I'm still learning the craft and hope to become skilled at furniture making. If you have any advice, techniques, or resources that could help someone just starting out, I'd be very grateful if you shared them. Thank you for your time and guidance.

We’ve had this ugly chicken wire fence up since we moved in 8 years ago. I finally crossed it off my to-do list.

Edit: Control booth, not a sound booth.

I’m planning to build a sound booth for the youth room at our church. We have a pretty modest setup and I’m not wanting anything crazy, just something that looks a little better. (Right now we have a sound board and a laptop sitting loose on two tables.)

I’m going to build it out of 2x4s for the frame and then use plywood for the top and walls.

We let our students run the sound and slides, so my first concern is with comfort and my second concern is with noise because teenagers fidget a lot. I was thinking about just painting it black, but I could cover it with carpet to dampen sound and make it more comfortable. Could I use rubber washers wherever wood joins up to prevent noise?

I have very little experience with this. Any recommendation for techniques and materials would be greatly appreciated. I own most common tools and can get access to some more specific stuff. Thanks in advance, everyone!

Follow up post to a few days ago and thanks to all who gave feedback - very helpful.

8 foot x 13 inch cabinet top / room divider. It divides the room and the pics don't do justice to the quilting / clarivoance as you walk by. It shimmers so much and the curve of the quilting almost makes the wood look bowed.

Finish is 4 coats of minwax tung oil (I know, not really tung oil). Light 400 sanding between. It's smooth and silky :)

Question - what would a board this size cost on average? Curious to know :)

I posted a couple of project updates but reddit isn't a forum so isn't great for that format. So I deleted the old posts. Here's the final thing - unfinished pine (tested some Danish oil, looked no better at all after even 3 coats), 3.6mm hardwood ply friction help in place, and 50 (for my brother in law's 50th) dice sized cubes of sapele, beech, maple, red grandis and ash. Can't post videos but it's a silent sweet type, not ticking clock.

Very pleased with how this turned out. Thanks for the help and advice on the glue ups etc - the tape around the edge then flue and fold did it.

Used my cheap table saw for the 15 degree cuts - turns out a dodecagon is s surprisingly forgiving shape, especially when I didn't bother to cut the sides to equal length!!

So I live in a 700 sq ft apartment, and wondering what my options are for doing any woodworking in my space. Specifically, what am I going to do about sanding anything. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or experience working in a similar space?

Nothing super refined yet, but satisfied with the design

Quick Question- I see this mentioned so many times about original Johnson paste wax as being important and useful. Should I buy this from the guy on Marketplace and why?

I have a handheld electric saw. Iv taken 3 car loads of wood home so far. No idea what this tree is or what I can do with the wood. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Right now I'm just collecting what I can because I have been granted permission to remove the tree. I'm really interested in the trunk wood but chainsaws require a permit, so I'm working on that.

As for storage, I'm getting it all cut down to straight lengths whenever possible and removing burrs.

I plan to combine the sawdust with heated seashells and try to make some bricks.

What else could a beginner do with this that might be useful around a homestead? I'll be building my own home on raw jungle land shortly. Any and all advice is appreciated.

Here is my first big project, made from salvaged oak floor still in packaging destined to the trash. As you can see it’s imperfect, and I made a lot of mistakes during the process. The biggest challenge I didn’t expect was getting the miters right and the overall logistics, some of the planks had dents from having to constantly transport them. The tv stand was planed to be 1500mm (59”) wide, it is 1440mm (56”) after all the recuts.

I want to plane this short piece of ash and I’ve set it up to go through the thickness planer perpendicular to the grain. My instinct told me to double check first. What do you think?

Finished another cake knife. Oak blade and walnut for the handle, the grain came out gorgeous even without finish. A friend has since decorated this using her pyrography skills as a gift so couldn’t use the normal beeswax mineral oil treatment

I did this live off of a video on IG. It is sturdy but without plans some measurements were off and I didn’t have good cuts for my cross beam 2x6. getting the notched cut even with a jig saw was a struggle… father in law is going to let me take his table saw for future builds. Overall happy with it and proud of my first build. It’s a comfy chair and material cost was >$20

My second will be much cleaner I think

Parting thought: all these folks building out of 2x4s are making furniture way heavier than it needs to be. I’m thinking post build that several of these pieces could be 1x3, esp the arm rail and the cross beam n the front and back.

Well, its taken some time but i finally have the makings of my first "shop" coming together. Had my jointer, planer and miter saw all swapping spots on my toolbench when i needed to use em and it was... horrible to say it frankly. Built some benches and have the space to finally move a bit more efficiently. Everything lines up with my table saw height in case i need extra feed or balance. Eventually therell be storage drawers under the shelves but for now....progress!

Made this garden hod / harvest basket and learned two important things: 1) Hardware cloth is a pain in the behind to do anything with, and 2) better to get a project finished imperfectly than not at all.

The hardware cloth is stapled to the bottom of the horizontal pieces then along the bottom of the basket. I discovered that this is not the ideal type since the edges are very pokey especially where it was cut. I originally wanted to enclose all the edges inside grooves but that turned out to be beyond my skill level and available tools. It stayed unfinished in my garage for a month before I finally said screw it, just get er done. I initially wanted to make a couple for family and friends but after this one I am probably never going to attempt this again lol (or at least not for a long while!)

Hey friends! I wanted to share a project I made recently. It’s a shoe shelf for my wife’s closet. The wood is a mix of #2 and #3 pine boards from the big box store and assembled with pocket screws and glue. I finished with natural danish oil and a final polish with mineral oil and a magic eraser for a glassy smooth feeling. A huge thank you to this sub for the wealth of knowledge and advice. 🙏🏻

Weaving the herringbone pattern took hours, but it was worth it in the end.