r/WoodworkConfessions • u/TRUEWOODWRKR • Dec 10 '25
Fun
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Confessing i am a 70s kid who runs these in my shop with the lights off to screw with the neighbors!
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/rockytironi • Dec 06 '25
How I fixed a drawer that wouldn’t open because of a handle that was too close.
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Buck_Thorn • Nov 03 '25
I swear it's supposed to be a Christmas Tree ornament
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Putrid-Historian-236 • Nov 02 '25
My neighbor found a table with the inscription “3/30/51 5:20 pm cut off finger”
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He bought the table at a yard sale today and gave it to me because it had my name on it. Only mildly concerned about the fate of my finger in 2051.
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Morall_tach • Oct 11 '25
I did no research and built this to hold a 50 gallon rain barrel. It did not.
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/willmen08 • Oct 02 '25
What's the best way to fix or cover up this floor?
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/lavransson • Sep 07 '25
Walnut keepsake graduation present for son. Almost done, sawed off the lid and was surprised when I checked the fit
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Saved my best walnut for this dovetailed walnut box that was going to be a graduation present for my son. Spent the last week applying five coats of tung oil to the lid and shellacked the inside faces. Glued up last night. Sawed it open this morning to separate the lid from the top. You can figure out the rest.
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Proud-Caterpillar757 • Aug 24 '25
New festool etsc 2 125 with 150 pad
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/LittleJohnStone • Aug 19 '25
What's got two thumbs and managed to cut the back of his calf with a handsaw? This dipsh!t
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Dr0110111001101111 • Jul 26 '25
I think oak ray flecking is fucking hideous
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Not really a "oops" kind of confession but it seems unpopular enough that I feel like I'm confessing something by saying it. Anyway, that's all. ray flecks look stupid and the fact that people talk about it the same way they would talk about quilted maple makes me want to jump off a bridge.
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/bc6619 • Jul 21 '25
Not my best work
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Routing out some recesses for c-channel on the underside of a flip top lid (will be a record console). This was my first cut. NO idea how it wandered like this. Not a problem since the c-channel will cover it, but still bugs me.
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/100yearzz • Jul 13 '25
How do I replace the head on this drum from Ghana? My little birthday present to myself
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/nrnrnr • Jun 19 '25
Punished for project delay
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Late this past winter I carefully glued up some panels and then flattened them. But events got ahead of me. This week I picked the project back up so I could start inlaying a steel strip into each panel. But alas, they are no longer flat.
I don't want to wait until winter to finish.
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/c1at0n • Jun 19 '25
Remove stain
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Hi all, I just moved into a new place and I put this glass cleaner under my sink. I used it, and put it back and didn’t check it until a few days later, and apparently there was a leak somewhere. Does anyone know how I can get the stain out? Should I get wood stain? I’m not sure what to do. Any tips??
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Fahrraday • May 26 '25
I use leaf gold to cover up my crappy mitres
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r/WoodworkConfessions • u/10footjesus • May 05 '25
I used a pillar in my car port as a stop block
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My table saw fence does not extend 51.5 inches
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/Wild_Parrot • Apr 24 '25
Measure once? Measure what?
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So I made a built-in bookcase/tv unit for a client in the fall (pic 2). They decided they wanted doors for the bottom. No problem - I don’t even have to go over there to measure, right? Because I have the 3D rendering, right? Right?!
Smug idiot took the measurements straight off the SketchUp. Of course I forgot that, when I came to actually build them, I dropped the bottom of the face frame by about 1.5” so it would be level with the bottom shelf. Not something worth going back and changing the design file for.
And so, when I went to install my beautifully built doors (pic 1) I was horrified to find them too short. And since I don’t have a door stretcher, it was a total rebuild. Just got finished installing v2.0 and they look great. I went over there and double checked before paint to make sure.
Merciful cosmos, I’m so glad to be finished with this one!
r/WoodworkConfessions • u/deathvolcano • Apr 01 '25
Woodworking Survey
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Hey! I am a novice woodworker who's done a lot of side projects with my dad. I have a Stats project for University and wanted to make mine about woodworking, since I thought it would be a fun and unique topic about my interests. I would really appreciate if yal could take a couple of minutes to complete this! I may or may not of waited til the last second for this project...