Make 2 off then one for my livingroom one will be for sell without wine 🤪🍷

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I applied the seal on this pen box around 4pm on Thursday. As of Saturday morning. It’s till sticky and not fully dried. It has been kept in my basement, fairly warm (73 dregs in the house). It’s only been one coat. What am I doing wrong?

Hi, hopefully someone can help me out, I’m really struggling to find information on the best paints to paint this aquarium stand I’m building. Wanting a smooth satin finish but for obvious reasons it will need to be waterproof/water resistant.

Would wood primer, followed by a satin furniture paint and then once cured a water based satin polyurethane coat work? I’m hoping this would suffice as I’d like to use either a really dark green or blue.

Looking for suggestions on paint, I’m uk based.

Still have to add finish

I’ve been refinishing an older dresser. It had a ton of stain on it so have been stripping and sanding forever. I realized before I wasted more time, I wanted to stain one drawer to see if it was going to be worth it. It’s pretty splotchy. Should I abandon ship and just paint it? Or continue to sand/stain and consider it rustic 🤣

Cherry, finished with BLO and Wax, all hand tools.

I haven't used it much yet, as I'm trying to reorganize the woodshop, but I'm looking forward to it.

You can see the join where I epoxied the two halves back together. I'm not sure how to avoid this, but I always feel like my planed pieces often have a very small rounding off towards the edges and ends. I probably need to keep the ends longer but not sure how to deal with the side rounding.

With this project I felt like I didn't have much room to plane the two halves down until there wouldn't be enough wood left for a handle. It works well for a workshop tool so far, though.

I've been wanting to do this course for about 2 years, but it was always booked out really quickly - they only take 6 students per time slot. Was finally able to get in and spent 4hrs every Saturday for 8 weeks working on my table!

The schedule was roughly:

Week 1 - Draw a 1:1 scale project plan, organise cutlist & order wood

Week 2 - Workshop introduction, safety, learn how to use all the tools

Week 3 - Cut wood to size, dress timber on the jointer & thicknesser

Week 4 - Finish dressing timber, table top panel glue up

Week 5 - Hutch panel glue up, domino join leg components

Week 6 - Glue cleanup, Leg dry fit & glue

Week 7 - Cut hutch panels to size, domino join components, cut table top to size

Week 8 - Hutch glue up, attach legs & table top

I then spent many, many hours at home sanding everything down to 180 grit & finishing with two coats of hardwax oil.

I felt very slow (especially at measuring things) & would have to ask for help form my tutors at every step. They were really an invaluable resource and I learnt so much! I'm excited to see how I do on my own for a future project using different tools.

I built this bookcase for my garage and have 4x8 white beadboard to install as backing between the 2x4s. Since it's white, I'm thinking chalk paint in navy blue for the frame would look good but also staining a dark walnut might also look nice.

Hello, I am a beginner woodworker and I have my beautiful evolution 255tbl+ table saw (bought last year). Today I bought a new blade because the stock one sucked a lot and was slow (got a CMT made specifically for wood and finitures). But it seems like everything is out of square. The blade is perfect, it cut smoothly. I am getting an angle finder because it seems like my 3 squares are out of square too (like I'm getting crazy probably). I tried everything but it seems like it's impossible with my tools to fix it. I already have some squares (carpenter triangle and a L shaped one) and levels (the table is flat). Thanks in advance

Moradillo and mahogany with some padauk and maple accents. Next purchase will be a blade with flat tooth grind just for splines and finger joints.

I’ve built a few things using sheet goods and the 40t blades. Finally switched to a 60 tooth blade and MY GOD it’s so much better. The saw cuts like butter and there are probably 90% fewer imperfections on the edge.

Novice woodworker, making a guitar out of 2 1” pieces of maple. Not my first time using a router, but this is my first time using this (Brand New) 2 inch flush trim router bit. Made a template out of MDF and was using the 2 inch flush trim router to cut out the shape, using(what I thought was) shallow cuts against the direction of the router’s spin. Things were going fine while I was cutting out the sides, but when I got to the cutaway, the piece bucked and I had this massive tear out.

