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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Both options can be beautiful. I would prefer the veneer core ply for dimensional stability over a long time and long spans. It would also give me the option to scribe to an uneven wall if needs be.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

getting a thick (8/4+) piece of quarter sawn lumber, milling it, and drilling in a bracket slot is perhaps simpler if you're comfortable working on edge. Hovr makes good brackets for this. You can shape the front edge more easily to maybe a round-over, chamfer, go wild with an ogee?

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Veneer ply is dimensionally stable, can be veneered with gorgeous figure and you have more options for attachment to the wall. I would avoid mitres unless you have a very dialled in saw to do long thing mitres. Any deflection or deviance will be a compounding problem.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I welcome people getting at me if they need something. I just don't look at social media so much anymore. What's vexing you in the shop?

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Oh I don’t have any plans to make content regularly any time soon. I’m very happy right now to go to work, make cool stuff, and then go home and chill. No side hustles. No social media. Just doing the craft I enjoy for people who appreciate that I do it.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thanks. So far so good. Turns out I’m good at building precise objects for people’s homes. Now I just have to get faster. But I’m employed at an excellent shop and I learn fast.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It’s also real in a way that a purely digital output is not. It lasts. You can hold it. You can use it. In most cases it will outlast me. Personally I suppose it reminds me where I come from when I breath in sawdust and feel the grain under my hands.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I couldn’t say. I suppose I haven’t been super vocal about stepping away. I mostly did an Irish good-bye on my career.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

End of an office. End of an era. Returning the space to its original use as a guest room. Maybe in keeping with my new career I should do a lot of built-ins in here.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“With the peasants?!? They’re revolting!”

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Fractal noise still undefeated top effect after all this time.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#woodworking been buying a few tools second hand to build up the capacities here in my suburban garage. One lovely thing about out modern age is I can go on the manufacturer's website, look at an exploded diagram of the tool, and have a part on it's way to me for 1/3 what it would cost off amazon.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I just locked an open door. Strange yet symbolically compelling.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I lav these great secrets.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

1. Hide glue is made of hides. The protein is rendered from the skins of animals with heat and chemicals. 2. It is used often to adhere wood to other wood. It has many properties that make it more appropriate in certain situations and it is a more traditional form of adhesive for wood work.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

But AlWAYS cover a judge by its book.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

What if motion smoothing could somehow be less accurate and more unpleasant?

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

On the one hand grades are just numbers, and it’s what you learn that matters… On the other I just graduated this cabinetmaking course with a 3.97 of 4.0 GPA. Yeah, I’m a nerd for this stuff. 🤓

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Mahogany tends to show its large open pore structure so have a look for that. white Oak would have the telltale tyloses or bubbles blocking its pores. And it doesn’t look to have the high contrasting late/early wood of a red oak.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

What’s the square footage on that thing? Curious to see the final layout.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Particle board is just glue and sawdust. Add more glue and clamp it hard back into shape. But the better recommendation is to build a new drawer box and put the old front on it. MCP is cheap enough and you can iron on the edge banding. You’ll be done in part of an afternoon I’m sure.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Then we move to the stain product itself. Faster drying stains are harder to make consistent. Improper mixing could be happening. A gel stain is usually easiest for most users. And then finally application technique. Lots of factors going into it.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Inconsistent stain comes from a few things. First is the wood itself. Many species are prone to blotching. We can alleviate that with a pre-treatment that slightly seals the pours. Second is sanding. Inconsistent sanding makes for blotchy stain results because the physical scratches aren’t even.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I imagine practically you might try doing it like the sawing in half trick. But that requires a table. Maybe the practical approach is actually just to do cpr on a mocap rigged dummy?

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

It is a pretty inspiring book. I recommend it. It literally started me on a journey to change careers.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Net and trident is more formidable than you might think.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Nothing. It’s like meditating. Just observing the scratch pattern and grain and making it all an even roughness before progressing. I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t mind sanding.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

PICS!!! We have to see that machine!!!

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The life hack big business doesn’t want you to know… just become a small factory! But seriously more of these DIY folks need to big up the local maker spaces and libraries where there is the right balance of people to production sized CNC machines. We don’t all need all the tools all the time folks!

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thanks! It was a lot of new techniques for me. It’s solid as a rock though. Totally squared itself from the internal dados and rebates. And, as a bonus, could technically be cut on a CNC.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The base is a mortise and tenon construction and likely grossly overbuilt for a coffee table. The interior of the drawers are lined with resawn grain matched thin maple. The hatches can throw a remote across the room. It’s very extra. But what a learning experience. Glad I stretched myself.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It has two drawers, two shelves, and two hatches. The base is soft maple. The top is birch veneered particle core edge banded with birch iron on.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Finally brought home my case piece from college. It took a few dings. Mistakes happened in the process. But I’m pretty happy with all the fancy things I made happen on this coffee table. #woodworking

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Classic standard reference banana.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thanks! I bored out with a 3/4 auger bit and cleaned it up with a bench chisel. I got it in a hand screw and stuck that down to the bench with a couple holdfasts. I worked it to a friction fit and pounded a wedge in to be sure. Titebond 3 and a little sanding hides a lot of my sloppiness too.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Broke a kitchen mallet this week. Had some ash scrap, a chisel, saw, and some time. Now I have a replacement that I’m sure will crack on that darker vein. Maybe that’s why the wood was in the bin to begin with? I’ll just glue it back together when that happens. Finished with bees wax. #woodworking

A wooden mallet and two bananas on a quartz countertop.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

When Cardi B said “my p****i is undefeated.” This is what she meant. See Taki Taki verse 2, line 4.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Don’t mess with the Zohran?

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is why the sliding t bevel is my constant companion.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I had some spare time last week while I wait on hardware so I knocked out this staked stool prototype from my classmates’ off cuts. Poplar with cherry wedges. Octagonal legs. Not so sure about the cross member for connection. Maybe I just do two non lapped diagonals next time. #woodworking

Low angle with angelic lighting on a traditional staked stool. 4 octagonal legs support an equirectangular seat.

Isometric view of a traditional staked stool on a bench in a shop class.

Detail view of wedged tenons in a staked stool. Cherry wedges in poplar.

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Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Animation Industry is in such bad shape, you guys. The amount of raw talent and power it is losing because it's not providing a sustainable living is a tragedy that future generations will study with grief. If you're supporting artists right now: thank you.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If folks want to work like it’s the 1800s do a summer being a historic interpreter at those old time model villages. Hang out with period specific weavers, smiths, typesetters. Then go home and enjoy a modern world where we don’t die from a lack of indoor plumbing or clean drinking water.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Going challenge mode with these drawer fronts. Not a flat surface in sight. Very nice work.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It’s like raaaaiaaaan on your wedding day.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Sounds like a safe route(r) to me.

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ECAbrams @ecabrams.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's a numbers game, certainly. But, remember that many homesteaders tend to not want big anyone peeping their data. Privacy. Autonomy. Self-determination. VPN might be for them.

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