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Here are the hunks of walnut I was given... I turned one into a skateboard rack and the other just sat around ... until now.
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Every project is an excuse to buy some new tools, so... I decided to pick up a thickness planer to get this thing cleaned up. It just baaarely fit into my car.
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After sitting in storage for several years the wood got a bit warped and twisted, so I had to get it squared back up.
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To square it up, I cut a couple straight pieces of plywood and tacked them to the sides with roofing nails (so they'd be easy to pry-back out). This would give me a straight edge to send through the planer. On the front-side, I tried to place the nails in
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After a couple passes through the planer, I started to get a feel for how pretty the grain was.
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This generated a bit of sawdust... By the time this project was all said and done, this bag was completely full.
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My jointer wasn't quite big enough, so I made a little sled for my palm router to square things up
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Ripping down a 3.25" thick, 50lb hunk of walnut on a contractor saw by myself felt a little sketchy...
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I bored a little container to conceal the annoying hardwired lightstrip coupler ... but I wound up not even needing to do this.
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I later realized that the slightly older versions of hue light strips had a coupler that wasn't hard wired into the light strip. I happened to have 2 of the older ones, so, I found a company that made extensions for them and went that route. This way, if
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Filling a big knot in the front of the shelf... this whole process was new to me and felt so sketchy.
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When I was almost done with everything, I did the dumbest thing ever and dropped the shelf on it's corner... I yelled. But then I just had to cut 3/8" off and re-sanded the end.
