Greetings from SmartFlix!

This issue we’re bringing you some fun ideas for Fall. Whether you are looking to stay in shape through the holidays, need some ideas for the kids, want to spend some quality time with your dog, have to to awaken your inner Martha Stewart for hosting, or are gearing up for hunting season, we’ve got the DVD for you. As a special bonus, we also highlight a great idea to start now to get ready for the holidays.

Don’t see anything interesting? Don’t forget that we offer a wide variety of how-to’s to suit just about every interest. Browse our super user-friendly website today!

How to Make the Team: The Nate Smith Method

Get some help from a pro! Nate Smith has perfected his skills by living them as a successful player and now as a teacher at the Nate Smith Basketball School. In this video you and your aspiring basketball superstar can learn to:

• Be a first rate shooter!
• Handle the ball like a pro!
• Become a lock-down defender!
• Become a big game player!
• Go from average to exceptional!

Rent this video, watch it together, and get out there and practice!

Fitness for Kids

The greatest gifts you can give your children are lifelong positive body image and exercise habits. The Bodyformula Exercise System has created an exciting, exercise video that will keep your kids fit for life. Rent this fun-filled, DVD for children ages 5 thru 12 and watch them learn all about good nutrition, positive body image and how exercise can improve their overall health.

The Art of Knitting 4 Kids

This video makes knitting fun - while increasing motor skills, developing hand-eye coordination, and building confidence. There are three different teaching demonstrations included:

1. Dr. Elizabeth Seward entertains kids with a unique, animated story while teaching them to knit and make their own knitting needles
2. Kids instructing each other
3. Knitting instructor and producer Marcy Levitas Hamilton demonstrates a lesson where she shows the kids how to make fun and easy knitted balls and toys with Stitch-Along instructions

This is a wonderful indoor activity that could even lead to some homemade gifts that your kids can proudly give to friends and loved ones for the holidays!

Games To Enhance Training

For dogs that are motivated by toys and play, structured games allow you and your dog have fun while establishing fundamental skills such as control, patience, and learning. This DVD includes 16 games appropriate for dogs of all ages. These are great games for those who want their dog’s education to be fun and want to enhance the learning and performance of dog sports such as obedience, agility, flyball, and tracking.

Doggie Cuts

Doggie Cuts is the FIRST and ONLY dog grooming video available on DVD. It is an easy-to-follow and entertaining instructional video for dog owners who want to learn how to safely cut and groom their own dog’s hair at home. Think of it as productive, quality time with your pet that will save you time and MONEY!

Brewdogs 1: Beginning Home Brewing

Microbrews are all the rage but they can get quite pricey. Brewing your own beer is fun, rewarding, and a great conversation piece for your holiday entertaining. With this informative DVD you get the science and history from Jeff Swenterton paired with the know how of master brewer R.J.Trent. Become a well rounded homebrewer with this step-by-step instruction on the process of beer making.

The Basic Steps of Baking Bread/Laminating Dough

The Culinary Institute of America will have you producing delectable breads and pastry like a pro once you finish this professional DVD. First you will learn all about lean dough (the kind that make French bread) and then you will move on to the more complicated and delicious laminated dough (used to make pastries). These are skills that are invaluable no matter if you are only interested in making a loaf of fresh bread for your family or preparing croissants for 100 brunch guests.

Cooking with Aphrodisiacs

This DVD shows you how to add a little romance to your everyday cooking using delicious, readily-available, every day aphrodisiac ingredients like: strawberries, asparagus, chocolate, and honey! Culinary expert Cheryl Blevins will guide you through twenty tasty recipes that unlock the sensual powers of sixteen aphrodisiac ingredients. Learn all about their origin and the chemical properties that contribute to their aphrodisiac qualities.

Goof Proof Greeting Cards

This short (45 minute) DVD teaches you card making tips and techniques from good “ol” Joe Miller himself! We are sure you will find some great ideas that will come in handy for years to come.

Painting Holiday Cards in Watercolor

This longer demonstration from Susie Short is just like taking a greeting card class. Watch as she demonstrates seven of her most requested card styles:

1. Scraped Trees
2. “Credit Card” Trees
3. Wet “Charged” Trees
4. Grapevine Wreath
5. Heavy Snow Trees
6. Poinsettia
7. String of Lights

This instructional DVD is easy to follow and includes the basic techniques to create your own original cards. Since no drawing experience is necessary, this DVD is for everyone: from the beginner to the experienced painter.

