Peter Brown's ShopTime

Restoration projects can be very fun. Taking something with little value and modifying it. I take a garage sale TV tray and add 391 pennies, epoxy and a 12" length of copper pipe. No table saw, no band saw and no lathe. This is a basic tool build project! $.50 TV tray from a garage sale.

When it comes to spending money in the shop I'm as thrifty as they come. It's true I hate spending money, by mostly because I don't have any.

I've been carrying a wooden money clip for about 20 years or so. It's nice to not have to lug a wallet along for everything. You can get an ID, credit card and some bills in there with no trouble, and it fits in your front pocket where it is much harder to get picked!

This is a free floating TARDIS desk ornament. It hangs suspended in time and space as if flying in the time vortex. Perhaps off to some Dalek infested back alley someone in Cardiff...

Wizards are out vampires are in!

A wooden chakram made from maple and mercilessly hurled in the oncoming enemy hordes... and watermelons!  

Tablet stand made from a 400 page book and some epoxy resin. Paper micarta is the proper term for it, but it doesn't really capture the essence of the idea. Those 400 pages hold but a single story, and now they can upright a device capable of holding thousands of stories. And with only a book and 30 some odd ounces of epoxy, you can make your own! Just don't use a book that is one of your favorites. Which  honestly is why I picked this one, and the fact that the name was well suited! Really it's the ultimate upcycling!