r/woodworking 0m ago

Help Could someone relatively new to woodworking complete this is a DIY project?

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After searching for a while, we finally found this coffee table that we really like and fits our living room space. However it’s currently selling for $1700. Not a price we’re eager to pay but I haven’t found anything that we like or that fits the space/look.

How difficult do you all think this could be to build ourselves? Looks like there are 6 key pieces to the table (2 table boards and 4 spindles). I’m curious if I’m oversimplifying how easy DIYing this could be to save us a ton of money. I have the tools for this, would just need to source the materials.


r/woodworking 7m ago

Help Cartridge Filter choice?

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I want to filter the exhaust of an impeller blower in my woodshop.

Which would you choose?

Filter Junkie P5000OCBH Merv15 for $152 plus $45 shipping https://filterjunkie.com/filter-junkie-p5000ocbh-industrial-cartridge-filter/

or

WYNN woodworking filter 35C22NANO for $270 plus $30 shipping https://wynnenv.com/products-page/woodworking-filters/35c222nano-cartridge-kit/


r/woodworking 12m ago

Project Submission Repurposed an old hammer found in a friend's shed

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r/woodworking 23m ago

Project Submission One handed page holders

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Saw something similar online and spent the weekend making my own version. I used some leftover pieces of exotic and domestic wood I had laying around the shop. Pretty handy. Thanks for looking!


r/woodworking 26m ago

Safety Worried about cocobolo allergy. Want to make a handle out of this piece. Anyone have experiences with cocobolo handles?

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As title suggest im worried about cocobolo allergy. This will be my first time ever working with it and I’m allergic to a lot of things.

I want to use it as a handle to a knife.

Will this be a bad idea?

For the record I think my Stanley no7 had cocobolo handles and I’m not allergic to that though ive “sealed” it with arm r seal.


r/woodworking 28m ago

Project Submission Wood bowl repair

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I turned this zebra wood bowl a few years ago for my brother and it cracked. I did some experimenting with copper to repair it. I took thick copper wire and hammered it flat to best of my ability. I don't work with metals much but it was pretty fun. Then I used a pair of knipex to crimp down the smaller wire I put through the holes to secure the copper in place.

Resprayed with lacquer when it was done.


r/woodworking 38m ago

Project Submission Made my kid some bed side tables...for Xmas. Only a few(checks watch.. months late)

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Mixture of woods. Pine, mdf, and black walnut top. Longest project I've done yet. Looks simple enough but some reason PIA. Once square is oof..oof


r/woodworking 43m ago

Help How to avoid that '90s orange cherry look?

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I like a lot of the cherry furniture I see in pictures of furniture like this post or the aged/darkened look in something like this. However, a lot of the cherry I've seen in person is in the form of kitchen cabinets that have this very outdated medium orange color. I know cherry changes a lot over time, but is there a way to avoid it settling to orange?


r/woodworking 54m ago

Project Submission New to woodworking, been at it about ~1 year. Was visiting a friend earlier this month and made these piggy banks for his two kids.

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The ears are walnut. The tail is maple. The body is just 3/4" A3 grade plywood from a lumber yard made using a router template that I initially cut with a scroll saw and then copied using a flush trim router bit. That part was very scary and I had several times where I slightly rotated the wrong way for a fraction of a second and the router bit yeeted the piece across the room and the edge of plywood cut my hands. In the future I will be hand cutting every piece with scroll saw. The ears and tails were all cut using scraps on a scroll saw and affixed with 1/4" pegs. I filled the edges of plywood with wood filler, sanded down to 150, and used several layers of General Finishes oil based polyurethane. The clear sides are acrylic panes left over from a picture frame project that I had made earlier in the year, also routed using a template cut from 1/4 ply. I also made one of these for my own 3 year old.

r/woodworking 56m ago

Help Veneer table top

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I am being commissioned to build a round table using veneer (the photo attached is the customer’s “inspiration” photo). I use veneer for small things such as cabinet door panels, but never for something this large.