Salsa Crazy - Learn to Salsa Dance Beginners

This is your definitive beginners guide to learn, step-by-step, all the fundamentals of Salsa Dancing in a fun, social and energetic way. Do this for your health, fitness, and coordination while bringing some excitement to your life! Learn this hot Latin dance with this three-disk DVD set today!

Play Better Volleyball Blocking and Defense

Volleyball is not just for the beach, this is the ultimate, indoor, intramural sport! Learn key drills to improve your game or build the know how to coach your own team. Coach Santiago Restrepo and the University of Oklahoma volleyball team will demonstrate advanced defensive fundamentals, tips, and drills like: ball control drills, net drills, partner drills, the run through series, blocking drills, and footwork drills.

Stop Back Pain NOW!

Back pain can prevent you from doing the activities that you enjoy. Don’t let it stop you! Let noted back-pain expert Dr. Irene Lamberti share her breakthrough methods for relieving, rehabilitating and preventing back, neck and shoulder pain with you. Her practical advice, easy-to-follow exercises, and carefully designed movements will give you simple, effective solutions for relieving your pain. Why suffer another minute? Rent this video today!

Seven-Day Deer Camp

True to the DVD’s title, this how-to will show you how you can make a small, rustic camp weather-tight in seven days for about $500 not including the cost of renting or borrowing a sawmill (if you don’t already own one). This is a great weekend project for fathers and sons or buddies that need a place to dry off during hunting season.

So you’ve had a fruitful harvest … now what?

Rent Wild Game - Field Care and Cooking!

Now turn to a professional chef with a passion for game! In this three-films-in-one DVD you can watch as master chef Milos Cihelka demonstrates: Big Game Butchering-Field to Table, Venison-Cooking Healthy & Tasty, and Venison-Aging Smoking & Sausage Making. More than three full hours of wild game care, processing and cooking tips including how to make polish sausage, salami and hot sticks.

Keepin’ It Real

Dan & Guy Fitzgerald “America’s Father/Son Instinctive Bowhunting & Bow-Only Team” put forth their best efforts once again to bring you a quality family outdoor entertainment in this 2-disk DVD set devoted to showing them hunt just like you. They awake before dawn, jump in the truck, head to the woods, guess their way up into their stands, hit a quick power nap while strapped to the trees as they wait for shooting light, and literally pull it off time and again! The second DVD show even more great buck and doe kills! If you love watching bow hunting or are curious about this sport, rent this DVD today!

Give the gift of know-how with our SmartFlix Gift Cards. Available in $10, $25, $50, and $100 denominations, they’re the perfect gift for any occasion. With thousands of videos to choose from, the lucky recipient is sure to find something that they’ve always wanted to try!

Do you maintain your own website or blog? Are you looking to make a little extra cash to pay for your latest project? Do you know that you could earn credit for every click that turns into a customer? Crafters just like you have earned from $50 all the way up to $500 using the SmartFlix Affiliate Program!

Hobbies are what we do when we’ve got our choice of tasks. Not matter how tough these economic times will get - man must have an outlet. Harness your love for metalwork and modify that old bike in your garage or go extreme and build one from the frame up. You’ll earn the respect and kudos of your fellow enthusiasts and save a bundle on gas for transportation. If you start now, your new girl will be ready to roll by the time the roads are fit for riding again.

Thank you for your business, SmartFlix.com is proud to help you enjoy your hobbies. Don’t forget to drop us a line at marketing@SmartFlix.com and share you shop success stories! You could be featured in a future newsletter!

Building a Model A Front Fender - Hang out and watch John Glover show you how to:

• Dissect the fender into workable panels
• Form 7 different panels, all with different shapes
• Throw a flange with the “wheel”
• Wire and joggle an edge
• Assemble panels into one unit.

Don’t miss this action packed metal working video!

Basic Damage Repair on the Aluminum Body - This is a very good demonstration of fitting up for butt-welding. See a vintage Porsche RSK nose axed clear through, straightened, gas welded (butt-weld), planished and metal finished to perfection, in real time, with a few simple hand tools and no fillers.

The Art of Buffing - Bring some shine back into your metal the proper way with this 2-disk DVD.

