I’ll definitely try again. I think my pilot holes were too small.
the drill should be the size of the shaft of the screw. Hold them next to each other and you should only see the threads of the screw…
I think the next one will go better. If I can salvage this at all I’ll give it to the neighbor lol. If they want it.
Just consider this one your learning piece. Good to see a woodworking project.
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Thanks. I’m never good at anything in the beginning. I don’t think anything has ever come naturally to me. My hobbies of yoga, hiking, chess and baking don’t help anyone. Maybe baking does. The other’s are all selfish or solo. I also have not picked up a new hobby in 15 years. I could have chosen gardening but that’s another solo hobby. Of course, this is solo too. Others will benefit if I become good at it. And it’s a new challenge.
I guess most hobbies are solo. Except for book clubs, team sports, church, orgies, eating brunch. Stuff like that. I’m kind of 0 for 5 there.
I’m a master craftsman woodworker and have mostly built custom cabinets for most my life because that is where I found work and where the money was at. I saved and took off to build my own 5,400sf home in 2004-05 entirely by my self which took 20 months. After that I went back to building very large custom cabinet jobs for a contractor in California for 8,000-9,000sf homes but I’ve always been a one-man band and the work was getting to be too much. I was working 7 days a week and long days to get these jobs done and the wear and tear was taking its toll and thought life is flying by and I didn’t have many bills and thought I might do something else.
The problem was I was a high school dropout before I went into woodworking and started a business and I wasn’t qualified for any other jobs I liked. I ended up going to college for 4 years at middle age and got a degree. During this I started wondering what I was doing throwing away my life’s skills and going to work for someone else for about the 1/4 of the pay, but I was so far into I decided to finish.
Upon graduating I decided to put my skills together and start designing and making new devices, something I could do at my own pace. But then I got a call for a job for my career and said I wasn’t interested but they asked me if I could fill in for a couple weeks because they had lost an employee, so I said I would. It turned out I love the job and they love me and I ended up staying there for a few years.
Finally, I decided I wanted to be my own boss and purse my devices. I have a 2,000sf woodworking shop and remodeled it for smaller mass production type work. I built a nice website which took me way too many hours but I wanted it my way and to be able to manage and run it myself so that was quite an undertaking. Although, I was still working a couple days a week at my other career until it shut down because of the COVID virus.
Currently, I have about 24 devices up on the site and have about 40 more devices on the drawing board. Sales started out slow because I suck at marketing but are gradually growing. I have a better product and better prices than my competitors and some original designs but traffic is slow and if you search my products I just don’t show up easily. My SEO ranking started out 147th but is now 20th and made about 20 sales in the last 2 months which is the best I’ve done.
I’m working on video making and movie editing so I can put some instructional videos on my site which should help my SEO stats. When I make a new device I make jigs and templates to speed future production and intend to train someone to make my devices this time around so I’m not doing all the work myself.
Anyway, I’ve recently decided to just stick to the woodworking and get this this business rolling so I’ve been making a lot of saw dust lately and am enjoying being back at home in the shop.
Very interesting. Could we see your website or maybe a few pics of your products?
Now that is very impressive. Entirely by yourself. Wow.
Underdog is a hero.
Damn that looks good! You just need some plywood on the outside cut even to cover up the incongruities and you have a worm composter! Just keep it away from power lines or you might have Squirm!
I’m not surprised you think that table looks good.
About ~6 Million cuts between 2:50 and 2:54, but hey, I don’t want to sound pedantic. The resulting joint looks pretty solid though.
Maybe Cid didn’t die after all.
Oh god.
Speaking of blowhards.
I talked to Cid supposedly after he died. If you remember correctly he even showed up on on my photos.
That’s why I always go places alone.
We agreed recently that if a pedophile or a murderer came here and participated, we’d be ok with it. I’m pretty sure we can handle it if a Christian wants to talk about woodworking. I wonder if his “devices” have similar function to Cid’s “pharmaceuticals” which turned out to be pheromones.
I am curious about the “devices”.
El Cid campeador
