I had major back surgery 2 months ago, and haven’t been able to touch my tools 6 months.

I got all my restrictions lifted the other day, so I made this. (Shout out to harbor freight)

Needed somewhere to sit in the shed. Using pallet wood from a dismantled playground climbing frame

We knocked down my shed the rest of the way to salvage wood from it and removed the structural bicycle and chair to replace them with more wood, also adding a proper roof, fuller walls, and an upstairs fourth wall, door, and balcony railing. Also much much more.

It gets the job done and my cat likes to hang out on there.

I bought a pair of Hoto electric scissors for a cosplay prop that I was supposed to make for a convention.

They were more expensive than I’d normally spend on scissors, and part of the justification was basically: “If I buy these, I’ll have to actually start the project.”

That did not work. The convention came and went in June, and the prop is still a pile of unglued foam pieces in my closet. The funny part is that the scissors became useful anyway. I use them almost every day for breaking down Amazon boxes, cutting packing material, and trimming random things around my desk.

So they failed at their original job, but somehow became one of the tools I use most often. Now I’m trying to start another project just to make the original purchase feel intentional.

Nothing more to say

I have given it a lot of thought.

For me.shitty woodwork is about creating something as quickly, cheaply and easily as possible.

It isn't the work itself that defines the shittiness but the intentions behind it, even a master can create shitty woodwork. And even that work might look spectacular, yet still be shitty.

I see a lot of people on this sub say " this is too good for here" and I say no brothers. No.

Did you build it in less then an afternoon? Did it cost you nothing but a little time? Does it work to only the serviceable level that you yourself have considered appropriate for application? Then welcome brother/sister. Welcome.

Just my thoughts ,

Unlocked a new strat for keeping a bunch of screws handy for a framing project I’m doing. No I will not be getting a tool belt. No they don’t fall out when I thrash around. Yes this is so I can taste my zyn instead of having that metallic taste in my mouth all day.

My perfect measuring on the backboard and my machine level precision cutting the blocks for the holds

They're just for plants.

I made it all by myself with crooked old pallets and left over hardware it’s my favorite thing ever

From: Fortress Fine Woodworks

Made this mallet a year ago and it’s still going strong. In that time the face has been beaten in, and it’s gone from bright green to slightly green.