MANUFRACTURE Is A Brutal DIY Experience Where Only The Strong Survive

Only the weak call it knitting, sewing, or wreath design…

Audrey Burges
Slackjaw

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Photo by J Williams on Unsplash

Follow the screaming death metal to MANUFRACTURE (formerly Hobbyist’s Habitat), a place to churn out sick gear with deadly equipment and reasonably-priced materials. To enlist in our project boot camps, just sign our assumption-of-risk waiver and tell us how to reach your next of kin.

Check out our upcoming builds:

Door Halo: Two-week sessions; 10:00 a.m. Tuesdays with Drillmaster Blaze, $50 plus materials. The grunts in this boot camp use guns loaded with hard cylinders of ammunition. The guns liquify the ammunition into molten sludge. Use the sludge to weld lethal jungle plants onto round, jagged lengths of wire. Are you afraid? Then don’t bother signing up, because you’ll also be pounding a letter made of sheet metal into the center of your Door Halo, and we wouldn’t want you to cut your flaccid, pampered hands. Grunts strong enough to complete the build get their choice of textile to hang their Halos on their front doors. (Most choose camo.)

Spiked Webmaking: Six-week sessions; 2:00 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays with Drillmaster Ace, $200 plus materials; measuring tape required. Grunts will use sharp metal spikes and skinny rope to make repeating knots…

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Audrey Burges
Slackjaw

Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.