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It is a pretty inspiring book. I recommend it. It literally started me on a journey to change careers.

Net and trident is more formidable than you might think.

Nothing. It’s like meditating. Just observing the scratch pattern and grain and making it all an even roughness before progressing. I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t mind sanding.

PICS!!! We have to see that machine!!!

The life hack big business doesn’t want you to know… just become a small factory! But seriously more of these DIY folks need to big up the local maker spaces and libraries where there is the right balance of people to production sized CNC machines. We don’t all need all the tools all the time folks!

Thanks! It was a lot of new techniques for me. It’s solid as a rock though. Totally squared itself from the internal dados and rebates. And, as a bonus, could technically be cut on a CNC.

The base is a mortise and tenon construction and likely grossly overbuilt for a coffee table. The interior of the drawers are lined with resawn grain matched thin maple. The hatches can throw a remote across the room. It’s very extra. But what a learning experience. Glad I stretched myself.

It has two drawers, two shelves, and two hatches. The base is soft maple. The top is birch veneered particle core edge banded with birch iron on.

Finally brought home my case piece from college. It took a few dings. Mistakes happened in the process. But I’m pretty happy with all the fancy things I made happen on this coffee table.
#woodworking

Classic standard reference banana.

Thanks! I bored out with a 3/4 auger bit and cleaned it up with a bench chisel. I got it in a hand screw and stuck that down to the bench with a couple holdfasts. I worked it to a friction fit and pounded a wedge in to be sure. Titebond 3 and a little sanding hides a lot of my sloppiness too.

A wooden mallet and two bananas on a quartz countertop.

Broke a kitchen mallet this week. Had some ash scrap, a chisel, saw, and some time. Now I have a replacement that I’m sure will crack on that darker vein. Maybe that’s why the wood was in the bin to begin with? I’ll just glue it back together when that happens. Finished with bees wax. #woodworking

When Cardi B said “my p****i is undefeated.” This is what she meant. See Taki Taki verse 2, line 4.

Wowee wow wow. So good.

Don’t mess with the Zohran?

This is why the sliding t bevel is my constant companion.

Low angle with angelic lighting on a traditional staked stool. 4 octagonal legs support an equirectangular seat.

Isometric view of a traditional staked stool on a bench in a shop class.

Detail view of wedged tenons in a staked stool. Cherry wedges in poplar.

I had some spare time last week while I wait on hardware so I knocked out this staked stool prototype from my classmates’ off cuts. Poplar with cherry wedges. Octagonal legs. Not so sure about the cross member for connection. Maybe I just do two non lapped diagonals next time. #woodworking

The Animation Industry is in such bad shape, you guys. The amount of raw talent and power it is losing because it's not providing a sustainable living is a tragedy that future generations will study with grief.

If you're supporting artists right now: thank you.

If folks want to work like it’s the 1800s do a summer being a historic interpreter at those old time model villages. Hang out with period specific weavers, smiths, typesetters. Then go home and enjoy a modern world where we don’t die from a lack of indoor plumbing or clean drinking water.

Going challenge mode with these drawer fronts. Not a flat surface in sight. Very nice work.

It’s like raaaaiaaaan on your wedding day.

You’re on IMBD!!!

Sounds like a safe route(r) to me.

It's a numbers game, certainly.
But, remember that many homesteaders tend to not want big anyone peeping their data. Privacy. Autonomy. Self-determination. VPN might be for them.

“Ride like everyone is trying to kill you.”

Definitely no glue and screw methods. It's classic mortise and tenon. A jig can help hog out your waste at the needed angles. A few angle blocks for registering you clean up paring cuts. Tenons can be batched out over a table saw. But it all depends what you're working with for tools and comfort.

Your physical therapy has given you the power to rend time itself asunder!?! I mean, get it grrrl.

Tres bien!

Just build it out of chroma green material.

Will you smoke a bubble pipe on air?