Category: DIY Projects

By Phil Hecken Inspiration comes from a wide variety of places. The inspiration for today’s featured story may have originated in the oddest of ways. Erik Schwab, whose work you’ll …

Greetings from upstate, where some friends and I are spending a long weekend eating, drinking, thrifting, lake-swimming, bowling, attending a lumberjack festival, and so on. Drove up last night, will …

Back in late May, I Ticker-mentioned that reader Jameson Adams had paid a leatherworking company to turn an old baseball glove into a wallet. The company that did that work …

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest-written DIY piece from longtime reader/contributor Ryan Connelly. Enjoy. ”” PL] By Ryan Connelly I always use the same name for fantasy sports and …

Photo by Barbara Henderson; click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Bill Henderson. You may know him as the guy behind the world’s most awesome …

Click to enlarge Got a note yesterday from reader Nic Schultz, who’s been working on an interesting project. “For the last couple of years, I’ve been designing custom March Madness …

Last month I ran an entry from reader David Byrne’s father, Dick Byrne, who was making David a Detroit Tigers jersey from scratch. As you may recall, this wasn’t a …

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a Super Bowl-themed DIY project from Steve Speicher. Enjoy. ”” PL] By Steve Speicher Last year, due to my second-least-favorite AFC team participating in the …

Back in early November, I got a note from reader David Byrne (no, not that David Byrne), who said his father, Dick, was taking a sewing class — the only …

Click to enlarge Two of the nicest people who turned out at the last Uni Watch party in Brooklyn were Jesse and Marty Buccafusco, a really nice couple who, as …

Uni Watch reader Stephen Rawlings makes these nifty little mini-jerseys. I wanted to show the step-by-step process of how he does it, so I asked him if he wanted to …

By Phil Hecken As early fall turns to later fall, and the chill in the air begins to envelop the nation, we once again turn our sights to the national …

Two good DIY projects today, beginning with one from reader Kyle Beaudoin. I’ll let him explain it: I recently created a logo and subsequently a jersey as a gift for …

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Greg Allred, who’s going to tell us about a very unusual project he recently undertook. Enjoy. ”” PL] By Greg Allred …

Longtime reader/contributor/genius Marty Hick recently told me about an interesting project he’s been working on: He finds old paintings in thrift stores and then paints old NBA and ABA logos …