The DIY Tools group is one of my favorite places to lurk, and the place where you're most likely to catch me these days. Why? I'm cheap and I come from a long line of junk collectors.
 
Wool combs made out of nails and epoxy, custom stripe dying with pvc pipe, and spinning wheels out of old bicycles mesh perfectly with my junk genes (and it gives me a better reason to go to the hardware store than buying a drill gauge to size knitting needles.)