There's been a pretty significant update to the Crafting system of TF2 today.  Valve have added dozes of new recipes, possibly recipes for creating every item in the game and even reduced the number of items needed to craft hats.    
 
Here are a couple of the new recipes
   
Crafting any 2 weapons wielded by the same class now gives 1 Scrap Metal   
3 tokens can give 1 reclaimed metal

Bonk! Atomic Punk + Kritzkrieg = Bonk! Crit-a-Cola
Chargin' Targe + Razorback = Gunboats
Bonk! Atomic Punk + Sandvich = Dalokoh's Bar
Equalizer + Eyelander = Homewrecker
Sandman + Scrap Metal = Pain Train 
 
There's also a recipe that can change a certain Scout hat into a different Scout Hat.  I really hope that dozens of these recipes show up 
 
Fabricate Bonk Helmet is the Batter's helmet + 2 x Bonk Energy Drink 
 
I know that a majority of people don't care about the hats or the crafting system in general but I'm so happy that I can use this to get some new stuff that I might actually want.  I just wish I hadn't used so many of my crafting items last weekend.  Could have made them go a lot further this way. 
 
Full Crafting List here 
 
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Crafting

I really had no idea you could craft those. 
I found Dalokoh's Bar and the Homewrecker. Thanks for the head's up. I  have plenty of extras sitting in my backpack.

Goodo, hopefully this continues with the next batch of community content.

Wait what?
 
How did I not find out about this until just now?

Thank god, they're finally making items craftable with others. Having to make metal was ridiculous.

At least obtaining the non-milestone items is now viable.

Great, now I can try and get a Sandvich (I crafted my original, got-from-the-achievement one away accidentally months ago).

Damn it's finally not utterly useless, great. Maybe I can go make a hat now.

" Damn it's finally not utterly useless, great. Maybe I can go make a hat now. "

" @CharlieTuna said:

" Damn it's finally not utterly useless, great. Maybe I can go make a hat now. "

How do you get base items? I just started playing.  "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" @CharlieTuna said:

" Damn it's finally not utterly useless, great. Maybe I can go make a hat now. "

How do you get base items? I just started playing.  "

They randomly pop in when you're playing. It's not a very good system. "

  I was confused  about the update so I decided to check the TF2 forums where I found all this stuff out.  I really wish I'd found out about this update the day before, I could have finally got myself a pair of lovely gunboats by now :( "

So I just crafted my first hat.
 
 
 
It was a Texas Ten Gallon.
 
 
 
 
Fuck.

I've played this game a lot and still only got 1 refined metal, 1 reclaimed metal and 1 scrap metal from my crafting. God damn it takes a while to get anything to drop now.  It will take forever to make a hat.
 
I did however get 2 tokens a while ago for whatever reason, stupid me. Guess ill put that to good use now.

" @ajamafalous:  If they ever implement the trading system I'll totally trade you for that one if you don't like it :)  I love texas stuff!    I just crafted my first hat and I got the wielding helmet for the engi that has flames on it.  I think its called the hot rod.  Hooray for only needing items for scrap metal! "

I tried Bonk + Sandvich it works.

I just crafted a pain train and I've been using it on my soldier along with the gunboats to create all sorts of mayhem back-capping points.  Its a lot of fun!

" @CharlieTuna said:

" Damn it's finally not utterly useless, great. Maybe I can go make a hat now. "

How do you get base items? I just started playing.  "

I'm still not crafting a hat until i get it from the drop.