As I had stated in my Tek introduction, I made my own digging tool, as I could not see paying $40-$60 for one, I will be making a long T-Handle mini shovel next. I also bought some vinyl material and upholstery thread and made my own carrying cases and pouches which I will post later. Has anyone else done this? My Digger was easily made by purchasing a $7.00 piece of scrap steel (2.5"x 48" plenty to make a few more) cut off part of a bicycle handle bars and a new hand grip $4.00 per pair (on clearance at Wal-Mart) a little bit of cutting and welding and there it is, let me know what yall think
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Has anyone else made their own MD tools or accessories?
- Thread starter tango71
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MarkCZ said:
Cool, I understand the sling, the flashlight holder and that awesome hole plugger (may have to make one of those!) and I am assuming that the pvc pipe has a magnet on the end, which is also a cool idea, but I dont get the ruler? please explain this one, is it a testing device? as I do see the different items on it
I bought an aluminum ice scoop, drilled a bunch of holes, took some flat stock aluminum I got for about nothing at the scrap yard, then dovetailed/keyholed everything together with a jigsaw...the alumawelds have long since broke, but since its all dovetailed and keyholed, I didnt need them to begin with, everything locks itself in place...It works fine in the deep sand I have here in W Mich...but is by no means a rock digger...I throw that "whale tail" pattern in most everything I build...you are right, it looks sexy! I'm hoping to meet Halle Berry on the beach someday, and dont want to look like a putz..
Mud
Mud
mudpuppy said:I bought an aluminum ice scoop, drilled a bunch of holes, took some flat stock aluminum I got for about nothing at the scrap yard, then dovetailed/keyholed everything together with a jigsaw...the alumawelds have long since broke, but since its all dovetailed and keyholed, I didnt need them to begin with, everything locks itself in place...It works fine in the deep sand I have here in W Mich...but is by no means a rock digger...I throw that "whale tail" pattern in most everything I build...you are right, it looks sexy! I'm hoping to meet Halle Berry on the beach someday, and dont want to look like a putz..
Mud
Ice Scoop, very nice! that is very well made, over all craftsmanship is excellent, is that a paddle board?
Yeah!...A few years back I restored an old house built in the 40's...peeled off the aluminum siding and there, underneath, was all this #1 sequoia! 
So of course I peeled it all off and saved it, then sheathed the whole thing with vertical cedar...I still have a lot left...built the paddleboard last year, traded it for a Subaru....got to take some down to Nashville for some guitar makers i know down there, and have enough left to build a nice fast and light rowboat, or some surfboards this year...I like wood boats, heres a few I built....
Mud
So of course I peeled it all off and saved it, then sheathed the whole thing with vertical cedar...I still have a lot left...built the paddleboard last year, traded it for a Subaru....got to take some down to Nashville for some guitar makers i know down there, and have enough left to build a nice fast and light rowboat, or some surfboards this year...I like wood boats, heres a few I built....Mud
MarkCZ
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Well the rulers start off as a length of a yard stick,tango71 said:
then I took some stripes of wood like paint stirring sticks and I drilled then in the center to except quarter inch nylon bolts.
Then I glued on some test targets to the ends of the smaller sticks, (one at each end) I made a bunch of these things, I glued,
A quarter,
A dime,
A Penny,
A Nickel,
A Pull Tab,
A Rusty bottle cap,
A Silver half dollar,
A zinc penny.
The idea was to make a nice set of "Swing Sticks" to do air test with, each stick has two targets.
Yes! the pvc pipe has two stacked round rare earth magnets in the end, I never knew I needed one of these until I got one. Many times when digging a target in somewhat of a trashy area there will be smaller pieces of iron in around the target, the magnet cleans this up in short order.
Mark
MarkCZ
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Now, the new version of the swings is better I think, but its only one stick. Its made from some plastic strips I got from work, (a hundred or so of them) I cut a few up into pieces, then cut two different V-notches in them, one smaller than the other and glue the pieces together on one end of the a full strip. This forms a coin pocket at the end to place different coins in.
Mark
Mark
MarkCZ
Well-known member
I've always thought of this hobby as one that exercises ones creativity! When I first started metal detecting in the early 80's I started making and fabricating stuff for the hobby, things like,
Brass tipped coin probes,
Finds pouches,
Headlamps with a mercury switches so the light came on when you looked down, but it would go off when you looked up,
Coin cleaning holders,
Coin cleaning tumblers,
Diggers,
Root cutters,
Tool holders,
Magnet sticks,
Sling Thingy,
Swing Sticks,
Many of the things are long gone, some were good in theory LoL! while some like the mercury switched head lamp I think is a marketable idea.
I even thought of starting a thread on the forum about showing the stuff you made for the hobby.
Here are my driving lights mounted up,
Mark
Brass tipped coin probes,
Finds pouches,
Headlamps with a mercury switches so the light came on when you looked down, but it would go off when you looked up,
Coin cleaning holders,
Coin cleaning tumblers,
Diggers,
Root cutters,
Tool holders,
Magnet sticks,
Sling Thingy,
Swing Sticks,
Many of the things are long gone, some were good in theory LoL! while some like the mercury switched head lamp I think is a marketable idea.
I even thought of starting a thread on the forum about showing the stuff you made for the hobby.
Here are my driving lights mounted up,
Mark
MarkCZ
Well-known member
WoW! very nice boats!mudpuppy said:Yeah!...A few years back I restored an old house built in the 40's...peeled off the aluminum siding and there, underneath, was all this #1 sequoia!
Mud
Mark
MarkCZ said:
I really love the design of those diggers, could get some scrap tail pipe to use for the "business end", and some square tubing and round rod, very nice and why would these not be used in public areas? just wondering thought they would make nice plugs to return to the ground wouldn't they?
MarkCZ
Well-known member
Well they do a great job if the soil isn't to hard, but public places like parks and LARGE digging tools draws to much attention from the public, the same thing for long handled shovels. Small hand tools people most times don't pay any attention to, its not so much about how good the end result is but its also how it looks as your digging.tango71 said:
Smaller = Low Profile!
Mark