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Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video](youtube.com)
28 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
YouTube video from Chronova Engineering in which Mike designs and machines an overengineered pencil sharpener with a novel indexing mechanism.
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2 stories tagged machining, newest first.
Making a watch from scratch(imgur.com)
478 points by dcminter | 73 comments
An Imgur album documenting the process of making a mechanical watch from scratch; the capture shows a Reddit network-policy block page instead.