#woodworking practice

[jennilah]

my feeds for the last day for some reason: -filled with multiple cases of people just casually shitting on my industry and our hard work again like usual-

me: something save me

in my youtube sub box, like a beacon of light:

[funkle420]

a great way to combat genAI in the future would be educating kids (and teens and college students and all ppl) on art way more.

[wikirobot]

It's a box! Or more accurately a box made up of minor mistakes. Been working on improving my dovetails and trying out some extra flourishes with the lid and base. It's kinda a mini version of the school box described in the Joiner and Cabinet maker. (Which incidentally,the full sized one is next on my project list.).

Overall the base moldings ended up a bit too wide so it looks a tad awkward. Also I didn't want to spend anymore time finishing it so it likely needs another coat or two of shellac.

[devilsskettle]

i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill

[disappointingcabbage]

So I built a thing

[athymelyreply]

the way I am SO captivated by this one woodworker/craftsman/guy who does things and stuff on tiktok/ insta reels. Like I try my damned best not to touch those apps but I’ve gotta have insta for volunteer stuff I do and like whew I just cannot stop going back. Istg this fucking man. The competence, the charisma, the versatility of projects, the fashion sense, the voice. Literally stop please I’m so gay I can’t even.

[stiltonbasket]

I'm imagining a-Lan trying to get along with her in-laws - how does that work? does Lan Fang have any sibs or is it just his parents?

I've always imagined Lan Fang to have either a younger sister or a much older sister who moved to the women's side of the Cloud Recesses before he was born, but I haven't put much thought into what she or his parents would be like, except that Lan Fang received his mother's family name so that he could become an inner member of the clan (his father is a non-cultivating carpenter who spends most of his time working on commissions at his workshop in Caiyi).

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[sticksandspoons]

interrupting the brooms with some woodturning. a much older obsession that continues to grow and sprout new paths for exploration

my first attempt at an eccentric goblet

turned march 29th, 2024

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

[salkosafic]

The Future of Woodworking in a Challenging World

[bluehexagone]

@yellydany’s oc, Danzil!

[passengerpigeons]

trying to score little desk to put in the space i've freed up in my room

[lacewise]

Okay we know enough about ourselves as children let’s do adults (answer as many or as few as you want):

1) most impactful movie or show you watched in the last ten years

2) one skill you would magick upon yourself if possible

3) last book that really punched you in the gut—and if you read both one for fiction and nonfiction

4) one chore you would give many things to never do again

5) fictional house you would steal for you

6) media you would give many MORE things to enjoy for the first time again

7) one bad habit you would get rid of with the powers of a dying god (because that’s the only cure you can think of that would work)

8) one thing you’ve done or can do you you think society should build statues of you over

—Go!

[hunting-songs]

[ jungle ] sender and receiver navigate through a lush jungle

Making their way through the leaves, Kurapika had to look twice at where he was going to step before finally taking the step, to avoid making a false step and ending up being sprained by the large roots of those giant trees that protruded from the ground. "In a way, these trees remind me of those in Lukso" He looked up, where the treetops formed a large lattice that almost looked like some kind of cage that kept them trapped in the jungle. "There, the trees were incredibly tall, many of them had their roots outwards just like these, and there were certain places where their crowns were so leafy that you couldn't see the night sky. Of course, that was when you went deeper into the forest" Taking a small jump, Kurapika went down a marked slope in the ground, while the two hunters went deeper and deeper into the heart of the jungle "Although of course, aesthetically, the trees of Lukso were very different from these… there spiral shapes predominated, but not like in the center of the trunks of these trees, but rather, on the outside, like the shape of the tree itself" Kurapika stopped in a small, very small clearing as he looked around. The immensity of the jungle was almost overwhelming, but his sense of adventure made his heart beat with excitement. "So, how far in should we go to get that wood you were talking about?"

Kurapikas heartbeat was a gioioso melody that danced sweetly around Senritsus keen hearing and made it impossible for her not to smile. Without her even noticing she had started to tap her fingers against her leg after this melody while she carefully walked beside him, avoiding the roots with much smaller feet and much shorter legs that made it harder to cross the thick roots that would only become bigger deeper into the jungle. But it was good this way. The streaks of sunlight still falling in thin lines like blades cutting throught he canopy of leafs was warm, the noises of the animals in the underbush around them were lively, and Kurapikas excited heartbeat was a inspirational like a song that made one want- need!- to jump up and move when listening to it: "Mhmmmm, now that sounds grazioso. Don´t mind me already thinking what I would be build with wood twisted drammatico into spirals. A harph maybe. That would be beautiful aesthetically. When we visit Lukso, I need to collect some of this wood for drying and further work.", Senritsus voice was a content singsang that mixed with the rustling of the leafs around them: " Though my Craft-Master would say its not about the beauty of the looks but about the sound the wood can help the instrument to have- its thickness its form, its consistancy."

