I have lose plans to build another power rack. I would make a half-rack out of plywood so it does not take up so much space. But I haven't figured out to do certain exercises with it that I can to with my full rack dips, bench assisted row. So today is not that day.

funny, I was planning on asking you for an update today

smaller parts assembled. Still have to tighten every single screw but I will do this last.

 

I got the aluminum parts two weeks ago. But it takes really long to drill all the holes and cut all the threads. So not much to report about.

I am currently regretting hard doing this because it was so much work while still being more expensive than a regular bed. I'm looking forward to cleaning up all the mess and aluminum splinters everywhere in my flat.

Small sides are doned.

The long sides will be the hard part because I misaligned some of the holes pretty bad.

Constructing a do-it-yourself dragon dildo? You do you, OP

so you've been living with metal shavings all over the floor? oh Bernd

 

I'm sure you'll manage putting the frame together just fine even with skewed holes, as capable as you are

baced

 

today I repainted my room

tomorrow I will try assembling ans news wardrobe's

Long sides doned. I started to preemptively elongate the holes on the inner side before assembly. This makes everything much easier and is not visible. Getting tired.

Only 28 screws left before it stands for the first time.

 

I need ans workshop but space is rare in germany. I almost rented a cellar room in some commercial building but eventually decided that it would still be better to move to a bigger place.

Feel welcome to bost bictures.

I found some mold during the cleanenings

now it's all nice and huwyte

CALL ANS AMBERLANCE!

THERE IS BLOOD EVERYWHERE!

good job, how many coats?

 

have you tried licking it?

Do you really still lick your wounds? I feel like this won't help stop the bleeding.

 

I'm finished for today. I feel tired probably because of the blood loss. The last screws were very tricky. Would prefer it if I would added some aluminum strips in the middle to pull it together. Tomorrow I will disassemble my old bed and then try lying in the aluminum one to judge the stability.

sometimes, although I'm not a fan of the metallic taste; usually I just squeeze around the wound and watch the blood come out then I clean it and put a bandaid on it, as I'm not a complete animal

 

I'm impressed you haven't fainted yet

 

how are you going to test it? will you be jumping on it?

No. I will wiggle it and try to infer the weak points.

My original plan was to just let the slatted frame sit on the aluminum posts. I think one of the main problems could be that the middle of the long sides might bend outward and then the slatted frame would just fall down. Another problem is that the corners are not properly braced. I think I will fix all stability issues if I just connect the slatted frame to the aluminum with screws. This will remove every weakness and make it super strong.

Maybe when it is finished I will let myself fall into it.

What kind of wardrobe are you going to assemble? Did you build it yourself?

ikea

this was the old one btw

you're following the instructions?

I unironically don't understand half of the instructional pictures

 

I just spend the last 2.5 hours tightening every single screw on the frame. My right thumb hurts.

two hours of screwing and the only sore thing is your thumb? impressive

fugg.

While disassembling my old bed I tried to fit the old slatted frame into my new aluminum bed and noticed that my bed was way to wide.

Turns out that for some reason my sketchup-design was 8cm too wide for the mattress. 128cm instead of 120cm. I checked the length multiple times but apparently never checked the width.

I have to take down the frame again, cut down 14 aluminum bars, cut new threads and try against. It's over.

oh no

 

how did that even happen?

While tinkering with the design and changing it so often it eventually lost the original width.

I could have easily prevented it if I would just made one block with the measurements of the mattress in sketchup and try it at the end.

Just this morning I wondered how everything went so well so far. There is never a project without errors. The only hope it that they are small enough that it does not take so long to fix. This is a big one.

Too wide? That's not a problem. Why worry. The problem would be if it were too narrow.

at least you'll never make this mistake again

 

how long will it take to fix this?

8cm is pretty much and I want this to last for decades. So I'm not willing to have these enormous gaps beween the frame and the mattress. But yes. Too narrow would mean that I would have to order lots of parts so this is better.

 

I will disassemble it against today and the rest will probably another full day of work. Don't know when I will continue though. Maybe it would be good to take a little pause.

just put something in between the gaps, problems werent

What specifically?

Good job Bern.

No shelves inside?

no. he's a vampire and this wardrobe is for sleeping, not storing stuff

shelves incoming uhh when I find time

I doubt that the cheap particle board on the bottom will survive very long if he intends to stand on it all day long. It will sag or even break after ans weeks.

don't know know vampires can levitate?

here

and it's done

I hate small deep shelves like this.

It will always look like a mess and you can't properly see whats in there. Drawers are so much better.

I had drawers and I hated it. My clothes piled up and drawer wouldn't come out.

I have almost all of my clothes on hangers because I can put them there straight out of the washing machine to dry and after drying just put the hangers in my wardrobe.

Only the underwear is in drawers and I never had any problems with that.

Finished my beda today.

I assembled it in my living room and almost failed at maneuvering it through the hallway to my bedroom. I'm looking forward to cleaning up again tomorrow and filling all the boxes.

Gud job Bernd!

oh wow bed wow

I knew you could do it!

 

did you sleep well?

Thengs frens.

 

I slept good but it was a bit too warm for my taste.

