Wait! You don't just sit with your smartphone betting on the stock market using Robbinhood making millions but actually do something?
Shocking!
Nah, I'm not a fan of kike games.
nice job
Aryan ingenuity
FYI, one of the (only) good things about Kobalt is everything has a lifetime warranty. Go bring your plane in and get another one.
Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks.
I wonder if they would let me keep my blade though? I sharpened it up to 600. That was a lot of work.
Some of the old structural wood is from real trees and cleans up beautifully. I once took down a very old (1950s) deck that turns out to have been redwood. Planing off the weathered layer left some beautiful wood.
I think I saw somewhere that the old redwoods are now protected, at least in Oregon? Redwood is probably going to get pretty expensive.
I think they quit cutting redwood in the '60s. Everything is treated pine these days.
Heck yeah dude, well done. I found enough high quality ceramic tiles to refinish a bathroom floor, so yeah, wood is so valuable.
This is brilliant. I see so much wood just discarded in dumpsters. I might start doing this as well. Good to have a nice stockpile of useable wood around.
Years ago I built my son a big L-shaped desk/work-table out of "aged" wood I'd left sitting on the side of the house for a couple of years. Didn't use a planer, but rather sanded it and brought out the "aged" grain. (Nothing like laziness to produce "art".) The table turned out gorgeous and he still has it 10 years later.
BTW - I built that table because we couldn't find a reasonably-priced desk or table which would fit the corner of my son's room anywhere. All of the tables we saw were in the $1000 range (which I think is idiocy). Took me a couple of days to build that table, and my wife gave me all kinds of grief over it at the time, but when she saw the finished product, she shut the fuck up and now lets me build whatever I want.
Old wood doesn't mean bad wood.
Hey that's a nice idea, leaving some of the wood "aged" as you said, or sometimes I've heard it referred to as "distressed". I'm going to try that on one of my next projects. I do need to build some desks. That would make for a really nice surface look.
I made some lovely garden gates out of sun bleached fir. Ran the random orbital sander over it to bring up color on the grain, put it together and then outdoor varnish. Beautiful, loads of compliments, not much work.
It was old structural wood left outside for a year…
The Youtube woodworkers are all saying lately that the sort of "farmhouse" style is really in and profitable right now.
I actually made a Kitchen counter divider out a piece of cheap $5 5"x2" wood with a planer etc. Came out looking like a professional counter top piece after painting etc. Needed it for a kitchen divider for a kitchen that was opened up.
Cheap wood with some work looks excellent!
Hey that's awesome. I think the last pic link got messed up.
I second about the Kobalt tools, they should be avoided.
Thanks. I accidentally put the third pic twice. Last link's removed.
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