one thing in common - the table structure must be stable and withstand static and dynamic loads.

If the surface of the workbench will be subject to accidental impact from cutting and sharp tools, then the tabletop is covered with tin or a metal sheet is placed on top.

The supporting frame and table legs are welded from steel angle and strip. For auxiliary parts, pieces of reinforcement are used.

The table top is made of metal sheet, 8 - 12 mm thick. A thick sheet will significantly increase the weight of the workbench, which will make it difficult to move.

Bend

Probably almost all of you have seen such beautiful tables and chairs with bent legs. It looks very impressive. If such legs are cut and sawed out, they will turn out to be much less durable, because the longitudinal integrity of the fibers will be damaged. It is best to achieve this shape by bending the wood. To prevent workpieces from breaking, you must first increase their ductility. In production, chemical plasticization of wood is used, and amateurs usually have only one method available: first moisten the wood and then heat it, after which they can gradually bend the workpiece.

Stool

Making a stool with your own hands is quite simple:

1. 4 supports, 50 cm long, are made from timber 40 x 40 mm.
2. The legs in the middle of the length are fastened with crossbars.
3. Grooves are made in the supports using a chisel.
4. At the ends of the transverse planks, protrusions are cut out using a chisel to fit the grooves.
5. The protrusions are lubricated with wood glue and inserted into the grooves.
6. While the glue dries, the supports are tightened with a belt.
7. The seat is cut out with a circular saw from a wide board 30 mm thick.
8. A seat measuring 300 x 300 mm is nailed or screwed to the legs of the stool.

Features of wood lathes

In a number of cases, a hardworking owner has a desire to make furnishings and utensils that have a circular cross-section throughout their entire length.

Most often these things are:

• Holders for hammers and files;
• Stair posts, flowerpots, handles for railings;
• Rolling pins, potato presses, grape crushers;
• Vertical pencil cases;
• Cups, mugs, saucers, plates, trays, stoppers.

It will be impossible to cut such things with planes and saws. In this case, you will need at least the most primitive machine.

Mini vise made of metal loop

When performing small operations, small parts often need to be clamped. To do this, use a mini vice made from a one-piece door hinge.

Matching holes are drilled in both hinge flaps.

A bolt of suitable diameter is threaded through them. On the other side, a wing nut is screwed onto the bolt thread. The parts are inserted into the opening between the doors and clamped by tightening the nut. The device can be used as a clamp.

Veneering

Previously, this term was used to describe the procedure of gluing carpentry products with plywood - thin sheets of wood of other, more valuable varieties.
Nowadays we understand “plywood” as multi-layer laminated boards, and we call thin wood sheets “veneer”. Accordingly, instead of “veneering” today many people say “veneering”. Using veneer, you can give a beautiful, even sophisticated look to products made from “simple” types of wood that grow in our latitudes. For example, oak veneer can be used to cover birch furniture. By the way, today many examples of furniture, including “elite” foreign ones, are actually covered with veneer of more valuable species and are sold as made from solid wood, at much higher prices. I don’t recommend that beginners start gluing veneer right away, since this is a non-trivial task that requires skill, patience, and in the case of large parts, also serious equipment in the form of powerful presses or vacuum bags for uniform gluing of veneer.

Hammer upgrade

A common occurrence is a wooden handle falling out of the hammer socket. One of the ways to create a reliable handle fastening is to make a cut in the upper end of the handle. The holder is inserted into the hammer socket. The cut is filled with Moment glue. A wooden wedge is driven into the groove.

In order not to look for nails while working, and especially not to hold them with your teeth, a round magnet is glued into the bottom of the hammer handle. Magnetic nails will always be at hand for the worker. It is dangerous for the hammer to accidentally fall out of your hand at height. To prevent this from happening, a hole is drilled in the handle through which the cord is threaded. The worker's belt is threaded through the loop.

The main points of creating machines

Important: it is better not to make drawings of plywood machines with your own hands, especially if you do not have strong engineering and technical knowledge. As a rule, professional factory drawings are taken as a basis. Only instead of metal, a wooden plywood sheet is used. As for strength, it is often achieved by increasing the thickness of supporting and load-bearing structures by at least 3 times.

Grinder machine.

When starting to cut a sheet, you should remember that the more revolutions the tool can produce, the smoother the corners and the better the quality of the cut. Both jigsaw blades and replaceable circular saw blades are taken with fine teeth.

The tool on the sheet or the sheet towards the tool should move as slowly as possible, otherwise there will be a lot of chips on the top layer of veneer.

