r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 06 '19

Anvil I made out of a railroad track.

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267 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jul 22 '19

Homemade Contour Gauge for a flooring project

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168 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Feb 21 '19

I made my own little scissor lift.

159 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Oct 17 '19

Home made bottle cutter !

129 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Mar 15 '20

Shrub Remover - I had 23 shrubs / small bushes I wanted removed. This rig reduced the time and effort required to remove the roots by an order of magnitude. It’s all leverage.

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124 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jan 21 '21

I made a very large belt sander

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123 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 11 '20

Probably not the place for it, but I needed to put some belt dressing on a belt of my old truck (while it’s running) but couldn’t do it without cutting my fingers off, this is what I came up with, worked great!

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120 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jul 06 '19

Made this for castle nuts on bearings. Out at sea if you don’t have it gotta make it. Harbor freight joke on the handle. Made with one inch flat stock. Bent then cut out with plasma handle is whipped twine and some heat shrink.

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118 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 12 '19

Needle nose pliers and adjustable wrench combo

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111 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jul 30 '19

i love this Ukrainian hammer

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110 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Apr 05 '19

Check out these swivel stands in this guy’s paint booth

104 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 08 '19

4x wrench,.. pretty simple I just welded 4 open ended wrench heads to one shaft, I ride an old Harley and nuts sometimes rattle loose (I know hard to believe) so I stick this in my pocket, it’s saved the day more than once,. It’s 3/8, 7/16, 1/2 and 9/16.

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102 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 21 '19

It's only silly if it doesn't work.

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95 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Feb 19 '20

Who needs a leveler anyway

91 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jan 10 '20

Wanted a bright flashlight, so I made one!

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90 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Nov 27 '19

Today I finished two small curved planes for shaping the curves on violins

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86 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • May 18 '22

My homemade hydraulic press brake - YouTube: custom fabricated

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85 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Feb 15 '24

#10 wire nut, J-B weld, and a driver bit of your choice makes a nice pocket screw driver.

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82 Upvotes

I removed the threads/spring from inside the nut so the bit would fit further down in.


r/HomemadeTools • • Jul 17 '19

Handmade custom knives blade on hand engraved design.

82 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Jul 31 '25

Car tire rock tumbler

78 Upvotes

So I'm one of those people that like to repurpose just about anything that I find. I was given a working industrial grade treadmill. I tried to sell it, nobody was interested so I figured what the heck. Let's do something with it I was inspired by a gentleman on Facebook who had a post up about making a much much more complicated and expensive Tire rock tumbler.

I figured this was a pretty easy thing to do and well I haven't used it as of yet but it's been running for about 20 minutes and it hasn't come off the tracks yet! 😜 Also they're adjustable for different size tires if I want and I can increase or decrease the speed because of the treadmill which is pretty awesome. Hopefully you all like it. I hope somebody else can copy this and show me an even better version.


r/HomemadeTools • • Nov 07 '24

I made this for my wheelbarrow so I could lug more firewood

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74 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Apr 23 '20

I remade the linear bearings as you suggested and I am very happy with the results!

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72 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Aug 14 '20

Guy makes a caliper screw tool out of dollar store garden item

68 Upvotes

r/HomemadeTools • • Nov 01 '19

Does this count? I don't own a lathe but I need to make some tuning pegs

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65 Upvotes