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Mark Frauenfelder at 10:52 am Thu, Sep 16, 2010

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Collin Cunningham is Make: Online's triple threat. He produces, edits, and scores the terrific how-to videos we run on the site. In this one, he shows how to make a nice wire spool organizer.

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  • DoctressJulia

    Dang, those are some sexy mutton chops. Rowl. :P

  • RobDubya

    Is it just me, or does anyone else get a 1970s Graeme Garden vibe from Collin?

  • Anonymous

    Very nice, although if you a person that often makes use of electrical supplies, hopefully you could come up with this one on your own. If not, then you probably shouldn’t be messing around with electrical current, just sayin’ :)

  • Anonymous

    Oh so practical, and with high production quality. thankee!

    Prof. Farnsworth: “Let me show you around. That’s my lab table and this is my work stool and over there is my intergalactic space ship. And here is where i keep assorted lengths of wire.”
    Fry: “Wow, a real live space ship!”
    Prof. Farnsworth: “I designed it myself. Let me show some of the different lengths of wire I used.”

  • jordoex

    So at the beginning, I was thinking, can’t you just put those on a dowel? And he did.

    But really, my mom does a similar thing with spools of ribbon.