You still owe me your honest opinion. You promised you give it to me once it was finished.

I'm thinking of building a mirror cabinet for my bathroom next. My current one is too small and I could plan this precise enough that I could order just enough so that I could use up most of the material that I have still left. Then I think I would have enough aluminium furniture for a while.

Only difficulty is the mirror. Those are always very heavy.

I love how sleek it looks and that you can store a lot of things under it! but I'll admit I'm a bit worried about you stubbing your toes

 

you should try sleeping under a bedsheet, that's what I do when it's unbearably hot

 

can't wait for another project report; how big would you like it?

I can't imagine why you would go so close with your toes to the edge of the bed that you might stub the toes on it. Maybe because I'm way taller than you.

 

The max size I can fit to my bathroom currently is 80*70cm. I want it to be big and really shallow. So I can not put two items behind each other. Either 4 or 6cm deep. I probably only make the mirror 80*60cm and use the bottom 10cm for a little shelf so I can put wider things > 4cm on there. Also I probably want the front to be two sliding mirrors. Then I can use the mirrors as doors as they are and don't have to deal with hinges and how I would attach them to the mirror.

That's the current state of my thoughts. What do you think?

It's bound to happen when you're walking around ans corner's.

Almost every bed has a posts at the corners and if this would be a major issue for many people, beds would be designed differently. I have never stubbed my toe on ans bed.

I keep stubbing toes on the new couch unfortunately

Maybe this is more related to your drinkenings than to the couch.

sounds plausible

maybe it's because you actually watch where you're going, unlike me

 

I actually pulled out a tape measure and checked the mirror that hangs in my bedroom - it's almost the same size as you're planning (80x80cm), and I'd say it's a decent size for a bathroom mirror - but the 4cm depth is probably cutting it too close (I mean, it all depends on what you're going to store there, but judging by the stuff I use on a daily basis even a small face cream is almost 6cm in diameter); I also like the idea of putting things in a single "layer" since they're going to be convenient to access this way

 

sliding doors will look way better than normal ones (are you going to put handles on it so it's easier to slide them open?), but it all sounds very complicated to make since I'm not at all knowledgeable about making furniture. although I have no doubt you can do anything

very good. I came to the same conclusion. I thought maybe I could just use a single 20x40 or 20x60 profile for the shelves put this would make it impossible to store a lot of things in there.

Currently I'm thinking of just making the frame out of profiles and then screw some aluminum sheets on there. Then I can make them wider without impacting the cost so much and also eliminate the problem that dirt would accumulate in the slots of the profile.

 

I won't try to drill into the glass. I have some experience trying to make holes in glass and it usually ended up in shattering it. But I will probably try to glue something on there. I assume having no handles at all and tons of fingerprints all over the mirror from opening and closing it would be frustrating in the long run.

 

I think all I have to do is attach some U-Profile on there to form a slot and then put some low friction tape on both surfaces so they slide easily. But I have never done something like that.

as if that could ever stop you

 

so when will you start working on it?

Usually I try not to build anything during summer so that I spend more time outside but I doubt the building of this would take more than 2 days so I will probably sneak this in.

I still have to figure out the best way to attach the guide-rails to the aluminum profile. Then I can start.

Just went to two different construction stores to buy some 0.8 and 1mm thick aluminum sheet metal. Also looked for mirrors.

I want two ~ 80x40cm mirrors. Mirrors that narrow are usually longer to be attached to the door. With longer mirrors I would have to additionally buy a glas cutter to cut down the length. Which would give me one bad edge that would be a pain to soften and might slide bad in the aluminum rails or possibly destroy the mirror when I try to cut it.

One had a 39x110cm mirror for a decent price but only a single one left. The other one had several 40x100cm mirrors but for a price where I could order one that fits properly from the internet. I'm very tempted to try out acrylic mirrors. But the amerzon customer reviews state that the scratch easily. What shall I do?

could you order a small sample to check how scratch susceptible it really is? I mean, even if it does scratch easily - it's a mirror and not something you touch and handle every day, so you're not going to have a lot of opportunities to scratch it anyway

Probably not. But it does not matter anyway because when I look for acrylic mirrors I can't find any with the dimensions that I need.

I could get mirror tiles. But I think this would look cheap.

maybe you could get some clear glass and turn it into a mirror

Why would I do that?

I mean, if you can't get a mirror in the exact size you want, I'd be easier to just get glass; I don't know, just a thought

I think mirrors are created by vaporizing silver to coat the glass. The boiling point of silver is 2000°C. This would be hard to do at home.

But I can order two 80x40cm mirrors from amerzon. I just hope they don't shatter when they gets delivered.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BZKWCFV2/

has the internet lied to me, yet again? I thought it was as simple as using some kind of mirror paint with protective coating

 

even if it gets shattered in delivery, couldn't you just write a complaint to the store and they'd send you a new one and then get their money back from the delivery company? that's how it works here (mostly)

I'm not aware of mirror paint. I wanted to buy some mirror foil once which they advertised to be just exactly like a mirror. But when you see these things in reality they are extremely dull and distort the image to be pretty much unusable.

