SLOR'M

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #51
Date: 01/12/26 @ 8:50 PM

All edges thoroughly deburred and rounded over.
It's a good illusion though.

From: JDH #52
Date: 01/14/26 @ 7:50 PM

I know how board feet are calculated, but I do not know how wood store employees (at least the one I dealt with on Monday) calculate it

I had picked out 7 boards... some about 5" wide, some around 6" one that's almost 10" at one end and 8" at the other... some about 50" long, some maybe 62... just all manner of stuff... and I piled them all on top of eachother on a little cart...

they were not arranged by height or length or width
they were not butted up on one end
they were not butted up on one side

Buddy came around the counter with a tape measure and the first thing he did was measure the difference in length between 2 of the boards... and I'm thinking "how is that going to tell you anything... you know that one board is 8 inches longer than the other on one end, without checking how the boards are lined up at the other end..."

He takes a couple more measurements of widths here and there, a length or two... never wrote anything down and proceeded to tell me it was $117

I figured it must be close, they must be sure that its not going to be too high... so I paid it... but by the time I got to the car I was like... I gotta check it...
so i got out a board-foot calculator and went through each of the boards... I did a quick measure, putting in 4' instead of 50" kinda thing

I got 14.7 boardfeet, knowing that was going to be a little under. Buddy with his unknowable technique got 14.91

HOW DID HE GET SO CLOSE?!

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #53
Date: 01/14/26 @ 8:37 PM

all day every day
I've worked with guys that don't even need a fucking tape measure. It's impressive.

but i always always double check their work because i get too nervousb to question their technique before my card is magically swiped in a fugue state

I've never proven anyone wrong enough to go back to the counter

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #54
Date: 01/15/26 @ 12:50 AM

I'm falling down the Dummy 13 rabbit hole.

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #55
Date: 01/15/26 @ 12:55 AM

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #56
Date: 01/15/26 @ 4:52 AM

... make... make them fuck

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #57
Date: 01/15/26 @ 2:35 PM

gonna need a dick valve first

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #58
Date: 01/23/26 @ 1:03 AM

I designed and made an ice hockey plinko game.
You fire the puck up the middle hard enough
and it plinkos down and you get some points.

Supposed to be out on Lake Nokomis this weekend
but it's cold AF so maybe not. It's a Red Bull commission.

From: Zero #59
Date: 01/23/26 @ 1:14 AM

Sweet!

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #60
Date: 01/23/26 @ 2:44 AM

Kind of funny that it involves woodworking, 3D printing, metalwork etc.
Laser cut vinyl for the numbers, welding, fabrication, CNC machining, laser cut aluminum, machined aluminum
and some good ol' fashioned elbow greeps.

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #61
Date: 01/23/26 @ 3:18 AM

Hell yeah

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #62
Date: 01/23/26 @ 4:59 AM

Seriously cool

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #63
Date: 01/23/26 @ 5:15 AM

oh that's dooowwwpe

From: JDH #64
Date: 01/26/26 @ 5:58 PM

that's cool, and very cool that you got a commission from a huge company like that!

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #65
Date: 01/26/26 @ 7:26 PM

I've done a bunch of stuff for them.
This is my third year of making these ice hockey minigolf features.

From: reno #66
Date: 01/27/26 @ 1:40 AM

That looks awesome

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #67
Date: 01/27/26 @ 1:56 AM

Been on a phasor kick this week

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #68
Date: 01/27/26 @ 6:39 AM

you made those 3 this week??

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #69
Date: 01/27/26 @ 9:31 AM

pew pew

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #70
Date: 01/27/26 @ 11:26 PM

According to my printing history, I first started making phaser parts on the 18th, and I finished printing the third one on the 25th, glued up and photoed on the 26th.

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #71
Date: 01/27/26 @ 11:56 PM

.2mm nozzle for the text?

They look real crispy. Nice work.

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #72
Date: 01/28/26 @ 1:19 AM

0.4 nozzle with 0.12 layer heights. In person I notice all the little issues.

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #73
Date: 01/28/26 @ 1:20 AM

Oh, yeah 0.2 for the little sign part.

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #74
Date: 01/28/26 @ 9:58 PM

Up to six total, probably stopping here.

Imperfections galore. Need to sand the back where the type 1 sits into the type 2 so they'll mate together better. Three of the type 1 display section won't close with the rotary dial. One of the type 1 bottom sections is loose and will fall out.

Tempted to go to harbor freight and buy one of those hard cases with foam to make a storage box for them, but that's $40 of case for $15 of plastic.

Tried finding a design for a case to assemble that is larger than the print bed, but haven't.

