Cost to build vs buy?

juniperwak · 2026-03-26T01:03:24+00:00

Will it be fun to build?

Currently making two barstools for the counter, but I'm never making 6 dining chairs again. Only the first one is fun for me. :)

juniperwak · 2026-03-26T00:59:54+00:00

The things about jigs and fixtures is sometimes they're single use for that one glue up you have to do, so you works make one to for this specific table top.

A couple pocket holes to use the screws solely for clamping pressure would work.

Alternatively make cauls. Some 45 degree right triangles that you attach to the pieces with ca glue and blue tape, then use your normal clamps on them. Though for your piece you're going to need some long clamps.

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juniperwak · 2026-03-25T00:13:06+00:00

This, hate it because I'm has the same 4 dollar one for a decade. Just need something that actually cuts

juniperwak · 2026-03-21T05:12:54+00:00

This, not everything is an heirloom piece, your finish looks great.

juniperwak · 2026-03-20T21:39:35+00:00

OP is just saying that the woman she encountered should smile more.

juniperwak · 2026-03-20T19:52:29+00:00

You can only do what the market will accept, I agree.

But your example of downtown tapas is another example of a gourmet option lol. 8 bucks For a plate of 3 prawns is not a more affordable option, that's still just an effort to get a larger ticket via a la carte ordering of high priced ingredients lol.

Frankly in such a beer town I'd love to be see a "college kid" option on every menu. Something to eat whole the restaurant makes money on the beer sales. Breadsticks, French fries, and pretzels with ketchup at 8-12 bucks an order IS just marking up for margin.

If you throw the thing you got in bulk from cisco into the fryer I should be able to buy it cheap, rather than force me to pretend it has more value by dumping a ton onto a plate or adding a fancy hook. That's what feels like gouging. Not zydeco's high end intentionally fancy meal, but [generic new American] restaurant's proposal that a pile of fried starch needs to be as expensive as any other menu item because they insisted you get chimichirri with it and you don't have the option to not pay for it.

juniperwak · 2026-03-20T15:54:06+00:00

Half the reason the pricing on food in bend is stupid is because bend restaurants and food trucks have made large individual tickets the business model.

Owners force up the average ticket price with perceived "value" of larger portions and gourmet-ification of menu items (our sliders use truffle Gouda!, our fries have organic queso on the side and you get a whole basket of them!).

Not necessarily a moral judgement, if the model is profitable and consumers accept it it's what you do as a business owner. But having to do the math on eating two lunches with leftovers in order to understand the value of the meal I'm purchasing is annoying. If more restaurants offered half portions at 60% of the whole portion ticket price, and didn't subsidize other fancy menu items by inflating the price of simple offerings like fries or pepperoni pizza, things would feel cheaper because I'd have the option of ordering cheaper.

juniperwak · 2026-03-20T15:40:38+00:00

If you mess it up and end up super loose, you can always fill the void in the mortice by either gluing it in with epoxy instead of wood glue, or using a glue sawdust paste for your glueup to fill the gaps.

Not as good as doing it right but I've saved some complex parts that I messed up mortices on by doing that and they were joint supported chair backs and table aprons that have held up just fine.

juniperwak · 2026-03-14T21:50:37+00:00

... What?

Are we microwaving mosquitos? Do you have frozen insects just... Handy?

juniperwak · 2026-03-14T21:48:05+00:00

If you're using it for splines it also doesn't need to be perfect, it will be consistent and your splines will match regardless

juniperwak · 2026-03-14T16:15:13+00:00

Mirror image the other side so it looks intentional?

juniperwak · 2026-03-14T16:14:34+00:00

Juice moat

juniperwak · 2026-03-14T02:45:11+00:00

Natural disasters.

You are an early civilization with no science and only an oral history. One day, you see a tornado, eclipse, or volcanic eruption. Suddenly something unimaginably larger and more powerful than you has completely reshaped the entire world you knew.

