The Buffalo Commons

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Macmillan, Apr 15, 2000 - Fiction - 480 pages
Awesome Projects from Unexpected Placesfeatures more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all.

Readers of Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places will learn how to construct: Bottle cap tablesConcrete lamps3D string artSand fire gardensScrew-nut and wooden ringsParacord braceletsCigar box guitarsWooden beer mugsTest tube spice racksMetal rosesAnd more

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Contents

CHAPTER 1
4
CHAPTER 2
11
CHAPTER 3
17
CHAPTER 4
25
CHAPTER 5
33
CHAPTER 6
41
CHAPTER 7
49
CHAPTER 8
55
CHAPTER 36
246
CHAPTER 37
253
CHAPTER 38
260
CHAPTER 39
267
CHAPTER 40
271
CHAPTER 41
279
CHAPTER 42
286
CHAPTER 43
295

CHAPTER 9
62
CHAPTER 10
70
CHAPTER 11
77
CHAPTER 12
83
CHAPTER 13
90
CHAPTER 14
97
CHAPTER 15
104
CHAPTER 16
111
CHAPTER 17
117
CHAPTER 18
123
CHAPTER 19
131
CHAPTER 20
139
CHAPTER 21
145
CHAPTER 22
152
CHAPTER 23
158
CHAPTER 24
166
CHAPTER 25
174
CHAPTER 26
180
CHAPTER 27
187
CHAPTER 28
194
CHAPTER 29
200
CHAPTER 30
206
CHAPTER 31
212
CHAPTER 32
219
CHAPTER 33
225
CHAPTER 34
232
CHAPTER 35
239
CHAPTER 44
303
CHAPTER 45
309
CHAPTER 46
315
CHAPTER 47
321
CHAPTER 48
328
CHAPTER 49
334
CHAPTER 50
341
CHAPTER 51
347
CHAPTER 52
353
CHAPTER 53
360
CHAPTER 54
367
CHAPTER 55
374
CHAPTER 56
380
CHAPTER 57
386
CHAPTER 58
394
CHAPTER 59
403
CHAPTER 60
408
CHAPTER 61
413
CHAPTER 62
419
CHAPTER 63
427
CHAPTER 64
433
CHAPTER 65
439
CHAPTER 66
445
CHAPTER 67
451
CHAPTER 68
457
CHAPTER 69
464
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Richard S. Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature. He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.

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