I have made a few now, most of them out of Diamond Willow.

Very nice! Is that white oak?

any crook necks, and do you work for hire?

Yeah. The top is some spruce layered wood I bought.

One thing I have realized is I need a better and cheaper wood source for building furniture and cabinets with.

Yeah, I am not sure what your options are in Florida.

We are fortunate here in Missouri to have mills around even though the Chinese have been buying them up and exporting the wood back to China.

Several of the guys in my golf league work at one of the more successful mills around here and the owner told me China is a real problem right now as China has a ban on cutting of their own forests.

A couple years ago I bought 40 1x8x8' white oak boards for $225, not seasoned of course. Last year I bought 200 1x4x4' cedar boards for $270, once again not seasoned. About 10% of both has been waste.

Damn, those are both great rates!

I'm going to talk to my local sawmill as well in the next couple weeks.. definitely going to ask about that.

Any of you gentlemen ever build a computer desk?


Looking into building one and was curious if any of you had done it or had any suggestions

I haven't.. although I have actually been converting my desks to use this:

https://www.geekdesk.com/adjustable-...ing-desk-frame

I just bought the frames and then used desk tops I already had.

A bit expensive though.

We put together some for our office. What we ended up doing was getting unfinished cabinets from Home Depot and making a countertop and screwing it to the wall rather than making a freestanding one.

Went together pretty cheap. It doesn’t look like a traditional desk but it was cheap and we have 60 acres worth of desk space.

Dad cut the toe kicks off his cabinets but I left them of because I’m an ogre.

I was curious about buying a couple of those cabinets and building off them from there. I might look into that a little more now

I have seen those geek desks before. I like the idea of being able to adjust the height of the desk but damn they do cost more than I thought

Personally, I'd get a pocket hole jig to start with. Make it easy on yourself rather than jointing everything you don't see anyhow.

Do you have a Habitat for Humanity Re-Store near you?

Almost always old base cabinets in those stores that you can paint and repurpose for such things, plus your money goes to a good cause and you'll spend less than half of what you'll pay for new ones at a box store.

I actually do have one of those, don’t have a lot of tools for wood working, but that is one.

Built a few coffee tables before and bought one and it made the 2nd and 3rd table much easier. The 1st table was a couple weeks of pretty much punching myself in the dick over and over

I will look into that, I didn’t know they had something like that

They are pretty cool. Lots of used household things. Cabinets, boards, windows, doors, appliances, furniture, lighting, etc etc. Plenty of things that can be repurposed. By me they charge about $40-45 for a base cabinet that would normally be $130 new.

I am not sure what you mean by crook necks but will google it.

I built a cedar chest for one of my sister's friends that asked me to build her one and then drove three hundred miles to deliver it to her after putting almost 60 hours in it. We had agreed on a price and she shit backwards when I got there, so I decided not to sell any woodworking going forward.

Just going to stick to building stuff for family now, got enough siblings, grandkids, neices and nephews on my list to keep me busy. Thanks though!

Here is a bookshelf out of white oak I built for my eldest daughter and a toybox for youngest grandson.

Crook neck is the traditional hook-style of cane. But if you're not willing to sell, the it's moot.

I don't do any woodworking really anymore... Maybe someday I'll dabble in my own shop, but after doing production-based for a while you don't really feel like "dabbling."

Canes are easy as shit to make though if you really want to DIY. Process is simple. Make a jig of some sort to bend a piece of wood around... Ez way is to take and cut the bottom end off of a small coffee can (about 2") and screw it down securely to a piece of wood. space pieces of wood about 1" away from that on both sides and screw it down to make your bending jig... then u just have to steam the wood.... ez home way is make a box that you can pipe steam in for an hour straight, ez way is with a teapot and a hose... I've attached a rough sketch...

Edit: This is assuming you have cut the sapling, peeled it, and allowed it to air dry.