
Chris Salomone: This Old House Makers Channel
Guest Maker Shaun Boyd builds a modern chessboard that's also a cutting board.

Guest Maker Shaun Boyd builds a modern chessboard that's also a cutting board.

Chris makes an epoxy table with an intricate inlay in the shape of California.

Cris makes outdoor folding chairs and a leather bag for her drone.

Cris makes a lift-top coffee table and shares the basics of screenprinting.

Bob builds an outdoor climbing wall for his family and makes a dice tower for his D & D character.

Bob builds a conference table with a gaming section and designs room-darkening panels.

Tyler experiments with high vs. low pressure and a sealed vacuum chamber.

Fly-defense mechanisms; Tyler experiments with the expansion rate of ice and steel embrittlement.

Jimmy makes a double-chambered blacksmith bellows for his forge.

Jimmy builds a new basement door for his 1790 farmhouse; he welds the door frame from steel.

Tyler over-engineers a bottle opener and a "big, giant vise grip."

The teams pitch and present their product ideas to a panel of industry judges.

The teams are close to wrapping up their designs, as they make product websites and prepare pitches.

Teams receive feedback from a focus group, then fine-tune their prototypes.

The teams go to the hardware store to gather materials; the prototyping process begins.

The 48-hour invention competition begins; the brainstorming process; patent searches.

Laura builds a table from oak with mortise and tenon joinery, using a piece of her workstation.

Laura challenges herself to build a folding table that is collapsible, stable and also good-looking.

Laura transforms an old heating expansion vessel into a grill with a leveling jack.

Experimenting with discarded materials, Laura makes some unconventional storage options.