this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Woodworking

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A handmade home for woodworkers and admirers of woodworkers. Our community icon is a planter box made by @Captain Aggravated, the winner of our summer '24 woodworking contest. Congratulations!

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I often wished this was the banner over at /r/woodworking so we had something to point to that would clear up a lot of concerns.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But think how many negative dollars you save by building it yourself!

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have shifted to focusing on ending up with higher quality furniture for slightly less!

... Disregarding the thousands of dollars of tools and hundreds of hours of time involved, and the years of experience to stop being shit at making furniture

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought "Woodworking" was what you called the hobby of collecting tools, browsing classified sites for more tools and collecting stacks of wood with "amazing grain and or figuring."

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha that's what it is for me for sure

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Why buy something when you could spent dozens of hours and * checks watch * wait, also spend way more money??

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even doing it by hand is a large outlay to get going, if you want to do anything beyond nailing two boards together.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Hell, just getting two boards is expensive these days lol

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Added as our banner! Thank you for making it- it's great! If you have an icon that's better than our saw I got from google images I'll upload that as well

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!
I'll see if I can whip something up for the icon - but anyone else is welcome to submit something. I am by no means a professional graphic designer.

[–] DavidP@toast.ooo 1 points 1 year ago

So true! Funny stuff.

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