How a Maker Made More Makers

This video is an utterly sweet story about how Ron Paulk (a designer and builder) took his personal workbench design and made it a viral hit. He has a custom-built workbench that he takes to job sites, people see it and love it. He put up a YouTube video about the bench and how he made it that was a hit and people started asking for plans to make them.

At first Paulk just told people to watch the video but then he decided he could help people more if he put together plans that were simple enough for anyone to follow and sell them for about ten bucks, just enough to cover his costs. As a result people have taken his plans and iterated on them, leading to there being hundreds of "Paulk" benches.

He's planning to do his own "version 2" and he has hundreds of photos that other carpenters and woodworkers have sent him of themselves with their own workbenches. It's a great little story of how sharing and resharing can grow an idea.