Tip: to avoid chipping during cutting, experienced craftsmen use regular tape. It is glued to the surface and a cut is made along it.

Copy-milling unit.

It’s not for nothing that we mentioned that you need to be fluent in basic carpentry skills. In such structures it is not customary to use nails or self-tapping screws; all connections are made only according to the tongue-and-groove principle. Moreover, the joining must be precise; no gaps or backlash are allowed.

Such requirements are due to the fact that a machine of any type and purpose necessarily, to one degree or another, experiences vibration. And nails and screws in wood can become loose quite quickly during vibration. As a result, your machine will fall apart during operation, which can lead to extremely undesirable consequences, including injury.

Bench jigsaw.

Both the sheets themselves, when joining between planes, and the tongue-and-groove corner joints are often only glued. There are now a lot of adhesives for wood on the market, but most often good old PVA is used, not just the stationery kind, but the construction kind.

Tip: when drilling or milling, there is a high probability of chipping on the bottom jacket of the sheet. In order to avoid such consequences, you need to place unnecessary plywood scraps under the sheet, of which there are enough in any production.

Plywood circular.

Not least important is the final grinding of the assembled unit. This is caused not only by concern for the appearance of the car. Poorly polished corners can lead to splinters. Plus, sharp edges will constantly catch and the veneer will chip.

As for painting and varnishing, this is left to the discretion of the master. But in any case, the machine should at least be covered with primer. In the most budget option, it is a mixture of water and the same PVA, a 1:1 ratio is enough. This protection will keep the veneer from drying out and cracking.

Mini turning unit.

Pipe bender

A device for bending metal pipes is a metal rod welded to the frame. I make the rod from a piece of reinforcement. The pipe is placed on a pin, and on the other side a long piece of reinforcement is inserted into the pipe. By pressing the lever, the pipe is bent at the desired angle. The device is suitable for small sections of round pipes.

Making a pipe bender with your own hands

1. Two axles are welded to a metal frame from pieces of smooth reinforcement, onto which old car hubs are placed.
2. Protruding chamfers are removed from the hubs so that the side surfaces of the rollers are smooth.
3. The channel is placed in the opening between the hubs with the shelves facing up.
4. The same profile, smaller in width, with the flanges down, is placed into the channel.
5. An axle is welded to the top of the inner profile, onto which the third hub is placed.
6. A vertical shelf made of steel sheet is welded to the frame.
7. A hole is cut in the vertical bar and the bearing is pressed into it.
8. A nut is secured to the middle channel by welding.
9. One end of the screw rod is screwed into the nut.
10. The screw shank is threaded through a bearing in a vertical bar.
11. A rotary handle is welded to the shank on the back side of the bar.
12. A swing arm is welded to the axis of the drive hub.

The machine is ready for use. A profile pipe is inserted between the rollers and clamped with a screw. The rotary lever drives the rollers, which pull the pipe, bending it. The bending radius is set using the rotary handle of the screw.

A pipe bender made from car hubs is one of the device options. There are many designs of bending devices. In some models, the drive roller is coaxially connected to the motor shaft.

Pneumatic and electric tools

In Canada there is a settlement of Old Believers who live by their own laws: they do not use electricity, do not ride bicycles or cars. But this does not prevent them from having a carpentry workshop and using compressed air instead of electricity. To achieve this, all rooms are equipped with air ducts from a huge compressor; each workbench has a connection point for pneumatic tools. Using various carpentry tools, Canadian craftsmen are quite capable of making furniture without electricity.

The workshop has huge windows, as electric lighting is not used. All machines operate from compressed air. The external design of the machines does not change, only a pneumatic motor is installed instead of an electric motor. The workstation provides operation of pneumatic screwdrivers, drills, and milling cutters.

Sawing machine

The high speed of the grinder allows it to be used with a saw blade for wood processing. Without some protection this is very dangerous. The craftsmen have come up with a very useful and original homemade device for do-it-yourself carpentry, which allows you to safely use an angle grinder as a sawing machine.

For this purpose, special protection is made, similar to the standard casing that comes with the tool. It has a slide, two handles and a rotating device. The slide looks like a plate measuring 200 x 120 millimeters, with a slot for the saw blade to exit.

Two handles are welded to the casing to hold the sawing machine during operation. It is very convenient to cut and saw thin lumber, and the high speed of the machine on the joiner makes it easy to cut material up to 30 millimeters thick.

