Engineering, Transport & Making

Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills

Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills sits within Engineering, Transport & Making. Look at how a practical problem becomes a design, a process, or a working physical object. This selection contains 34 catalog videos from 25 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include woodworking, machining, bushcraft, craftsmanship, metrology and primitive technology. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include course, demo, documentary, explainer, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools”, listed under ClojureTV, is cataloged as talk. Tim Ewald's Clojure/conj talk uses furniture making with hand tools versus machine tools as an allegory for software. It explores how automation changes what we make and how we think about our…

“Origins of Precision”, listed under Machine Thinking, is cataloged as documentary. Machine Thinking traces where mechanical precision comes from, from flat surface plates and the three-plate method up through lathes and early measuring tools. It is the first in a series on recreating…