My woodworking journey started when I was quoted $2500 to fix my porch railings. $1000 in materials, $1000 in tools mix in youtube tutorials and patience and now I'm hooked. The sliding compound mitre saw was the life changing tool for me. It was what was holding me back all these years from doing my own projects. I was always outsourcing this type of work for simply the cutting of lumber and thought I could do better than what I paid for. My railings turned out really well and mercifully passed the wife approval test.
It seems so fulfilling, being able to make such beautiful things. But also a bit expensive eh... to get the woodworking skills (presumably by taking classes at a technical college?), the equipment, and the time involved.<p>If any folks here are capable of doing this stuff, would you please share details of your journey, I feel inspired to learn some of this myself. Did you feel it was all worth it, what would you do differently if starting over again?
Man what a depressing story.. You could say that it isn't a story, but just life..<p>Life is unfair, and life just happens, the best thing we can do is try to live the best we can.<p>Have to say, that really is a wonderful bookshelf, I just hope to see a picture when it is full of books.. I cannot even fathom how heart breaking it must be, every time you see the bookshelf, you remember your dead wife and her life wish she didn't get too see fulfilled.<p>This kind of stuff just hits you differently..
I have also always wanted to have a home library where I can hide away and just read books for hours on end, guess this could be a kind of wake up call to go for it sooner than later, since you never know when your end is coming...
What a nice thing to do! However I couldn't not notice the typical anonymous mob commenting. Some of the comments on that reddit are so mean. How evil can some folks be when someone just went through his wife's passing.
For me, I find woodworking and more specifically cabinet-making to be a very full-brain activity much like programming. It requires both left and right brain - technical and creative sides working simultaneously. It's become a joy and passion. I don't do it to save money (though the pieces I do turn out cheaper than if I'd hired someone) but just because I have a vision, and I want that vision to be precisely my vision, not what the contractor wants to do to get their job done cheaper and faster.<p>If anyone's interested: <a href="https://leonardteo.com/woodworking/" rel="nofollow">https://leonardteo.com/woodworking/</a><p>I picked up woodworking only a few years ago after buying this place. Watched YouTube videos, attended a workshop where they taught some of the tools and safety. Then did the rest on trial and error.
Gargantuan bookshelf but for a good cause...sorry for his loss :-(
Here are the images and descriptions from imgur while building it, without the reddit commentary: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/rL5Z6Sd" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/rL5Z6Sd</a>
When I bought my house I told myself I was going to learn how to do woodworking so that I could build some basic things or improve some things. I bought a bunch of tools and built a workbench (err, well, I finished 90% of it, I never cut the final boards for the bottom shelf) and then... did nothing. I need to finish the workbench and move it to the back of my garage (once I move it I can't put in the bottom shelf without moving it back). Does anyone have any good starter-projects or good things to do to "flex" the "muscle" of woodworking?
Is there a name for this type of ceiling? It's angled, so the roof is directly above the room (no attic). There's also a higher wall whose top portion is presumably adjacent to the attic.<p>I've seen this in California homes, including my own master bedroom. It really heats up during the day, presumably due to heat convection from the roof and attic.
I want to do some kind of shelf where my TV hangs in front, and some kind of pulley system to lift it to access what is behind on the shelf. I think that would be a clever use of limited wall space. But I have not found anything like it online and it feels quite complicated to construct from scratch. Any ideas?
Heh, I'd love to start, but now I unfortunately have a good excuse. As soon as I get to it, I'm sure I'll first-time-manual-cpp-memory-management my fingers right off my fucking hand and I'll end up in a hospital in a middle of a pandemic...
This is a really cool project, but I can't help thinking that the LED strips should have been placed closer toward the end of the shelf so that it illuminates the spines of the books instead of their tops.
Wow, amazing project. Alway interesting to see what people can do with some technical skill and wood working capability. Really beautiful way to honour the memory of his wife - cancer is terrible.
The lighting looks nice, but I think it'll be a little unfortunate when the strip starts failing. Other than the strip that shelving could last decades, but the lights won't.<p>I've had mixed luck with LED strip, -- with some becoming glitchy after only a few months of operation.