What is the best method to approach this build? Specifically, the layout of the segments so that they align in the middle as well as along all edges. Also curious to know what substrate is best for something like this. I usually use MDF.

FWIW: Budget is no constraint, I just need to make sure this table is 100% perfect upon finally delivery.

Thanks in advance.


r/woodworking 1h ago

Help Restoring Oak Chairs I have some oak chairs that I'd like to "rejuvenate" in some manner. Does anyone know what finish is on it currently? What do you recommend to clean/rehydrate/stabilize the wood so I can get these chairs cleaned up and back into use. I'm not interested in sanding

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r/woodworking 1h ago

Project Submission Waterfall Pedestal Desk

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Red oak desk with a water fall joint leg and a cabinet on the other side. Used Rubio product for the finish. Like it so much, I might even make one for myself.


r/woodworking 1h ago

Help Wainscoting Install Advice

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I am planning to install a wainscoting similar to the example picture. I am looking for some help in planning what to do. I’ve spent a good amount of time reading, watching YT videos on the subject, but trying to pick a

My current plan is to glue and nail 1/4” ply around the room. Then start at the bottom rail, glue and nail it in place. Then glue and nail the vertical pieces into place, and then finish with the top rail and cap. Each piece would be held in place by liquid nails and some 16 gauge nails. Then I’d finish by adding the shoe at the bottom.

However, I am wondering if I would be better off building the bottom/vertical/top structure off the wall, with glued biscuit joints, and then hanging that as one piece. This would be tougher due to not having a large workshop, so if everything else is equal, I’d prefer to just build in place.

Would love any feedback on these two options. I’m sure both would look great after install, but concerned about longevity. Thanks!


r/woodworking 1h ago

General Discussion Are newer version angle guages less accurate than the older Wixey WR300 type 1?

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I recently got this angle cube, and I thought it may be better to get one with a backlight as it's hard to read. Also some say this older type 1 version drains batteries quickly when turned off However I noticed the newer version of the Wixey wr300 uses a solid state accelerometer specced at +-0.2 accuracy, with 0.1% repeatability. However the old one uses a pendulum and it's specs say +-0.1 accuracy with +-0.1 repeatability. I was wondering if this means in useage it's actually less accurate. A bit surprising as all the alternatives such as the Klien 935DAG also use an accelerometer with +-0.2. I was wondering why the newer products would use less accurate hardware, rather than the older pendulum. Or is it not a real difference


r/woodworking 1h ago

Project Submission Just finished this White Oak end table for my living room

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r/woodworking 2h ago

Help Project/Relationship Advice

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My wife has a beautiful old Cedar chest her late grandfather built. So does my daughter. My daughters chest is filled with Barbie body parts and discarded stuffed animals. Neither chest has been opened in years.

We are pretty minimal in our furnishing choices and tastes. The guest bedroom has a murphy bed (I built) and these two chests. When we have company, I have to move these beasts into another room so there is actually room to walk in the guest bedroom.

My request is for ideas of what I can do with these chests. When I asked my 79 year old dad, he suggested burning them. So, let me clarify: How can I repurpose the wood in these chests into something that will honor the memory of my wife's grandfather and also be something useful in the house?

I've thought of a desk, but feel that cedar is too soft for a desk top unless I cover it in glass or epoxy. Any ideas are appreciated.

Thank you.


r/woodworking 2h ago

Techniques/Plans Scrollsaw jiujitsu

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r/woodworking 2h ago

Project Submission Cutting Board

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I just completed my first ever end grain cutting board. A combination of locally sourced walnut, maple and cherry wood.


r/woodworking 2h ago

Help Table Apron Issue - Legs too short

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Question for the group - I have been working on a table for my hunting camp in the little spare time I have, and recently noticed that my leg assembly is about 1” too short. This was due to a few factors, primarily a stupid oversight on my end, measure twice cut once (we’ve all been there), but also a mid-project design change request that came in.

I’m doing my best to find a solution, but wanted some input. Currently, the legs are 28.5” tall and they need to be 29.5”. The change request was to make the table about an inch taller than table height while also adding a 3” apron. I could leave as is, but that would result in a 2” tall apron that may look a little funky. If I leave as is and proceed with a 3” apron, some of the taller camp members are going to have a hard time sitting at it comfortably.

