Let’s hear it. No project too big or too small.
Staining red oak for a slat wall around our fireplace. Hope to get it installed this week.
Was going to try to get the rust off my father’s crappy old hand plane (since restoring it would get me out of having to buy a hand plane of my own for now), but it doesn’t look like I’m going to get that far this week. Spent a couple of hours moving books around to clear some shelf space instead.
Going to be resealing our countertops today. Shouldn’t be too complicated, but it’s my first time doing it so we’ll see.
That doesnt sound fun at all. Would a drain snake work?
Edit: responding to @jarfil@beehaw.org. Sorry, still getting used to the Connect app.
The one I have doesn’t fit through the strainer, I’ll try to locate a thinner one, or some of those hair removal ziptie lookalikes (it likely isn’t hair stuck down there, but who knows).
Reattaching my towel rack to my wall. It was held in with drywall anchors but those have failed so will either repatch and reattach or glue it back on. Depends on how done with it I am
Ideally, you’d want it anchored into a stud.
Ideally yes… This is a previous owners mistake I’m fixing. My options here are: reattach back using another drywall anchor (not my preferred option). Anchor one side into a stud and if the other side reaches it the other side into another stud and patch the holes or glue it back in place (again not ideal). I’m leaning towards option B here.
was going to make a small garden in a wood box on the deck of my apartment, but its getting unusually hot i think i’ll put it off for a little longer
I’m still building the addition to my wood framed green house, still have a couple of weekends to go till its done.
Installing a new sink and dishwasher, here’s to not flooding the place. Probably.
I recently finished my butcher block desk and enjoyed it so much I asked for a bunch of wood working tools as birthday gifts. I don’t usually care about my birthday or gifts, but it’s always an ordeal for my family because they insist. So this year I finally told them to get the wood working basics.
I’m eyeing my second project now and trying not to tell myself that it should be the new coffee table that we’ve needed for the past 3 years. That feels like a more advanced project, but it’s so tempting.
I need to tighten the bolts on the kids toilet, lol. Otherwise just running a ton of errands (none DIY-related).
That reminds me I need to take a look at the flusher on my toilet. It’s being intermittent
I did get around to the hand plane this week. Most of the rust and grot is off and now I need to lap the sole as best I can.
If there’s still a bit of rust left somewhere . . . I don’t actually care. It’s a 1970s Canadian-made Stanley Craftsman plane, which means that it’s effectively worthless. I just want it in good enough shape not to leave rust streaks on whatever I’m trying to plane. In five years or so, I expect I’ll either have given up on woodworking or bought a higher-quality replacement.
(I also need to fix a chair, which I didn’t quite get to today.)
Probably going to practise using my new laser cutter/engraver I just got last week.
Starting the refinish job on our front porch. Got my broom and sander and some dry weather in the forecast, hopefully it’ll be finished before the next storm rolls through!
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That’s a big help, thank you! I spent some time on it today and I think I figured out what’s actually leaking, but this kit should make it easier to just repair it
Should be ripping out Windows and getting Fedora Workstation working on a new machine. I’ll probably start working on installing the AI tools I used to justify the new rig. I’m halfway thinking about modifying my laptop bed stand to add more cooling capacity built in, but it kinda depends on how hot it gets with the GPU at full tilt.
I also need to make some progress getting my desk/hobby electronics workstation back to useful conditions and reinstall all of my lighting.
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I’m interested in integrating Stable Diffusion with Blender for CAD modeling, and using PrivateGPT (a text chat model) to process a bunch of text about computer science stuff and be able to ask it questions about the text, hopefully with cited references.
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Haven’t done it myself yet, but the links have the info
Edit: mixed up about accounts and what I was replying to. These are the links (from my other post):
PrivateGPT is on my list to try after someone posted about it weeks ago with this how to article (that has a view limit embedded before a pay wall)/github project repo:
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