Mini-Machines 101: Toolmaking and Restoration - Can’t find what you need? Make it! Learn how to restore and fabricate special tools for just about any project. This video can save you time, money, and a lot of frustration!

Chrome Plating: the How-To Video - You’ll learn everything from the basics: personal safety/proper dress, a full equipment and chemical tutorial, proper shop set up, and part preparation, to the good stuff: chroming pot metal, aluminum, and steel and much more. Bring some flash to your projects with this comprehensive how-to on chrome plating today!

Take advantage of this temporary, seasonal quarantine of your “second favorite lady” or build a brand new eye-popper for the next season. As Ian Parish points out, you have to have a reason to build but they are usually not hard to find. He makes a few suggestions below:

1. I want to ride a custom chopper, a totally cool stretched out, fire breathing, gas eating, pavement pounding, old lady scaring, 2-wheel monster
2. I want to be able to say “I built that” when someone asks me where I got that totally sick bike
3. I want to be able to customize the bike beyond the standard add on parts I can get for my current bike
4. I want to be able to make this dream come true, meaning I need to be able to pay for it. A $35,000 chopper is out of my current budget
5. I have been talking about this for 5 years so why don’t I get to it and stop doing all the talking and start doing some building”

Once you have the reasons down, now you have to choose what level you want to take this project to. According to Ian, you’ve got four, basic options: a kit bike, a rolling chassis, a start from zero build, or an extreme makeover of a current motorcycle. Just about whatever you choose, SmartFlix can help you get the know how to make your road-hogging pleasure palace a reality.

The centerpiece of your bike is the custom gas tank and the English Wheel is what some of the top chopper builders, like Jesse James, use to make there tanks. Shaping the perfect tank, setting it up to draw gas out properly, setting up bladders is an art form that requires a lot of metalworking knowledge. Let us help you get started with:

English Wheel Techniques. In this video, Ron Corvell brings his signature easy-to-follow style to using the English Wheel, a machine notoriously difficult for beginners to “figure out.” You get a crash course in this important machine, common techniques of wheeling and some lesser-known processes.

For those who have some experience working with the English Wheel but want to sharpen their skills we have:

Advanced Techniques for the English Wheel. Fine tune your skills and learn a wealth of techniques, methods, and solutions.

Of course, you’re also going to need to brush up on your TIG welding and you can do that with:

TIG Welding Basics. Once again, Ron Covell gets you up close and personal with this method of making beautiful welds. A must see for anyone considering a motorcycle build, modify, or repair.

Rent Making Motor Cycle Gas Tanks today and learn two different styles of tank.

You get step by step demonstration of the process of making both a chopper-style tank made from steel and a comma-shaped tank made from aluminum. You get hands-on show of design, layout, patterning, and other techniques specific to the type of metal you’re using. The techniques you will learn in this video will teach you how to make just about any shape of tank.

Hammering metal also comes into play for building a tank. Learn about this with Hammerforming Techniques.

For your custom junkies out there we have:

Motorcycle Metal Fabrication: from Sheet to Street. Watch master metal fabricator Ron Fournier create custom motorcycle sheet metal parts from scratch. Learn tank, flaring, front fender construction as well as step-by-step fabrication of the bike’s entire rear section (which includes the fender, sides and seat pan).

To put the finishing touches on your masterpiece you could go arts and craft and learn all about air brushing and pin striping with these two videos!

Rent the top rated Beginning Airbrush. Learn freehand control, mechanics, and assembly of the airbrush, clouds, chrome, dagger/flare/rat-tail strokes, troubleshooting, maintenance, pricing, practice exercises, and much more.

Want to add a little class to your ride? Rent Pinstriping Dynamics today!

Here’s the ultimate guide for beginning to intermediate pinstripers and artists alike. With Gary Jenson, one of the World’s Best as your guide, this presentation pulls no punches in serving up the top professional tricks, tips, and techniques required to establish the strongest foundation toward pinstriping mastery.

Read this article by Rod Covell (First Published In Hot Bike Magazine © 2005): Making Motorcycle Gas Tanks. This will give you all the info you need to know about making a tank. These are some good written instructions and stills to compliment what you learn in real time from Ron’s how-to with the same name. Then browse the Miller website for supplies, educational materials, project ideas and much more.

MechWerks Fabrication: Big Twin Choppers and Custom Bikes are their passion. Here you can find parts and information for building Chopper and Custom Motorcycles.

