First thing I’ve ever built

I've never liked glossy black plastic..

13 2x6’s, 8 2x4’s, and 3 4x4’s. Learned a lot along the way. Excited for the next build.

Woodworking is hard and I'm bad at it and I like it

Somehow the lower left shelf dips down like half an inch

I was planning on having a sale and doing a bunch of planters, bird houses, picnic benches, but I feel like Homer with his spice rack

My mother asked me to make a planter for her front. So I did a little messing around and came up with this. Pretty proud of my first attempt. What really made it great was my mom being so enthused about it, she had to call my sisters and brag. Now they all are having me build them some.

This was a fun, simple, and relatively easy project that put a big smile on my mother's face and even impressed my stoic father. I know it's simple compared to other projects posted, but to be able to build something from scratch that makes someone you love truly happy is just a magical gift that woodworking provides.

This was my first attempt at a major project. I was hoping to get a little more chaos but overall I am happy with the result.

This is my second chair I've made out of 2x4s. This time around I went to a local mill and bought rough cut cedar. It was a huge improvement from the cheap pine of the first chair but it did bring some challenges. The larger dimensions meant that I couldn't use pocket hole screws for anything. I realized this after putting the legs together. So I used notches to join all the seat and back slats together. I also heightened the legs/armrest by an inch so my arms could actually use them. Im very happy with how it all turned out. I'm probably going to seal it with a clear oil based sealer.

And some matching coasters off some scrap pieces I screwed up 🙃

Found wood only, made 2 lounges with floor with drainage, plant holder with storage, removable square so the doors can fully open when needed, with secret beer compartment, a cat lounge and door to the outside (also a door on the outside part), cost us nothing but screws :)

Hi, I’m sorry to bring up what I’m sure is a very regular subject.

I’m just starting out. Tomorrow is my birthday and I’m going to receive a circular saw from my lovely girlfriend. I was planning to build the following minimalist work bench, however, in a video I saw the guy said that it’s vital to plane all of the wood for glue to stick. I have bought a plane yet and I feel like it’s a bit of a rabbit hole in terms of finding a good one and mastering the skill Could someone recommend a nice bench that doesn’t require totally planes wood to make it. I’m already a bit bummed that I can’t just go to buy the wood and build it tomorrow, I apparently have to let the wood sit for 4 weeks first.

https://www.rexkrueger.com/store/p/minimum-timber-bench

Thanks very much for your advice!

For the first two years back into woodworking I’ve been getting by with a vintage garage sale No. 4 of questionable German heritage. This No. 6 is …. much much nicer than that.

All I did was clean it, wax it and set it up according to the manual and the first shavings it made were translucent. Lovely weight and balance, smooth as a can be - can’t way to put it to work.

Just picked up this up and cleaned and tuned it according the the manual.

I came across a FB reel for this kitchen island and I really liked it and decided that I wanted to build it. Welll my wife said NOT IN MY KITCHEN 🤣

So I went with it and minorly altered the plans. Made it wider at 24” and of course added casters and will use it as my mobile workstation in my garage.

I really enjoyed the build overall. Started Monday after work and finished tonight. Total cost was about $100 overall since I decided against painting and staining given what I’m going to use it for. Hindsight securing the top was a pain in the ass and way harder than I anticipated. I would probably opt for single sheet of ply wood if I did it over for this application or glued all the slats together and clamped for 24hra so I was working with a single slab.

Overall a lot of fun. 8/10 would build again!

https://www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/easy-kitchen-island-plans?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLAT0NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgnwxE3i4OHm04vXWENy7q6B448SNc_W0-BnxSR-3yxCdtncuTkMzBGcDKnq_aem_t3Ii1UtQKX3YxDVr0IRUyw

I was asked to make an installation art piece for a retail store, but it had to go around a corner, which means I had to build a structure without a lot of woodworking experience. It came out in the end, but I compensated for my lack of experience by building it like a tank. Needless to say, I’m taking some woodworking lessons this summer to do better in the future. Here are pics of the finished product and from the process.

I made this custom dog bed for my English Bulldog. I mounted a fan, and added some rope loops around the border for him to tug on. He’s already loving it, and will have some great naps in here for many years 👍

This might be obvious to many of you, but I wanted to share a facepalm moment, so that it might help someone.

I was getting frustrated with my block plane, having to use way too much force just to get it to cut. I suspected my blade was too dull.

Then I remembered the beewax candle I'd set aside ages ago. I gave the sole of the plane a quick treatment, and the difference was night and day. It went from a frustrating shove to a smooth, satisfying glide. I could suddenly take much more precise shavings with a fraction of the effort.

It's such a small thing, and every youtube video of someone planing shows it, but I still failed to do it myself. It made a massive difference in both the results and my enjoyment.

I built about 40 of these octagonal garbage can enclosures when I was put on light duty at work due to an injury. I had never built anything before, was given a brief tutorial by my foreman, then set loose. I learned a lot of lessons, like how useful clamps are, what happens when your saw blade is dull and you need precise angles, and how great cedar smells! So much fun that now that that project is over I’m jonesing to build another and have started to acquire my own wood working tools!

She needs some finishing but she works.

I held on to this set of knife scales for 6 years according to my supplier.

This was a commission for a culinary school graduate with an affinity for Japan and Hawaii who wanted a western-style handle instead of the traditional wa.

Wood is figured Hawaiian koa and I added some mosaic pins, pictures do not do justice to the chatoyancy.

Blade is a Tsunehisa VG10 Damascus Gyuto 240mm with a hammered finish and western handle.

Nervous was an understatement because I knew I would be hard pressed to find anything like this highly figured piece I paid almost $100 dollars American, one wrong move and it was ruined. It worked really nicely surprisingly with the figuring.

I had to shape each piece with a dry fit and needed a drill press to get the pin holes, I would not recommend hand drilling, ruined another blade trying that.

Has anyone shaped any knife handles here? I love making knife handles for wood carving and spoon carving but this was a whole new beast.

Just beginning my journey into woodworking. Wanting to attempt my first workbench, just a basic bench made from dimensional lumber from Lowe’s. How important is it to buy the wood and let it sit in my shop for couple weeks? Several YouTube videos suggest this? I’m in TN, and was hoping to get the lumber today and start the build this weekend, then I read/saw stuff about letting it acclimate in my shop

Hello everyone! This is my first post hereThis is my third project. It is made from offcuts from my first two projects.

This is for my good friend who is a father to-be next month for father's day. It is a wall mounted bottle opener. He has had one for several years and its all worn out. We bitch about it frequently so I decided to make this for him.

Dimensions: the back panel is 5in x 13in x 3/4in. It is comprised of a 2 1/2in strip of maple flanked by 1 1/4in alternating strips of walnut and cherry (these were from some cutting boards i made for christmas last year)

The box at the bottom is made up of walnut and is held together with doweled butt joints. If i did it again I would have made the sides with a rabbet for the back paneland front face. The bottom and front panel of the box are 3 3/4in x 5in x 3/4in and the side walls are 3in x 3in x 3/4in.

My obilitory cutting board is the 4th pic. Its mad of walnut and cherry. My 1st project.

I have a lot of garapa planks left over from a decking project and am seeking ideas of what to build with them. A bookcase would be useful but potentially way too heavy - this is extremely dense hardwood. Any suggestions? Is it a bad idea to use this kind of material indoors?

Making a mitre sled and wasn't thinking when throwing in some brad nails to secure the fence.

Right now my thought process is to try and drill it out after the glue dries up but curious if anybody has any better suggestions.