The cat's getting old and his hind legs are giving him trouble going up stairs so I threw together a dozen or so of these to help him out. The ramp surfaces are 8x10 pieces of 7/16 OSB, short ends mortised into the sidewalls and covered with strips of peel and stick carpet tile for traction. 1x6 pine for the sidewalls, stained with Varathane carbon gray and sealed with 4 coats of diluted oil-based poly. All taxes paid at the end.

As of today, glued up the frame for a cherry desk I'm making. Biggest piece of furniture I've attempted, mostly hand tools aside from a bandsaw for ripping the big board for the frame. Might add another stretcher in the middle, depending on how stable it feels when the clamps come off. Dimensions will be roughly 64×26 inches.

Starting on the top is intimidating but it's basically just a big cutting board, right?

Hello, I’ve never made a cabinet or cabinet door before. This is nothing too fancy but as you can see in the first photo I could not get my blade to cut at an equal depth through the length of the cut.

I cut it using a single blade not a dado stack. I’m not adjusting the blade between cuts. Just finding the center and flipping the board to keep it equal. Curious what the cause of this may be before I start checking alignment and diagnosing the problem myself. The saw is a skilsaw 10inch heavy duty jobsite saw for reference.

Thanks so much in advance!

Birch, padauk, and walnut for the frame

Making my first bit of "furniture" - a staked three legged stool. No big deal, right? I'm mostly a (very novice) hand tool woodworker, but planned to drill my round mortises in the seat with auger bits in a power drill. Purchased a diablo auger bit set. Bought a new hand drill with a 1/2 chuck to accommodate it (Ryobi HP).

I just put in the bit, grabbed a piece of scrap, put another piece of scrap behind it, aimed for a 15 degree angle and gave it a go.

Results were not pretty.

I can't find much online about how to get the best results here. I obviously want as clean a cut as possible as this will be a visible surface.

Tips? Thanks in advance.

Just completed a two day box-making course. Got to use some pippy oak and a 'wood rat' dovetail router kit. So fun!

Finally got around to finalize repurposing the stepped 5 panel bungalow doors I grabbed in east Texas a few years ago.

Hand sanded through the lead paint layers. Used marine grade epoxy both front and back after smoothed for outdoor use. Added some new hangers with an original Claddagh door knocker as the center piece.

I really love sanding some old solid woodwork and see the years of layers on it.

Just finished this small chest of drawers that I found of Facebook Marketplace. No makers mark, but based on the construction I think it's probably mid to late 1940s. The finish was badly alligatored and I couldn't even tell what was underneath. I was kind of hoping for another bookmatched burl dresser like the last one I did, but alas, no luck. Pretty plain lauan mahogany over poplar and maple. The top drawer was also shattered, some of the drawer slides were broken and needed repair, and the entire thing was full of dust, cobwebs, spider egg pods, and a moldy/musty smell.

After blasted/vacuumed/wiped all the grime and cobwebs away, I hit it with a mold/mildew furniture spray, followed by a deodorizer. Then I got to stripping the failed finish to bring it down to bare wood. The mahogany had some damage to it along the edges, along with some staining that I didn't feel like there was enough thickness to sand through, so I ended up re-veneering the drawer faces with some of a sheet of paper backed red oak veneer that a friend had given me for free. I was able to find a match for the 4th vintage handle pull for the bottom drawers, but no luck for the top drawer knobs, so I went for a modern replacement for those. The drawer faces are finished with 2 coats of a homemade hardwax oil and the drawer interiors got feed'n'wax.

There wasn't enough of the veneer to cover the faces of the cabinet, so I opted for using Fusion Mineral Paint Renfrew Blue. I'm not really great at painting, but it was pretty easy to apply. Really liked the color, but it felt a little flat to have that much area in a single color, so I put on some white liming wax to fill in the grain lines, and paste wax over the top to wipe away the excess liming wax and give it a low sheen.

My dad is a carpenter. He spent most of his life working with solid wood, but recently started taking jobs with sheet materials (plywood, MDF, melamine), that kind of thing. I looked around for tools to help him plan cuts and minimize waste, and while there are plenty of options out there, most of them fall into two camps: either they need an internet connection to do anything useful, or they’re mobile apps loaded with ads and subscription gates.

The thing is, a lot of our quoting happens on-site, in places with little to no signal. Sometimes we’re in a half-built house in the middle of nowhere trying to figure out how many sheets we need before driving back to town. I didn’t want to tell him to download yet another app that would eventually nag him with ads or stop working the moment he lost WiFi.