BikeBandit.com: “Get it Fast, Get it Right, Get Riding.” Here you can find a hard-to-find motorcycle part or motorcycle accessory from their 7 million factory motorcycle parts and accessories. Browse for motorcycle parts to upgrade or repair your machine, or check out our offering of the latest motorcycle accessories.

OnlineMetals.com: This site offers small quantity metal orders.

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Affiliate Program

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References

Parish, Ian. “Building a Custom Chopper Motorcycle, Where Do You Start?”.

Now is the perfect time to begin staging your Fall Project and we’ve got some very interesting ideas to bring something new into your workshop. Why not? As always, SmartFlix has a 100% money back guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with the education you received from our videos we’ll refund 100% of your cash. So be adventurous and rent that video you’ve always been curious about - you have nothing to lose!

In this and all of the newsletters to come through the holidays you will even find some suggestions for MAN-MADE gifts. Save some money this holiday season and have fun while doing it!

SmartFlix.com is proud to help you enjoy your hobbies. Don’t forget to drop us a line at marketing@SmartFlix.com and share your successes and experiences with us. You could be featured in a future newsletter. Thank you for your business!

The Birth of a Sword

Richard Kazda will show you the essentials of making a replica of a sword. Both the interested novice and those more experienced in this field will benefit from this informative DVD. Just about anyone who has seriously considered making or buying their first sword will find these previously unpublished swordsmithing procedures very informative.

Getting Started with Metal Sculpture

Man-Mad Gift Idea #1: Take some time out from the grind and use your love of all things metal to make some metal art for that someone special. This video will definitely save you time, money and frustration. You’ll learn which tools to use when, materials, and the best places to get your supplies. It’s almost as good as having George Goeh right beside you every step of the way.

Introduction to Pewtersmithing

This beginner’s course in whitesmithing is a great way to satisfy your curiosity about this time-honored tradition of metal spinning and casting.

Wayman P. says:

One is left with the thought that he could himself successfully tackle a project and complete it. You have watched the process and it is not impossible.

Hot Patina for Bronze, Brass, and Copper

So you’ve worked raw materials into a beautiful piece of metalwork. The next step is to add an equally well-crafted finish! Ron Young takes you step by step through the hot patina process and the different patinas to choose from. He sets the stage with ever important safety, tools, the different alloys of metal, and finally, surface preparation. Then learn how to make and apply over 15 different hot patinas and how to protect them indoors and out.

Workshop Procedures for Clockmakers

We love this DVD just packed full of information for both novice and experienced clock makers and general machinists alike. Bill Smith shows you eight ways to index a lathe, technique for making index plates, how to cut geer teeth, concave and convex turning, how to repaire clock gears, using a Sherline for radial drilling and much, much more. A must see for anyone who have ever wondered about clock making, but don’t take our word for it:

Martin D. raves:

It is certainly interesting to watch Bill Smith at work, and a video well worth getting even if only for that.

Stephen M. says:

Straight forward and informative. I would recommend renting if you are interested in this subject.

Ern G. agrees:

We found the presentation to be clear and informative. I’d recommend this video to a craftsman running a shop … beginner or expert. There’s always something to learn.

With hunting and sport shooting seasons fast approaching what could be better than sitting around the camp fire telling the boys how you took down that big game with your own rifle? What about building a gun for your father or son as a Christmas gift? Guns often become important family heirlooms. Rent Metal Working for a Rifle Smith today!

Cecil H. said:

Very good for someone that has always wondered how an accurate rifle is put together. Well worth viewing.

Don’t want to build your own? Why not take was you have and make it as beautiful as it is reliable and functional. Rent Beginning Engraving with Jack Brooks today!

Watch Jack demonstrate the sharpening and heat treating of both square and chisel point engraving tools as well as the basic techniques used by American gunsmiths to decorate their firearms.

If you’re looking for a challenge the two-disk set Engraving is for you.

One of the most noted engravers in the world, Lynton McKenzie, provides a step-by-step demonstration on how to engrave with the hand graver and the hammer-driven chisel. He explains every step in detail, telling you why he does what he does. The camera angles are excellent, the lighting is wonderful, and the close-ups and magnified shots are superb.

For the experienced engraver that wants to refine their skills we offer FEGA: Engraving Evaluations.