Vertical drilling model

The frame can be made from pieces of angle 50x50 millimeters and a steel sheet 5 millimeters thick. To do this, weld two corners along the edges of the sheet along the entire length; they will serve as legs. Table size 350 x 200 millimeters. Weld a bracket from a square pipe 80 millimeters high on top to attach the rack.

The stand or guide for the drill is made of a square pipe three millimeters thick. A section of water pipe eight millimeters long is welded into the upper hole. A cable tensioning mechanism is inserted into it. The height of the stand is 700 millimeters. The stand is inserted into the bracket and crimped with four bolts - two on two sides of the square pipe.

The carriage is a movable unit on which the drill is attached. It is made of 50x50 corners welded together, the height is 170 millimeters, the eyes are made of strip three millimeters thick. An axle is inserted into the eyes, around which the cable is wound.

The carriage drive consists of an axis on which a cable and a handle are wound. One end of the cable is fixed to the bottom bracket. The upper end of the cable is fixed in the pipe at the upper end of the rack. A special bracket with a seat for an electric drill is attached to the carriage. The drill itself is tightened with a special clamp made from a strip 2 mm thick and 40 mm wide.

Homemade turning device

• drive unit;
• bed;
• tailstock;
• handyman

The only difference is in the choice of drive. Whoever has any electromechanical devices is installed on the product:

• electric drill;
• Bulgarian;
• milling cutter;
• electric motor from a washing machine.

You can improve an already made metal-cutting structure by adding additional functions to it. For example, you can place a drill press horizontally on a workbench or table. The drive is an electric drill. The tailstock will be a work table in which a hole is drilled along the axis of the drill in the chuck and a thread is cut for screwing the fixed center.

Additionally, install a hand rest, securing it to the movable bracket of the rack. The workpiece is fastened with one end in a trident clamped in a drill chuck, and the other end in a fixed center. For a small number of simple parts - a quite good homemade woodworking machine with devices and equipment for the manufacture of shaped parts obtained by turning.

The list of tools and mechanisms for a workshop or garage is limited only by the area of ​​the room and the financial capabilities of the owner. Despite the fact that many products are made from waste, the costs of purchasing parts and tools required for assembly are quite significant.

Impact screwdriver from starter

There are situations when it is impossible to unscrew a rusted bolt or screw with a conventional tool. An impact screwdriver does this job perfectly. The tool is made by hand from parts of a car starter:

1. The shaft and bushing are removed from the starter housing.
2. Part of the shaft is cut off, leaving a splined rod.
3. A piece of pipe of suitable size is placed on the sleeve.
4. A piece of bolt of equal diameter is welded to the end of the pipe.
5. The end of the shaft is ground into a tetrahedron shape, onto which heads of the required size are placed. For screws, a bit is inserted into the head.

When you hit the head of the bolt with a hammer, the shaft slides with beveled splines inside the sleeve, performing a rotational movement. The stronger the blow, the more force the shaft rotates.

Homemade bow saw

A bow saw is a convenient tool for cutting tree trunks and lumber. The design of the saw is simple; making a hand tool with your own hands is not difficult. To do this you need to prepare tools and materials:

Tools

• drill;
• hacksaw;
• chisel;
• hammer;
• knife.

Materials

• cord;
• wooden slats 20 x 40 mm;
• cotter pins – 2 pcs.;
• stalk ø 10 mm;
• saw blade;
• stain;
• wood varnish.

Step-by-step instructions for making a bow saw

1. The lath is cut into three parts (two vertical side strips and a middle horizontal strip).
2. Grooves are made in the side handles using a chisel.
3. At the ends of the centerpiece, protrusions for grooves are cut out with a chisel.
4. The centerpiece is connected to the side handles.
5. Through holes are drilled at the joints. Wooden cotter pins are driven into them.
6. Cotter pins form hinge joints. This is necessary for the mobility of the lower ends of the side slats when the canvas is tensioned.
7. Cuts are made at the lower ends of the sidewalls - parallel to the middle.
8. Short bolts are inserted into the holes of the saw blade and tightened with nuts.
9. The blade is inserted into the cuts so that the bolts are on the outside of the structure.
10. Circular grooves are cut out at the upper ends of the handles.
11. Loops are made at the ends of the double cord, which are placed on the grooves.
12. A handle is inserted between the strings of the cord, the long end of which rests on the mullion.
13. The saw string is twisted using a handle, achieving the desired degree of tension on the saw blade.
14. The wood is covered with stain and two layers of varnish.
15. After the varnish has dried, the saw is ready for use.