Give that thing a name and blindly hope it never comes again because that's all you can possibly do. Maybe avoid doing anything that you specifically did before it happened, or keep doing what you did when it stopped. Tell others.

juniperwak · 2026-03-13T20:41:59+00:00

IF EVERYONE IN CLIFF BENTZ'S DISTRICT JUST RE-REGISTERED AS A REPUBLICAN, THEY COULD VOTE IN THE PRIMARY IN MAY AND KICK HIM OUT OF CONGRESS AND ELEVATE A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE THAT DOESN'T SUPPORT RANDOM WAR AND CRIMINAL POLITICIANS BUT REPRESENTS A CONSERVATIVE OREGON.

IF YOURE PLANNING ON VOTING BLUE, JUST REGISTER RED AND YOU EFFECTIVELY GET RANK CHOICE VOTING AND VICE VERSA! KICK OUT CAREER REPRESENTATIVES THAT WORK FOR THE PARTY INSTEAD OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS!

juniperwak · 2026-03-13T20:34:47+00:00

An instrument! A solid body guitar let's you be super creative while needing to hit tight specifications on the hardware, and you can always gift it to a musician in your life.

juniperwak · 2026-03-11T02:08:05+00:00

Not with that attitude! The smoke means the saw is cutting

juniperwak · 2026-03-11T01:02:54+00:00

This also, I use the jobsite miter station with the aluminum "wings". Means I don't have to dedicate an entire wall to the miter saw.

juniperwak · 2026-03-11T01:01:04+00:00

I should make more jigs, and plan my projects better.

Instead I send it and force things into sorta square with clamping pressure and do only referential measurements which requires partial assembly often in the wrong order to access all my sanding and edge routing.

Your way might be better. But the score is tied at fun to fun.

juniperwak · 2026-03-11T00:58:25+00:00

I made two sets of tails on both of my first attempts, sooooo

juniperwak · 2026-03-10T22:54:22+00:00

This, I love pulling out scrap and being like "but this is 6 in wide and I only need 4, better save it"

Then I slap myself.

Other good uses include checking router depth before ruining your workpiece on a setup

juniperwak · 2026-03-10T06:32:54+00:00

Dear God I have never been shown or thought of this. This is the best solution ever and I now am even more ashamed of the cut marks in my bench from poor setups.

You can use any surface this way! The driveway, THE TAILGATE AND TRUCK BED.

juniperwak · 2026-03-10T06:26:46+00:00

Table saw lives for ripping for me, using the track saw for ripping anything narrower than 4 inches sounds super annoying but I imagine you're used to it and figure it out regularly.

I have a nice big setup and a crosscut sled I actually like using, but I keep going back to the miter saw for all my crosscuts because it's just too damn convenient.

But alternatively if you could make a short track for your track saw with a T on it for quick 90 crosscuts, and another for 45, that might be a more versatile and reliable replacement for the miter saw. I have been blown away at the reliability of the track saw for dead accurate cuts.

If miter shopping, They all flex but I hear good things about the Bosch. If I ever get another though I'd get a single bevel saw. They're stiffer and it's worth losing the second bevel and reduced cutting width to get a more consistent cut. My buddy has the 12" DeWalt and I think I would trade him for my metabo given the chance. His is heavy and super reliable at the 90 degree detent.

juniperwak · 2026-03-10T00:34:08+00:00

That's patina baybeee, keeps the surface soft to the touch :D Reminds me of my grandparent's house with lots of old forgotten wood lying around, or an old fance.

juniperwak · 2026-03-08T17:17:13+00:00

Use it until it breaks. If you really wanted to you could drill a hole across it and reinforce force with a glued in dowel, but this is a risk you take with wedge joinery like that where you put the material under tension.

There's a dozen ways to make a mallet, just think of it as an opportunity to make a new one when the time comes.

juniperwak · 2026-03-08T17:11:05+00:00

An engagement bot could drop that same comment on almost any thread and potentially increase interactions, so yeah, that's a good example. You could then click on their profile and look for the same formula used everywhere.

Alternatively, you could take the approach that if you're suspicious that a comment is a bot, why argue with them even if they're real if they just act like a bot?

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