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Useful Fabrication Tips for Just About Any Project | Articles

Since that first rock was used to carve another rock into a wheel, humans have had the innate desire to turn raw materials into useful objects. Our evolving society has brought us from stones to metals to plastics, while tools have progressed from rocks to a myriad of more sophisticated devices like drills, grinders and welders.

While the craft of fabricating finished products is taught and written about widely, many useful tips and tricks are left undocumented. Here are some of our favorites; they should help the next time you’re fabricating the bits and brackets needed to make your project a success.

Setup and Measurement

Make Paper Templates:

Cutting and folding steel is not a trivial task, and we prefer to do it only once. We’ll often make a paper template first to test our…

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