Manual lathe A craftsman in Morocco, builds chess pawns using a manual lathe with a bow. With his foot he directs a climb, and sculpts a piece of wood into a small pawn.
Traditional construction of wooden forks Casimir Brescó in the village of Alentorn, Spain, shows us how he makes the traditional wooden forks for the ears in a video from 1997. At 76 then, Casimir was one of the last people to do this job.
Making a handmade leather belt In Ontario, Canada, a skilled craftsman of small crafts "Noble Leather" makes a handmade belt.
Construction of a house that looks like LEGO The Belgian company Gablok manufactures large wooden bricks with insulation, joined together like LEGO bricks to build a house. As the company says, to the prospective buyer offers the materials and design, for a house he can build even on his own. The cost of this construction is about € 250 per square meter.
Construction of a handmade wooden bridge Ο Amu, an elderly craftsman from China, manufactures a small wooden bridge over a creek. The construction uses ancient Chinese of wood joining techniques without nails or other materials.
The construction of a mirror The construction of a mirror in a crafts, without the use of machinery. For making two solutions, one of which contains silver nitrate, ammonia and distilled water - and the other with potassium sodium tartrate dissolved in distilled water. When these solutions are mixed,, generated silver liquid in pure form. The chemical reactions between the solutions sequester silver, maintaining the liquid long enough to be applied to the glass sheet. The mixture should be poured onto clean glass, when frozen is uniformly bonded to the surface. The quality of the mirror formed in this way will depend largely on how clean is the glass.
Guitars from cigar boxes The instrument-Del Puckett from the US Oregon, manufactures small guitars based wooden cigar boxes. Here we show how flexible are these small guitars.
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