Ben Wilson

With a topic like Beautification the maker skills gang naturally gravitates to talking about blueberries, astronauts, hooded blankets and chasing turds. PJ scores another locomotive sander, Tom's beau...

15 Jul 20211h

This week's topic is squeezing goo through stencils with screens on top of them.  It's more fun than you would think. There are bargain stories, some odd segments and Tom mostly survives so all is wel...

9 Jul 20211h 21min

In this episode, the topic is modifying. With an extra week of research Tom and Tanda more than double their usual complete lack of research. You can do the math. PJ does battle with the flakes of Fac...

1 Jul 20211h 14min

Inventing? Yes, this crew invents stuff on just about every episode. In this episode they talk about it. Sort of meta. PJ sells off a truckload of hand tools, no really, literally a truck load of hand...

18 Jun 20211h 35min

This week Maker Skills is sticking with the basics. Yep sticking things together is a pretty basic skill and rates a whopping "1" on the maker skill level scale when adjusted for inflation. Should a b...

11 Jun 20211h 5min

Flipping tools, flipping people, flipping the bird, you name it this flippin' episode is about "flipping". The intent of course was to talk about buying and and then selling tools in a short period of...

4 Jun 20211h 5min

This week PJ hits a huge one stop shop of bargains, including a literal bargain basement. Tanda has purchased a turn of century Witte 2HP hit and miss engine and Tom is convinced she was alive when it...

28 Mai 20212h 7min

Most makers are in a constant state of learning. In this episode the Maker Skills crew are talking about just that! The floodgates that were hold back all the bargains have opened up for PJ and Tom......

21 Mai 20211h 32min