Displaying A Knife Collection

Arguably knife-making is mankind's first art. Beautiful things, knives. Here is a how-to to display your knife collection beautifully and safely.

Edge Beading A Stained Glass Copper Foil Project

Learn a way, that works, to do edge beading on a stained glass copper foil project. With this technique, the solder will stay where you put it and you will get a beautiful, rounded bead on all three edge surfaces.

Treasure Hunts On Land

In the old days, when bankers were often corrupt, or farmers and businessmen simply preferred to keep track of their own money, valuable items were often stored for safekeeping in some pretty strange places. The most popular stories you may hear often involve a crazy old rich coot burying his treasure under a certain landmark, such as a special rock or a specific tree. How much truth lies in the story is hard to determine, unless you actually find the treasure!

Turn Your Hobby Into Cold Hard Cash

Did you know you could be sitting on a goldmine? Did you know you could turn doing something you love into an easy income? did you know you could quit your job and make a living with your hobby. The Net makes it easy.

And The Bead Goes On

Knitting and beading can make for a great marriage as long as a few rules of engagement are followed.

Top 6 Woodwork Plans You Should Make Time For During Vacation

When searching for woodwork plans for wine racks, consider the number of bottles you typically store in a year, the size of these bottles, and the amount of space you’re working with. If you’ll be installing the wine cellar at your basement, consider using laminated wood to make it more resistant to moisture damage.

Felted Knitting: Learn How to Create Your Own Felt Projects

Felted knitting is actually a rather simple, although time consuming process. You can learn to felt with these simple instructions. If knitting is rewarding, felted knitting is downright addicting! The only limit is your imagination. You can make hats, placemats, purses, coasters, slippers, dolls and so much more.

Don't Clean Your Old Coins

The first thing on your list of what not to do is the golden rule of coin collecting: Don't clean your old coins. That's coin-homicide and can mean a significant reduction in value of the coin's mint state.

High Quality Ship Models Valued as Five Figure Investments

Good ship modeling projects are ending up in corporate board rooms and as treasured investments by those looking for exquisite detail. These models can have a value as high as $50,000. They are also proving to have strong Return On Investment results.

How to Hunt Down Profits with Your Hobbies

Do you have a hobby with the potential to make money online for you as you work at home doing what you love? Almost any hobby has money making potential.

How to Start a Knife Collection

Knife collections turn into family heirlooms that can be passed down through the generations.

Weaving Baskets - Some Natural Dyes

There is a fascination about colouring one's own material that only one who has proved it can understand. As an artist mixes his colours, one dye after another is tried until at last a fortunate blending gives the desired shade. Solid extracts of vegetable dyes are sold which simplify the process; or, if one lives in the country, hedgerow dyes are plentiful for those who have eyes to see and patience to use them. If one does much dyeing, rubber gloves are almost a necessity, and a brass preserving kettle will be found useful. If small quantities of material are dyed at a time half- worn basins or saucepans of medium size will do. Wash the rattan and raffia, especially the latter, in soap or soda and water and rinse thoroughly before dyeing. One of the secrets of even colouring is to boil the dye slowly, leaving the material in it for hours. In this way full deep colours will be obtained even on rattan.

Oil Finishes - Tips For Creating The Perfect Finish on Your Woodturnings

Oil finishes are considered by many turners to be the ultimate woodturning finish. Among the easiest of all finishes to apply, oil finishes impart a close to the wood feeling that begs to be touched. In my woodturning demonstrations around the United States and in discussions with other turners via the Internet, no other subject has spawned more questions than finishing. In this article you will learn how to create and perfect oil finishes on your woodturnings. Detailed step-by-step instructions are included to insure your success.

Where To Find Projects When Working With Wood Using Hand Tools Only

Today hand tools for woodworking serve a variety of functions and also come in a multitude of shapes and sizes. There are many types of hand tools from cutting tools, hammers, measuring tools, pliers, screwdrivers and shaping tools to name but a few.