re: Neatest thing you have built?

Well surprisingly it's pretty comfortable. We actually ordered a latex for a number of reasons.

what we ordered

what we got

Thats really cool. How long did something like that take?

Finished up the bed and got it all put together in the room.

Lessons learned:
King size mattress is impossible to move by yourself. I tore a nut.
Just because you have a 5 lb box of 2.5 inch screws doesn't mean you need to use those to screw down slats.
I still can't stain for shite, being drunk doesn't help my ability at all.







Now the wife wants the furniture to match so I need to figure out how to get the poly and stain off the other stuff to stain it to match. Any ideas?

Well she's pregnant so you can tell her that. I want to live

Real nice, Booga

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Now the wife wants the furniture to match so I need to figure out how to get the poly and stain off the other stuff to stain it to match. Any ideas?

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use a water base paint stripper. That is spray on and a good chance you will remove some of the stain.

Here's my first cutting board! Although I'm giving it away to a friend for a Honeydo gift. It's maple with walnut and sapele strips. I had my roundover bit too low on a piece of scrap wood that I used my router on and liked the edge it made so I stuck with it.

Attempted to make an end-grain block for myself yesterday but failed miserably. Apparently I missed the memo where you aren't supposed to put eng-grain wood through your planer. Long story short my board broke apart in a few areas so I'm trying to decide what to do with the scraps

I'm in the middle of building a transmission right now. If it works it'll be the coolest thing I've built.

If it doesn't, welllllllllllll I won't be surprised.

I'm not saying there isn't some validity to that advice, but it definitely depends on the planer. Job site/table top is going to be less effective on them than helical with carbide blades and 1-2hp motor.

I've put anywhere between 40-50 end grain boards through my planer with nothing worse than some minor tear out and one a whole strip of blocks separated bc of a shitty glue up.

Nice job on the bed Booga.

I built a platform bed like that minus the headboard and footboard for our new memory foam mattress a couple years ago. It's solid as a rock and with the memory foam mattress, you don't feel the other person moving on the bed at all.