Connections

In carpentry, there are many types of joining parts to each other, differing in practicality, strength, aesthetics and durability.
I will not talk in detail about all types; this is a topic for a whole book. Most often, parts are mechanically connected to each other using tongue-and-groove or dowel joints, which are coated with glue. Everyone knows about purely mechanical connections: parts are attached to each other using screws, self-tapping screws, eccentric connections, and other metal devices.

Homemade folding stand

A very original idea for a folding stand for hand tools. Everyone is in their place. It doesn't take up much space. The design is based on furniture guides. The clamp holds the stand in the upper position. Neodymium magnets prevent instruments from falling out of their stocks. A great idea for DIYers who love to do everything with their own hands.

Homemade washing machine

For a long time I was tormented by the question of what name this homemade product could be called. Read how it is made, and then give it a name yourself.

To make it, you need to take a fairly large plastic bucket, say, one used for paint. Make a hole in the lid of such a diameter that your construction mixer can fit freely into it.

Pour as much packing foam into the bucket prepared in this way as you don’t mind.

Then fill the resulting device with water, and you're ready to give your mixer a major overhaul. Turn it on. During rotation, it will not only be rinsed in water. Lumps of polystyrene foam will gently remove adhered pieces of the building mixture from its surface.

If you are going to prepare a gypsum solution using a mixer, then this is done like this...

Cheap homemade grinder

The most budget version of the grinder, created by the Samodelkins. Plastic bottles are used as rollers. They are mounted on bearings. The belt on the rollers is adjusted using thumbwheels. The tension is adjusted with a bolt. The structure is driven by a drill. You can slightly improve Samodelkin’s design by replacing plastic bottles with polypropylene tubes.

Useful hammer upgrade

When working with a hammer in an inconvenient place, you often have to take nails with you in your pocket or even in your teeth. Agree, this is not very pleasant.

By installing a small but powerful magnet on the hammer handle, you can at least partially solve this problem. The upgraded hammer will carry the nails itself and you can safely work without holding the next nail in your teeth. It's convenient, and your teeth don't get damaged.

Buying a lathe

Today you can purchase such a device with a click of the mouse by going to a specialized online store. True, such a purchase will hurt your pocket, especially if you choose a high-quality model and not a cheap Chinese craft.

However, this does not mean that the idea of ​​​​founding a miniature workshop will have to be given up. The problem of high cost can be solved by taking a different route. A simple and durable electrical unit must be made by hand.

Turning round architectural decorations

Such a mechanism will be an excellent help if you need to make inexpensive repairs to a cottage equipped with

• Flights of stairs with wooden balustrades;
• Decorative trims;
• Carved shutters;
• Window earrings.

Homemade soldering iron stand with your own hands

Many offline and online stores sell good and quite convenient stands for soldering irons, and inexpensively. But if you wish, you can make them yourself. It will be cheaper, plus you can adapt the stand to your own needs.

There are a lot of ideas for making them, so we decided not to limit ourselves to just one, but to make a selection of the most interesting, in our opinion, homemade soldering iron stands, made with our own hands.

The procedure for assembling a homemade device

As practice shows, it is most convenient to assemble a homemade machine for drilling holes in printed circuit boards in a certain sequence. You must act in accordance with the following algorithm.

• The frame is installed, and legs are attached to its underside, if they are provided for in the design.
• A movement bar and a holder frame on which the drilling head will be mounted are attached to the assembled frame.
• The holder frame is connected to a shock absorber, which is also fixed to the equipment frame.
• A handle for controlling the movement of the drilling head is installed, connected to a shock absorber or holder frame.
• An electric motor is mounted, the position of which is carefully adjusted.
• A collet or a universal drill chuck is attached to the shaft of the drive motor using adapters.
• A power supply connected to the electric motor via electrical wires is being installed.
• A drill is installed in the chuck and securely fixed in it.
• The assembled homemade machine is tested by trying to drill a hole in a dielectric sheet with its help.

To ensure that your homemade mini-drilling machine can always be disassembled and modified, it is best to use bolts and nuts to connect its structural elements.

If you want to make your own mini-equipment for making holes in printed circuit boards, you can always use the drawings and advice of those who already own such a machine and are actively working on it in their home workshop.

We make a carpentry workbench with our own hands according to the drawings: video instructions and photo examples

Among the common tools for a do-it-yourself carpentry workshop is a workbench. A durable and dimensional table that allows you to securely fasten the workpiece is useful for high-quality cutting of wood and creating various elements from it.

