Seven teams compete at Purdue Polytechnic-Anderson for an outdoor furniture challenge sponsored by the city of Anderson the competition brings together many innovative and talented minds.
Make48 kicks off the season at the Kansas State School for the Blind six teams of visually-blind students compete to conceive, design and prototype a brand-new toy invention in 48 hours.
Jimmy designs a custom kitchen table with three front drawers from planks of spalted maple.
Jimmy builds a doghouse from oak plywood and hardwood for his dog, Bear he adds edgebanding and siding and mock windows to mimic the barn style of his workshop.
It's mud season, so Jimmy designs a modular tool shed inside his shop before final assembly in his backyard.
Jimmy builds his first canoe, a 15-ft. Ranger he constructs a strongback that supports the canoe during the build, cuts the stems, or station molds that form the hull's shape, and adds the strips.
Jason makes a concrete coffee table with a fluted base and white oak top, using a silicone mold, glass-fiber mix, and routed oak planks before assembling the finished piece in his living room.
With the exterior of the treeless treehouse complete, Jason builds a playground including a tire swing, a tube slide, and a zip line then, back in the workshop, he fashions walnut chisel handles.
Brad designs a new workstation with drawers for his tech goodies and shelves for large items with a recessed power strip on the tabletop he makes a table saw sled from plywood with an integrated stop block and hardwood oak runners.
Brad builds sound panels for his workshop from medium density fiberboard with insulation wrapped in fabric he makes heavy-duty storage cabinets from baltic birch plywood and adds hinged doors before the final finishing coat.
Chris reworks the original design of the first coffee table he ever built and makes a dining table from 72 pieces of plywood for his parents.
Challenging his furniture-making skills, Chris makes a table from wood and concrete along with designing a 48-inch round dining table from white oak.
Quebec-based woodworker and avid skateboarder Andrew Szeto upcycles skateboard decks to make custom designs with 44 million skateboards produced yearly, the resource for creative reuse is endless.
April rebuilds an outdoor staircase and installs a mini-split AC unit.
April and her crew take on one of their more challenging projects: building a treehouse that spans a grouping of trees.
Inspired by his original wavy vase, Paul makes a smaller version and carves a segmented bowl he makes penny boards from pallet wood with visiting makers Dylan and Molly from Woodbrew.
Paul makes a coffee table from three slabs of 140-year-old hard maple and designs a three-piece countertop for use in smaller spaces.
Laura recaps how her tiny house came to be and is reminded how much she loves designing for space and living simply.
With the essentials like her bed and kitchen in place, Laura focuses on storage solutions she makes a mixed material lift-top bench with one end covered in leather and the other in linoleum.
Rectangle or round, Jamie designs and builds two different coffee table styles, each unique and straightforward to make.