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Haley, 33/f 🏳️⚧️ Librarian/Woodworker/Guilty Gearster
With the joints clean, I drawbored it all together. A hole is drilled in the mortise wall, with a slightly offset matching one in the tenon. When pegged, that offset draws them together so tightly that no clamps are needed. Even with the glue wet, it can be moved around without a drop leaking out.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
With the joints clean, I drawbored it all together. A hole is drilled in the mortise wall, with a slightly offset matching one in the tenon. When pegged, that offset draws them together so tightly that no clamps are needed. Even with the glue wet, it can be moved around without a drop leaking out.
Whoever did the previous repair, I'm glad they're dead. I spent half the day cleaning up the mess they left, with globs of rock hard glue littering internal gaps so big that there were spiders inside.
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Whoever did the previous repair, I'm glad they're dead. I spent half the day cleaning up the mess they left, with globs of rock hard glue littering internal gaps so big that there were spiders inside.
Good morning queens you KNOW it's time for more furniture.
I love spying shortcuts makers took. This is a beautiful piece, but if you look closely you'll find boards that came rough from the mill and legs that don't match. Most would never notice! And this saved the maker a ton of time and expense.
I love spying shortcuts makers took. This is a beautiful piece, but if you look closely you'll find boards that came rough from the mill and legs that don't match. Most would never notice! And this saved the maker a ton of time and expense.
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good morning queens you KNOW it's time for more furniture.
I love spying shortcuts makers took. This is a beautiful piece, but if you look closely you'll find boards that came rough from the mill and legs that don't match. Most would never notice! And this saved the maker a ton of time and expense.
I love spying shortcuts makers took. This is a beautiful piece, but if you look closely you'll find boards that came rough from the mill and legs that don't match. Most would never notice! And this saved the maker a ton of time and expense.
Pulling out the spreader bar to pop the tenons from their mortises. Deeply satisfying moment of release. I did moan a little.
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Pulling out the spreader bar to pop the tenons from their mortises. Deeply satisfying moment of release. I did moan a little.
Newer slats from a previous repair used cheap modern round wire nails and a disastrously thin shoulder. Neither are suited for bearing a person's body weight and failed accordingly.
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Newer slats from a previous repair used cheap modern round wire nails and a disastrously thin shoulder. Neither are suited for bearing a person's body weight and failed accordingly.
These original square nails grip like the devil, and even leave a little square hole behind. These date the piece to probably 1880-1910. The steel is still good, so they'll be straightened and reused.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
These original square nails grip like the devil, and even leave a little square hole behind. These date the piece to probably 1880-1910. The steel is still good, so they'll be straightened and reused.
Attacking nails on the failed boards by carving under them with a gauge, then coming up with a nail puller.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Attacking nails on the failed boards by carving under them with a gauge, then coming up with a nail puller.
Additionally, these tenons are coming out of their mortises. So when you're trying to pull out the bed, you're also fighting to pull the whole frame apart. Someone in the past tried to add glue to stop this, but time permitting they'll need to be taken apart and reassembled
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Additionally, these tenons are coming out of their mortises. So when you're trying to pull out the bed, you're also fighting to pull the whole frame apart. Someone in the past tried to add glue to stop this, but time permitting they'll need to be taken apart and reassembled
The complaint given was that it doesn't slide easily, and it was thought that waxing the slides or adding a roller bearing would address it. But in truth the friction is from part degradation causing things to rub together, like these broken slats that are no longer supported
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The complaint given was that it doesn't slide easily, and it was thought that waxing the slides or adding a roller bearing would address it. But in truth the friction is from part degradation causing things to rub together, like these broken slats that are no longer supported
For once I'll live blog some of my furniture work. This antique sliding day bed will be sold at auction to help fund the work we do fixing furniture that would have otherwise been thrown away, and giving it for free to refugees and people entering housing after being in shelters or on the street.
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
For once I'll live blog some of my furniture work. This antique sliding day bed will be sold at auction to help fund the work we do fixing furniture that would have otherwise been thrown away, and giving it for free to refugees and people entering housing after being in shelters or on the street.
Here's a color reference on oak, which will be a little different if yours is made of another species of wood. Bottom left is clear shellac, top left is reddish brown, top right is vintage maple, bottom left is medium brown.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Here's a color reference on oak, which will be a little different if yours is made of another species of wood. Bottom left is clear shellac, top left is reddish brown, top right is vintage maple, bottom left is medium brown.
Okay so Lazarus, the new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe (creator of Cowboy Bebop) with music by Kamasi Washington and Bonobo with fight direction by one of the John Wick guys is INSANELY good. It's even got the holy trifecta: gay gunslinger milfs, transgender baddies, and forcefem twinks
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Okay so Lazarus, the new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe (creator of Cowboy Bebop) with music by Kamasi Washington and Bonobo with fight direction by one of the John Wick guys is INSANELY good. It's even got the holy trifecta: gay gunslinger milfs, transgender baddies, and forcefem twinks
Lately Pocky has been sooooo demanding of butt scratches she'll turn herself into a U like this and just waddle backwards at me
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Lately Pocky has been sooooo demanding of butt scratches she'll turn herself into a U like this and just waddle backwards at me
What I love about old tools is that the very act of using them restores them. The gentle abrasion of wood combined with being wiped down and oiled slowly breaks down rust and grime over time and allows dried out materials and finishes to reabsorb oil. The result is a beautiful almost plum color.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What I love about old tools is that the very act of using them restores them. The gentle abrasion of wood combined with being wiped down and oiled slowly breaks down rust and grime over time and allows dried out materials and finishes to reabsorb oil. The result is a beautiful almost plum color.
Look how stretchy her skin is. Full fistful and she doesn't even notice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Look how stretchy her skin is. Full fistful and she doesn't even notice.
My sweet guardians who press their entire body weight against me while I've been bedridden
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My sweet guardians who press their entire body weight against me while I've been bedridden
It's also doing irreparable things to how I text
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It's also doing irreparable things to how I text
At some point I made this edit to put clothes on Puck Berserk for reasons I no longer remember
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
At some point I made this edit to put clothes on Puck Berserk for reasons I no longer remember
Finished darning my cardigan and arm warmers during a slow part of the morning at work ^^
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Finished darning my cardigan and arm warmers during a slow part of the morning at work ^^
Oh you're fucking kidding me. The school I'm thinking of going to is literally right down the road from Silent Hill.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oh you're fucking kidding me. The school I'm thinking of going to is literally right down the road from Silent Hill.
That kanji, also read as Ebisu (戎), refers to a country hick or remote barbarian. At one point it was a derogatory way to refer to the Ainu people, to give an impression of the weight of it. And gao is the onomatopoeia for a roaring beast or monster. So smiling hill/Ebisu hill/roaring savages hill.
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That kanji, also read as Ebisu (戎), refers to a country hick or remote barbarian. At one point it was a derogatory way to refer to the Ainu people, to give an impression of the weight of it. And gao is the onomatopoeia for a roaring beast or monster. So smiling hill/Ebisu hill/roaring savages hill.
Huh, interesting connotations for the name Ebisugaoka. The most common word to pull from it would be ebisugao, smiling face (oka just means hill). Pulled apart the next most common would be Ebisu, a God of fishing and commerce. It's not spelled that way, though, it's spelled 戎ヶ丘
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Huh, interesting connotations for the name Ebisugaoka. The most common word to pull from it would be ebisugao, smiling face (oka just means hill). Pulled apart the next most common would be Ebisu, a God of fishing and commerce. It's not spelled that way, though, it's spelled 戎ヶ丘