Lack of materials. Finding good hardwood is a pain. The price they're asking for it as well.
1 week ago | 19
Retired and now have the time, tools, and a place to work. Now if I could just afford the wood.
1 week ago | 3
Overcoming my tendency to start a project and never finish it.
1 week ago | 8
Honesty moment….im ridiculously afraid of table saws! I bought a cheap one many years ago and experienced a kickback and it scared the heck out of me. With that being said, I have to confess, I knew absolutely NOTHING about table saws. I’ve watched SO MANY of your (731 woodworks) videos on table saw safety (amongst any other video from your channel I see!). I do a ton of woodworking but it’s ridiculous all the ways and time I spend coming up with ways to get the job completed without using a table saw. I am currently researching the best SawStop saw for me. I can’t say “THANK YOU” enough for the information/time/thought you have put into your videos. God bless!
1 week ago (edited) | 7
Demovation from a lack of sales/clients. It's really hard to find someone to buy what I'm putting out there.
1 week ago | 2
I would have to say down south in Texas especially around Houston all the way down south to the Vally area, people don’t appreciate would work that much. Whether it is a small project or big project. A rustic ice chest made from 100% green western cedar wood and an igloo max cold 70qt ice chest runs me around $350 to make. Yet I’ve been offered 70 bucks for it. They say double your price but I know, no one will pay 700 for it. Not even 450. Down here we are surrounded by low ballers. So now what I do is I reach out to families who need one built as a donation to raffle off for cancer patients or accident that they need help for medical bills. I will never try to sale one. I rather take the skills I learned from @DIY Pete and do something great to those in need.
1 week ago | 1
After work momentum and energy. Recently got the Return to Office Full Time notice and that means well over 100km of commute time per day. By the time I’m back home I just have no energy to do anything. I’ll get acclimated to it eventually but it’s taking longer than I expected. I just bought a new Skil table saw to make a new vanity cabinet, and it’s been in the box still for three weeks now :/
1 week ago | 2
Setting up my new shop. I'm too indecisive on where I want my tools.
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I won't wish the years away, but MAN, the full-time job is just getting in the way of my getting everything I want to get done in the shop done. Less than 11 years away from retirement. In the meantime, I'll keep trying my best! 😄
1 week ago | 1
It's all in my head Matt. I don't have the tools I need. Most but not all. Money is a big red flag here and I'd rather my family eat than me but a hobby tool. No shop, so I'm subject to days when the heat or cold isn't brutal and I can get out side. I'm scared to death they aren't going to like what I did. I actually made several sales this year but struggled with the mental aspects of "what if they...." I wound up backing out of all the sales and just settled for doing what I can as gifts so I can at least sleep at night and not worry about it being worth their money. The other limitations, eh, those I can plan around and push through. The mental thing, not had much luck getting past that block. I've been collecting heavy duty skids from work. Inch and a half runners on these things. 110 lbs each. I've planned to use them in constructing a shop but car trouble, sick animals wiped out every penny we had saved I'm not ready to pack it all up and sell it but I've not put anything on my HF card in months. I was hoping I could make a little extra now and be established a few years from now when I hang up my lunchbox for the last time, but that perfectionism trait is hard to get past.
1 week ago | 0
My shop is such a mess that I spend more time cleaning or trying to organize than I do actually building
1 week ago
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Other. Cleaning up and sorting out my workshop, it still is a complete unorganized disaster. Too much stuff while its big enough, too much garbage. Sometimes I dont even know where to begin.
1 week ago | 1
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