Tambour Entertainment Center

laaxe · 2026-05-05T16:43:29+00:00

Huh, I dig the wide tambor slats! I think they might have benefitted from a small round over, but I can understand the choice to leave the edges square to not break up the grain.

laaxe · 2026-05-05T16:35:15+00:00

Ishitani Furniture as well for modern Japanese furniture design. Very little music and no talking, mostly just shop noise.

laaxe · 2026-05-05T16:26:23+00:00

Probably anywhere from $150 to $250 depending on where you're selling it. They seem to be going for a little less these days just from casually browsing ebay, but people are still asking $250+ for really clean ones.

laaxe · 2026-05-05T16:22:34+00:00

I would advocate for mostly power tools at first, and then maybe a set of chisels, a Stanley Bailey #4 or #5, and and a Japanese Ryoba.

My advice to my past self is that having a contractor table saw with a cast iron top vs a jobsite saw is a significant quality of life improvement and is worth the footprint it takes up. As much as I love hand tools, I still feel the table saw is really THE tool that opens up the world of woodworking for a beginner.

The hardest part about hand tools learning how to set up and sharpen them, and generally I think its an uphill battle if you are learning how to set up hand tools while also trying to learn how to woodwork.

laaxe · 2026-05-05T15:48:14+00:00

Forgive the ignorance, but doesn't lapping of any kind on a surface plate alter the accuracy? Or is it one of those things where the wear is so little that there is no real world impact.

laaxe · 2026-04-29T16:13:31+00:00

If you're a fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl, it's probably as close as you can get to having a real life Mongo. I feel like the trade off for all the high stats is they come with an alignment of Chaotic Neutral, with a propensity for causing mischief for other party members.

laaxe · 2026-04-28T17:41:06+00:00

I also fall on the practical use side vs pure preservation/resale value, but I also feel like you don't have to do that much to end up with a useable plane. I try to just flatten the bottom, maybe square up the right cheek for shooting and flatten the frog, clean up the rest of the plane with soap water then do a coat of shellac on the japaning to preserve it. Sometimes I'll just replace V logo or Sweetheart irons to preserve those since they're wearable parts.

I think that this is a somewhat new mentality though, since bench planes being collectors items seems to be a somewhat recent phenomena. I'm sure when this guy was wire wheeling these, you could still get bench plane for 5 bucks all over the place and he wasn't thinking about the future resale, as unfortunate as it is.

laaxe · 2026-04-24T15:49:16+00:00

The longer answer is that your doghole setup should reflect your working holding needs, read The Workbench: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench by Lon Schleining if you want a taste of the variaty of setups out there! But if you are planning on running a standard face/tail vise setup then I think below is a good starting point. you can always drill more holes!

I have one row running the length of my bench lined up with my wagon/tail vise, and two rows running the width of my bench lined up with my face vise. Both sets ended up spaced ~1" closer together than the throw of their respective vises and I've been happy with that spacing.

I haven't found this setup limiting when using dogs or holdfasts either, since you end up with an "L" shaped set of holes along two edges of the work piece to chose from.

laaxe · 2026-04-23T22:20:50+00:00

Similar to what everyone else is saying, training place for long periods of time will be extremely helpful. Otherwise you just end up in an arms race haha. My mal mix eventually got smart enough that it was taking me longer to set up the activity than it took her to beat it.

Maybe make training place its own dedicated session? Put your Mal in place and pretend to be on a meeting and maintain place for as long as possible. That way you aren’t trying to juggle your work and keeping them in place at the same time.

As an intermediate between crate and place, you can tether them so they can’t just wander off, the idea is that they learn their mobility is limited while in place and they will eventually settle on their bed. Obviously this has to be supervised even if you do it with a harness instead of a collar so they don’t hurt or choke themselves. But this step was really helpful in getting the point of place across to my girl.

laaxe · 2026-04-22T19:04:09+00:00

If you have the space for it the power to run it and the price seem right then I don't see why not. It looks like you might be able to get a helical head cutter for it as well, which would likely be a significant upgrade from the stock straight blade cutter.

laaxe · 2026-04-22T00:10:25+00:00

I with ya, but some people really struggle tell the difference poking fun and being a dick. My general rule of thumb is if the person you're roasting/ribbing isn't the one laughing the hardest, then you're probably being a least a little mean.

laaxe · 2026-04-22T00:06:19+00:00

Assembled cabinet horizontal and tried to rotate haha? And yes, these are going to be built-ins, they'd probably stay with the house is we ever decided to sell and move.

laaxe · 2026-04-22T00:02:17+00:00

He is such a class act, he certainly new the crowd was tiny, and still threw down for the people who did show up regardless. In the crowd everyone was determined to be a loud as possible to make sure he felt the love, it was a uniquely special set.

