Bootstrap Some Bar Clamps

I'm really starting to get happy with how my garage is coming together.  It makes me want to start working on projects other than the garage itself.

To do many of those projects I assumed I would need to buy a bunch of bar clamps.  While I inherited a good starter stash of c-clamps from my grandfather, he didn't have any big-'ol-bar-clamps.  And you can never have too many clamps.

Enter some bar clamps made out of scrap wood, from the Izzy Swan channel.




Looks good to me. I don't like spending money, and I'm really in this hobby to have things to work on and develop the fundamentals.

Cutting Straight with a Handsaw

I needed to cut some boards I had salvaged for shelving, but my deep and abiding cheapness prevented me from buying a circular saw.  Instead, inspired by the limited tools series, I made a jig to make my hand saw more accurate.  This video shows such a jig:




In searching for a video with this type of low-tech jig, I discovered guides that use magnets -- and, wowie! Look at this one: