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^{Virtual Tour} The World's Smallest Museum!

Do It Yourself Inventions _{Utility Art Products for Everyday Citizens}

DIY Belly-button Bush Birdhouse!

If you ever find yourself the owner of a giant bush it can be a bothersome thing. What do you do with it? For the most part it just sits there filling up valuable yard space which could be farmed in a victory garden. No sir there is only one thing to do with that worthless bush. Turn it into a massive bird habitat with my latest invention: THE BELLYBUTTON BUSH BIRDHOUSE!

DIY Religious Chalkboard Icon for Iconoclasts

Religious Chalkboard Icon for Iconoclasts

The religious version of the last inside page of Mad Magazine where you see one illustration, fold it and then see the punch line. Kind of the same thing, but with doors.

DIY Montessori Electronic Educational Lesson

Teach your children about electricity! This fun experiment lets curious minds test different materials for scientific evidence of electrical conductivity.

DIY Victory! Garden for Small Spaces

Victory! gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, are vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in Tacoma during the WORLD CREDIBILITY CRISIS to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by PEAK OIL. These gardens are also considered a civil "morale booster" - in that gardeners can feel empowered by their contribution of labor and rewarded by the produce grown. Today making victory gardens has become a part of daily life at the Holistic Forge Works.

DIY Gardening/Potting Station

Gardener's Planting Station bench dedicated to filling pots, repotting flats, transplanting etc. Folding work surface with a small shelf raised above to hold hand tools or planting seeds.
_{See Also: Tacoma ReStore Challenge Winners}

: The PosiGrav™ Tomato Planter System; Tomato plant vines sprawl as they grow, requiring time and attention to keep them properly staked above ground. These ingenious planters, which look nothing like bundt cake pans, take the toil out of growing tomatoes by elevating the planting bed and allowing your vines to grow downward from a hole in the bottom. The hanging vines need almost no attention and ensure that tomatoes ripen in the air where they won't rot. Thus you don't have to worry about tomato cages or stakes because the plants grow upside down with our PosiGrav™ gravity system. These compact planters can fit in any space with maximum sunlight, weed free.
_{See Also: Growth Update: Upside-down Tomato Planters}

: Bell X9000 Robot™; Originally designed to answer NATO's call for an automated minesweeper technology, this fast & maneuverable, light armored robot (the size of a hubcap) was developed upon a modified remote control Tyco® Fast Traxx™ chassis
_{See Also: Developing Robot's AI |
Robot's Discharge |
Robot Traxx}

: Moog™ Etherwave® Theremin Kit; Listen to Holistic Forge Works' own MC Ra-Ether in these original 1936 Theremin performances (see below).
_{Listen to: Dance of the Saucer Maidens 600K |
Penguin Lust, 1.6MB}

: Shark Mouth Mercury Tracer Automobile Club; This green 1998 Mercury Tracer aka "Zippy the Tracer Head" is the original Merc that started the shark mouthed Tracer phenomenon sweeping America.
_{See Also: The Tireless Merc |
Ms. Shark-Mouth Merc Tracer 1998}

: HFW Atomic Dustbin Robot Friend; With its smooth curves and contemporary design, HFW Atomic Dustbin Robot Friend brings style into the most functional of would-be household robot garbage cans. Polypropylene in matte finish. 16 ¼ gallon capacity. 14 ½ dia 35"
_{See Also: Heathkit® Oscilloscopes}

: Opaque Projector, and Other Amazing Inventions; Hand forged aluminum opaque projector, projects ghostly apparitions in dim environments. Scare your mom or your friends!
_{See Also: Projected "Ghost" Pliers |
Nintendo: Lamp Mod}

Fun Corner Labs _{Experimental Web Design as Art}

Uncle RR's HTML Fun Corner (H-Labs)

Mini Experimental CSS Experiences

Holistic Forge Works version 8.1

Welcome to the speedy new HFW 6.0 website, we're glad you made it! We hope your experience is a pleasant one. Please note that you're not interacting with dumb XHTML & CSS, You're interacting with a man. As the one of countless web design companies in the Pacific Northwest we want to reveal to you our underlying idealistic intention of HFW's MODERN THINKING™ philosophy, of which this site and all her content embodies--that may be a joke, but we doubt it.

What is "The Internet(s)?"

The Internet is a nebulous sea of information with many competitors and we realize you want to run an excellent and profitable website with functionality that provides usability to the largest market/traffic possible. Properly facilitated with CSS, The right XHTML website addresses and uplifts the heart and holds high values. In the right hands XHTML can make people feel good and want to associate with you. How the Internet Works Diagram

^{Do-It-Yourself}Backyard Gas Foundry & Forge

Practical Blacksmithing techniques, Backyard Propane Foundry Work(s) Of the four elements, air, earth, water, and fire, man stole only one from the Great Winged Turtle. Fire. And with it, man forged his will upon the world... ~ Dr. Fronzel Neekburn 1891, Founder

These statements underscore our reasons for implementation of this unique web-based resource. The techniques and tools illustrated (below) and their application to the handmade object are as valuable to the modern foundryman as they were to his "Holistic" forefathers of the late 1800s. Founding as a craft had a rapid demise when industrialization, mass production, and collective modern technology set in, yet it didn't die. Rather, it lingered, as did the aroma of propane. Today this mysterious gas is once again being helped into brightly lit flames as like-minded craftsmen take up the foundry as a hobby, as an art form, and as a spiritual endeavor for all variety of reasons and satisfactions.


Backyard Foundry: Setup Layout


First Ignition: Burning Propane


Forge Constructed: Assembly Detail

Forge/Foundry Blue Prints & Schematics

The following images chart the Do-It-Yourselfer's progression from forge design to practical forge application.

Other Dangerous Activity Plans

Metalwork Portfolio

: Egyptian Cat for Darcy; Ancient Egyptian design inspired traditional good luck gift. Bronze with Hardwood Base.
_{See Also: Uglipod Skull Mount | Flying Turtle Casting | Flying Turtle Casting Revisited}

: Bronze Bust Statuettes; Sculpture series cast in scrap bronze using the lost foam method as described above.
_{See Also: Duck Head | Metal Salmon (View 1) & Metal Salmon (View 2)}

: Fishtail Dagger(s); Cable Damascus blade forged welded by Dr. Crapo, bronze hilt and pommel by HFW
_{See Also: Cable Damascus Weld Close-up}

More HFW Inventions

Sparking the Divine Fire

With a steadfast commitment to quality, HFW has set molding industry standards for the past 117 years. Remember that the materials and methods described here are from another era. Reproduce at your own peril.

Resource Forge/Foundry Links

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Do It Yourself Inventions _{Utility Art Products for Everyday Citizens}