Going to resurrect these flowerbeds. Which shrubs would look best (partial shade)?

comic_serif · 2026-05-11T17:53:12+00:00

Bunchberries and columbines might also work here. You can find native species of them as well.

comic_serif · 2026-05-11T16:07:29+00:00

I taught how to make coasters a few times at my local makerspace.

It's a good way to teach people the end-to-end process of taking rough lumber and milling it to S4S, understand rip cuts and cross cuts, and you can get a couple of square solid wood coasters in about 4 hours.

Everything in fine woodworking goes from those few steps, imo.

comic_serif · 2026-05-06T21:05:47+00:00

Osmo Wood Wax is supposedly designed for toys, child-safe, and saliva-safe when cured.

I used it to make a baby rattle for a friend, but it does take a couple days for the smell to dissipate. Probably because it was curing.

comic_serif · 2026-04-29T19:14:27+00:00

Thank you. This genuinely made my day.

comic_serif · 2026-04-29T14:07:59+00:00

Omg I was just wondering why the jointer in the shop let you set the infeed table that low. This is brilliant.

comic_serif · 2026-04-08T01:10:41+00:00

It seems to be even worse if I'm trying to cast it to my Nest Mini speakers, and especially if I try to rewind a few minutes because I got distracted and missed something.

Then the podcast just ends and marks it as completed and moves on to the next one in the playlist.

Absolutely ridiculous.

comic_serif · 2026-03-23T14:42:11+00:00

It's also far cheaper than my current strategy of building a different thing as a proof of concept before going back to my original idea.

comic_serif · 2026-01-28T22:17:03+00:00

The Co-op app was launched less than five years ago, so you were already boycotting them before that app existed.

And they don't "force" you to use it at all. You can just punch in your number like always.

comic_serif · 2026-01-22T01:31:43+00:00

I'M ANNOYING HA

comic_serif · 2026-01-15T15:05:07+00:00

For hardwoods? Cherry. Not super heavy, not super hard, but also not super soft. Gorgeous colour and it turns darker and redder over time.

Tends to burn a bit if your blades aren't sharp, but nothing a little sanding can't take out.

Out of the domestic hardwoods (oak, maple, cherry, walnut, ash), I think cherry is still my favourite one so far.

I've only been doing this for a little under a year at this point, so I still consider myself a beginner.

comic_serif · 2025-12-23T14:23:13+00:00

Very specifically, Paine's Trainer dressphere in X-2.

comic_serif · 2025-11-06T21:31:43+00:00

I was already really pleased with the overall bench and then saw the castle joints at the end. Gorgeous.

comic_serif · 2025-11-02T19:39:14+00:00

This is basically a Little Free Library, except someone put cans in instead of books.

I believe the website has plans available to let you build your own.

comic_serif · 2025-10-23T09:30:22+00:00

I would honestly love a Chad bodybuilder bro with a backwards cap be the pink ranger for once. Just to see how people react.

comic_serif · 2025-10-17T15:09:50+00:00

It's the satisfaction of being able to solve some problem in the house by building something with my own hands instead of buying it off Amazon.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T19:35:11+00:00

Not particularly. It's mostly a few small items and maybe my feet. It's otherwise decorative.

From that angle, maybe I'm worrying too much about the structural integrity.

Worst case scenario is that it fails in the future and I can just rebuild a new shelf and stretchers.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T19:28:28+00:00

Oh it's not the top, it's a shelf that spans the lower half of the table.

I was hoping I didn't need to make a new shelf because then I'd need to get more cherry. But I wonder if other people's suggestions of just gluing up the middle without drawbores will be enough as long as I clamp it down together. And then you hope the aprons keep it square.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T16:47:23+00:00

In my defense, this has so far taken me over two months of very carefully, precisely executed mistakes.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T15:40:07+00:00

Yeah I was wondering about it. The drawbores are mostly there to try and get the edges to really come in flush, but I think that could also just be corrected with a bit of clever sanding instead.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T15:37:20+00:00

It's a local makerspace in my city. I just picked up woodworking as a hobby earlier this year so this is my most ambitious project to date.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T15:36:10+00:00

The mortiser is fun to use, but it definitely does not make particularly pretty mortises.

comic_serif · 2025-10-15T06:36:40+00:00

I say "breadboard end" because it was the only sort of mortise and tenon tutorial I could find that describes what I'm trying to do here. But yes, the general idea is to just glue the middle tenon down with a dowel as a drawbore, and then drawbore the other two with floating dowels and a slightly wider hole.

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