Can you imagine the racket during the one-man circle-jerk?

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My latest shop furniture: a cabinet for my sander. I prefer cabinets to stands because cabinets have drawers; in this case, giving homes to sandpaper, sanding belts and discs, and orbital sanders.

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Some recent posts got me thinking about my every day carry, so I made some changes. I don’t have a Rolex keychain or an Invicta yet, but I’m saving up!

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My shop lacks wall space and storage. Rather than build stands, I build cabinets for tools to sit on so I can fill the cabinet with drawers. Also, in this case, added a French cleat wall to get more stuff off the floor. You got any tricks for organizing?

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Nope time to die

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Katz-Moses said the best trim router is the DeWalt, but I’m invested in Makita batteries. There’s a $15 adapter, and now I’ve got a truly wonderful new tool!

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I discovered this subreddit about three hours ago. Mentioned that we should staple bread to trees at dinner with my wife and daughter and they were pretty scagged out. I tried to staple bread to our tree, but the stapler doesn’t work open, so I used screws.

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I made trinkets for my family for Christmas this year, except for my brother’s kids, 4 and 6. I went all out for them with these 6x9x6 boxes out of walnut and cherry. They’ll have no idea the time and effort, but I sure hope they fill them with rocks and treasure and pirate booty. ❤️

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Nightwork art – I used the European tour poster to make my own artwork for Nightwork. It's not perfect, but I do like it. Anybody have a higher resolution image of the poster? I'd love to re-make it larger.

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A housewarming present for my brother because who couldn’t use a pencil station in their new house (or shop?). Cherry and walnut, finished in Shellac. Photo: Canon 6D with Canon 100mm macro @ ƒ/2.8, ISO 800, 1/15 sec.

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I needed a win. So, mystery wood milled to 3/8”, box-joints cut on the table saw, dowels made out of the same mystery wood on my new dowel maker to plug the holes, a little linseed oil and paste wax, and I’m feeling accomplished. I needed that!

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My sick wife is sensitive to the light so I plywooded the living room windows against the light from the outside so she could be on the couch. Closest I’m likely to get to zombie-proofing my house.

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Don’t everybody stand up all at once ok

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A simple step by step guide for all of us

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Hope the little girl he's raising lives up to his expectations.

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I no longer keep my forstner bits in a drawer in a jumble. Each hole is a little bigger than 3/8”, and I did the math so the cutters are all 3/8” from each other. 1/4” through 1”, with spaces for 5/16 and 7/16. Poplar with walnut, boiled linseed oil and paste wax. And now that’s done forever.

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Showcase: Canon 6D with Canon 28mm ƒ/2.8 @ ISO 500, ƒ/4, 15 sec. Cayucos, Calif.

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My dad found some keys on a snowbank on the side of a bike path in South Lake Tahoe.

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I’d like to introduce you to my grandpa’s Stanley No. 4, which may be older than my dad; we’re not sure. It sits atop my first ever finger-joint project. I’m only 38. 😉

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I made a cabinet for my jointer to sit on; but mostly I wanted more drawers. And dude, I LOVE my magnets! They make it easy to rearrange things, and make it easy for me to put things away. Magnets, man, how do THEY work?

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I finished my first finger joint project. Damn it was hard, and damn I learned a lot. I am ♾ years old.

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I mean, I don’t wanna show off, but if you got it flaunt it amirite?

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My favorite thing about woodworking is improving. This tray will hold paper on my desk at work. It’s my first time using through-dowels instead of screws. It didn’t go great. But it’ll hold paper fine. But next time I’ll have knowledge and a flush-cut saw. I’m proud of the tray and of the learning.

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Rather than build a stand for my vintage jointer, I built a cabinet. I’m gonna fill that with so many drawers!

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I upgraded the fridge in my garage to a kegerator, so of course I made accessories. The handle is cherry and walnut. I used a hole saw to cut cores, then glued the cores together. The drip tray is the same, held on with magnets. I look forward to more beer and a frame for the handles!

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Don’t everybody speak up at once

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This is a leg for a shelf I’m building. I picked this piece of wood because of the knot. It’s interesting. But as I was working it, the knot came loose. So I drilled the edge, filled with glue, and tapped a dowel in. No more rattling knot. Never done that before! “Invented” it myself.

