- Location
- SW OK & formerly Eastern NM
Post up some of your wood working and carpentry expertise, if you've got any....
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Although to be fair we are really posting pictures of carpentry projects.
This project, like the one above, is ongoing and will be finished as time allows. We're debating on waiting for the weather to get nicer to paint or just closing the garage and putting a heater in it all day to keep a constant temperature.
A buddy of mine introduced me to a game called Cornhole and he's been wanting to build himself an official sized set for a while now. He'd been waiting on another friend to help him out but that friend keeps copping out on him so I volunteered my place and my help and we got it going.
I'm gonna post up a bunch of pics and a link for the build instructions.
We started out cutting a 4x8 sheet of 1/2" plywood into 4x2 pieces. We sanded those down and then went on to cut the rest of everything.
Hey Mac, that almost reminds me of a washers type of game. Nice work though.
Im no wood worker at all but I did build two of these out of a kids play ground swing set thing, Just a throw down bar table.
Nice!! Are you going to connect two with a rope or chain, to keep the marked off distance?
hey mac, that almost reminds me of a washers type of game.
redneck horse shoes!!
Well that's what we call it here.
Dude I didnt know you bought the place, awesome i know its consuming your life.Before I begin, I got this house for a steal and I love working on projects.
That's beautiful. I would like to get ahold of some logs that I could do some projects with. Unfortunately I can't find anything here. Maybe the next time I get towards Ruidoso or Angel Fire I can find some cool stuff at their hardware stores.
NICE! Those are awesome. I'm always on the lookout for good stuff like that.
Here's my most recent project.
My dad has plenty of pallets lying around at his office so I started out with a couple of them. This is a very easy project and anyone with a saw could do it.
This is after I washed them down thoroughly to get all of the dirt, grime and whatever junk could have been on them. These are supposedly untreated as well.
I picked a spot I liked and cut straight across. Afterwards I hammered all of the nails in nice and tight. Added a couple new ones to hold everything down even better. I removed another board from the middle of the pallet to place on the bottom to create a closed shelf. This proved challenging. These pallets are made to withstand all kinds of torture! They used twisted nails and a lot of them. Not to mention the wood is extremely tough.
After putting everything back together I sanded the tar out of everything to try and remove splinters.
I put a couple of thick coats of polyurethane to give it a uniform look and make it slightly smoother to the touch.
Finally we took them in my boy's room and hung them up and decorated. These were way too easy. It took me a few hours to do everything on Saturday and Sunday BUT I could have done it much faster had I been working with a mission. I was taking advantage of the nice weather and definitely went over the top in my sanding.
We added a layer of receiving blankets to the bottom of these to raise the books up to a level where they can be seen. I think I'm going to try and find some wood to place in the bottom to keep the books from falling out and to make them more visible permanently.
Awesome idea Mac! When do you start selling this stuff?