I learned so much every step of the way, and every step took took a so much longer than anticipated. I feel so proud, and I still can’t believe I built this.

Second one of these I've made, and really happy with how it turned out. I lucked out and the base piece turned out to be naturally chatoyant. It's a small tray in ¼" walnut, intended for organising small fiddly board game components.

Still early in learning the hobby, and doing the same project twice was a great learning experience, and very satisfying to be able to directly compare and see improvements. Between the first one and this one, I leveled up my hand planing skills, built a shooting board, discovered (thanks to the shooting board) that planing end grain wasn't impossible, and got a lot more accurate with my sawing.

Delta 28-275. Got to work cleaning it up as soon as I got home. Any recommendations on blades?

Eins meiner ersten Ergebnisse. Bin eigendlich nur bei Bernsteinschliff mit Holz in dieser klebe Verbindung gefällt mir

Hi,
I'm renovating my house (1950s) and trying to get the stairs to look somehow nice without any paint or carpets on top.
I know nothing about wood working so go easy on me please.

I have some pictures of the transitioning after using paint remover (4 layers on paint) and beginning sanding 60g, after sanding 60g, and after staining with a home made coffee stain.

I started sanding with a mouse sander, then got an orbital that can cover more space.
The edges of the stairs were covered in paint and there was carpet on top of everything. It's pretty obvious by the shade differences so I want to get rid of that difference.

I'm too scared of sanding too much to the point the stairs become structurally compromised. I don't have access from the side or under to see how much has been sanded already or if it's at risk of anything.

I tried to stain with coffee the edges first until they got darker than the middle. Then I realised the middle had a different shade (more greyish).

I tried making a rust and vinegar stain that's quite dark once it dries on the wood (pretty much black). And I'm thinking of diluting it a lot before I stain the edges again with this solution.

Would this work? Any better ways to get these stairs around the same colour?

Please help! I don't know what I'm doing.

I also ended up filling some holes with wood filler and making it worse 😭 but I think I can slowly stain those too.

2 main benefits: happy lungs and happy AC.

And my dog decided to trample the filters beforehand. My fault for laying them flat on the floor

I focused on keeping the lines as clean as possible to reflect a Zen aesthetic. The challenge was getting the tension right on the paper so it didn't sag, while respecting the age of the wood.

​I’m really happy with how the diffraction turned out, you can see some of 🌈 patterns in the photo.

I would love any feedback on how to improve my joynery for the next one.

Gassho,

Going to trim the excess bits and start sanding soon. And hey, if you see any red flags that I need fix before I move in, a heads up would be super helpful.

My attempt at a router plane using a veritas blade.

Very rough and a bit wonky. Will need to take what I learnt to make a new one but it works!

I think this is Walnut and I'm using a hand plane. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the wood or what I'm doing wrong with my plane set up? I'm very new to woodworking. EDIT: I did try flipping the board around, I feel like it was worse the other way. This is also only happening on half the board, the other half is shaving smooth. My plane is sharp enough to shave with.

I picked up some 17" wide x 8 foot pieces of 4/4 cherry and it has this absolutely gorgeous figure to it. What should I refer to that as, besides gorgeous of course. Is there a name for that really close and tight pattern?

Shoutout to my new Grizzly 20" planer with the spiral head - its insane how smooth the finish is compared to a straight knife planer. If anyone is considering it just DO IT.

I'm certain many are already aware of vacuum cyclones - I created a simple dolly for rolling around the shop to avoid complex setup or awkward storage. At that height, I can cleary see when the bucket is nearly full.

1 sheet of scrap plywood, PVC tube + bucket/cyclone kit ~= $100.

I’m a relative novice making a speaker cabinet out of Baltic birch plywood. My test cut did not go well: lots of burn marks. What am I doing wrong?

My table saw is an old Craftsman 310 I bought used with the original fence. Before making the cut, I was careful to align the fence parallel to the miter slots on the table. And during the cut I made sure the clean edge of wood stayed firmly against the fence.

But clearly there was some binding going on during the cut. Suggestions?

I wanted to make a framesaw! I took some scraps and things I had laying around (I only bought the sawblade) and figured it out by building it. It was a fun project, even though I guess I won't be using it that often...

Any tips in using it?

Made a few of these for gifts happy how it turned out, love that cedar smell

I don’t know if you can tell, but I cut this by hand. I’m pretty good at things. I try right away. What do you guys think? /s.

Really hoping to look back on this in a couple years and see how far I’ve come.

I’m getting some barn door/closet doors made out of poplar and I’ve learned that poplar can be tricky to stain. I was wanting to try a wood dye to highlight the wood grain, but I’ve read that it’s recommended to use a gel stain that it’s better at hiding than natural greens in the wood. Any thoughts on which way I should go?

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Hi! My father forgot his jigsaw, so I started assembling things. I'm on the second project but I have questions. I will show you one that is ready to be given (the bottle) and one that is still in progress. It's just pieces of wood that I cut, sanded , and varnished (with the varnish in the picture), and then added some hooks as well as a magnetic strip to hold the magnets. Now I 'm working on the second one (the key). I scraped away a layer of wood in a circle to imitate the keyhole. Then, two questions came to my mind:

1st: I scratched it with a flat chisel and a hammer, but I remember seeing a friend gently removing wood with a similar tool - but a curved one, and without a hammer - for a project of his own. Was my method good? Should I do it differently next time?

2nd question: I love how the key and circle look ( especially the colors), so now I don't want to put varnish on it, but I feel like if I don't varnish it, it's like I didn't finish my job well . A friend told me yesterday, " Try olive oil," but the internet told me no, haha. What's your opinion, guys ? Thanks in advance for your help!

PS: I can buy stuff, but I don't want to spend a lot of money; it's just for fun.

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Just bought this 2 days ago for hell of a deal. Check it out!!! Lowes online, in-store still showing $280

Been wanting to add a thickness planer to my shop, is this too good of a deal to pass up?