It’s a pretty steep learning curve. You use a full blown CAD program and it takes a while to become proficient at it, but repetition is key. Use it at least some every day like anything else that requires a lot of new knowledge. Half of it is just learning new jargon, but there are hundreds of little tricks and things that you just have to learn by doing. It’s a pretty vast program.
Wipe on poly is just regular poly cut in half with paint thinner. I do two coats of brush on, sand it a little extra then two coats of poly cut in half with paint thinner. Never buy wipe on poly lol, just make it yourself.
Sir, I Iike the cut of your jib
can you get the depth of nitro with it? And do you wet sand it?
It’s pretty much the same. Oil finishes soak into the wood and create a lens effect, allowing deeper seeing into the grain.
No on the wet sanding.
Post away. Those photos are nice.
thanks.
I’m not allowed to make new threads. If someone made a woodworking thread in ‘outside the beltway’, I’d post some there…
I’ll throw one up…
Add metal working too
https://community.hannity.com/t/for-the-woodworkers-here-tips-discussion-etc/
Jump in with metal works!
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Lumber prices are still low
but they have jumped 20-25% since bottoming in mid June.
Stop procrastinating, build a deck . . . and while you
are out there, take down the dang Christmas lights already
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Combined with rising interest rates, I’m seeing the values of homes finally have peaked and are now coming down slightly.
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Lumber is a serious commodity, not some sexy dot.com stock.
When the price of a serious commodity rises 20% in 2-3 weeks it is worth noting.
People in the Northeast may be burning lumber this winter to stay warm, given the price of home heating oil.
Thank you Brandon, indeed.
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I don’t see lumber going down to 325/375 per thousand ever again unless we are in serious recession. Have to take inflation into account.
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I think that burning the furniture may be cheaper. 
When this thread was active last summer, lumber prices were in that little green circle.
Now lumber prices are in that little red circle.
Here is a longer-term chart of lumber prices
Lumber prices today are the same as they were in 2001.
NOT the same adjusted-for-inflation, the real life actual same price.
Cool. I may yet be able to build my boat.
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The is a good chance that when lumber prices are down,
the price of timberland, (or any wooded land) is also down.
