I made a DIY mid century modern coffee table out of walnut and walnut plywood to match the credenza/entertainment system I built last year. This video shows the step by step process i used to create it. This construction uses biscuit joints for alignment of the solid walnut edge banding, and corner pieces. A router is used to create a dado joint for the center divider support. This piece also uses 4 pocket holes that are hidden on the back side to add extra clamping of the side walls and table top to it. A flush cut router bit is used to clean up the edge banding, and the masking tape is used to provide a small offset and help protect the walnut veneer on the ply wood from tear out. Speaking of tear out, there was a no trivial amount on my plywood parts that led to some bear spots in the veneer. After finishing this build I learned a zero clearance insert for my table saw would greatly reduce this. The brass legs were purchased from amazon.
Last year I made my first great stuff expanding foam halloween props, when I began my haunted reef and haunted beach theme. Originally it was Just our shark attack surfer skeleton, Pamela Anderson skeleton, and our Little Mermaid skeleton. This year we stepped it up a notch and build a full facade out of expanding foam and bags of bones to complete our under water haunted coral reef theming.
DIY step by step on making a prop coral for our halloween haunted reef. Big thanks to still beast studios ( https://www.youtube.com/c/StiltbeastStudios ) for pioneering expanding foam props for halloween haunts. Our haunt includes the home depot 6ft spirit twins, Baywatch Pamela Skeleton, Shark Attack Skeleton, Little Mermaid Skeleton, Animatronic Fish Skeletons, Shark Skeleton, Sprit Halloween Shark Skull, Target Dragon Skull, our homemade fog chiller, and of course, our haunted reef.
Screen printing various swag at home using a cheap Vevor press, and masked screen made by Anthem Screen Printing in San Francisco. Just send them a .pdf or vector file of your graphic, and they will create and ship you a ready to go screen. In this video I print on shirts, canvas bags, fanny packs, and even my new rip curl wetsuit. I use water based ink rather than plastisol so I can cure them quickly with a heat gun. I prefer the Speed Ball fabric water based ink. My technique is far from proper, and I am still learning. This video is meant to show how straight forward screen printing can be for a beginner and various items you can easily print on. The Vevor press is a bit tricky to assemble, and takes some simple tuning to get nice results out of it.