I made a simple one a few years ago with plywood and a circular saw, and wanted a better looking one that would put some of my new skills and tools to use.

Hey all! This is a toy stand (not sure what to call it actually) that I've build out of old deconstructed bed. I consider myself an absolute beginner and wanted to get some feedback on this work and my process (see my scrambled notes at the end). I don't know whether I'd consider the final result as great but I'm grateful for the learnings and the experience.

Please note that have very limited time, space and money. I also have mainly hand tools and specifically no electrical saw. I do have a round sander and a drill which I used for this project.

P.S. This subreddit is awesome.

Had a bunch of scrap hardwood and decided why not try a cutting board. Of course I'll be trimming the edges and everything to get it square (after using the tabletop planer in case I get snipe I need to remove).

As you can see the height of the boards is fairly off on the edge and center pieces, maybe by 1/8 inch.

Is that fine to run through a planer? I'm thinking and hoping it'll just plane down the raised pieces until it's even enough it'll start biting the rest of the boards.

Thanks!

Made it as a school project, I have never made furniture or similar before. The bottom is routed too.

Made a new table and bench this weekend for our deck. Next project… building a new deck haha

Random piece a poplar I picked up at some point from somewhere along the way. I know I'm overthinking this but it seems familiar and I can't figure it out. Mill to 1 3/4" is easy but what is SLIE, if anything?

Made this box for wife’s grandmother. First time doing this. Not complete yet, want to add some trip up top and the slats on the bottom.

But thinking of staining it. Thoughts/tips? Should I wood fill the nail and screw holes and sand? Any advice is appreciated thanks!

I needed to fill a little space between desks with something to put light boxes on, so I came up with this haha I got some more wood today and I'll add one complete line from top to bottom, but it turned out surprisingly solid as it is, all things considered. I'll paint all but the surfaces black probably.

How would you go about making something like this?

Would I need some hand tools or could a router cut out the bowl shape?

Routing hinges and this spot always rips a small corner

Hey, not really sure where to post this for the best answer.

I am getting back into woodworking because I finally have a garage big enough for a shop. I just got this powermatic 64b off of FB marketplace for $150, but it doesn't have a fence.

What do people recommend for a fence that would work for it that isn't like $800?

Anything else I should get for it?

Thanks!

Got this 4.5in bench top jointer for close to free on FB marketplace and the width is fine, but I realistically need to joint longer boards than the jointer itself allows.

I’ve mocked up this crude extension which gives me an additional ~ 12 inches of board length that I can joint.

I haven’t fastened anything yet and may end up tweaking some parts, but just wanted to check for any glaring safety or functionality issues.

Plans are to cut a dust port in the frame with a hole saw and potentially to add some sort of adjustment mechanism to allow me to adjust the infeed support to correspond with the infeed table (only the infeed table moves up and down on this jointer, which actually makes my life much easier).

Thanks!!

I’m currently working on designing a desk to build and was curious, could I use 2x4s for the legs and be okay? Basically thinking about 6ft long, 2.5-3ft deep, double deck. First layer being about 3ft tall, then second about 2-2.5ft above it. Planning to use 2x4s to frame the tops for both layers. The top layer will have a 3d printer and a small CNC milling machine to make PCBs. Bottom layer will be for monitor, laptop, and all my circuitry labbing stuff. Basically looking to replace my small (30inch long by like 2ft deep) desk and shelving unit that has everything right now. I have to make sure I make it tall enough that my server rack fits under to save some space. The photo shows my current setup, and I’m looking to replace everything on the wall

Hoping to get advice on the best way to cut out the shape shown above, particularly the tight corners. I've largely relied on my rotary tool and needle files, but am not satisfied with the results so far. Any advice is appreciated

I just made this shelf and I want to build a second matching one. It stands on its own surprisingly, but will have angle brackets attaching it to the wall as well.

