New video: making catapults with each tool in my shop (Patreon)
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I love my tools, but the only reason I have them is so that I can make cool things. This is why I've been hesitant to do a shop tour video for the channel - showing just the tools feels like I'd be missing something important.
A few weeks ago I had some inspiration. My idea was to use all the tools in my shop to build something simple but cool. This would let me focus on the tools and what they can do while also giving some fun results. Ultimately I decided to use each of my major tools to build a different catapult of some kind. This turned out to be a really fun design constraint that forced me to get creative. I'm really happy with how it shows a ton of ways of approaching the same problem.
Part way through making the projects I forgot that the launchers were supposed to be simple and I ended up making quite a few complicated things. Even though this video is my longest ever at almost 35 minutes, I barely scratched the surface of each of the launchers. This is a happy accident since it gives me a lot of smaller projects to dig into on the second channel.
Thanks for all the support! I'm planning to do a livestream commentary for all you lovely patrons in the coming week or two. Hope you enjoy the video!
- Shane