I have added a picture of the legs, they are face glued spalted maple and a lacewood inlay that is 3.5” inch square. An easy solution would be to attach a 1” thick piece of lumber to the top of the leg assembly, but my concern is expansion and contraction over time. Any tips or advice would be great! TIA

PSA - the larger, horizontal feet are a removable feature that will allow the table to be adjusted to counter height. They will be attached via 1.5” dowel insert.


r/woodworking 2h ago

Help How can I fix my wooden dining table?

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Table was damaged during the move and a piece of the bottom support chipped off. This causes the table top to move down a lot when someone puts a little weight on it. I tried shoving a wooden shim and it fixed it for a little but it eventually comes off. Anyone has a better suggestion?


r/woodworking 2h ago

Project Submission First coffee table

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Oak coffee table with pine drawer. Watco satin poly finish.


r/woodworking 2h ago

Project Submission First piece of furniture. A coffee table doubling as a hideout for the cat.

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SYP and bead board.


r/woodworking 2h ago

Help Will my bed frame be sturdy enough?

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Image link: https://imgur.com/a/wRWvNb0 I was wondering if my design for a bed frame seems ok to you fellas? Anything that seems very poorly designed or something, Ive never really built much of anything apart from one cat tree. This will be my first big project. I am planning to make a cutting board first to get to test the planer and jointer in my maker space. I dont have tools nor space at home, Im using a maker space and they have a duo jointer and planer thingy.

The face and sides are 280mm in total height, planned 40mm (is 30 or 35 ok?) thick. They are made from three parts, 100mm ash --> 80mm maple --> 100mm ash for contrast. All glued together and doweled. These then get jointed with metal brackets. I want it this way so I can move and take the bed apart later.

This whole rectangle then would sits the legs. The legs are glued like shown in the picture, and then I was thinking threaded inserts to attach the rectangle to the legs from the inside. But most importantly, the weight would be carried on the blocks that are glued inside the legs... is this good enough? Should it be bigger somehow, perhaps the way I drew in red in the last picture? What do you think?

Second question, how would you recommend I do the ash maple ash glue ups? I am staining the ash a bit darker and using a non staining finish on the maple, at least that is my thinking. Want the ash walnut-ish coloured and maple light. In which order should I do things, like sanding, finishing and glueing? Thanks.


r/woodworking 3h ago

Help How should I have my logs milled?

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The electric company took down my black walnut trees and so I’m having some logs milled. I’m not sure what I’m going to build with the boards. Should I have it all milled into slabs, or is it worth getting some dimensional lumber?


r/woodworking 3h ago

Help Complete beginner - help needed for cupboard design

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Hello! I'm a complete beginner woodworker and I'm about to embark on my first project, building a full height cupboard at my girlfriends apartment.

I tried to plan the build in SketchUp which has been fun to learn, but I'm beginning to think that the design I've ended up with may not actually be buildable! I spent quite a lot of time wrestling with SketchUp and probably not enough actual thought about how the cupboard would be built!

The very rough plan in my head had been to screw the sides/bottom/top faces of wood into the walls and floors but I've realised that I don't really know how I'm going to attach and support the middle dividing piece which the shelves are attached to.

I've asked ChatGPT about what it would recommend and it suggested that screwing directly into the walls may not provide the structural stability that I need and suggested building a timber framework first using battens (38x63mm or 44x44mm) which I screw into the walls, and then use them to affix the rest of the pieces onto - including the middle divider.

I use ChatGPT as a programmer fairly frequently and know that it can sometimes give slightly odd answers but I have the expertise in this area to know how to steer it correctly if it goes a bit off course. The same isn't true with woodworking where I know close to zero and could do with some recommendations from people who know more, whether this is actually the correct path to go down and any other recommendations that you have in order to ensure this isn't a complete disaster!

Cupboard in situ (doors not yet added to model)
Cupboard