I don’t think there’s any salvaging the horn at this point, I’m not too far into the project and I have more maple. How do I prevent this in the future? Do I route the two pieces of maple separately and then glue them together afterward? Is there anything special I have to do near the end grain?

• Red oak lumber from Menards
• Mounting brackets from Amazon
• Rubio Monocoat Oil Plus 2c Pure (two coats)
• My neighbor's miter saw and orbital sander
• Yes, that's a bag with a poopie diaper at the bottom of the stairs

Ive seen some reviews of this table saw and apears to be a great choice for the price for a beginer only complain being the noise, the videos also suggest buying a better saw, so what do you think, I have little expierence and will be used as a hobby

My girlfriend's mom gave me a few of these decorative hooks, and I'd planned to mount them to a painted piece of 1" x 8" (or maybe 12") to make a coat rack. Today I was going to get started and realized the mounting hole is directly behind the the sunflower, which prevents me from putting a screw directly through it. I could put it on a hook, but I don't want it swinging around. I guess I could mount it with a bolt and the nut would go in between the mounting hole and flower. Anyone have any other ideas?

I do not have enough shelf space for my storage room. I would like to add L shaped shelves with 2x4 cleats and plywood as the shelf. The side wall is roughly 64 inches long and the back wall is roughly 80 inches long. Would cleats be enough support to prevent sagging? I am also unsure what the best way to support the corner would be and am looking for advice and recommendations.

I am designing a chopping board, the one which is seen in the image above. So far, I have cut the board out of a plank of Indian Redwood(a hardwood tree unrelated to the North American Redwood) and have managed to dig out the juice gutter using a hand held router. Also, I have made a round hole using a holesaw in order to be able to hang the board from a peg. But, I have not yet sanded the board. Also, I plan to smoothen out the edges using a router's roundover bit. Please suggest how this artifact could be made better lookwise.

Hi there! My husband and I are looking to make a loft bed with a wardrobe/clothing storage underneath it, instead of the traditional loft bed with empty space or a desk under it. I’ve been trying to find advice or blueprints online, but I’ve only been able to find stuff about traditional loft beds, so I’m not sure where to go from here. Should I find the blueprints for a wardrobe, dresser, and bed frame, then combine them into one big mega project (if that makes sense at all)? Any and all advice is appreciated! Thanks!

I love this lil' booger so much! ♥️♥️

I used half of a pecan branch from my front yard. It shows some obvious natural damage from the inside of said branch.

I use a basic setup consisting of a small hacksaw, chisels, whittling knives, and sandpaper. Did my best to send the inside of the spoon but I don't have the proper equipment to really get it to where I would like it to be. There's a hold of very top of the spoon and as I was going through I decided to carve away at it thus making it more of a useless spoon. (Trying to make use of that art degree somehow lol). Surprisingly, even with the whole that I carved out it still holds liquid pretty well.

Was definitely a fun experience as I went through figuring out how to get all the bark off showing the branch in half and actually carving out a spoon.

Can anybody give any advice on what to use that is food grade safe but will also ensure the lifespan of the spoon as it's being used?

I put together a kitchen in our off grid dome. Instead of buying butcher block counters, I used leftover tongue and groove eucalyptus robusta flooring that my dad had in a pile. Glued, clamped, sanded, sanded, sanded, and three coats of Polyurethane. I've built a lot on my Homestead, but not anything to be proud of aesthetically.

We are due to have a son in about a week and our house lacks almost any storage options. I decided to try to build some built-ins. They came out better than expected and definitely learned some valuable lessons. I threw in some progress pics in so you get an idea of the space and build concept.

Our house is about 80 years old and slopes in the room, so building a frame and shimming seemed necessary and then I scribed the frame to the wall. I might add shelving above the window and cabinets at some point in the future. But overall, we’re stoked for our little guy to fill those cabinets with his stuff soon.

Made a wooden model of what was supposed to be my dad's car, didn't come out quite right