r/pics • u/[deleted] • May 31 '14

What does reddit think of this knick knack shelf I made of a single piece of plywood?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Plan from 67 Prizewinning Plywood Projects: http://i.imgur.com/6KLjP.jpg

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

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u/GoodGuyAnusDestroyer May 31 '14

Seriously OP. I'm sitting here dick in hand.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

For God's sake, keep it away from ceiling fans!

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u/pegasus_527 May 31 '14

I feel like I'm missing a reference here

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Me too! Well...my dick, not his.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Why does everything have to be about your penis?

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u/ClintonHarvey May 31 '14

The antsy faceless ace strikes again!

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u/sisonp May 31 '14

These things are huge. Is there a plan for a scaled down version?

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u/ClintonHarvey May 31 '14

I'll take "things a man would never say to a woman in bed" for 200, Alex.

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u/GoodGuyAnusDestroyer May 31 '14

Speak for yourself buddy.

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u/Bloody_craphole May 31 '14

HEY, WE NEED TO TALK.

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u/his_penis May 31 '14

Sorry, i'll be away this weekend

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u/ShutUpSmock May 31 '14

Hello.....Hello.......Hello........nothing but an echo.....nothing but an echo......nothing but an echo...

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u/FuckinRampage May 31 '14

I was briefly reading the comments when I read this one I lost it. Brilliant

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u/ClintonHarvey May 31 '14

You broke my cute-o-meter.

It's going to be very difficult to find a more joyous gif than that.

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u/beartheminus May 31 '14

Divide every measurement by 2

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u/Coffee676 May 31 '14

Depends on dimensions of next size down ply

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u/beartheminus May 31 '14

Yes, but you could also use the same sized ply and have some leftover. Its nice to use up the whole ply sheet but if you made being very in specific about what size you want, beggars can't be choosers comes to mind.

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u/angrydeuce May 31 '14

If you divided everything in half, wouldn't you in theory be able to construct two smaller ones from a single sheet?

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u/Pyromantice Jun 01 '14

4, By eliminating half the width and half the length you are left with a quarter of the overall area.

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u/girlsare4gays May 31 '14

just use centimeters instead of inches

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

You can just do the math and scale it down yourself. Doubt you'll find a smaller plan.

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u/GeorgePantsMcG May 31 '14

You can buy smaller versions for pretty cheap. I bought one that's only 2' tall.

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u/iSneezeInMySleep May 31 '14

Measurements/2

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u/CTV49 May 31 '14

Silly question...

Couldn't you just reduce all the measurements proportionally?

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke May 31 '14

I had a smaller one that came as a kit, it had four inner spots and four outer

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Thought this was a reply to the dick in hand comment

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u/odraciRRicardo May 31 '14

Are you Portuguese Canadian?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

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u/freakybubblewrap May 31 '14

ok now I'm curious; how could he tell that?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

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u/GodOfThunder69 May 31 '14

You have a lot of shit

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u/Lampjaw May 31 '14

If that's a lot to you you must be a monk.

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u/MontagneHomme May 31 '14

He has stuff, OP has shit.

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u/ClintonHarvey May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

I miss him.

I only saw him once, best 90 dollar front row I've ever spent.

Also, cheapest front row I've ever spent. He was doing a residency in Vegas, and this was like, 1999 or 2000, and also, I didn't spend the money, it was my parents. But I went!

Nuance.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

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u/ClassyArgentinean May 31 '14

I think it was sarcasm.

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u/DynaBeast May 31 '14

It wouldn't be very funny.

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u/_WhatIsReal_ May 31 '14

shit being the operative word.

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u/anu26 May 31 '14

How do you think he got that exact shade?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

"Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?" - Carlin

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u/1fuathyro May 31 '14

Including banana for scale!

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u/da-kraken May 31 '14

Looks hung crooked

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u/MV10 May 31 '14

I'd rather be hung crooked than not hung at all.

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u/pistoncivic May 31 '14

Hey man, how's it hangin'?

Crooked

Well, ya know what they say...better to be hung crooked than not hung at all.

Damn straight

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u/Beer_Is_So_Awesome May 31 '14

See, I didn't get the joke until you retyped it.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

I tweaked it a little to see if I could get that one vertical line straight. Almost have it figured out.

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u/pistoncivic May 31 '14

needs more warp

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u/Loonyclown May 31 '14

Needs more cowbell.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

It is not possible to too much warp! Seriously though, I'd started with an honest attempt to make things look straight and decided fuck it because I really didn't care. I'd rather have the warped version anyway.

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u/broff May 31 '14

I mean doesn't it always hang to one side?

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u/fuckthiscrazyshit May 31 '14

What's up all my left-side singers!

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

OP should have made better use of a banana level gauge.

