nice

He'll be sending SNAP to Sudan soon.

precisely

I suspect he's just talking out of his ass and won't do anything. But yes, if he now just wants to stop paying SNAP benefits it will immiserate tens of millions of people. But politically and electorally the joke will be on him.

yeah, this was when it was still semi-wet. So it's sort misleading. Just put it on today.

tung oil and then after it cures shellac

2/ wedge lock it in place. It can't come back out. The wedge makes it too large to go back through the hole. So it's like a rock. Very sturdy. (A saw kerf is the cut that a saw makes when you saw through something.)

It's called a staked joint. The leg tenon pierces the top. And there's a saw kerf down the middle of that circular tenon. So it goes through the top. Then you take a wedge and bang into into that saw kerf. The wedge expands the tenon and basically locks it in place. It's also glued. But that ...

Yeah, I really like that piece. That's what got me started woodworking. I've been thinking about writing a book about woodworking. Not a how-to, I'm not remotely skilled enough. But woodworking as a path to inner peace, the meditative properties of creating things with wood with traditional tools

Bought my first home/apt when I was 38.

I used to make more traditional symmetric designs. But now I mainly work in these rustic, asymmetric designs that follow the grain of the wood like the foot stool/side table in the picture up there.

What’re ya in the market for

You mean on the work bench or the footstool in the picture ?

Yeah I just finished it

Basically just by reading books and watching videos

okay seems like you clearly didn't read the piece. but i get it. you're tapping out. the rest of us will keep fighting on while you're smelling the flowers.