Example of a carpentry workbench

The device package includes:

1. Working surface. Hard wood is used for it to increase the life of the device. The thickness must be at least 6 cm.
2. Supports. Assembled from wooden beams or metal plates. The main task is to ensure the stability of the entire mechanism.
3. Vise for securing the product. If the table is long, you can install two vices at once.
4. Tool box. A useful recess or pull-out design that provides quick access to needed small parts.

Purchased folding workbench for work

To assemble a carpentry workbench for your workshop yourself, you should choose a drawing and purchase materials for the work.

Instructions for assembling a wooden workbench with your own hands

You can buy a wooden workbench in a store or through online catalogs, but it’s cheaper to make it yourself. Let's take as a basis a simple option with typical tabletop dimensions: length - 150-200 cm, width 70-120 cm.

The manufacturing work will include several stages:

Gluing and protective and decorative coating

These are the main operations after the manufacture and assembly of the parts themselves.
And for their implementation certain conditions are required. A barn is not a house; it is not heated. When I started carpentry, I realized that I couldn’t glue or paint it, because it was already winter outside and the workshop was too cold; I couldn’t even store materials at that temperature. At the same time, it is uncomfortable to work in a cold workshop. This, of course, upset me very much, because insulating the barn would have been quite expensive. I recommend that you either immediately take care of insulation, or during the cold season, do gluing and painting in other warm rooms.

Making a carpenter's vice for a workbench with your own hands

Professional “homemade workers” assemble not only tables for work, but also vices with their own hands according to drawings. Any design of such a clamp will include several elements:

1. Supports, where each one has a sponge for clamping.
2. Moving jaw.
3. Metal guides. The sponge moves over them.
4. Lead screw for moving elements.
5. Collar. Necessary for rotating the screw.

When making a homemade vice with your own hands, you can use various available materials. For example, there is a design option made from a profile pipe. To do this, prepare several pieces of pipe of different sizes, a steel stud with large threads and double nuts.

Instructions for creating a bench vise from a profile pipe:

DIY metal workbench drawings

A metal workbench does not differ much from a carpenter's workbench. It is based on a rigid metal rather than wooden frame. A vice is attached to it, and the entire workbench is designed to withstand the force of a sledgehammer.

Option for a home metal workbench

Do-it-yourself metal workbenches can have one, two or three cabinets, and also not have shelves or drawers for small parts. In terms of strength for working in a garage, you can make a regular table made of metal up to 5 mm thick and a reinforced structure where sheets from 10 to 30 mm are applicable.

Here are some useful plans for making a metal workbench for your workshop:

A simple version of a mechanic's workbench

Dimensions of a homemade tool

Combining a workbench and a work table

Fixed vice

Homemade machines and devices for the home workshop

Before selecting a set of homemade machines and accessories for the garage, it is necessary to create optimal working conditions. In this case, the size of the room must be at least 6 square meters. m. You can attach an additional room to the garage or to the house. It is important to decide what types of work you will carry out, as well as make a list of equipment and necessary tools.

A compact workshop can be set up in a garage

It is most convenient to organize storage of some types of tools on the wall. This will save space. It is also convenient to use racks and shelves. To save useful space, it is worth making universal devices that combine several functions. The table should be equipped with drawers, and also used as a carpentry workbench.

Ergonomic design of the desktop allows you to place the maximum number of items

When choosing homemade machines and devices for your home workshop, you can select different types of mini equipment. For working with metals, the following options are used:

• grinding equipment is used for processing metal surfaces: grinding, polishing and sharpening. Its manufacture requires a minimum number of components and parts. The equipment includes sharpening stones and an electric motor. For the stability of the device, mounting elements are used;

Grinding equipment option

• A milling machine is used to drill holes. In the manufacture of such a lifting mechanism design, a steering rack is used. In addition, you can install an angle milling machine.

Professional version of this design

For wood processing, various homemade tools and do-it-yourself devices are used. The most commonly used types are cutting, turning and grinding. With their help, you can perform all types of work at home. The following equipment is used for wood processing:

• cutting machines . The simplest device is an electric or chainsaw. Such units can be disk, belt, or chainsaw sawmills. When making homemade equipment, it is worth considering the diameter of the disk, as well as the width of the cutting part;

Simple cutting equipment

• grinding device. The simplest option is made from a stable table, a vertical grinding shaft and an electric motor. An abrasive belt is used to process the ends of wood blanks.

Grinding device

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Woodworking machines for the home workshop. Specialized equipment with an electric drive greatly simplifies the processing of wood blanks. But acquiring it involves significant investments. To successfully solve this problem, you should carefully study the materials in this article.