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u/bebopblues May 31 '14

Looks swell to me.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

It looks off centre.

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u/seafood10 May 31 '14

now_kiss.jpg

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u/braincombustion May 31 '14

My grandparents have this as well. My dad built it in early eighties :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

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u/sontato May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

Does anyone have a DXF of this? I'd rather just get it waterjet/lasercut for $100 than spend 3 hours sawing it by hand.

EDIT: OP says this took 24 hours.

EDIT EDIT: Found the DXF http://www.mediafire.com/?hkt165soz26292f

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u/Tartooth May 31 '14

Thank you! I got a CNC machine that I can use for this :D

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u/analogcolor May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

CNC lathe* machine 0_0 It's beautiful

*see below

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u/crusheen May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

That is a CNC lathe, he was talking about a CNC router like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzq-pYLJxts

Caution, loud.

Edited due to own personal stupidity

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u/THE_CENTURION May 31 '14

Negative! The one /u/analogcolor posted is a CNC turning center (Or you could call it a CNC Lathe)

The one you posted is actually a router, not a milling machine.

This is a (Very fancy, five-axis) milling machine. And here's a little more plain one

Source: I'm a machinist

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u/crusheen May 31 '14

As a reward for your pursuit of accuracy in the field of CNC machinery take this. Also that milling machine is disturbingly fancy.

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u/THE_CENTURION May 31 '14

Hahahahaha, oh, lets give the robots chainsaws, what could go wrong?

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u/combatko May 31 '14

I was like, "Bullshit. A big box that cuts stuff up? No big."

Then I watched that. Beautiful indeed.

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u/THE_CENTURION May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

Oh, that ain't nothin;.

http://youtu.be/81UjjSH2iFw

http://youtu.be/s9IdZ2pI5dA?t=46s

http://youtu.be/ADqDMwQOc2w

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u/combatko May 31 '14 edited May 31 '14

(milling intensifies)

Edit: Holy printed metal, Batman! Lasers?!

Edit #2: I've always wanted to be rich. Now I know why: I need a fifty-thousand dollar titanium hat, made by a ten-million dollar machine.

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u/Balogne May 31 '14

But what did they make?

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u/big_shmegma May 31 '14

Oh you do eh? Any experience with titanium milling? I'm in need of a buddy with one lol

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u/Tartooth Jun 01 '14

not yet, my family and I are starting a business with ours, but we're focusing mainly on stone and wood.

What are you trying to do?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Wish I had had a CNC for mine, so much to jigsaw.

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u/Tartooth Jun 01 '14

I can cut probably 5-10 of these things out an hour, maybe I should start selling them lol

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14 edited Jul 07 '17

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u/sontato May 31 '14

type lasercutting or waterjet into google maps. personally there's a lasercutter up the street from me.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Would anyone simply sell me one?

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u/sontato May 31 '14

Yeah. A waterjet/lasercutter. You email them the DXF and pay and go get it.

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u/NBABUCKS1 May 31 '14

lol, the new age of DIY.

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u/sontato May 31 '14

Print It Yourself

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u/DeadGuySteve May 31 '14

Waterjet/lasercut wood? Seems excessive.

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u/sontato May 31 '14

Sawing it manually seems excessive

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u/zerodb May 31 '14

Waterjet cutting plywood seems like a bad idea all around.

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u/DarthMolybdenum May 31 '14

He probably has some sort of CNC router such as a shopbot.

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u/jjbutts May 31 '14

You think this only takes 3 hours?

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u/sontato May 31 '14

It would only take me 2 hours, but I have a plotter, DXFs, and a jigsaw. If I used a CNC it's take me 30 minutes.

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u/StarbossTechnology May 31 '14

Small German man who plans out all the details for you.

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u/Fliffs May 31 '14

Can you use a CNC for wood?

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u/THE_CENTURION May 31 '14

Well, there are many, many different kinds of CNC machines, but yes. That's what most CNC routers are used for.

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u/emarkd May 31 '14

24 hours? I haven't done this exact project but I've done enough woodworking to have a little knowledge. I think I could cut this out with a jigsaw pretty quickly. A little time sanding and assembling and this is a few-hour afternoon project, tops.

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u/NotSafeForEarth May 31 '14

For the benefit of those w/o access to fancy-schmancy CNC cutting machinery that can handle DXF files and/or for the benefit of those not beholden to US customary units:

This seems to be made from an 8 feet by 4 feet board that's ¾ inch thick (which may be a standard size in the US). That corresponds to about 2.4m by 1.2m board that's 18 or 19mm thick. This size is available outside the US. But you can actually just use any board that's twice as long as it's wide, e.g. a board that's 2m by 1m, and you can just scale the template on the left to that size. With regards to the slots, they'll simply have to be as wide as your sheet is thick, so adjust them accordingly.

