November 25, 2025: You Can Have A Little Molten Ore, As A Treat

I'm not sure I have formatting emphatic enough for the DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME element of today's post, but . . .

Wow, are my creative juices flowing after watching this YouTube video from Shake the Future, where he makes a metal vise in his apartment from scratch, melting iron in a microwave to pour it into molds. It's an utterly amazing process video to spark visions of what, potentionally, a tabletop home-gadgeteering hero could accomplish . . . just make sure it is NOT YOUR HOME.

-- Steven Marsh