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Pennies count. Can’t afford to buy multiple divers, etc., so I buy watches I’ll wear different from each other. Generally, I wear the 5 to work, the diver in my wood shop or casually, and the SARB casually or dressy. I have a small wish list, but am very pleased with my collection as-is.

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It worked! I asked you guys how to do this and got enough info to teach myself how to route this incomplete dado. I’m feeling very accomplished and grateful for the help. Thanks!

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I had to build a shelf for my kegerator, so I built it awesome! 3/4” birch ply with walnut leading edges. The legs are glued into routered blind mortises. Finished with Valspar. Nobody’s gonna see it but me, but I’m gonna see it so I made it awesome!

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“ENAMORED” — mixed media (photo collage and screen shot, edited) by TheUpright1 (2019) $9,000

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I made these pen holders for my parents. I made many prototypes and learned many new techniques and even bought a new tool to do them. I’m very proud to give them away tomorrow, and thrilled the fruits of my labor and learning are going to them. ❤️

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My 16-year-old daughter is in Europe for two weeks. I’ve been sending a photo of her cat every night so she has something nice to wake up to. This is Weetzie Cat’s headshot. She wants to be an actress.

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Asshole gonna celebrate with sparkling white wine that he unloaded his Swiss shutter on some shitee.

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Needed a table saw while my table saw was in use as a dado-cutting machine. So that’s a circular saw with homemade fence. Had the switch left over from a previous project and that’s what really made the project a win.

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My new daily wear

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Sarah is so much good happy dog beach dog you can’t fit all of her in one photo.

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I finally, FINALLY finished my drawers. Waiting for paint to dry before adding handles. With the drawers complete, I feel I have the skill to make stuff that’ll live in the house. Pretty exciting times.

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“What are you making, Swiss cheese?” Nah. I needed something to hold labeling stickers. It’s certainly not fine furniture, but it fixes a problem in a charmingly rough-and-ready kind of way.

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Dinner is served; except not for the dogs.

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My first Solidworks project is my next workbench. My machinist dad helped me with the software, but the design is mine. It’ll all be planed 2x4 (1.25 x 3.25), including the lid, excluding the shelf. Each leg is 4 pieces. SW says it’ll be 104 pounds. Gonna build it IRL next weekend.

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The cover to Black Laden Crown sucks hard. I found I wasn’t listening to a pretty good album because of judging the book by its cover. So I found a new cover for it. No idea who made it, and I’m sorry I can’t give proper credit. But hey. Maybe you all will fix it in iTunes too.

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One laptop stand made in a day out of scraps. Drilling holes on an angle was harrowing. It was my first job with air tools. Thus, seven brad nails in use! Mistakes were made such that you’d think I was trying NOT to end up with anything. Success, despite myself! (Daughter in background derping.)

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I just ordered the through-dovetail/box joint template for my Porter Cable jig. Some day I’ll do hand-cut dovetails, but for now all I want is complete projects. Anybody else have one? Care to share your experience?

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My dado stack’s chippers are a little smaller than the blades. Is this normal? It’s causing problems, not least of which is weird gaps in my rabbet joints; I’m holding off making a box joint jig since I don’t want to chisel 50 half-inch cuts to make a pencil cup for my mom. Advice? Recommendations?

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I got my first vice from my grandpa via my dad and it sure is making things easier. I don’t have dedicated space for it, so I screwed it to a piece of plywood which I can clamp to a table, and which will store in a drawer when unused. I’m very pleased so far.

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I’ve gotten to the point where I can make your basic rabbit jointed box with bottom-in-a-dado box in a jiffy. Clearly it’s no big deal, but just as clearly, that box is handy as a really handy thing. It’s nice to fight back entropy with a hard-won skill and a useful result.

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Does anybody have experience putting a 20mm band on a watch with 21mm lugs like this one? I want to know what the 1mm difference looks like in context before I buy. All my other watches are 20mm and I’ve got many 20mm bands. Don’t really want another size.

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My solution for pencils in the shop. Beer opener came first. Ignore the punk rock setlist between them. That’s irrelevant. 😀

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A somewhat unique shop setup

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At the ER with my wife; day hasn’t flipped all the way over yet. Kind of neat, and since I don’t know the language, it reads like the cussing she’s doing. 😀

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I love the styling of the Seiko Premier Small Second Hand SRK035P1, but don’t love the quartz-ness of it. Any suggestions on affordable alternatives? Nomos is out of the question at the moment.

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