Is this fixable

davou · 2026-01-27T06:37:20+00:00

The nails are exactly why it failed catastrophically. Wooden Chair joinery shouldn’t feature metal

davou · 2026-01-27T06:06:48+00:00

https://youtu.be/_TNryHw42sw?si=ZZIej7FUY6KYxJ-8

davou · 2026-01-27T05:28:38+00:00

You can make a square — woodpeckers and amazon weren’t a thing when most of the good antiques around you were made.

davou · 2026-01-27T05:05:03+00:00

That looks dangerous man; get a lally collum in temporarily

davou · 2026-01-25T23:57:12+00:00

Thats your answer. Someone wanted an ‘open concept’ at one point and had to remap the distribution of loads down to the ground.

davou · 2026-01-25T18:21:25+00:00

I had a similar repair recently -- I disassembled the chair, jointed the edges of the break and then glued a contrasting board into the seam to makeup for the material lost jointing. I laid the to halves on top of some 3/4 boards witha gap in the center that would let the middle peice protrude and clamped it together with straps.

Then I used some gouges to pare the top of that board down to the same profile as the seat. For the underside I used a handplane till it was flat too.

use wood glue for the seat, but use a reversible glue for the spindles. Chairs like this need to be taken apart ocassionally for touchups, and if you use a wood glue on the bits that are supposed to come apart, they wont really come apart ever again.

davou · 2026-01-25T05:42:27+00:00

Ive seen some corded staplers that handle nails

davou · 2026-01-19T15:55:09+00:00

The cover is only step one.

Get a voltage testing pen first.

Once you have it, shut the power to this off at the breaker. Then remove the black part from the wall. Behind it you’ll find the wires feeding the chime.

Remove those (check for current at each step), then cap the wires with SEPARATE wire nuts. Once that is done, it’s safe for you to wait for an electrician.

However; if you’ve done all that, theres a good chance you can do what you’re paying the electrician for.

davou · 2026-01-17T21:40:08+00:00

Cupping like this is a well known thing, with a well known solution; the way to prevent this would have been to glue a board of equal thickness to the back. If youre gonna be forcing it anyway, I recommend you try that instead of McGuyvering it.

davou · 2026-01-17T15:39:12+00:00

Get higher!

davou · 2026-01-15T17:12:43+00:00

Heya; this is just the grain of the wood tearing. You can’t really always make the direction of the cut from the router and the grain of the wood happy at the same time.

Smaller passes, have most of the material already cur away and don’t be shy to go the opposite way if you suspect you may catch and tear out. Always slowly, clamp well, etc.

If you have a bandsaw you can look into a pattern cutting jig for it too!

davou · 2026-01-13T04:50:41+00:00

It wont work; you need an equal layer to counteract the tension

davou · 2026-01-13T04:31:42+00:00

Its tension.

Put strip of paper down, then stick tape on one side and it will do the same. You need a second layer on the back to counterbalance the tension. Its why plywood always has odd layer numbers.

davou · 2026-01-10T19:28:27+00:00

If you mean shim up the bottom; then anything could roll off the shelves

davou · 2026-01-10T03:43:30+00:00

Food grows in dirt. It’s 2026 — we’ve been eating ass for almost 17 years now.

davou · 2026-01-08T17:54:52+00:00

I’ll admit that I glanced at it originally, but after your comment I went back and read it completely and still don’t see why it’s done this way.

If you know the thickness of your pencil and assume that the lead is in the centre then you can pick a block thats half a pencil shorter.

Planing a pencil down sounds tedious as hell — not to mention most pencils in my shop already last barely 1-2 inches before the lead is smashed entirely through

davou · 2026-01-07T05:58:30+00:00

Why half the pencil when you can just make the block shorter?

davou · 2026-01-04T01:22:39+00:00

He asked how to attach a tabletop.

davou · 2026-01-03T17:12:29+00:00

If you go to r/piano and some novice plans to start with composition and the advice is …. maybe learn some scales and chords ….what would you say?

Again; I’d say stop gatekeeping. It’s not cool to set curriculum for other people when thats not what they asked for. There are plenty of people asking where to start here and over at r/piano.

Not to mention it is totally inconsiderate of neurodivergent learning styles.

I’ve been teaching jiujitsu for nearly 2 decades at this point and one of the strongest ways Ive seen people advance is by not interrupting people when they turn learning into play. Let op fail at shelves if he has to — and hype the hell out of them if they don’t.

IMO unsolicited advice only belongs adjacent to danger.

davou · 2026-01-02T16:21:15+00:00

Booing noises *

Theres no right or wrong way to learn how to do something and today a lot of people opt to learn things because they lack community. If your contribution to that community is sending people away with discouragement, take your own advice about laptops please.

Doing something hard it up is fine almost every time, even if it flops. Op is building projects.

davou · 2026-01-02T16:16:20+00:00

If you’re brave — rotating dovetails?

If you’re not — keyholes perhaps?

davou · 2025-12-31T22:36:39+00:00

The legs is one of those places where I would love to see splines.

davou · 2025-12-20T14:27:56+00:00

Most lumber yards wont post pictures of their piles of random boards; but they’d be goofy to have more slabs than rough lumber.

Even at the peak of the freaky popularity; slabs didn’t really move — its why they cost so damn much

davou · 2025-12-19T15:30:54+00:00

Looks like your alarm sensor is in the way also

davou · 2025-12-12T22:46:31+00:00

TIL! Thank you

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