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Dude Crafts: The Man's Guide to Practical Projects, Backyard Ballistics, and Glorious Gags
Dude Crafts is loaded with more than 50 slightly twisted, but somehow useful, projects that will keep crafty men out of trouble (or, sometimes, in it).
Whether making life easier with ingenious hacks or providing self-amusement, the 50 projects presented in Dude Crafts are sure to get any guy's creative wheels turning. These DIY projects will get you on the path to developing your own creations, and impressing your friends.
You'll learn how to:
Craft an iPad cover from an old book
Build a metal forge out of a busted microwave
Cook a meal in the dishwasher
Re-purpose an electric saw into a cocktail blender
Fashion a Swiss army knife for your keys
Outfit an unsuspecting co-worker’s office chair with an air horn
Each project is accompanied by a parts list and step-by-step photo instructions to get you building; often by hacking subpar stock goods or upcycling discarded objects into functional works of art and conversation pieces. No matter how off-kilter the project may appear on the surface, it's sure to payoff as a useful tool, an art piece, the punch line to a practical joke or, best of all, a combination of all three.
Whatever the motive—to solve a problem, to play a joke, or for self-entertainment—Dude Crafts will get dudes off the sofa and into the workshop!
Whether making life easier with ingenious hacks or providing self-amusement, the 50 projects presented in Dude Crafts are sure to get any guy's creative wheels turning. These DIY projects will get you on the path to developing your own creations, and impressing your friends.
You'll learn how to:
Craft an iPad cover from an old book
Build a metal forge out of a busted microwave
Cook a meal in the dishwasher
Re-purpose an electric saw into a cocktail blender
Fashion a Swiss army knife for your keys
Outfit an unsuspecting co-worker’s office chair with an air horn
Each project is accompanied by a parts list and step-by-step photo instructions to get you building; often by hacking subpar stock goods or upcycling discarded objects into functional works of art and conversation pieces. No matter how off-kilter the project may appear on the surface, it's sure to payoff as a useful tool, an art piece, the punch line to a practical joke or, best of all, a combination of all three.
Whatever the motive—to solve a problem, to play a joke, or for self-entertainment—Dude Crafts will get dudes off the sofa and into the workshop!
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192 pages, Hardcover
Published October 2, 2018
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March 5, 2019
Been honest...this is a really helpful book that I wish I had a phisycal copy to check it from time to time...however I hate that is threat like...this is dude book...just for the hardest and heavyst...I get, is like a joke, but stop been funny like 5 pages later.
a digital copy of this book was provided by NetGalley
a digital copy of this book was provided by NetGalley
February 18, 2019
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Dude Crafts is an illustrated tutorial how-to guide with tongue firmly in cheek. The projects are way out there and silly and/or campy. They range from bizarre: a flask hidden inside a realistic baby doll (complete with baby-pack carrier) to the odd: a DIY paracord bullwhip, to the MacGuyverish: PVC freezing tubes for your favorite beverage coolers.
Released 2nd Oct 2018 by Quarto on their Voyageur imprint, it's 192 pages and available in hardcover format.
While this book has a very humorous feel, there are a number of useful items which can be made with the tutorials provided. Keys can be kept together in a swiss-army-knife type contraption, your bottle opener will never go missing again, thanks to neodymium magnets and a disembowled doll/action figure, and several other notable more-or-less utilitarian pieces. There are of course some purely humorous projects: a keen amateur can make a hysterically realistic head-in-a-jar which looks like a friend or coworker, the aforementioned flask in a realistic babydoll in a carrier, and a dinosaur pencil sharpener.
While admittedly there weren't any of the 50 projects which called out to me to be made right away, there certainly were enough nuggets of advice and jumping off points that I'm sure I'll be using some of the ideas in one form or another in the future.
Four stars for the humor and wacky ideas.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
Dude Crafts is an illustrated tutorial how-to guide with tongue firmly in cheek. The projects are way out there and silly and/or campy. They range from bizarre: a flask hidden inside a realistic baby doll (complete with baby-pack carrier) to the odd: a DIY paracord bullwhip, to the MacGuyverish: PVC freezing tubes for your favorite beverage coolers.
Released 2nd Oct 2018 by Quarto on their Voyageur imprint, it's 192 pages and available in hardcover format.
While this book has a very humorous feel, there are a number of useful items which can be made with the tutorials provided. Keys can be kept together in a swiss-army-knife type contraption, your bottle opener will never go missing again, thanks to neodymium magnets and a disembowled doll/action figure, and several other notable more-or-less utilitarian pieces. There are of course some purely humorous projects: a keen amateur can make a hysterically realistic head-in-a-jar which looks like a friend or coworker, the aforementioned flask in a realistic babydoll in a carrier, and a dinosaur pencil sharpener.
While admittedly there weren't any of the 50 projects which called out to me to be made right away, there certainly were enough nuggets of advice and jumping off points that I'm sure I'll be using some of the ideas in one form or another in the future.
Four stars for the humor and wacky ideas.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
April 12, 2020
Some pretty cool projects
October 13, 2019
See my full review here.
This would be a great gift for a young person who wants to learn how to use household tools like circular saws, drills, glue guns, etc. Warren’s goal is to help you get familiar with tools and materials so you can join the maker-crowd. Plus you learn how to make 50+ fun, funny, practical and sometimes dangerous projects! Love the baby doll flask in a snuggly, the bent wrench coathooks, and the magnetic storage doodad. And true to the title, there is a section called High-Brow Comedy devoted to seven gags you can make and deliver, from the low-effort Office Chair Air Horn to the pièce de resistance, a head in a jar gag that requires digital images, a good quality printer and laminator, but holy heck it’ll startle your friends and colleagues every time! Most entries offer four pages of photos and instructions as well as helpful tips. I'm sorry that Warren included no appendices. I would like to see some instructions on tool use and safety, and maybe even some guidance in what tool does what. My thanks to the Grand Forks & District Public Library for adding this fun title to its adult nonfiction collection.
This would be a great gift for a young person who wants to learn how to use household tools like circular saws, drills, glue guns, etc. Warren’s goal is to help you get familiar with tools and materials so you can join the maker-crowd. Plus you learn how to make 50+ fun, funny, practical and sometimes dangerous projects! Love the baby doll flask in a snuggly, the bent wrench coathooks, and the magnetic storage doodad. And true to the title, there is a section called High-Brow Comedy devoted to seven gags you can make and deliver, from the low-effort Office Chair Air Horn to the pièce de resistance, a head in a jar gag that requires digital images, a good quality printer and laminator, but holy heck it’ll startle your friends and colleagues every time! Most entries offer four pages of photos and instructions as well as helpful tips. I'm sorry that Warren included no appendices. I would like to see some instructions on tool use and safety, and maybe even some guidance in what tool does what. My thanks to the Grand Forks & District Public Library for adding this fun title to its adult nonfiction collection.
November 30, 2018
Hilarious with a touch of danger and epic crafty brilliance! Dude it is time to get crafty with over 50 innovative invitations to create.
April 9, 2019
Dude Crafts is a very interesting book full of not your average craft ideas. I liked the inclusion of pictures. I found some of the steps to be overwhelming, but overall this would be a great book for anyone who loves a good project! Definitely geared towards men. Good gift idea for those men in your life.
February 5, 2019
Funny and odd. I can't see anyone making these projects but they were interesting to read. The plastic doll as a secret whisky flask was my favourite as it was very macabre. I'd describe this as a bathroom book or possibly something you buy your dad as a joke gift.
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