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24 Weeks of woodworking class to make whatever!

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jfxphoto
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Posted this in Build a Jib 101 but its sadly dead : (

Hey guys for the next 24 weeks of class I get to work on whatever it is I want. I'm able to make multiple projects or just one big one. I already have a summer setup, and a couple rails. I was thinking maybe a portable drop in for winter or something a bit more creative.

So.. Do you guys have any ideas on what I could/should make. (24 weeks worth of time to make something) +k for good ideas
Nov 10 2010 11:26AM
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GayWolf420
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Build a secret treehouse at your home ski resort/hill.
Nov 10 2010 11:27AM
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ECB
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Something that has meaning to you

Or maybe a clock? A cool kind of clock though like a cuckoo clock?
Nov 10 2010 11:28AM
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E.C.
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just nail a bunch of wood together and see what it makes then take it outside and try to use it for something?

but i deff missed out and didnt take woodshop in hs
Nov 10 2010 11:28AM
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neutralzombie
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make something that's challenging...
Nov 10 2010 11:29AM
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GayWolf420
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Build a pair of skis.
Nov 10 2010 11:29AM
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WV_Skier
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If you have the right tools you could take a week and make a long board. I made a couple cigar box/ hobo guitars when i took shop class in high school it was fun and the teacher liked it.
Nov 10 2010 11:30AM
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fragglemuffin
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Get a bunch of old skis and cut them in half. Then use your 24 weeks of woodworking skill to craft a sick chair/bench/couch frame. Lastly, use the skis as the seat and backboard. Then you have nifty and original chill furniture.
Nov 10 2010 11:41AM
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Dan.
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make a piece of baller ass furniture. sell said piece of furniture. profit.
Nov 10 2010 11:56AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Definitely make something for your house. I know, you probably don't have a house now but you will someday and hardwood furniture is freakin expensive. In HS shop I made three solid oak projects that I still use now over ten years later. Yeah they're not pro craftsmanship quality, but they are sturdy as hell. Go out and look at an endtable at shitty wal mart or ikea or something and it's shit mdf wood and cheap hardware, and it still costs over a hundred bucks. The solid oak pieces I made in school would be like 250 to buy, but since wood is dirt cheap in shop class they were only like 30 bucks. Forget a fuckin ski chair, yeah it's cool but you can slap one of those together on a weekend with your pops or something. Utilize the full woodshop you have at school and make bomb ass furniture that you'll have for life.
Nov 10 2010 11:59AM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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sounds like fun, even if they don't turn out good it'd be cool. I've made a wooden bowl using a lathe and a clock and a few other things. 
Nov 10 2010 12:03PM
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ryantheconnolly
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make a giant clock that you can also use as a portable drop in
Nov 10 2010 12:06PM
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AbeFroman
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Can you make me a hammer like a small hammer, just like a mini hammer
Nov 10 2010 12:11PM
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hokkanee
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A rowboat
Nov 10 2010 12:16PM
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Heinzler
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portable drop in then a drawer chest?
Nov 10 2010 12:17PM
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.frenchy
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build a dope longboard, that's what we did last year in woodshop.
Nov 10 2010 12:20PM
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alexat955
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There's hella people making bowls on the lathes in my class. I'm currently making a rail system for my camera and I'm gonna make a go kart soon. One kid is making a 9 foot tall grandfather clock
Nov 10 2010 12:24PM
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timmi
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Make a sick beer pong table. Obviously don't tell your teacher its a beer pong table, but make a 9 foot long thin table. maybe make it collapsible or two tables that you push together.
Nov 10 2010 12:27PM
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infedel_one
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in highschool i made a desk, cabinet, and side table for my room. Just put time and energy into your work and it can look professional and baller as fuck.
Nov 10 2010 12:30PM
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.frenchy
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Or what some other people made: a box with a secret compartment on the bottom for secret stuff! or a bowl... o wait that guy got suspended..
Nov 10 2010 12:32PM
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T.L.
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Make a nice book shelf out of mahogany that you can stack all your leather bound books on.
Nov 10 2010 12:42PM
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fujarome
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make an absolutely enormous, yet horrifically unsafe observation tower. make it 4x4 at the base, and just keep building up with the scrap wood everyone else tosses aside.