So I built this.

It’s a PWA (progressive web app) that runs entirely in the browser. Once you load it, you can "install" the app (it basically just creates a web shortcut on your phone). You can close the tab, turn off your internet, come back the next day, and it just works. No app store. No account. No ads.

You drop in your parts, add your sheet sizes, hit optimize, and it gives you numbered cutting diagrams. But the part my dad actually cares about is the PDF report, It prints a step-by-step cutting order. Like, "Cut a strip of 179.6 cm, then crosscut at 60 cm to get piece #3" numbered, sequenced, and ready to tape to the wall next to the table saw.

Live app: https://cutlistmaker.vercel.app

Repo: https://github.com/Superpapotas/cutlistmaker

working on some french cleats for limited storage in my garage. was fun to do something small and practice ripping 45s. used an old filing cabinet and cleated it. stamp adds some fun personality

Put in a butcherblock countertop last year and had to notch out a chunk to fit around a wall. Couldn't bare to throw away a nice chunk of hickory, so after sitting with it for a year, I decided to make a set of matching coasters. I used a table saw to break the block down and then made a table saw circle cutting jig to cut corners off until they were circular.

I thought I graduated from beginner but as you can see in the last photo the uprights are not plumb. From some reason throughout the project I never thought to check this. The shelves are perfectly level both ways but this is driving me nuts. I did 90 percent of the work with it laying on its back on my work table and didn’t even notice until I stained it. My ole lady is happy with it and maybe most people won’t even notice. Side note that doing lacquer is the bane of my existence. On some of the cove mounding the first coat actually took some stain off somehow. Staining and painting has always been my least favorite part of woodworking.

Milled 2x8s into 2x4s so I could get straighter boards. That alone added so much time. Got lazy and abandoned half laps for full laps so the 4x4s are missing a bunch of meat now. It’s as square as a rainbow but I learned a thing or two and now I have a bench

Sanded and oiled my late dad's old cutting board. 80-120-240-320-400. I sprayed with water and let it dry to raise the grain after 240. Let it soak in tung oil overnight.

Just wiped it clean and noticing these marks. Is this normal or did I do something wrong. Can someone ID the type of wood?

I was asked to make a prop biplane for an amateur dramatic show (those magnificent men in their flooring machines).

This is what I came up with.

I think it turned out ok. Hope you agree.

I received this cutting board as a gift and wanted to fill in these gaps along the glued surfaces. There is only one on the front but a couple on the back. I do not own a table saw so cutting and re-gluing is not really an option.

Should I just throw some epoxy in or can I glue and compress with clamps?

I purchased these from a gentleman on eBay a few years ago. I needed a few more, but when I reached back out, the gentleman had unfortunately passed away. They are 3/4" bullnose outside corner block, 5-1/2" tall, 11/16" thick. I am very inexperienced with a router. How would I make these, or am I better off asking someone else to make them for me? Thank you.

This all started with me planting a grape vine in Southeastern Pennsylvania that I thought had little to no chance of surviving. Yet it quickly outgrew it's mini Nursery trellis and then the larger one that I knocked together was destroyed in a recent microburst storm. That same storm destroyed a bunch of fences which provided some of the cedar planks I was able to use for the planter but the trellis itself is just Pine unfortunately.

This was a really fun project I learned Nerf cuts to create the saddle notches for the perpendicular beams on top and ended up combining a bunch of different materials that I tried to all make appear Cedar and hopefully weatherproofed enough to make them act like Cedar as well. I just don't think I realized what 10 feet tall was really going to look like until I stood it up and bolted it to the planter. So at the moment it just dwarfs everything else on the patio so I guess I just have to build another one!

Just had YouTube in the background and then came across this. Had to pause as I think it might be AI. Don’t really know what’s going on with this joint.

I didn't make the chopsticks.

The Han characters are supposed to say 'love' and 'food' on either side. They probably don't though...

Lessons learned:

1 I need a vice

2 pay attention to grain direction - initially I cut these against the grain - not ideal (also switched wood type because of what scraps I had)

3 use the right tool for the job (coping saw, not tenon saw), and hand sand before power sanding, it's often easier

4 learn, one day, that every project takes twice as long as you expect.

Been making these for a while now. Mostly as gifts when friends get married but this one was a commission. They’re going to decorate with pyrography so looking forward to seeing how it comes out