Popular Mechanics - USA (2020-03)

▶ Making the handle The handle is made from three pieces of wood glued together to form a single lamination. Rip and crosscut th ...

for more than 30 years. Old tool files, in partic- ular, make for great knives because they tend to be made out of higher-qualit ...

isn’t an exact match, there will be two lines. In that case, the space between the two lines will be your centerpoint when grind ...

A 200-YEAR SHED I n 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own comp ...

Miller’s smoke- house has produced holiday turkeys, home- made deer jerky, and prize-winning cheeses. Attach the four rafters on ...

B eer is a catalyst for community building. At our brewery, Dog- fish Head, my wife Mariah and I have tried to show our kids tha ...

*Suggested measures are for five-gallon batches. Feel free to experiment. to make money. To his credit, he worked nights running ...

S o many plants that we enjoy—especially trees—are the gift of someone else’s fore- sight. A sapling in one generation becomes a ...

▶ Avoid plants that are susceptible to diseases or pests in your area. High-yield fruit trees such as apples tend to require fer ...

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THE DIGITAL TOOLBOX Like most new LEGO projects, Charles’s ship materialized on a computer before he started clicking bricks tog ...

Charles’s ship is accurate to the stud except for one thing: The bridge is four studs wider than movie scale. March/April 2020 5 ...

Once he had the hull mapped out, he moved on to the specif- ics. “Of the 15 months I spent designing and building this thing, mo ...

book provided by Studio 2.0. But by page 200, he says, “things started to fall apart.” Design f laws spanned the length of the s ...

The Ultimate Portable Car Lift See it on YouTube © 2020 QuickJack, LLC. QuickJack products are protected by one or more patents. ...

Build It Stronger, Fix It Faster, Maintain It Better THESE 48 EXCEPTIONAL TOOLS—THE BEST WE’VE TESTED THAT ARE ON THE MARKET NOW ...

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Electric Outdoor Tools 1 2 (For more in-depth reviews of top- performing lawn mowers, turn to page 76.) BEST ELECTRIC LAWN MOWE ...

3 4 ing with other blowers, it cleared leaves faster and farther than all but one of the gas-fueled models. We particularly like ...