Workshop Projects and Honest Tool Reviews
Garrett Dunn · October 15, 2026
Build cheap metal stock storage racks from angle iron and wall bins. Find the right piece fast, work safely, and stop losing offcuts in the pile.
Garrett Dunn · July 24, 2026
You’ll find conflicting advice online about workholding: some folks swear that a quality vise solves every clamping problem, while others insist you need a Swiss Army knife collection of clamps and fixtures. The first camp is wrong, and here’s why — a vise is brilliantly specialized, which means it’s terrible at everything else. Once you … Read more
Garrett Dunn · July 21, 2026
The moment I pressed the start button on my MIG welder three years back, something felt immediately wrong — not a spark or a smell, but the solid *clunk* of the main house breaker slamming off. Not just the garage circuit. The whole house went dark. My neighbor’s porch light cut out mid-flicker. That instant … Read more
Garrett Dunn · July 15, 2026
My neighbor stopped by the garage last month and asked why I was spending ten minutes touching up a chisel when I could just grab a sharper one from the bin. It’s a fair question—one I would’ve asked myself years ago. But the answer is exactly why I built a dedicated sharpening station, even though … Read more
Garrett Dunn · June 30, 2026
Hanging on my shop wall is a photograph of a layout scribe I destroyed during year two—the tip snapped clean off because I’d miscalculated a line by 3mm, squinting under a single fluorescent tube mounted dead center in the ceiling. That broken tool sits there as a reminder that every mistake I made during those … Read more
Garrett Dunn · June 24, 2026
How to Mount a Bench Vise So It Actually Holds: Bolts, Height, and Overhang Last winter, digging through my garage to find a file I’d set down months earlier, I stumbled across an old restored vise someone had given me—jaw surfaces like glass, handle smooth as silk—that I’d bolted down with whatever fasteners were in … Read more