Man Made DIY

I just went downstairs to check: I have fourteen rolls of tape in various states of use, haphazardly stacked in piles and hanging from random protusions, each equally covered in sawdust and many in paint and woodstain. A few of them are repeats: I have no less than four 1" 3M ScotchBlue rolls started, likely because I wasn't able to find them when in the midst of a project. Clearly, I need a better… read more

As it turns out, a standard 14 - 15 ounce can of veggies or tomato sauce has nearly the same diameter as the internal cardboard ring of a roll of masking tape. So, it makes a perfect roll on which to build all kinds of DIY tape dispensers.