u/FrankTuna

I've been working on some drawers and churning out alot of sawdust (chips really) and lots of cut-offs from my 1 car garage "shop" 😅 It's more than I can easily get rid of in my 1 residential tipper trash barrel in a week. I'm curious how folks with a similar set up get rid of sawdust and scraps. 🤔🤔🤔

Have you had luck giving away sawdust/chips? I've seen people try to sell that on FB marketplace but didn't know if there were certain kinds of wood that are more desirable for animal bedding (for example).

How about cut-offs? Do people take that for firewood (not PT/plywood of course).

Thanks!

I need to build drawers and totally stressing about this decision 😅. I'm building a few dressers for a baby on the way. They'll have soft maple dovetailed drawers. Some of the wood has beautiful curly and ambrosia grain 🤩

My wife is more worried about budget and functionality, so she's fine with non-soft close side mount full extension Amazon slides (like $50 for 8 pairs). Part of me wants to do full extension, soft close slides so the kid doesn't slam the drawers and it'll show off the maple. (I'm the only wood nerd here haha). That's $200+ if I go Blum or other quality slides vs Vevor/amazon etc which still could be $130-150.

What's your preference for furniture that'll get lots of use? Is soft close worth it for a dresser? Is it worth losing a bit of drawer volume (for undermount hardware) vs sidemount which I've heard can be very sensitive to alignment/case squareness? For what it's worth the drawers will be wide around 33".

Any tips are appreciated!

I have a few offset builds slowly in the works with Fender-style pockets. I want to build the necks (using preslotted and radius boards from Stewmac) but leave the option open for an aftermarket neck if I screw up or run out of time 🤔 I've never made a nut, so that's impacting how I want to build these necks.

I think a flat headstock with standard 1/8" nut slot would be easier to build but I'd have to make the nut (can't find a preslotted one in the 1 3/4" width I'm going for). Alternatively, I could build a neck with an angled headstock and use a preslotted Graphtech 1 3/4" nut. I'm assuming that might need some tweaking for optimal playability though.

I'm a little intimidated about making one to be honest! Just curious how many attempts it took to get your first decent nut made from scratch, and any other tips are appreciated.