Been a Main Board lurker for several years and decided I should get my ass in gear and start posting. I teach high school woodworking so I have a good source for tools. Post up any technique questions you might have and I'll try to help you out. Here is a pool table a student built this year in class. We salvaged the slate from an old table and trashed the rest of it and started over. Rustic alder and inlayed walnut for the diamond marks. He has about $600 in this table, most of which($300)is the cloth. Opted for a good fast cloth and leather pockets.
Each piece is a 10.5" 2x4. Cut and sanded. Obviously incredibly simple but everyone loves to play and it's a lot of fun. Bust out the sharpie and write shit on the blocks
In the early stages of planning a wooden cart for a Kamado Joe Classic. Goal is to have prep space, and possibly a built in cooler.
A desk I made for my classroom. Red Oak, with Walnut inlay. Must have machines IMO are a good table saw, not a bench top piece of crap. A jointer, a router built into a table, and a planner. Everything else can be done with hand tools with a little work. A band saw is nice, but a jig saw can get you by for a while there. Miter saws are nice if they are good ones, the crappy ones piss me off. All those cuts can be made on a table saw though, so its not a necessity.
I built some using some plans from lowes.com, ill try to find em They are so much more comfortable than any i have sat in at outdoor furniture stores I wanna say i was about $200 in for materials for 4 chairs, went with treated lumber and painted it after letting em dry out for a few weeks
This is the ones http://www.aaadirondackchairs.com/lowes_adirondack_chair_shop_class.html I am on mobile and cant see if the plans are on that sight or not I changed up the legs to be 2x's for both front and back legs/seat base, where that calls for 1x's, cause i just cant imagine 1x's for legs making any sense
Several years ago my dad and I built this poker table that can double as a kitchen table. Built several things for the farm also. I've been designing a new observation bee hive I'm going to build over the winter.
My hobby is to find old pieces of barn wood and such and make pieces out of them Made this shelving unit Coffee table out of a section of a barn door This sofa table, with an old plank from an antique wood supplier in north Florida
Some of the best woodworking I've seen has been at the Angola rodeo. Some of those guys are incredibly talented... I guess if you have literally your entire life to work on it- makes it a little easier than us weekend warriors but still.
Wife told me to ask where you got the legs for this coffee table. That thing looks great. Very similar to what I'm planning for our new one.
I spent like three hours last night just watching Jon Peters videos on youtube. Was rather enjoyable.
If it wasn't for the extension cord I'd say his saw crapped out mid cut, he got pissed- broke the board and went buy replacements
Do y'all buy your lumber at home stores? There's a place by me called Peach State Lumber Products that I'll probably be using exclusively once I get a little better at this shit. I don't see the point in paying for good lumber if I'm just going to abuse the fuck out of it.
I wouldn't recommend purchasing lumber from a big box. I'm extremely biased though being a quasi-competitor. Find a local lumber yard that has their materials stored outside that way they are acclimated to the environment in which you will be using them unless you want them to warp, twist, split and check overnight.
Hi guys. You're making me about not being able to do any of this stuff. Especially you Iron Mickey why can't you just fucking be an intellectual and nothing more. Thanks.
I've done this. Get too excited to build something and don't think about how you're gonna get it out.
Used deck screws. Basically laid down a long 2x4, screwed spacers on. Laid down a long 2x4 and screwed it to the spacers. Repeat to desired width.
I work in building materials, and I often find myself just walking my customers' lumber yards. I have one customer with a "cedar room" filled with cedar trim, siding, and dimensional lumber. It's so awesome.
Almost done with the miter saw stand. Just have to do some finishing work, maybe throw a couple coats of poly on the top, throw on some casters on the bottom, and I'll be set. Spoiler
I melted down the wax cappings from extracting honey this weekend and strained it to get clean bees wax. Plan on using it for wood finish on the next nice project I work on.
I just realized how massive that picture was, so I put it in a spoiler. I posted from my phone, so I couldn't really tell.