DIY tool shelves: popular designs and manufacturing

It is worth noting the following options for storing tools:

• racks;
• hanging shelves;
• wall structures;
• shelves in the form of shields on which small tools can be mounted.

Unusual shelves for storing tools

You can make a panel shelf for a tool with your own hands like this:

• cut out a shield from plywood and mark the places where the shelves will be installed;
• make shelves with side walls, the length of which should correspond to the length of the shield;
• the shelves are fixed to the panel using self-tapping screws;
• hooks are mounted, which are equipped with a special thread;
• The brackets are being installed on the back side of the shield.

This way you can make a simple panel structure, which will allow you to put your workshop in perfect order.

For your information! Panel shelves are functional. You can attach hooks or special holders to them. An additional lamp can be hung above such a structure. In this case, you can use a small light bulb.

Knife sharpening device

No home is complete without a knife in the kitchen. It is quite difficult to sharpen correctly without special tools: it is necessary to maintain the desired angle and achieve the ideal sharpness of the blade.

Option for a home device for sharpening blades

For each knife, a certain sharpening angle must be observed:

1. A razor and scalpel require an angle of 10-15⁰.
2. Knife for cutting bakery products – 15-20⁰.
3. Classic multifunctional knives – 25-30⁰.
4. For hunting and hiking, take a device with a blade angle from 25 to 30⁰.
5. If you want to cut hard materials, then sharpen at an angle of 30-40⁰.

In this way you can adjust the sharpening angle

To ensure the desired angle, it is worth buying or making a sharpening device. For example, you can assemble a sharpener from washing machine motors with your own hands.

If you do not use sharpening every day, then 1000 rpm is enough for high-quality results and a long service life of the device.

To assemble such a machine, you will need a motor from a washing machine with a power of 200 W. To create a sharpener from a washing machine engine, prepare:

• the motor itself;
• metal for the casing with a thickness of 2 to 2.5 mm;
• flange tube;
• sharpening stone;
• nuts;
• trigger mechanism;
• cable for connecting to the electrical network;
• a metal corner or a wooden beam for the frame.

There are simple do-it-yourself sharpening machines without motors. For example, you can make a device from bars. To do this, prepare two abrasive stones of the same size and a sharpening stone.

An easy version of the “homemade” sharpener

The progress of work on creating such a simple device will be as follows:

• Sand the wood blocks with sandpaper, removing any burrs. Make markings depending on the desired angle.

Materials for work

• Attach a stone to the drawn line to give the blade a sharp edge. To do this, attach it to the block and mark its width. Then, make cuts on the markings, up to 1.5 cm deep.
• Attach abrasive stones to the resulting recesses so that the grooves coincide. Then, install the sharpening stone by screwing it onto the bolts.

Ready-made sharpener option

There are many ways to make a homemade knife sharpener. Choose the one that suits you and try to create a convenient and useful tool for your home.

Device for sharpening drills for metal

They make their own not only a sharpener for blades, but also a machine for sharpening drills for metal. Here are a few drawings useful for work:

Convenient option for everyday use

Expanded drawing

Ready home machine

Another convenient option

DIY garage press options

Homemade garage presses allow you to process various products and materials under pressure. Structurally, the equipment consists of cylinders. In the garage, such a machine is useful for straightening or fastening various elements, as well as for bending sheets of metal or pressing cardboard.

An example of a homemade press

For private use, a capacity of 10-15 tons is sufficient. Most often, a bottle jack is used with a provided hand pump, which acts as the main structural element.

Here are some interesting options for homemade garage presses:

Option from scrap materials

Rails will also come in handy

Ready purchase model

Convenient homemade press

Turning

The three operations described - trimming, jointing and thicknessing - will allow you to make only some very simple products.
In a good way, you still need to master turning, that is, turning workpieces that are figures of rotation. For example, round legs for a stool or table, vases, bowls, or some other products. And in this case, you can’t do without a lathe. Of course, you can turn to the experience of generations and make an adapter from shit and sticks, with the help of which you can turn cylindrical blanks on a circular saw, but this is a dead-end path. If you want to make something more complex than a cylinder, you will have to buy a lathe. Fortunately, this is one of the simplest machines; it consists of a cast iron frame, a motor, a collet and a stop for a chisel (rest). You can find many interesting models on the secondary market, and there are also quite a few new modern models.

In order for you to get high-quality furniture, if you want to make it for yourself or sell it, you will have to equip the workshop with many other equipment.