What to make in wood shop?

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scott-skis

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i need idea's of something to make in woodshop class. i was going to make a longboard but i tore my acl, so now im thinking maybe a box or a chest with a false bottom or something. any ideas?
 
I made a 12 ft box it tech last year. It was super handy because they had so many extra short pieces of wood that I could use and it saved me a lot of money.
 
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and make me a computer desk with secret spots for my house next year
 
make a wooden bowl, like a fruit bowl. I made one on a lathe and since i'd imagine you're probably not walking around a lt, ro as much, all you have to do is stand at the lathe.
i made a clock too. it came out nice.
 
i wasnt really into the big stuff. so i made a ski hill at a 45 degree angle that was a triangle base. and did small work creating jumps and rails and boxes. it turned out pretty good. i didnt have a camera phone at the time, and it wouldnt fit out of the shop. so i had to destroy it :(
 
i'm making a fucking trebuchet. like a little scale one that's like 2 feet long and flings tiny shit. it's BOSS as FUCk
 
make a pvc rail. a few of my friends and i all made 12 ft. long pvc rails, i'm sure your school will have some pvc pipe hanging around somewhere too.
 
def. this. Idk there's a lot one can make with wood. You just gotta hone your craft and become a master.
 
make a cereal bowl, i made a sick cereal bown while i was in shop on a lathe, its like a billion different colors and kinds of wood. and its sick cause every day when i eat cereal im all like "wow this is a really nice bowl i wonder who made this?" and then i remember and im like "oh yeah i forgot im a fucking gangster"

so you should do that.
 
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I made a simple wine rack a couple weeks back, a really nice 22foot flat-down-flat rail and seeing as we only have 5 days left of school I made a wand... fun 2-3day project.

Pics of said wand...

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A lot of people made desks/tables.

Someone made a center consol for his car with secret spot for bud
 
hahaha has this been tested? i wish my woodshop was cooler.. we just all made the same project.. i think i need to take a different class to make something i want, but even then i can't make anything cool
 
hahahahahahahahaha i took woodshop and knowing the teacher, he would NEVER let me do somthing like that! just wayyy to sketch, ghetto and doesnt apply any wood working skills....
 
my shop teacher is a dumbass so i just do whatever i want. when he found out i was building this he basically exempted me from all course work so i could finish it haha. it's got too much torque so the belt slips a LOT. in the process of converting it to chain driven though.
 
I made a longboard press, then pressed over 50 boards that whole year and sold them for $40 each. I only had to pay $100 total for the wood and supplies, the school covered the rest. I made bank
 
this thread is relevant to my interests. im planning on making some money for myself by testing my skills at woodworking. here are a couple ideas im thinking about.

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also, ask your teacher if you can work with cardboard instead of wood. you can apply all the same techniques, but cardboard allows you to do things you couldnt with wood.

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make furniture you can use in your house. Furniture is fucking expensive when it's real wood. You may not think it's cool now, but when you have you're own place and you have solid wood furniture that you built yourself you will feel like a boss trust me.

Making it in school is like 1/5 the price of buying it later in life trust me. I have two end tables and an entertainment center that I made for a total of maybe 150 bucks over ten years ago. I still use them in my house today.
 
I used 7 plys of 1/8th inch canadian maple, which for some reason my school had a shitload of when i couldnt find it anywhere around where i live before. I built a relatively simple dimm press, using DOW blue insulation foam to get the shape of the board, and had two large planks on both sides for sufficient preassure. I used titebond 3, which my school also supplied, and fabrigated large clamp things to apply the necesary pressure to prevent delaminating. All the boards were 38 inches long, 1.5 inch of drop, and 7/8 inch of concave. I built them as double dropped boards or topmounts, depending on who wanted what. My shop teacher was a big longboarder/old school skater back in the day so he was cool with it
 
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