
Make 48 City Series: Outdoor Play! Challenge Accepted
Eight Teams meet at the Bodgery in Madison, WI, and have 48 hours to make an outdoor game that fits in a backpack.

Eight Teams meet at the Bodgery in Madison, WI, and have 48 hours to make an outdoor game that fits in a backpack.

After a big design idea for a dining table goes wrong, Chris and Shaun pivot and share tips for taking math out of woodworking.

Brad puts different types of boards to the test, exploring whether MDF can be used for projects instead of plywood.

Brad upgrades his backyard with edging, pavers, a walkway, and a garden bed then, Brad optimizes his kitchen cabinet storage space.

Brad designs a backyard stone fire pit on a budget, shares how to select, measure, and stack the stones, and reviews available fireplace kits and inserts.

Brad makes a hefty workbench from two-by-tens and two-by-sixes, explaining how to measure and cut the larger boards down Brad shares multiple ways to use a simple deck of cards as a woodworking tool.

Chris makes a dining table from a 3-inch-thick slab of walnut, a wood he has never worked with.

It's a series of firsts, as Chris makes an epoxy slab coffee table from carob wood he experiments with different stains and shares pro tips for sanding and using the router.

Chris and Shaun transform a leftover slab into a modern epoxy desk then, Chris installs built-in living room cabinets.

After a big design idea for a dining table goes wrong, Chris and Shaun pivot and share tips for taking math out of woodworking.

Jason makes a rustic bench with mortise and tenon joints from two pieces of 100-year-old white oak he uses a planer to smooth and flatten the wood and a router jig to cut a unique half-moon design.

Jason builds floor-to-ceiling shelving for his home office the built-in unit will have cabinet doors and bottom drawers, providing lots of extra storage space.

Brad puts different types of boards to the test, exploring whether MDF can be used for projects instead of plywood.

Brad upgrades his backyard with edging, pavers, a walkway, and a garden bed then, Brad optimizes his kitchen cabinet storage space.

From woodworking to gardening to fixing old tractors, Anne is a homesteader and educator intent on preserving disappearing life skills and helping others build deep community roots.

It's summertime, and April makes a set of bag toss boards from plywood, designs Adirondack swiveling bar stools, and shares how to make a folding bench that's also a picnic table.

April makes a wooden serving tray with a laser cutter and epoxy she visits Greg Pennington in Tennessee to learn traditional woodworking methods then, she makes a table for her woodshop.

While visiting a friend in Italy, Paul makes a giant utility "Maker" knife and the ultimate ping-pong paddle that cannot miss then, he designs street-style skateboard decks.

Paul designs a giant PEZ-like shoe dispenser with a foam and epoxy boot for the flip-top lid then, Paul carves a boot print from pallet wood to match.

Laura has always wanted to customize a motorcycle, and now she's finally doing it to start, she strips and repaints the fuel tank, reupholsters the seat in leather and welds a cargo rack from a left-over piece of sheet metal.