Homemade Tools

[bczygan]

Anyone frequent this site?

http://www.homemadetools.net/

 

[Stooge]

never been on it, but in the last few minutes ive found a half dozen things i need to run back to my garage and try

 

[sasquatch12]

I get their updates regularly, and there is some great shop built items on there.

 

[Nortonscustom]

Too funny! Was looking around and came across my english wheel I build years ago. Thanks OP, pretty neat site!

http://www.homemadetools.net/big-blue-english-wheel

 

[TMcCay]

Thanks for posting! I've been wanting a Wicked Edge sharpener system but the price has kept it from happening. First tool I looked at was a clone that is probably built better and much cheaper. My project list just grew a bunch!!

 

[the gypsy]

Thank you for this info. I will have to look into the site later.

 

[DanCo]

Interesting, I'll have to spend more time on day off checking the site out. Thanks OP

Dan

 

[PCO6]

I visit that site fairly often. You've probably noticed that it has several links back to this site.

 

[metalhead212121]

best. website. ever.

 

[phred]

Great, just what I need another site to waste time on projects I dont have time to make because I'm wasting time looking at a site on how to make more stuff i don't have time to make because i'm........

Thanks a lot

 

[homemadetools]

Jon here from HomemadeTools.net.

I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the kind words

To celebrate our 20,000th homemade tool, we made a new ebook featuring our top 50 homemade tools. You guys are welcome to it for free:

http://download.homemadetools.net/50MustReadTools.pdf

 

[freudianfloyd]

Too funny! Was looking around and came across my english wheel I build years ago. Thanks OP, pretty neat site!

http://www.homemadetools.net/big-blue-english-wheel

I found a few things i've made in the past too. I have no idea how they got on there.

 

[LXCam]

Well howdy Jon, that's a very generous gift you linked. Looks like another site to join.

 

[brianh]

Just looked they have my bowling ball ball vise on it

 

[404]

Jon here from HomemadeTools.net.

I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the kind words

To celebrate our 20,000th homemade tool, we made a new ebook featuring our top 50 homemade tools. You guys are welcome to it for free:

http://download.homemadetools.net/50MustReadTools.pdf

My dream is that the "enter your email" pop up would go away... You already have my email, the pop up covers the thing I want to look at, and it is a pain in the *** to keep closing it. Yes I clear my cookies and javascript cookies. I don't know why you want more emails, I doubt you sell them, so what is the point of the constant nag? Yes I am ranting. You are welcome.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

What sort of compensation do you give the creators of the homemade tools your book is covering? Since the site only links to other sites where the content is published, I assume you're getting written permission to use the content in the book?

I'm curious what compensation offer to those original content creators.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

I found a few things i've made in the past too. I have no idea how they got on there.

The site is a link aggregator, and a good one. They categorize and list content from different sites, linking to the original content. They don't ask for permission to do so, but as they are only linking to it, they don't really need to. The photos they post are another question, since those they don't have permission to use, but I doubt many people will care enough about it. It's all about sharing the information at that point, and they don't try to take credit for it in any way.

It's a good site with good intent.

 

[homemadetools]

Vegaman_Dan - Thanks for the followup post You pretty much nailed it: we aggregate links to homemade tools, organize them, categorize them, etc. Our other sites (I don't want to promote them here, but they're linked in the header of HomemadeTools.net), aggregate build threads of various types: cars, 4x4s, boats, airplanes, cabins, motorcycles. Our company, BuildThreads, Inc., is based around curating the two greatest kinds of content on DIY forums: homemade tools and build threads.

The image usage on the site is similar to Google Images; it's allowed because it's more of a reduced-size pointer or reference to the original post. Each listing also links back to the original post three times, and fully credits the original builder and site. Google Images, or Pinterest, or similar sites, seem to lack that level of properly crediting the original builder, per the unwritten laws of forum culture.

If anyone ever wanted a listing removed, we would instantly delete it. Over the years, we have had a small number (less than 5) of removal requests, but since we are fully crediting the listed builders and sites, and we send a lot of traffic to them, everyone generally seems happy.

404 - Rant understood. I clear my cookies all the time too, and am constantly clicking away scrollers and sliders. Maybe we can just stop showing it to people with the same ip/browser combo, rather than relying on the presence of a cookie.

BTW you guys can see all of our GJ tool listings here: 425 homemade tools from GarageJournal.com. And you can see all homemade tools organized by site here: homemade tools by site.

 

[Farmall450]

Wow, that's neat.

 

[stage20]

i picked this up last weekend for a buck. someone needed a distributor wrench pretty bad. LOL.

 

[homemadetools]

Wow, that's neat.

 

[homemadetools]

Hey guys - we have a new free ebook of homemade car tools: 101 Best Homemade Automotive Tools. Click below to check it out:

 

[bonneyman]

Great - ANOTHER site for me to spend hours drooling over!