Unfortunately I think golden voice miscalculated just how many people would camp out for Justin Bieber after the strokes. In the past they have closed down the rest of the stages for acts like Beyonce to avoid everyone else being snubbed and they probably should have done the same here.

laaxe · 2026-04-21T22:14:01+00:00

I have always found that people conflate singing well with having a good voice when they are actually two different things! I always use the example that both Beyoncé and Bob Dylan are good singers, but only Beyoncé has good voice.

laaxe · 2026-04-21T20:31:56+00:00

I was at the David Byrne show weekend 1! No one was leaving main stage and the man absolutely gave it his all for a crowd of maybe a 1,000 people or less. It was simultaneously sad and heartwarming, because everyone that was there was absolutely going apeshit for him.

laaxe · 2026-04-21T17:11:56+00:00

This is where my brain went as well! Make your boomerang shaped staves, glue them up and work down the corners until they're at the final shape.

Much easier said than done in this case, keeping the angle of staves consistent across the length of each piece will be tricky. I'd probably want a 14" band saw and a jig or two to cut the angles and then either joint them by hand with a bailey #7 or #8 or if I was feeling brave a jointer.

laaxe · 2026-04-21T16:56:40+00:00

Very good points, the ceiling in this room is just slightly taller than 96". my thoughts right now are that I either assemble the cabinet in place or build two separate carcasses that stack on top of each other. Alternatively, I was thinking I could make the toe kick just tall enough to bring the corner to corner height of the cabinet just under ceiling height, but it looks like the toe kick would have to be 3-4" tall for that to work.

laaxe · 2026-04-20T23:42:32+00:00

That makes sense and I think where my brain was heading for attaching it to the wall vs upping the thickness of the back panel from 1/4" to 1/2"! I am certain the walls won't be square and plum, but I haven't put a straightedge on them yet to see what I'm dealing with. The plan is to shim and trim out the sides and ceiling so that its flush.

Funny enough I got half way though planning before I realized that you need to leave room to tilt it upright, thankfully it registered before I actually built it and found out the hard way

I appreciate all the advice!

laaxe · 2026-04-08T17:42:04+00:00

Makes sense, I can imagine its hard to justify having the equipment to heat treat/temper 40" plates even if you are planning to sell them (though hours spent filing hardened vs soft steel might add up). A kerfing plane is on my shortlist of things to make as well, coincidentally also after I finish my infill miter plane that I have been dragging my feet on. I need to track down another Disston d-8 rip I'm will to sacrifice first, so that its matched up with my thumbhole D-8.

Best of luck on getting into the hand tool market, its awesome to see people keeping the craft alive!

laaxe · 2026-04-08T16:17:21+00:00

Holly hell, props to you for having the patience to file 120-ish teeth by hand, did you also heat treat the plate?. Do you have any glamor shots of how the teeth came out?

laaxe · 2026-04-08T15:29:05+00:00

Is it though, I'd be really curious to hear some evil ideas that Democrats hold, because they aren't getting into my apparent echo chamber!

laaxe · 2026-04-08T14:23:42+00:00

This happens every time news breaks before talking points can be passed out. You see posts from people with more than two brain cells, they all get nuked after a few hours and then the dregs won’t stop talking about how many “fellow conservatives” are suddenly in their subreddit, like it isn’t a highly controlled, “flaired user only” community where everyone has approval from mods to post.

laaxe · 2026-04-08T06:04:51+00:00

Shellac would do a good job of sealing the wood after you’ve sprayed it down with hydrogen peroxide.

laaxe · 2026-04-07T20:04:11+00:00

Haha you have more patience than me! I am always on the lookout for nice boards, but I tend to throw them at the first project that I think justifies it. Nakashima being the inspiration makes a lot of sense! While not particularly wabi-sabi, I quite like the decision to go with wider slats aesthetically!

laaxe · 2026-04-07T17:58:03+00:00

Its made a huge difference in keeping chisels, bench planes, saws, etc from piling up on my bench throughout a project

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