Here it is. No. 2 in my BelAir series of retro-feel homebuilt AV equipment (see No.1). I used a surplus copy machine lens to make this opaque projector for use as a drawing aid. (See this post for background info and plans) .

The projector is essentially a wooden box with with a lens, [...]

This coffee table design culled from a 1953 Mechanix Illustrated has just the right combination of retro kitsch and clean, simple lines. And it looks really easy to make.

Make a Uke lamp.

Update: Finkbuilt reader Phil points out that the author of this lamp piece, c.c Beck, is another famous Marvel Comics refugee who ended up working for Fawcett after they absorbed and dismantled Marvel. Here is an interview with Charles Clarence Beck

Phill says:

A little correction, AFAIK neither C. C. Beck (or Otto Binder) ever worked for Marvel Comics

Install these Poor man’s granite countertops and save a bundle.

Part 2 of Making a Jumbo Ball Clock

Welding up the frame for the jumbo-sized Nelsonesque ball clock.

Nixie tubes were the state of the art in electronic numerical displays during the mid-twentieth century. By the 1970’s.hey were almost completely supplanted …

My collection of vintage televisions, which once numbered six or seven sets, has slowly been reduced to one diminutive little Singer 5 inch portable.