New skills and fun hobbies I've picked up

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Moving Apartments and Mindsets

For some reason or another I’ve been hesitant to publish works that I experiment with on this website because I’ve not felt that the work was “on-brand” enough. After way too much deliberation I realize that creating is what I do and often I’m going to experiment with how I make stuff. Moving recently has pushed me to fully realize I should let out what I do; even if it just stream of concious type postings.

So below is the start of what I want to do fully…

Woodworking and Repurposing a Harbor Freight Toolbox

Quick context: my new apartment is much bigger and thus I can justify having furniture like a ❇️ dining table ❇️

To make a toolbox a piece of proper furniture though was going to take some effort because this is what I was starting with.

First order of business was making an actual top for my new table for which I chose red oak and surfaced with my new Taytool Benchplan No. 4.

The shavings I was getting were actually very nice and I was able to plane down to a very reflective surface in the end 😄 . Though I realize it’s hard to see there is some reflection coming off of the table top in the picture below. Random oak chunk for comparison.

Next was sanding and painting but that’s all boring stuff 🥱. The _close to final rendition of the table looks something like this 😎

Future for the table?

Definitely going to add some shelf liners and drinks to the bottom tray, maybe even some wood edges to make it a little more comfortable to rest your feet on the bottom but we’ll just have to mess around and find out 😉

Random Photography

Lately I’ve been exploring random cities and have started messing around with taking pictures of cool places that I visit.

From a subway in San Fransisco

And a nice picture of one of my favorite rooftops in the San Diego Skyline.