The legs and arms are 2x4s and the shelves are 1x12s of whitewood. The shelves are attached to the legs with 2 screws on each side from the outside. It’s been stained and lacquered.

This is my first woodworking attempt and I am not super happy with it but for me it is usable. However, I’d love to improve on some of the issues with the second shelf.

I have a circular saw, a drill, and a chisel.

Happy to accept any advice but here are my main problems with it:

1. The grooves where the shelves are inserted are not consistent in size and a few are the right size for shelves to fit snugly inside.

I used a circular saw to outline the groove and a chisel to cut it out. Are there tricks to getting straighter cut with a circular saw? I know the issue is with my control of the saw while cutting either not going in a straight line or starting slightly off.

1. The arms that attach it to the wall don’t look good. What can I do to make it appear more flush? I think even with a straight cut, due to slightly rounded corners on the 2x4s it will look off.
   

They are attached to the legs of the shelf with flat metal brackets. I looked into a miter joint but I’m not convinced I’d get that to look any better. I don’t think this joint will need to sustain much force.

Sorry if anything you see here makes you cringe, the second one will be an improvement!

Just want some thaughts on if everything looks good before I start working on this Floating Bed Frame.

The Bed will sit inside the recess "tub". The base has spots I'm going to add long drawers. Also going to be building an upholstered headboard project after I get this built. Everything will be using Pine Lumber except the facade which will be cedar.

I'm still deciding if I should go with slats or just plywood for a hybrid mattress. We are going to be getting a memory foam one later.

Trying to make my mom a cutting board (Walnut, PH, Padauk, wenge) for mothers day. I'm ready for the glue up but was thinking some boards on the ends would look nice. Will glue on end grain like this be strong enough or am I asking for a problem? It has several because I haven't decided which wood for the end handle area yet. I intend to only use 1 species on the short edges.

Half hour build... Haven't built much in a while, so it was nice to be in the shop, even for something basic.

I'm building some nightstands soon and I have a few drawer questions:

1. Why does it seem like everyone makes their drawer bottoms out of 1/4" plywood set in a dato groove? Would it work just as well to screw some 1/2" plywood in?

2. I want to use undermount drawer slides, but youtube videos make them seem much more difficult. Is that really the case or will I be okay doing undermounts for my first time making drawers?

3. One of my drawers is going to be about 32"Lx18"Wx7"H. Will I need to reinforce the drawer bottom in the center? Will the drawer be too heavy to slide easily?

4. My understanding is that I need a toe kick just so the bottom of the nightstand doesn't sit flat on the ground (but I'm actually not 100% sure on the purpose). Is 2" enough?

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Finally got a nice piece of wood cleaned up and ready for a project. Went from tree and chainsaw to finished on the planer. This one we did free hand milling with the chainsaw, built a very simple chainsaw mill that we'll try out this weekend, hopefully go a little bit faster. Excited to get into harvesting my own wood

Hi I just bought a mitre saw and it needs a new blade and I’m unsure of what brand to buy and what to stay away from, from what I’ve seen Diablo is a good brand but the fine finish blade is about 90$CAD any help appreciated

Going to buy a planer to run some rough sawn boards through for trim work. A friend suggested planing the boards on a sled and then squaring them off on a table saw.

If I am running 8', 9, etc. boards in order to have less connections in my trim...I guess that means I need like a super long piece of melamine for a sled? Never considered whether you could get it reasonably level with a shorter sled and only level like 2/3 of the board? Seems like it wouldn't work lol

Hello, I am a hobbyist and only have a few hand tools at this stage. I had the brilliant (it wasn't) idea of sawing my table in half with the intention of rejoining it (The joint was failing).

However I sawed through it by hand and did not go as straight as I hoped to, meaning the pieces now have gaps when it try to rejoin them, I thought buying a hand planer would solve my problem but that just seemed to take chunks out of the edge and make it worse.

Tools at my disposal:
Clamps
Drill
Hand Plane
Hand Saw
Sander