Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15

[C-Mag]

Here are some of my favorite channels on YouTube

Essential Craftsman - Great all around craftsman channel, good life lessons too
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzr30o ... US8IfXtXmg

jimmy diresta - most people have seen a few of his videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/jimmydiresta

Make it Extreme - similar to diresta
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhZ3X ... Q/featured

Hand Tool Rescue - just restoring old tools
https://www.youtube.com/user/erzzi6

Black Bear Forge - Great Blacksmithing channel, very down to earth and common sense
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdOM6Q ... ExrnDLVjXg

Tips from a Shipwright - Building awesome wooden boats
https://www.youtube.com/user/TipsfromaShipWright

[clubgop]

There's machinist forums where some guys spend all their time restoring "old American iron" machine tools and never actually make stuff. But not all. Here's a dude making a 1/2 scale Gatling gun http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/thread ... -Gun-Build. Apparently it's not technically a machine gun since it doesn't automatically reload.

nice, thanks for sharing

You guys are so easy to please, all it takes is obsessive insanity + weapons. There are also guys building WWI biplane fighters from scratch.

Correct, all it takes is obsessive insanity + weapons.

[clubgop]

It's nuts the kind of forums you can run across. There are forums on just bench vises, which came in handy when I restored a couple vises.

There's machinist forums where some guys spend all their time restoring "old American iron" machine tools and never actually make stuff. But not all. Here's a dude making a 1/2 scale Gatling gun http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/thread ... -Gun-Build. Apparently it's not technically a machine gun since it doesn't automatically reload.

Yeah, same principle as a bump stock, one pull of the trigger or one turn of the crank fires one shot. Like all gun control all it takes to undermine it is obsessive insanity, weaponized autism, or just plain American ingenuity.

[brewster]

Here are some of my favorite channels on YouTube

My favorite craft show was on H&G Channel, but is not available. It was called Modern Masters, and each show profiles 3 craftsmen making stuff related to architecture or décor. There was a guy making roped wooden columns out of trees with a chain saw, and a guy hammering flowers and fruit out of steel for fancy driveway gates. It gave me joy to see people actually making a living creating with their hands, rather than fetishizing craft like the silly "Maker" movement.

[C-Mag]

Here are some of my favorite channels on YouTube

My favorite craft show was on H&G Channel, but is not available. It was called Modern Masters, and each show profiles 3 craftsmen making stuff related to architecture or décor. There was a guy making roped wooden columns out of trees with a chain saw, and a guy hammering flowers and fruit out of steel for fancy driveway gates. It gave me joy to see people actually making a living creating with their hands, rather than fetishizing craft like the silly "Maker" movement.

YES !
That was my favorite too. I remember marveling over the guy that did nothing but make custom door slabs. He didn't do hardware, hinges or frames, just perfect beautiful door slabs.

[brewster]

Here are some of my favorite channels on YouTube

My favorite craft show was on H&G Channel, but is not available. It was called Modern Masters, and each show profiles 3 craftsmen making stuff related to architecture or décor. There was a guy making roped wooden columns out of trees with a chain saw, and a guy hammering flowers and fruit out of steel for fancy driveway gates. It gave me joy to see people actually making a living creating with their hands, rather than fetishizing craft like the silly "Maker" movement.

YES !
That was my favorite too. I remember marveling over the guy that did nothing but make custom door slabs. He didn't do hardware, hinges or frames, just perfect beautiful door slabs.

Ah, common ground! My kitchen table is actually a slab like that. My dad was a sales rep for architectural stuff, and when a company he repped discontinued their line of 2" thick doors made of 1/2" strips of laminated oak, he turned his samples into desks, and I got one when he closed his office. I made new legs for it out of 3.5" EMT tubing I gave a brushed finish on the 6" belt sander.

[C-Mag]

Ah, common ground! My kitchen table is actually a slab like that. My dad was a sales rep for architectural stuff, and when a company he repped discontinued their line of 2" thick doors made of 1/2" strips of laminated oak, he turned his samples into desks, and I got one when he closed his office. I made new legs for it out of 3.5" EMT tubing I gave a brushed finish on the 6" belt sander.

Nice. That industrial look is really in right now. In fact anything made of sturdy materials, real steel is sought after. I think that style and popularity is a push back against the globalist disposable lifestyle given to us by Walmart type marketing and production. There is a really hot market for old industrial furnishings.

[brewster]

Ah, common ground! My kitchen table is actually a slab like that. My dad was a sales rep for architectural stuff, and when a company he repped discontinued their line of 2" thick doors made of 1/2" strips of laminated oak, he turned his samples into desks, and I got one when he closed his office. I made new legs for it out of 3.5" EMT tubing I gave a brushed finish on the 6" belt sander.

Nice. That industrial look is really in right now. In fact anything made of sturdy materials, real steel is sought after. I think that style and popularity is a push back against the globalist disposable lifestyle given to us by Walmart type marketing and production. There is a really hot market for old industrial furnishings.

I made that in 95. I've always had that kind of taste, it got me kicked out of design school. They didn't like Bauhaus "form follows function" and that my shit actually worked. They had a visiting Italian professor they loved whose hideous furniture looked like it was melting. What's the opposite of "timeless design"?

[C-Mag]

You made the right choice man.
I've always been drawn to simplicity and functionality...………. sturdiness. That's why I prefer early Arts and Crafts type homes. FL Wright's early work, which he hated, in the Arts and Crafts period were great. I really increasingly dislike FL Wrights stuff as he aged. That house he did late in life in Arizona is a turd. Falling Waters was probably his peak, and I like aspects of that home, but he was headed down a weird modernist path even at that point. But the guy was a genius with building materials, he was a great innovator with materials that today we take for granted, plywood, concrete blocks, drywall. He was an early guy pushing those materials, and I've even heard it said he invented some of them.

[brewster]

You made the right choice man.
I've always been drawn to simplicity and functionality...………. sturdiness. That's why I prefer early Arts and Crafts type homes. FL Wright's early work, which he hated, in the Arts and Crafts period were great. I really increasingly dislike FL Wrights stuff as he aged. That house he did late in life in Arizona is a turd. Falling Waters was probably his peak, and I like aspects of that home, but he was headed down a weird modernist path even at that point. But the guy was a genius with building materials, he was a great innovator with materials that today we take for granted, plywood, concrete blocks, drywall. He was an early guy pushing those materials, and I've even heard it said he invented some of them.

Problem with Wright is he was 'faux functional'. His stuff looked engineered, but in fact his houses were unstable, his doorways too low, and his roofs leaked. 'Function fetish' art is a riot. Decades ago when I did a lot of commercials I was working on a telescoping cantilevered camera boom design. An "artist" I was subletting studio space to thought it was a sculpture piece! Her work was what I call "chimp art", runny blotches of paint on 4x8 plywood. My daughter's finger painting at 3 was better.