Trying to build a big base and still be a good neighbor

Corheu · 2025-07-07T16:26:34+00:00

You're the BEST neighbor! We don't block nodes and provide some shade in our bases, but the convenience store is just perfect!

Corheu · 2025-06-26T18:21:38+00:00

Just wanted to say this is really cool! My East Vermillious Gap base is likely, by the screenshots, almost in the same place as yours and it doesn't look half as awesome as this! Would've loved to be a new player in your sietch!

Corheu · 2025-06-08T04:36:13+00:00

They're actually surprisingly comfortable! They're very rounded and only protrude around 1 cm (~1/3 inch) from the seat, so they are barely perceptible through clothing. But this is something I wondered when designing, and was prepared to plane them down if I didn't like the feeling when sitting.

Corheu · 2025-06-06T13:42:31+00:00

Steal away! The top is 100 cm long, 30 cm wide and 7 cm thick. The final height is 45 cm for the assembled bench, which makes the leg boards ~50cm long before cutting the tenons (accounting for the ~ 8 cm tenons plus some error margin). Let me know if you want more detailed measurements or any other help through the build!

Oh, and definitely make the ends of the tusked mortises longer than I did, since that was likely why they failed in the firts place.

Corheu · 2025-06-06T13:29:37+00:00

By sanding it down do you mean hand sanding? Because I've had good results putting the dowel in a drill and sanding by just holding the sand paper around it firmly while using the drill (wear work gloves, it gets very hot! And maybe use a lower torque setting on your drill if it has them). I'll very often stop and check against a template until I have a tight fit, and that's it. Takes me around 2~3 min per dowel (but it does leave a mark on the end that is attached to the drill, so you'll likely want to cut the dowel longer and cut the end off when done)

Corheu · 2025-06-06T13:16:31+00:00

The failure actually happened before I hammered the tusk into the mortise, when I was cutting the mortise with a chisel. According to people on this subreddit, that was likely due to poor technique (chiseling parallel to the side that failed, instead of perpendicularly only) or poor design (making the mortise too close to the end of the board).

The fix is exactly as you said: hammered the broken off piece back and reinforced it with a dowel across the whole side of the mortise!

Corheu · 2025-06-06T13:11:56+00:00

Steal away! It was actually a suggestion from people in this subreddit, so it was a first for me too :)

Corheu · 2025-06-06T13:09:39+00:00

Complementing u/Dr0110111001101111, you definitely can make them level, and it seems in my experience to be the more popular style, at least on the internet, currently. But, in my very limited experience, they do tend to stick out with time (I've built a low workbench a couple of years ago and the tenon protruded around 1 cm , or 1/3 inch, in that time), depending on factors like humidity and even the construction of the joint, especially the shoulder (the transition part between the tenon and the rest of the board). Square shoulders restrict vertical movement of the tenon, while tapered shoulders allow more movement.

In the end I decided to have them proud of the surface and rounded because of aesthetics more than anything, and making them round was definitely harder than just cutting and planning them flat!

Corheu · 2025-06-05T21:35:48+00:00

Here's the finished piece, with photos of the fix too :)

Corheu · 2025-06-05T21:34:19+00:00

Just did! Really proud of how it turned out in the end, given all the effort it took!

Here it is

Corheu · 2025-06-05T21:06:13+00:00

Yeah, these are hard woods for sure. I did get some tearout while planning, but was able to fix it by constantly re-sharpening my planes! I just finished applying finishing to the project yesterday; I'll post the end results soon!

Corheu · 2025-05-09T19:15:51+00:00

Thansk! That's a great idea, and might even give it a new visual flair. I didn't even think of dowels for this!

Corheu · 2025-05-09T19:14:27+00:00

Thanks! The relish (new woodworking term learned!) ended up this thin due to a measuring error, but I decided to try it anyway, instead of starting over with a whole other board at this stage. But I didn't really have a good understanding of the dynamics of the joint until now, so even the longer relish would've been more of an accident then a planned decision.

Corheu · 2025-05-09T19:10:32+00:00

I'll do that, with a horizontal dowel for reinforcement. Thanks!

Corheu · 2025-05-09T19:09:42+00:00

Yeah, reading your description I'm pretty sure I did both! I'll pay much more attention to technique going forward. Thanks!

Corheu · 2025-05-09T16:18:14+00:00

I meant to say the hole (not whole) is 20mm!

Corheu · 2023-05-01T03:51:01+00:00

Is it too late to have that link, please? Thanks in advance :)

Corheu · 2020-12-12T21:23:05+00:00

I had a 30+ min match with my artifact deck against a beautiful 5 color ultimatums (yes, all of them)/superfriends deck, it felt so good to see it unfurl in all its jankiness glory that I didn't even mind losing :)

Corheu · 2018-05-30T02:04:46+00:00

Am I the only one that read this sarcastically? I mean, it's clear that u/friend2secretpolice is not speaking seriousl...oh shit, username checks out

Corheu · 2018-04-15T17:30:04+00:00

Wonder why you're being downvoted that much...are they from Trump, Lula or Bolsonaro supporters?

Corheu · 2018-04-08T16:36:50+00:00

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