A Tin Can Man ~ This is something I've always wanted to do. See site for picture: http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/pdfprojects/HL-202.pdf SUPPLIES: Awl or Ice Pick  Heavy Wire or Clothes Hanger  Wire Cutters  2 - 1" Wood Screws  1 - 1/2" Metal Screw with Nut  2 - 1" Moveable Eyes  32 oz. Coffee Can  13 oz. Coffee Can  20 oz. Fruit Pie Filling Can  4 - 15 3/4 oz. Vegetable Cans  2 - Sardine Cans  4 Soft Drink Cans  Krylon® Silver Spray Paint  Acrylic Paint - Black, Red  6" Funnel DIRECTIONS: 1. Open tops of each can and remove contents. Drain cola cans. Spray all cans and funnel with silver paint. Spray funnel inside and out. Let dry completely. 2. With an awl or ice pick, punch holes in vegetable cans, each side, 1/2" from top and bottom. Punch holes in the cola cans, each side, 3-1/2" from the bottom. Turn vegetable cans upside down over the cola cans until the first set of holes on the vegetable can meet the holes on the cola can. Run a 3 3/4" piece of wire through both cans; bend ends of wire. You have just made the arms and legs. 3. Turn sardine cans with open side down (feet). Place each leg combo on the backside of a sardine can. Run wood screw from open side of sardine can through bottom of cola can to attach feet to leg. 4. Turn the 32 oz. coffee can (body) upside down and punch a hole in the center bottom. Punch holes on each side, top and bottom, 1/2" from edge. Punch holes in the fruit can (neck) 2-1/2" from the bottom on each side, and one hole in the center of the bottom. Set neck right side up on the body. Bolt together using a screw and nut. 5. Punch holes in the 13 oz. coffee can (head) in the center bottom and on each side 1 1/2" from the open end. Cut a 20" piece of wire, bend one end. Run up through can, leaving bent end inside can. Drop funnel (hat) upside down over wire and let slide down to rest on top of the head. Curl the top of the wire; this will prevent the wire from coming out and will also be your tin man's hanger. Place the head down over the neck until the holes meet. Run a 4 1/2" piece of wire through the holes; bend at both ends. 6. Place legs inside open end of body and attach a leg to each side of the body by running a 7" piece of wire through holes. Bend wires at the end. Arms are attached to the outside of the body with a 13" piece of wire. 7. Glue the eyes approximately 1-1/2" from the top of the head. Paint nose, mouth, and ears. Three 1" crcles (buttons) are painted on body. All are black. A red heart is painted on the left side of the chest. ©2005 Hobby Lobby¨ - The information in these instructions is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given, nor results guaranteed, nor is freedom from any patent to be inferred. Since we have no control over physical conditions surrounding the application of information herein contained, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. disclaims any liability for untoward results. Follow manufacturerÂs instructions in using paints and other materials, keeping them out of reach of children, since some may HL-202 be toxic, or otherwise cause injury.

Yes..looks too light for work bench top..I'd had the perfect use for them this spring...bought some stove venting aluminum pipe for protecting my pear trees from porcupine climbing and ruining them. Bought aluminum flashing in a roll to cut my permanent tree labels. Sure..roof flashing/repair etc..can be very useful,..never rost. If you're handy you can encase wooden window frames from getting rotten, a sheet metal brake might be needed.

Thanks all - just a note - there is currently NO backsplash, I think in the photo you're seeing the line where a 4" backsplash USED to be :) I like simple and streamlined and I love the look of painted glass - but where I live, contractors are very expensive and both estimates I got for glass were quite an expense for us, compared to tile. Esp. since we do already have the tile to use. We also still have 2 bathrooms to remodel :P And that is genius about the cutting board!

Its not structural, but, it is there because there are corners, that needed it. Its the thin metal corner moulding, that you buy in the hardware store to put where drywall makes a corner. It may be less work, to mud over the top of it and sand it all smooth.