Just think, pride in craftsmanship, bragging rights, all while saving money. It’s a win/win situation. Don’t miss out on these great videos, rent one today!

From his tribute page on The Internet Craftsmanship Museum:

Rudy Kouhoupt is well known to the readers of model engineering magazines. Over the years he published many articles on how to build the wide variety of engines he designed. Rudy’s talent was not only in his ability to design, but in his ability to pass on his knowledge to others. His models are all expertly crafted, but his greatest contribution to modeling is the vast collection of articles, books, plans and videos he produced that allow others to build what he has designed.

Loyal SmartFlix Customer and Metalwork Enthusiast, you’re in luck! We have a wonderful collection of Rudy’s DVDs.

Man-Made Gift Idea #2: Don’t wait to begin your holiday projects! What about making a small steam engine for that special aficionado of this wonderful, 400 year old but nearly extinct form of mechanical sculpture? This would be great to teach a bright young mind about the fundamental principles of engineering or to start you on a fun indoor hobby! We can get you started with Rudy’s Building a Small Steam Engine. The best part is that you can do the whole project on a little Sherline lathe and mill.

Want to know all about this late, great engine designer, builder, and technical writer? Go to his page on The Internet Craftsmanship Museum and get his full biography and rent one of his informative videos today!

Making Gears the Easy Way

Let Jose Rodriguez show you the secrets of the HOB. For about $3 worth of materials you can learn how to make a HOB from scratch right on your small to medium size lathe and small milling machine. This will allow you to EASILY make any number tooth spur gear as well as even a worm and worm gear. Rent it today and be amazed at how simple gear making can be!

Lathe Tool Sharpening and Other Things (Tool Grinding Made Easy)

Sure, grinding is an art that can take months or years to fully master, but Jose shows you that with patience and the right grinder, you really can achieve perfect results!

Are you a budding metalwork enthusiast who isn’t ready to shell out the cash for a milling machine but want to try some projects that require milling? You’ve got to rent Milling on the Drill Press!

Satisfied renter Chris R. points out:

This is another really good video by Jose and one that I would highly recommend to someone who’s just starting to acquire some metalworking tools as it might help you get started milling without having to plop down the cash for a milling machine. It’s classic Jose, and it’s well done. The information is good as always and it’s a great place to start.

Beginner Gary C. says that this video offers:

Very good information. Shows what you can do with a little creative thinking and patience. I enjoyed the tutorial on using the center and edge finders and the other mill setup procedures such as using the indexing jig. I’m just a beginning metalworker and this video was ideal for me.

e-Zee (Little) Steam Engines with Free Building Plans: This website offers free, novice friendly projects geared toward providing designs that are “simple, easy-to-fabricate, and easy-to-understand” and that do not require a full machine shop to complete.

Brownells: “The World’s Largest Supplier of Firearm Accessories and Gunsmithing Tools”. The website delivers what it promises with a good selection of parts and tools for gunsmithing.

Machine Shop Trade Secrets: Companion website to James A. Harvey’s book with the same title. This site has ProShop tips, articles, projects, products, and even some user projects.

The Machinist’s Friend: “The Machinist’s Friend® is a valuable utility program for Machine Shop Owners, Machinists, CNC Programmers, Metalworkers, Students, Engineers, or anyone else who needs to solve Trigonometry calculations.”

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SmartFlix Gift Cards

Give the gift of know-how with our SmartFlix Gift Cards. Available in $10, $25, $50, and $100 denominations, they’re the perfect gift for any occasion. With thousands of videos to choose from, the lucky recipient is sure to find something that they’ve always wanted to try!

Affiliate Program

Do you maintain your own website or blog? Are you looking to make a little extra cash to pay for your latest project? Do you know that you could earn credit for every click that turns into a customer? Metalworking enthusiasts just like you have earned from $50 all the way up to $500 using the SmartFlix Affiliate Program!

SmartFlix Universities debut

A better deal for those of you who want to develop more skills, at your own speed, with no late fees. Over the next few months we’ll be rolling out a number of SmartFlix Universities.

The first one is up and running: Woodturner U, where you can learn how to make amazing bowls, platters, pens, and other projects on your wood lathe. Whether you’re already a woodturner, if you’re interested in learning, or just want to see what the craft is all about, check out Woodturner U, and be one of the first to see what the future of how-to video education looks like!

SmartFlix’s Metalworker University will be launched soon. Watch this space for more!