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Sho got a lot more respect for folks that know how to build things. I made a few Mis measures and had to recut but so far it's looking pretty good for my first piece of furniture. Gonna be a bi level TV stand. 6 foot wide base and 18" tall. I'm wore out but feel good about itAttachment 140032Attachment 140033Attachment 140034Attachment 140035
Youre getting to be quite the Craftsman, Congrats
put down the GREEN cup
Looks good
Making saw dust is phun.
Fishing is more fun.
Amen, huge part of woodworking is being able to see the finished product before you ever start, its a gift. You doing good DD, just remember the rule "measure twice and cut once". GDG has as good in eye for this stuff as anyone I know.
GDG has got it going on. I'll get it figured out though one day
You will, wish I had half the eye for things as he does.
it's fun even if you do get it wrong looks good Don Don
The more you do it the more you will lean and the better you will get. I watch many of those New Yankkee Workshop shows on TV and tried to do a lot of the stuff that he did. Made lots of mistakes and boo boos but finally caught on. Its a lot of fun. A lot of the furniture in my house I made out of oak.
Lookin good DD, theres nothing like walking through your house and seeing something that you took your own hands and built and just remember everyone makes mistakes at first just like G said. Before long you will be making compound miter cuts like no ones bizzness. I guess my favorite tool is that miter saw and my favorite thing to do is trim work ( crown base and window moldings)
u scare me dd
My favorite tools are my table saw and my router. I use a dado blade a lot on the table saw and I use my router in just about all my projects. Once you get addicted to a router watch out......those bits are expensive and the cheap ones are not any good. I have a lot invested in the bits
Screwed up my first cut. Cut a 45 for the front and I'll be darned if I didn't cut it the wring way. One side of the board was better looking and that was gonna be the part you saw. Ummm, Cut it wrong and then the bad side was gonna be the front. OOPSY
A lot of satisfaction in doing and learning even if you make a few mistakes along the way!
somebody that never makes mistakes is someone that is not doing anything
yeh, I WAS gonna stain the base but now with the patches I'm going to have to do, I'm going to just paint it Dark brown, then stain the top section. We have heart of pine walls with dark brown beams in the ceiling so it'll still match everything. May be a pain in the butt but man it sure is fun
I love doing woodwork. My tool of choice right now is a chainsaw, making firewood.
I'll get back to the tablesaw and router, I need to make some handles for some Do-it molds.
That's a fact Jack :)Quote:
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