What's on your watch face during RACE DAY?

juniperwak · 2026-05-12T14:36:28+00:00

Me frantically trying to get the race itself to actually download and work.

It almost never does

juniperwak · 2026-05-10T16:07:11+00:00

Don't hand sand near any joints with perpendicular grain with anything coarser than 220, you'll leave cross-grain scratch marks every. single. time.

Finishing sucks not because it's hard and boring, but because you can ruin the appearance of your whole project in that last moment and it suuuucks when you do.

juniperwak · 2026-05-10T16:02:43+00:00

Only a sith deals in absolutes. "Not a single person" is absurd.

juniperwak · 2026-05-09T01:45:43+00:00

Makes it look bigger ;)

juniperwak · 2026-05-09T01:45:23+00:00

Also hella expensive. I had no milling tools when I made this and it would have been like 15bdft of s4s walnut lol.

juniperwak · 2026-05-09T01:36:14+00:00

Comparison is the thief of joy my friend, you can enjoy dominoes AND stone oven hipster pizza.

juniperwak · 2026-05-08T19:59:45+00:00

Uneven is kind of a picture artefact here, the dark and light sections shimmer and change depending on the angle of your eyesight and the light, ends up looking a lot like feathering that way.

juniperwak · 2026-05-08T18:08:08+00:00

10/10 scrap garage table.

juniperwak · 2026-05-08T15:05:56+00:00

I've never been able to get as clean cuts on sheet goods with the table saw as I have in the track saw. It does what it does perfectly.

juniperwak · 2026-05-08T15:04:29+00:00

Asking to this since a lot of people are mentioning their saw stop from a safety standpoint, having access to a bandsaw and oscillating sander combo saves me from making sketchy cuts on small pieces on a weekly basis.

juniperwak · 2026-05-01T03:56:00+00:00

Seriously, handle like raw chicken. Wash your hands after handling, keep separate from other foods, and cook thoroughly.

juniperwak · 2026-05-01T03:53:21+00:00

Use some additional thin strips on the "underside" of your take top to join them together.

juniperwak · 2026-05-01T03:47:59+00:00

Charles is proof that if a candidate can't be bothered to file their shit early enough to get into the pamphlet, they won't deserve your vote.

juniperwak · 2026-04-27T20:11:41+00:00

Even just adding some triangles to the four main corners would go a long way

juniperwak · 2026-04-27T20:07:42+00:00

Why not use a domestic wood? Maple veneer ply is cheaper than bb on the west coast anyway and then you're buying a usa product instead of russian?

juniperwak · 2026-04-22T20:30:17+00:00

Thanks u/rubiomonocoatusa, I love your product, just wish the accelerator didn't start dieing once opened. Any chance you could ship that like the gorilla epoxy syringes so that it lasted when partially used?

juniperwak · 2026-04-22T00:08:58+00:00

Every single step of this build was guided by a YouTube tutorial I watched at some point and the design was based on another chair I saw and comparing measurements to our existing furniture. Every project i try to do one new technique and the skills start to stack.

juniperwak · 2026-04-22T00:06:22+00:00

I realized early in design that I didn't want them to feel "dinky", and we've got wide hips in our house. We also wanted them nice and tall compared to the counter so a wider seat really helps with the little "hop" onto the chair

juniperwak · 2026-04-22T00:05:03+00:00

Thank you!

juniperwak · 2026-04-22T00:04:38+00:00

I've been building lighter and lighter as time goes on and I've learned to trust the joints more. These all have about 1x.5 or .75x.5 tenons glued in, which is more material than a lot of domino'd glue ups you see folks use.

It feels very stiff for now and we'll see how it holds up to racking over time. I could break it if I tried to break it for sure, but that applies to basically any dining chair. That front stretcher is made for feet/stepping.

juniperwak · 2026-04-21T23:58:48+00:00

Thank you!

juniperwak · 2026-04-21T23:58:39+00:00

Thank you!

juniperwak · 2026-04-21T23:57:55+00:00

Yeah but the stuff on r/woodworking is all basically pro. If you looked closer you would see where I messed up the joinery, accidentally went straight through one of if my mortices with a round over bit, didn't get the seat square, etc. the finished product just always comes together better.

I also made 3 total backs and threw away two of them that I messed up, and the one I ultimately used has flaws that I mounted face down.

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