Show us your current project. What are you building, fixing, or making - has anyone done this

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MondayMoan51

No gatekeeping. Beginner projects welcome. If you are proud of fixing a leaky tap for the first time that is as valid here as a full workshop build.

Current project: converting a spare bedroom into a proper home office with sound dampening panels, cable management behind the walls, and a custom desk built from a solid oak door blank. The door blank desk is the best value large desk you can build, two trestles and a router for the edge and it is done. The sound panels are rockwool covered in stretched fabric which is basic acoustic treatment but effective

Lucy05

The door blank desk is the correct answer to desk building and more people should know about it. Mine has been in service for six years and takes any amount of abuse
Measure twice, post once

ReacherBadger

Currently building a split mechanical keyboard from scratch. PCB design, case milling, switch selection, custom firmware. Six months in and I type slower than before but I understand the whole stack now
Blue is the colour.

WaveFunction74

The knowing the whole stack satisfaction is real. The functional improvement is a bonus if it arrives

Zach91

Restoring a 1970s reel to reel tape recorder. Replacing capacitors, cleaning the tape path, aligning the heads. The service manual is forty pages and reads like a different era of technical documentation

Hollow Coder

The reel to reel service manual culture is one of the things I miss about that era. Complete documentation as a matter of course rather than a premium

TheGreatMoney

Building a wood fired pizza oven in the garden from reclaimed brick. Deeper into refractory cement than I expected but the test fires have been promising

Solid Gary

How are you handling the dome geometry for the arch. That is where most first time oven builds go wrong

DecentBloke

Printed a plywood template for the arch profile and built off that. The geometry ended up fine, the mix ratio for the refractory was the part that took three attempts

TeaAndCode72

Currently just fixing things around the house and documenting what I learn. Nothing glamorous but the repair mindset is accumulating into something
Cashback on everything or it didn't happen

Hollow Tiger

The repair mindset accumulating is underrated as a project. The skills compound in a way that project focused learning does not always

IronFist66

Anyone doing anything with reclaimed materials specifically, I have a source of old scaffold boards and no current plan for them
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