{"id":486,"date":"2009-08-12T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2018-09-17T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:27:05","slug":"woodworking-tools-from-altoids-tins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/woodworking-tools-from-altoids-tins\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodworking tools from Altoids tins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.woodworking-magazine.com\/blog\/The+Winner+Of+Our+Altoids+Tool+Contest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Woodworking Magazine blog<\/a>, they challenged their readers to come up with tools using Altoids tins as raw materials. The readers rose to the challenge, and then some:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Altoids_router1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Altoids_router1.jpg\" alt=\"Altoids router\" title=\"Altoids_router\" width=\"485\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Altoids_router1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Altoids_router1-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Altoids_router1-480x296.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was worried this would happen. Some of the entrants to our contest to build a tool from an Altoids tin built tools that actually worked. Sigh. Woodworkers are so practical.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also practical. And so the winner of our contest is Tom Bier, who built a working router plane from an Altoids tin. The tool is impossibly clever \u2013 you open the lid to store the iron and thumbscrew. Heck I&#8217;d buy one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Woodworking Magazine blog, they challenged their readers to come up with tools using Altoids tins as raw materials. The readers rose to the challenge, and then some: I was worried this would happen. Some of the entrants to our contest to build a tool from an Altoids tin built tools that actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,487,161],"tags":[1140,1232],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-tools","category-woodworking","tag-handtools","tag-planes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39312,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/39312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}