Their voices and steps echoes into the jungle and reflected on the treetrunks and undergrowth that showed Senritsu clearly how the path ahead was lookign for them, even if all she saw was the thick green around them: "....mhmmm, around three days deeper into the forest. You will notice early enough when you can´t breath anymore." There was a certaine hitch in the others heartbeat and the young woman looked up to the man, just shaking her head with a gently humm as she patted her rucksack: "Do not sing me that worried melody, Kurapika, I have breathingmasks for us."

"I really do not want to bore you with woodworker-talk, Kurapika." , she gifted him with a amused smile- there had been a tingle of ache in her legs for some time now and witht he trees and roots becoming bigger and the area harder to traverse the ache that made her bones feel step by step more like splinters became more. She stopped for a second, leaning a hand on a tree and stretching and pulling up her legs by turn to ease the pain: "Mhmmm, its like moonwood- have you read about that before? Woodworkers have the folklore that depending on the moonphase and the moonlight under which you cut the wood, that wood will have different features depending on the moonphase. For example wood cut during a decreasing moon has more bound water in it and therefor it will not lose its form during the drying process. This way the wood is more dense and molds and insects are hindered in eating into the wood which rises its quality and longlivity." The musician shaked one leg carefully until the ache had eased a little, so she could continue the way deeper between the trees: "However, we do not want moonwood- my client asked for midnightwood. In Winter, when the light is sparse and it is cold wood grows only a little but it is also harder than usual. My client asked for midnightwood because it is wood that had from sapling until full growth only grown in darkness and therefor the wood is very forte. So we need a place where there had never been sunshine." "Which is this forests abyss-zone; a place so deep in the woods that the treecrowns block every sunlight and the only source of nutrients are the rotting, already dying trees from which the other living trees can take from. Thats also why we need the breathingmasks- the trees are growing so dense that barely any air reaches that deep into the forest and the gas of the rotting plantmatter is hardly breathable." There was a moment of hestiation in Senritsus melodic voice and she tilted her head to the side, listening attentive to Kurapikas breathing. She did not liked the thought that this breathingmelody would become laboured. She did not liked the thought of the excitment in his heartbeat would be replaced by tension over not seeing sunlight, over having troubl breathing, over hearing the animals in the jungle that had become as massive as the trees. Automatically she reached out, tapping a gentle melody against the mans sleeve as calming as a lullaby.

"....I am not going to say it is going to be a compiacevole trip or scorrendo work. In fact, cutting the wood and bringing it out of the forest will be a hundred times more exhausting than it should normally be." She thought about the last days in Yorkshin and Kurapikas pale face that had turned uncomfortably thin and uncomfortably small against the sickbed in the days of early september. A worried frown drew a line as deep as a scar between the womans big eyes-she was worried to see the man in this state again. She was worried that this would be too exhausting for him and that she- again! again, again, again, as if one time was not already a failure, as if one time was not already enough, as if one time was not already a nightmare- her Hatsu that was so spcifically made to heal, would not be able to help him. Senritsu looked up to Kurapika for a moment, just a moment, very concerned but also very gently. SHe would miss that excited melody she enjoyed so much now. She would miss it even more if it would be replaced by that slow and barely hearable song that she had heard when he had been sick back in Yorkshin and she had slept in the same room as him just to make sure she was close because she had been scared by the idea that this slow melody could stop completly and she woudl wake up to nothing but silence utting lik a knife into her much too keen hearing: "...I would not take it badly if you want to turn around, Kurapika. You can wait in a hotel in the city outside of the forest and I will come back in a week. I would not hold it against you at all, in fact-" She smiled, winking up to him in all good humor with grey eyes that now looked very black in the little light falling still on the small glade through the canopy of leafs above. Soon even this streaks of light cutting through the dimness would be gone too, soon even such a small glade would nolonger be found between the massive roots of the oldest tree in the jungles center, soon the small noises of the insects moving through the leafs would bereplaced by the trees cracking like the smallest branches under the deer that had in the deepest point of the jungle had turned as massive as whales at the deepest point of the ocean: "- maybe I would need even less than a week if I would know you would be waiting."

[thisisgraeme]

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