It is


It's made from a plank either my grand- or great granddad made for a neighbor back in the day. That's why it says "Grek" on it. It's a misspelling of the neighbor's name. As you can see I've intentionally kept it and made that side of the plank the bottom side in order to preserve it.


Nice little history from our part of the world

Don't tell me the proper spelling of the neighbor's name was Geek?

Am I right in assuming the legs/feet have a tenon into a blind mortice in the seat? I don't see any nails or dowels.

It wasn't


You are absolutely correct! I also did that with my sister's TV bench earlier this year. Drilling holes for tenons was actually my job from 2000 to 2013 so I guess that's why I do it. Easy enough and keeps a clean look to it

What a nice planer!!! Ours is a Dewalt, and surprisingly not as effective as we hoped it would be. I am also in awe of your paint job, how did you manage to not get a single drop on the glass, but still get all the trim painted? Awesome job, I always love to see your projects!



LOVE the bench! Are you going to polyurethane it or keep it natural?



Oh, I had imagined this in my kitchen!!! Love it!!!




Really nice to do that, that is real perfection and craftsmanship! (don't look at my work, screw heads can be clearly seen, lol). I watched a thousand YouTube vids on how to do those dowels to do invisible shelves that seem to not be braced but really are = just never could get it right.

By carefulness


My planer is from Biltema so it's no way near anything high-end, but it works for what I do. I can even shift the blades if they get damaged without having to buy new ones


I'm gonna sand it one more time with a 100 grit paper (used 40 grit first go-around) and then I'm gonna oil it. It sits under a small roof so it's pretty protected. Last time I did this was two years ago.


As they say in the Oblivion persuasion minigame; you do me too much honor. It's really quite an easy thing to do, just make sure to measure carefully, drill straight and not all the way through


Thanks for your nice comments!

Always love seeing your woodworking/building/and landscaping-landshaping. You do wonderful work! It is always inspiring to me, gets me hyped up to do projects of my own, lol.

Project: replace "inferior" Project Gutenberg book covers with hopefully superior self-created covers
Status: I'm nearly caught up with PG titles currently on my Paperwhite

A project of mammoth proportions. As of now, I have created some 435 replacement covers. Considering that I began (so far as I can tell) on 05/08/2025 (with Moby Dick), a goodly portion of each day has been devoted to cover creation. At the same time, I removed 174 PG titles from the Paperwhite, considering them of questionable worth. (They still exist on my hard drive, and of course at the Project Gutenberg site.) I can't say that any of my covers have artistic merit, but they're IMO at least better than what they replace.

Some questionable quality PG covers remain on the Paperwhite. I might or might not replace them. And of course, any new PG download is a candidate for cover replacement. In other words, it ain't over yet.

Another window project


As always I just do the outside frame, not the window itself.

Nice!

Thanks, Acadian


-Guys, I'm making a thing again!


Instead of this,

we will have this

Inside

Oh that'll be great! Sheltering a bit of the inside will be nice. Do you have any lights inside as I'm guessing this will make that work area a bit darker.

I will have that window as part of fixing that problem but I am pretty much convinced I will have to install some overhead light fixture as well. Probably the same kind we put up in the middle of the tractor garage as I call this building. And obviously I'm not done with the horizontal beams but I didn't have more time today.


This also opens up for a potential door to protect the ATV from snow blowing in on it.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Aug 16 2025, 03:11 PM

Before

After

Inside



Project status: Complete (Well, the window needs a bit more cleaning...)

Very nice! More protected inside but still light and airy.

I always wanted to build something there, never did like the complete openness. Building doors is a challenge and I'm not sure I can do it in a good way. But that wall is at least something and I'm glad I didn't mess it up

This post has been edited by mirocu: Sep 4 2025, 12:55 PM

Nice job, Mirocu!

So, while M's been building a workshop, I was writing a book... which was why I vanished for the summer - I do like to dive into things. The book is fantasy fiction, that somehow grew out of the fan fiction I've been posting here, but it has its own world and story. It takes inspiration from the late Roman Empire but is not very historically correct (hey, it's fantasy!) and draws rather heavily on the Hebrew Bible, mostly on the books of Ezekiel, Judith and Enoch, with a touch of Solomon's verses. For anyone not sure what those books are all about, let's just say they've got angels (fallen and otherwise), Nephilims, giants, undead, spirits, visions, magic, love, sin, judgement and wrath... You know, all the usual biblical stuff. It is my intention to have the book self-published on Amazon eventually, so I won't be posting it here (sorry). Besides, it has quite a bit of adult content (mostly not sexual but adult in other respects), so it would not fit with this forum. The main themes (besides the undead) are slavery and cruelty, faith, self-sacrifice, personal integrity and morality, and love and sexuality (a.k.a. what is love?).

The book turned out quite long, 560 paperback pages, 155K words, divided into 12 parts with a total of 66 chapters, which is comparable to 66 posts in the fan fiction section because I kept the chapters to roughly the same length as my episodes (2000-2500 words on average). It also has 176 illustrations - elements generated with AI, then put together manually using my own brain and a lot of GIMP magic (which brings the page count to 634). So it has been quite a project, and yet I am not done... because the story continues, the second book is already planned out and started, and I can see into more of them to come. The story covers some 30-40 years and follows the lives of several main characters, it's all in my head, it's getting crowded and needs to get out. Considering that the first book only covers 16 months out of those 30-40 years, there's potential for a book series here.

I think I'll take it to Amazon when the second book is done so that I could publish both of them together. Or may be I'll wait even longer, we'll see. I haven't made it into the ePub format yet, it's just in PDF for the moment, although I did have a quick foray into converting it into ePub, just to make sure it's not too hard with all the illustrations. I made sure it was a workable structure and stopped at that for the moment. Because, you know, the first step in publishing a book, is to write it... (you wouldn't believe it, but that's what self-publishing tutorials find necessary to point out... dohhh!!).

With that said, it doesn't mean that I'll stop writing fan fiction in the universe of Elder Scrolls. I feel like I've had a break, and now Lena Wolf is starting to complain that she's bored and wanting new adventures... Meaning that I'll be back to modding and gaming later this Autumn, and also writing and posting, because, after all, I am Lena Wolf...

Busy, busy, Lena! I hope your book does well.

That is great! Good luck Lena!

Congratulations, Lena! Best of luck with your series!