What's your coolest DIY/Homemade tool,gizmo and/or piece of equipment?

[acmetsala]

It has to be my filework vise. Panavise head pinned and epoxied into a bowling ball and sitting on a piece of PVC pipe.

 

[R.Keith]

It has to be my filework vise. Panavise head pinned and epoxied into a bowling ball and sitting on a piece of PVC pipe.

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Quite creative, Nice work.

 

[BRad704]

It has to be my filework vise. Panavise head pinned and epoxied into a bowling ball and sitting on a piece of PVC pipe.

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Creative indeed!

 

[Delbert Ealy]

My rolling mill for rolling out hot damascus to the final(proir to grinding) thickness.

 

[DC KNIVES]

I have quite a few things since I have been doing this for a bit.Dave

the first is my 1"x42" horizontal, small but used on every knife and been going strong for over 10 years

Dual reversible Disc sander

Adjustable table and bucket holder for my Burr-King

Drilling fixture for irregular handle scales

Dovetail fixture

drilling fixture for irregular pieces and blocks(great for benchtop drill presses where space is at a premium)

Filework fixture

 

[Ironwolf]

Guys,I'd really like to thank you all for sharing these with us:
as we all know,knifemakers are the most ingenious,creative and MacGyverish bunch of any artistic community
and speaking for my broke-a$$ self,these ideas of yours are a gold-mine to me...
Thank you.

 

[Ernie Swanson]

Some of these are great, Thank for starting this thread!!