From: ghoast - has no idea what's going on #75
Date: 01/28/26 @ 10:08 PM

Hey listen I won’t tell nobody. But uh. Them things work?

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #76
Date: 01/28/26 @ 10:18 PM

Oh, it took me 3 days to do these 3, so about a day each, but I batch printed some parts. Bambu A1/ams and A1-mini.

48 g - Blue body
34 g - Black handle
25 g - Black T1 body
14 g - Black + White power cell
1.5 g Clear dials
20 g - Silver various
2 g Petg mechanicals

About 150 g total, plus a half of a 3g tube of harbor freight super glue

https://www.printables.com/model/957501-star-trek-snw-phaser/

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #77
Date: 01/28/26 @ 10:20 PM

They go pew pew if when you pull the trigger you say pew pew,

But saying bFssuuuuuuu would probably be more accurate.

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #78
Date: 01/28/26 @ 10:25 PM

And 8 5mm round magnets.

Hopefully I'll convince Mrs to vinyl cut some screen images for the popup section.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #79
Date: 01/29/26 @ 7:35 AM

can u make me one that sounds like bfffttt gravy legs

From: ghoast - has no idea what's going on #80
Date: 01/29/26 @ 3:39 PM

Got me a dry herb vaporizer that kicks out great but very dry air.
For my old Cpap machine that has a humidifier.
And I think I’m gonna go eat some twizzlers

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #81
Date: 01/29/26 @ 4:51 PM

wait
you gonna hook up a vape to ur pape?
king shit

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #82
Date: 01/29/26 @ 4:51 PM

wait this ain't the dude weed thread wtf
Mods

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #83
Date: 02/11/26 @ 5:31 AM

Had a local brewery (Surly) ask me to reverse-engineer a canning line seamer chuck wrench
so I DID and made it out of O2 tool steel
and heated it up and quenched it in some oil to harden it
and here you see the results.

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #84
Date: 02/11/26 @ 5:48 AM

seams p sweet
nice nubs bubs

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #85
Date: 02/11/26 @ 2:04 PM

Nice.
Tell them to pay me in Furious.

From: Heferito - Intentionally left blank #86
Date: 02/11/26 @ 5:17 PM

Anybody else running a laser up in here? I have a Ortur Laster Master 2 Pro that I recently acquired about a month ago and I'm still gettting up to speed. Made some pretty cool ornaments and a few other little things so far.

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #87
Date: 02/11/26 @ 8:46 PM

Yeah I've got a 100w omtech CO2 laser and a 30w galvo fiber and a 2kw fiber.
Haven't done too much with them.

From: ghoast - has no idea what's going on #88
Date: 02/11/26 @ 8:47 PM

Not even a quick dickbutt?

From: Heferito - Intentionally left blank #89
Date: 02/11/26 @ 8:51 PM

Those are some pretty serious lasers to not be doing much with, dang

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #90
Date: 02/11/26 @ 10:28 PM

My whole business is a thinly disguised scheme to cheat at Gear Quest.

I've used all of those but the big boy for projects.
I just don't use them often.

Used the CO2 laser to cut vinyl numbers out for the Red Bull thing I did last month.
I use the galvo fiber to mark parts I machine that call for it,
so without it I couldn't accept some of those jobs.

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #91
Date: 02/11/26 @ 10:39 PM

Just had me a pack of Todd the Axe Man. Surly makes some tasty beers.

From: ghoast - has no idea what's going on #92
Date: 02/11/26 @ 11:35 PM

Let me borrow your.laser to slice this up

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #93
Date: 02/11/26 @ 11:46 PM

no

From: L Q #94
Date: 02/12/26 @ 12:03 AM

I crochet.
Currently making this basket.
lmk if you want one.
haze said no.
☹️

From: chobbler - - - - - - billy bumpkin here - #95
Date: 02/12/26 @ 12:42 AM

Looks awesome. I love all the different colors.

From: L Q #96
Date: 02/12/26 @ 1:10 AM

TY somuch.If you think you'd might like one or someone you know.PM me your address and I will send. I have a bunch.

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #97
Date: 02/12/26 @ 1:33 AM

how many jogs of piss can it hold

From: L Q #98
Date: 02/12/26 @ 1:39 AM

7

From: butterknife - calcium depraved #99
Date: 02/12/26 @ 1:42 AM

ghoast said:

Let me borrow your.laser to slice this up

damn blood what we got here
in the ebony zone
african?
and ... is that a piece of burl? gatdamn gimme
ill slice u up some veneers in trade

From: Space Cat - please delete this account #100
Date: 02/12/26 @ 1:54 AM

y'all got any of that... good wood?