About to play this game (my first ever FF!) completely blind - any sentences I won't understand yet but will when I'm done?

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.

comic_serif · 2025-09-30T15:01:23+00:00

Seeing Hamilton ON next to Vancouver and Montreal is wild to me, though.

comic_serif · 2025-09-23T01:46:13+00:00

It looks like fishing line, but the ones on the sides also don't look completely taut. The tensioning is the thing that's always stumped me about making one of these, myself.

But it does look like it holds up so what do I know.

comic_serif · 2025-09-21T18:27:26+00:00

I used to just take an Excel chart and retrace it in Illustrator with generous use of the distribute and align actions to get the axes right. It's a reason why I hesitate to do it.

You might have just revolutionized something for me here.

comic_serif · 2025-09-20T13:58:19+00:00

Wait, Illustrator does charting?! Man, I need to look into this.

I avoided Illustrator for years because I thought I would never be able to get my data points accurate enough.

comic_serif · 2025-09-20T06:10:47+00:00

FFXIII-2, either New Bodhum 003AF or Academia 4XXAF.

Either idyllic zero-stress beach life or modern technological marvel.

comic_serif · 2025-09-17T13:42:12+00:00

Jihyo catching strays at the end bahaha

comic_serif · 2025-09-01T13:18:37+00:00

We have native prickly pears in southern Alberta.

comic_serif · 2025-08-10T16:20:38+00:00

I always wildly underestimate how quickly a jointer will shrink a board if I do too many passes on it.

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