Question Of The Week.... ( 2026 Week 23 )

[ripjack13]

Have you ever built something so ridiculous that you were too embarrassed to show anyone?





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**Rules**
There is no minimum post requirement,
Long eared galoots, primates, the new leaner woodtick and semi-sawed off leprechauns are welcome to post an answer.
“I know exactly where my pencil is”

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

A mess!

 

[Mike1950]

nah, embrace mistakes- laugh at them and learn. To make a mistake or crap piece you had the courage to say I can do something I never have done. I can't never makes anything, and is always right.
Now turners- a whole different breed- They say look at this dent in my head-blood down side of face, damn thing bounced off wall and got me.
Best one I remember is @DKMD story of his wife asking what happened, his tee shirt is shreded, oh I made a mistake... They laugh it off and put on new shirt or repair with CA.

 

[Mike1950]

A mess!

worst is /was my shop. but that has gotten much better

 

[DLJeffs]

I've tied a few flies that not even the fish will get to see.

 

[Webb]

WHY WOULD I TELL YOU

 

[Gdurfey]

A cabinet for my chop saw that is so wonky the drawers don’t slide, ….its just off a little in a whole bunch of directions. Still in use, I keep saying I’m going to take it apart and fix it all. Just on the list of to dos.

 

[Phil.H]

My first ever try at a chest of drawers. Looks like crap, drawers don't function correctly. I use it in the shop to remind me.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I've rarely admitted to making stuff the way it is, now you want to talk about stuff that I might shoulda forgotten to make... I haveade.several.thimgs that got immediately destroyed and thrown on the burn pile. As far as ridiculous, I am likely still in the middle of making that one...

 

[daniscool]

Yeah. Not woodworking though. I bought a piece of steel to make a carving knife (vanax) and didn’t check if it had been annealed. I then tried filing it to shape with my expensive bastard file. It took two passes to break the plate and blunt my file permanently. I checked and it had actually been hardened to 66 hrc. That’s also the reason it was brittle. I have always wanted to revisit that one.