Hi I just joined, I like the idea of building stuff from scratch!

[skibo]

This forum looks to be very interesting, I have a small wood / metal shop at home, I'm retired and I love to build scale r/c model ships. I sold my Hot Rod this last fall because of physical reasons and I'm now into smaller easier things to work on!
skibo

[Jon]

Hi skibo - welcome to HomemadeTools.net

What kind of tools would you like to make next? Here are some ideas from last week's builds:

Sheetmetal Brake Modifications
Rotary Tool Belt Sander
Stainless Steel Barbecue

[skibo]

Jon, Well,right now I'm rebuilding my shop inside to make it more hobby usable in my modeling and wood and metal work. For a long time I had my custom VW in the garage along with associated parts in the middle of my build, my bad back got worse and I never really got any better, so the car just sat there for around five years. I just sold it a couple months ago and now looking at finishing my shop and getting my other tools out of my storage center. I'm thinking about a small sheet metal brake might be my first tool build. I worked for a while in the tin shop at the pulp mill where I live and really liked the box/pan brake with it's different jaws for fabing. I'm thinking about that one though, as the different jaws might be a real problem to make.

[Jon]

That sounds like an excellent first build. Here's an option from one of our members: Sheetmetal Brake full set plans & materias