Crafts are usually associated with girly items like crochet tissue boxes, frilly ornaments, or homemade stationary. About as manly as a cosmopolitan. Luckily, there has been a wave of craft books with a more masculine edge. Women may still be interested in the crafts in these books, but guys don't have worry about their friends mocking their hobby. Since Fathers' Day is coming up, you might consider making your dad something rather than getting him another paperweight or tie. Dads can find something in these books to make with their kids too.
Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects for Dads and Kids to Share (2010) by Ken Denmead.
Call No.: 790.13 DEN
Sample crafts include: binary calendar, cyborg Jack O' Lantern, Ethernet cuff links
Find It in the Catalog!
Handy Dad: 25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids (2010) by Todd Davis.
Call No.: 745.592 DAV
Sample Crafts include: stunt dummy/ abominable snowman, water-pressurized rocket, water-balloon launcher
Find It in the Catalog!
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare (2009) by John Austin.
Call No.: 530.078 AUS
Sample crafts include: maul gun, bow and arrow pen, viking catapult, penny bomb and much more!
Find It in the Catalog!
Man Crafts: Leather Tooling, Fly Tying, Ax Whittling and Other Cool Things to Do (2010) by Popular Mechanics.
Call No.: 745.5 MAN
Sample crafts include: leather cigarette case, bookbinding, axe crafts
Find It in the Catalog!
Best of Instructables, Volume 1 (2008) by the editors of Make Magazine and Instructables.
Call No.: 600 BES
Sample crafts include: pipe dream bed, turn signal biking jacket, realistic werewolf costume, an Iron-Man style arc reactor
Find It in the Catalog!
Best of Make: 75 Projects from the pages of Make (2007) by the editors of Make Magazine.
Call No.: 600 BES
Sample crafts include: homebrew game design, midi-controller monkey, cigar box guitar, glow-in-the-dark potato canon
Find It in the Catalog!