If a mirror is not super flat and free of imperfections it will be really easy to notice. It's kinda astonishing that building mirrors is a technology that didn't advance in the last like 50 years.

 

yeah sure. It's just a hassle I'd rather avoid. Also I'm sure the company has some experience with packaging mirrors so it will most likely not happen.

well, it's just reflecting light and there is no way around that; also, the stuff we have now is good enough so there is no real push for innovations, I guess

 

right, I'm just imagining the worst case scenario as usual; recently I ordered a mug from Etsy, it was shipped all the way from the USA and I was astonished when it got here in one piece

yes. I do that, too. It's fine as long as you don't get lost in these thoughts.

What mug did you buy?

any advice for not getting overwhelmed?

 

it's a regular black mug with my favorite cover art printed on it; it's really pretty and I would love to show you, but there is literally only one guy who sells it and I'm too paranoid that somehow someone will get my address from him

Nothing that will really help unfortunately. Be aware that your mind likes to catastropize things which usually has little to do with reality. The worst outcomes usually just end up in costing you some money and you have enough of that. So who cares.

 

And what will that person do with your address? Send you a mean postcard? You are the only pole here so the probability that someone will travel hundred of kilometers to another cunt just to stalk you is pretty low. You are not that important.

what do you mean, I'm not that important? on a more serious note though - I did have a stalker who traveled over 700km to get to me, and I'd rather be overly (and ridiculously) cautious than to repeat that

impressive. What did he do after he got to you?

just stood on the street and kept staring at my windows, I stayed at home that day and he eventually got bored; next day he was waiting at the main entrance to my uni (the timetable was available on the public website) but I managed to notice him first and used the back door to get inside, after that he went back home but not before sending me a bunch of texts complaining how cold-hearted I am for not even wanting to meet after he's made such an effort to travel so far; just thinking about it boils my piss

Sounds like it could have had a much worse outcome. Don't you feel a little flattered that someone would drive 700km just to see you? This would not happen to many people.

BUT I WOULD WALK 500 MILES AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE TO BE THE MAN TO WALK 1000 MILES TO FALL DOWN AT YOUR DOOR

yeah, it could've ended way worse, but it still was very scary and messed me up for life (not that I was normal to begin with)

 

and it wasn't flattering at all - it was horrifying and made me feel unsafe; I think the whole situation happened because of whatever mental issues this person has, not because I'm so great and irresistible

Neighbours are away on holidays so I can be as loud as I want.

Currently trying to finish ans workbench. The cabinets have been sitting in a corner for two years now. I think I will be able to finish contruction tomorrow if no major fuckups happen. Then I only need to sand and apply finish but I can do this whenever I want.

what are those little boxes for?

Take a guess...

they're a part of an elaborate trap

dragon dildo storage

You are right. Very good. It seems like you are a natural born woodworker.

 

The height is 19.5cm. I can take way larger dragon dildos than that.

thank you, I owe my success to you since you taught me everything I know

Final glue up in progress.

Only thing left is to attach the cast-iron woodworking vise.

it looks like it was carved out of a block of white chocolate which is to say I really like it

Thank you. It will eventually all turn yellowish after I applied finish. But this will also pop the grain which will make it look more interesting. Birch plywood has very beautiful grain.

I made the drawer handles from ash and a couple of those have very nice grain as well.

I think I'm doned. Only need to attach a multiple socket outlet somewhere under the top. Imagine ruining the beautiful grain and surface of the top by working on it.

Funnily enough I don't really have anything to put into the drawers. Originally I planned this to solve my storage problem. But with my aluminum cabinets and my bed I solved it already. Neither all the boxes under my bed nor all the boxes in my aluminum cabinet are full.

 

Also finished my mirror cabinet design. Only thing left is to order. I hope I don't fuck this up.

Looks much better than I anticipated. Did you do it from scratch?

t.hanks

yes I did. It's made from 6 and 10mm birch plywood. there is also some poppler in the top that you can't see to make it lighter

very nice, but it seems like now you have a reversed storage problem

Any suggestions on how to solve it?

make multiple tiny workbenches, each smaller than the last one and store them inside each other, matryoshka-style

This might lessen the problem but does not solve it. The tiniest of these workbenches will still have unused storage space.

not if you make an infinite number of workbenches; better get to work!

But this will take an infinite amount of time. Thus stretching the duration of the inverse storage problem to infinity. You want me to suffer for eternity!

suffer? I thought you liked woodworking!

It's not about the woodworking. It's about the storage problem!

oh fine, I'll grant you one grain of sand to store in the smallest workbench, happy now?

So what your are really suggesting is to store stones in order to solve my storage problem. That's ridiculous!

you're not a fan of rocks, I take it? how do you feel about minerals?

I supplement zinc and magnesium. Besides that I feel no more or less of them than of rocks.

that's too bad, minerals are really cool, even those common ones, look

Looks interesting. But what am I supposed to do with it?

same thing you'd do with a painting, feast your eyes

Took this advice, and now i live in harmony...

What minerals do you own?

unfortunately none, but I'm not the one with the infinite storage space conundrum

t. hank