Far from perfect, there's plugged holes, woodstain blotches, warping and tearout, but it looks good enough, works really well and is a major upgrade from the plastic box.
Made from old sawmill scrap I recut on the table saw.
Great learning experience. There's a splined miter, dowels, lap joints and lots of edge glued planks.
I didn't buy anything to make this. Okay, I bought a piano hinge but didn't use it 😁
Don't want to waste any precious hardwood to make a quick & dirty drill guide?
Just use one of those nasty big knots that aren't good for much else. Because they're plenty hard! :)
Straight through the knot with the drill press (which is in the garage) and now I can use this knot to make straight holes anywhere with my hand drill. The bottom is flat.
Dear #woodworking friends: those of you with jointers/planers, I see helical cutters w/ indexable inserts are all the rage, but ... are they worth buying a whole new jointer if you've got one with knives and have a pretty decent knife maintenance setup?
I’ve been goofing around making wooden squiggles. I glued up the squiggles in the first two pictures today, and I’ll be able to sand them tomorrow. #Marquetry#Woodworking#Inlay
I sold a Jointer this morning through Kijiji anonymously. We chatted about blades and helical heads. We met and he seemed surprised that it was me. #fabrication#woodworking
We just had a new tub installed, and my wife wants a place to rest her book and drink. I made a thing!
Most of the effort went into the underside rest. I made what I now understand to be pocket holes, then I made a 45 degree cut to match the contours of the tub. A little measuring in the tub itself, a few screws, and voila, bath rest MVP complete.
Still need to cut a few holes and then put a protective coat on the whole thing, but it feels pretty good!
I had an epiphany today: Mastodon is my makerspace. I haven't been able to find a makerspace in this area since we moved here in '22, and that's been bugging me. But I scroll through Mastodon and see people's printing, woodworking, electronics, and welding projects, and I admire them, and sometimes I ask questions and learn new techniques. And when I post my own, people do the same.
New month new #woodworking project! I’m still working on my Danish cord weaving skills so hopefully this will be a seating bench when I’m done. Figuring out dimensions and getting things square now.
I also picked up a massive 7/4 S2 poplar board while I was at the hardwood store for $25 because why not.
Remind me again why we don’t build fine furniture entirely with Poplar? 🤔 It’s actually kind of beautiful and you can’t beat the price.
The process of #woodworking without an exact plan is fun but it's also a little stressful. When I want to make something, I do some research, find a couple of photos, and sketch out dimensions on paper with pencil.
Smaller details like marking the position of joinery relies a lot on feeling and instinct which is what I'm doing today.
There will be a frame for weaving the seat and also exposed rail so the joinery count will be 16 mortis and tenons.
I learned from my little practice stool and made my weaving stretchers thicker so that I could make the tenons long enough to miter the ends where they meet inside the leg.
And can I just say how I'm constantly amazed by all the hidden beauty of #woodworking!? Especially the things that nobody will ever see like these mitered tenons. 🥰
This weekend I did some shaping, sanding, and applied a finish to the walnut pieces ahead of glue-up.
I'm keeping track of the hours for this one too. Hand tool #woodworking takes longer but looking at the time log really puts the term "starving artist" into perspective.