3D-printed loom

If you’ve ever tried to specialise in any field of making, you’ll find that at some point you’ll have stopped – or at least delayed – creating things, in order to make things that help you make things. If you’re at the start of your journey into woodworking, for example, you’ll very sensibly want to start with a bench hook, to hold workpieces steady while you’re sawing them. Then, of course, you’ll need a bench, otherwise the bench hook is useless. A few weeks pass, and at every turn, you’re spending more time making jigs than you are making the thing you wanted to make – what even was that again?