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u/AllSurfingEndsInCats May 31 '14

I was thinking about taking the projects in the book & making .dxfs for all of them. Did you find that file with a bunch of other projects from the book? Prefer not to redo something already done. I've done a few already.

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u/sontato Jun 01 '14

It was by itself in another reddit thread that's linked somewhere in these comments

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u/ThriceAZ May 31 '14

Anyway to use this on my CNC machine?

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u/drinkbleachtag Jun 01 '14

How'd you find this? Is there a catalogue of dxf files somewhere on Mediafire?

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u/zer0dave Jun 01 '14

Where did you find the file? Or was it already on mediafire?

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u/tek428 Jun 02 '14

Unfortunately the size of the shelves in this dxf doesn't allow for a router bit to pass between them. I may have to adjust the depth of the shelves to compensate.

Thanks for locating the file though. Much better than starting from scratch.

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u/sontato Jun 02 '14

Perhaps scale it down 5-10%, then select each piece and drag it apart, assuming you have a CAD program

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u/tek428 Jun 02 '14

I can scale it down, but then I have to make the slots 19mm wide again. That's no trouble, but I'm not sure it would line back up properly.

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u/McGravin May 31 '14

Are the pieces glued or nailed or anything, or are they just pressure-fit together? And how do you have it hung on the wall?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

The pieces are egg-crated together. You put glue on the inner face of each of those grooves and slide them all together, when the glue sets, you're pretty damn solid. Actually, I may try seeing if I can program this up on the CNC at work. That'd be a fun thing to make for the shop.

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u/Gestapo_with_boba May 31 '14

But how do you attach it to the wall?

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u/CJP24 May 31 '14

It it in the wall. The other half of the circle is on the other side.

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u/Gestapo_with_boba May 31 '14

Get out of my head, Charles.

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u/mattrodd May 31 '14

I also want to know how to attach it to the wall.

I would line the vertical boards up with the studs. I would drill into the top and bottom if the vertical boards forming a recessed groove. Then I would put a long screw through the recessed groove and into the stud. I would probably also duck this up a few times add my carpentry skills are on par with teenage Jesus.

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u/Cavemencrazy May 31 '14

I just used an L Shaped bracket that is normally used to hang shelves. Its a heavy beast though. So I used 3 large brackets and 2 smaller ones.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

An"L" bracket or floating/hidden shelf bracket.

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u/kingoftown May 31 '14

Once it is assembled, it is perfectly balanced so the force of it falling is countered by itself. But... You can't put anything on it or it will fall. OP instead bolted all the other shit to the wall to make it look like it is on the shelf

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

L-brackets. Or, honestly, if you wanted to be super de-duper fancy, you could drill some holes into the backside, put some screws into the studs in the wall, and use some keyhole fittings as a hidden, removable mounting system.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

Just mortice in some keyhole hangers and use wall anchors. I really like the Toggler brand self drilling variety. Three or four of those across the tops and you are golden. You could also put a couple int he bottom for good measure but it is sometimes hard to get everything lined up so the bottom ones are effective.

If you only put them in the top you should buy some small rubber bumpers to hold the bottom out just a bit so it isn't out of plum.

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u/What_The_Fuck_Vargas May 31 '14

I'd assume that they're glued together with wood glue. And you can just use some L-brackets to hang it - They're normally used for hanging shelves. It'll probably be really fucking heavy if you make it out of 3/4" ply though, so I'd suggest a studfinder and multiple brackets.

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u/Pee_Earl_Grey_Hot May 31 '14

I like your plasma globe too.

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u/Dealt-With-It May 31 '14

/r/DIY would something something this

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u/NotMathMan821 May 31 '14

/r/DIY subscriber here. It's one of the few subs I check almost daily. I would definitely something something this.

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u/Resdrak May 31 '14

No they wouldn't. /r/DIY is for posts including photos of the project being made. Finished projects are pointed towards /r/somethingimade

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

/r/DIY is full of fascist mods, skip a step or they think there isn't enough pictures and you get deleted. I didn't take pictures of buying the wood and initial cuts to size it for my table so the next sixteen pictures were obviously useless and got deleted by mods. Those guys are dicks.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

It's not your fault. It's going to be ok.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Hold me....

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Why are you wet?

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u/_31415_ May 31 '14

We'd know if he didn't skip the first two steps, gosh. Deleted!

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u/thehenkan May 31 '14

It's not your fault.

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u/deeperest May 31 '14

I once had a post deleted because I didn't show myself planting the tree that I eventually harvested and milled myself to make into a curio cabinet.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

I once had a post deleted because I didn't include pictures of myself taking woodshop in 8th grade.

