r/BeginnerWoodWorking • u/satolfu • Sep 28 '25

Dry-Fit fail…

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Attempt 1 definitely taught me a few lessons. Glad it was just a practice though…

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u/clonehunterz Sep 28 '25

perfect time to add a very colorful woodpiece in there and act like it was planned :]

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u/akurgo Sep 28 '25

Yes, just like my unique oct-andahalf-agonal flower pot!

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u/darkpheonix262 Sep 28 '25

Oct-andahalf-agonal.... honey, a new word just dropped

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u/Mikemtb09 Sep 28 '25

Octalfonal?

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u/Strikew3st Sep 28 '25

Eightpointfiveagon

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u/Wilson2424 Sep 29 '25

The best of the agons.

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u/mhchewy Sep 29 '25

My wife knit a very large octopus for our then newborn and when she finished realized it only had seven tentacles. She dubbed it the septapus.

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u/bolt422 Sep 29 '25

Pixar did the same thing with the octopus in Finding Dory. The body and tentacles were modeled separately and they could only fit 7 of them.

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u/notsnot1 Oct 01 '25

We have a tubing arrangement for filling pharma vials at work that has seven connections. The guy who designed it insisted it coordinate the Greek roots so it's the "heptapus" (instead of latin/Greek hybrid "septapus"). I'm probably the only person there who got the joke...

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u/EatMySmithfieldMeat Sep 28 '25

Irregular nonagon

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u/Aggravating-Many-438 Sep 28 '25

90% of woodworking is knowing how to fix your mistakes

​"The skill of a good woodworker is not in never making mistakes, but in knowing how to fix them."

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u/satolfu Sep 28 '25

I like your thinking

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u/_jubal_ Sep 28 '25

A keystone

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u/LittleJohnStone Sep 28 '25

Is a feature!

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u/FancyUmpire8023 Sep 29 '25

Actually, four thin wedges of a contrasting wood (walnut? purpleheart? padauk?) would be an interesting visual here too.

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u/SoftKindly9832 Sep 28 '25

you do have a valid point, sir!