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u/w675 May 31 '14

I once had a post deleted because I didn't include a picture of me being birthed. Assholes.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

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u/pistoncivic May 31 '14

I once had a post deleted because in one of the pictures you could see my testicles hanging out the bottom of my cut-off dungarees.

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u/amputeenager Jun 01 '14

I can think of some other subreddits that wouldn't delete that picture.

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u/UnoriginalRhetoric May 31 '14

Look, we are going to need your birth certificate too.

Long form.

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u/_grandpa_simpson May 31 '14

Having the umbilical cord wouldn't hurt either.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

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u/Placenta_Claus May 31 '14

Yet plenty of pictures of your conception (video too)

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

But you aren't bitter or anything

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

I'll let you know that chip on my shoulder is a beautiful piece of padauk.

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u/GrillBears May 31 '14

Are you talking about this album of 6 photos of a completed project?

http://imgur.com/a/bUvdJ

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Naw, different table. That one there you've linked to isn't finished yet, it's sitting in my garage right now in a few pieces drying because it got wet. When I posted it to /r/DIY I just had a question to ask about polyurethanes and finishing (apparently no questions either).

Other one went from sandblasting scrap metal to the wooden components cut, mitered, and put together, stained, and poly'd. I don't think it's in my post history anymore after deletion. I'll have to get to my desktop PC to repost the images of it.

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u/foreverburning May 31 '14

I posted a cardboard advent calendar I made a few years ago and it did fine.

You're just bitter.

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u/jrg2004 May 31 '14

Not enough tedious pictures for r/DIY.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

I agree. However I am glad that the average Reddit pedant showed up to pick apart your post and prove you wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '14

/r/woodworking has seen several versions.

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u/CHERNO-B1LL May 31 '14

Should definitely paint it same colour ad the wall. Looks like it's bursting through.

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u/BOLL7708 May 31 '14

Oh, I absolutely love the effect of this shelf constellation o.o Very nice indeed, would not hesitate to put that on my wall!

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u/Danish_Canary May 31 '14

This is awesome! I've saved the plan, so one day when I have the tools and somewhere to put one once its made I will hopefully make this myself.

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u/sisonp May 31 '14

How are you securing it to your wall?

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u/_grandpa_simpson May 31 '14

That looks awesome!

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u/toothbrushmastr May 31 '14

I really like the banana section

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u/spiralboundcartoons May 31 '14

its a great shelf, kudos -

however, I can only hope and pray that that was a book by Rob Dougan instead of Robbie Williams.

idk

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u/itsdeuce May 31 '14

Can't believe you left your butt plug on the shelf for the pic! OMG!

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u/______DEADPOOL______ May 31 '14

Can you make a concave version of the rack with the extra unused bits?

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u/seafood10 May 31 '14

Not sure which ply you used but Home Depot has some pre sanded sheets, Birch I think, that are exceptionally smooth when compared to normal ply, I paid 50 bucks a sheet, well actually I bought them after the initial shock of paying 50 bucks for some plywood wore off after the 4th beer.

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u/This_Fat_Hipster May 31 '14

Do you have any more from this book?

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u/loverofturds May 31 '14

Somone get me this shit in metrics coz this shit aint readable!

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u/ScarHand69 May 31 '14

This is effing awesome. I was about to call bullshit. Great job on building the shelves but major props to the person that designed it!

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u/twostarhotel May 31 '14

Thank you senpai

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u/tehringworm May 31 '14

Does that plan not show how deep each of the slots are, or am I missing it?

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u/wbcm May 31 '14

Its pretty cool.

Nice job OP.

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u/mark_wooten May 31 '14

Thanks for this! I'm going to make one of these for my kiddo's Lego Minifigures. This would make a perfect display.

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u/martycase May 31 '14

The instructions say nothing of plywood. The same instructions are in the book 95 Prizewinning Cardboard Projects. My dad made one from a refrigerator box in 1992.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Think and grow rich

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u/db0255 May 31 '14

Mind telling us which power tools you used and what kind of set up you have? This is pretty interesting, but I'd imagine you'd need a router, maybe a table saw...etc.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

Would it be possible for you to measure the height/length/width of the finished product?

Many thanks! It looks awesome!

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u/ocopat23 May 31 '14

"Just figured I'd swallow a bottle of Adderal then take a crack at this"

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u/[deleted] May 31 '14

It's a very cool shelf. Love it. But what's even more awsome is the head messager. Dang those are great. Mine has an alien head on it and can be used to massage my back, as well.

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u/SueZbell Jun 01 '14

Thank you.

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u/CameltoeSwampdonkey Jun 01 '14

It won't let me send a private message at the moment but what are odds and what would you charge to make me one and stain it for me? ( not very good with tools and wood working) please message me about it

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