now that i think of it, this might as well describe all my childhood tree forts. surprising me and my friends never suffered a deadly collapse given our shoddy building.
Nov 10 2010 12:49PM
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geteducated
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make a table or bed made out of old rail road ties.
Nov 10 2010 12:51PM
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ECB
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clock!
Nov 10 2010 1:16PM
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Hemulen.
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Nov 10 2010 2:34PM
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MNS
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yeah build something handy like a TV stand or afew nice coffee tables, shits expensive when you leave
Nov 10 2010 2:47PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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build a longboard!
Nov 10 2010 2:58PM
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Heath.
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"What are you doing? You're just drilling holes."

"Last 2 weeks, fuck it!"
Nov 10 2010 3:02PM
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Heath.
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Quote fail

Nov 10 2010 3:03PM
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steezysteeze
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That would be very cool.
Nov 10 2010 3:22PM
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Deezy
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build a bed, twice the size of a king, buy 2 king mattresses, and now you have an epic bed. if it fits.

or a skeleton of a jump and drop in so you can hit it in the summer and need not much snow. (or in winter with less effort to build)

or something for someone else that you can sell when the class is done.
Nov 10 2010 3:26PM
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MCIRONCOCK
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This for sure :D

If you're into longboarding, build a press. Better yet, make a couple presses and experiment with different amounts of concave/camber. I'm not sure what kind of wood you have access to but if you can get veneers for boards that would be an awesome project.
Nov 10 2010 3:30PM
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49566738265
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This.

Any goon can make a drop in or a longboard in a day.  Real hardwood furniture takes skill and practice to make.  I'm about to start a king sized sleigh bed next.  I made a drop in with a buddy and a rail in about 3 hours 2 weeks ago.  Freaking easy.
Nov 10 2010 3:34PM
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Twinjibber77
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I made a hat rack and spray painted it chrome with my initials raised the first day, sanded it for three more days with my iPod on, then messed around and made paddles the rest of the semester. Oh, and the teacher had a grading system where every ones project gets lined up and you vote which one is best and which one is worst. Highest gets a 100 and lowest gets a 65. I got a 98. That teacher still works at my high school for some reason. Cool Story Hansel.
Nov 10 2010 3:40PM
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molsongolden
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CARVE A WOODEN PICKLE

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Nov 10 2010 3:48PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Spray painting over wood grain should be illegal, to each their own I guess though.



For real though, I know it's wierd to think about it like that now but this shit is a great investment. Not like a "you can sell it later" investment, but more of a "I wish I would have made that in wood shop" type of investment.

I made one just like this in woodshop for about 35 dollars. and this POS probably isn't even a real floating panel door and still uses veneer bs.
Click for larger image This thing costs 150, and that's a cheap one.

My buddy made an entertainment center for his parents that cost about 150 but we may have fudged the board square feet a bit, the thing still sits in his parents living room and would have easily cost a thousand bucks to buy.

My advice is make something usable, and as large and detailed as you think you can handle. It sucks moving the stuff cause it's heavy as shit, but it's something you can pass to your children cause it'll last so long.
Nov 10 2010 4:02PM
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Thrash
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Definitely any projects involving the lathe, it is definitely the greatest machine in a woodworking class.
Nov 10 2010 4:04PM
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Twinjibber77
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Oh i totally agree! I wasn't actually gonna use it so i didn't care otherwise i would have stained it because it was soooooo smooth.
Nov 10 2010 4:16PM
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sk1er
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kayak or bobsled with skis on it
Nov 10 2010 4:29PM
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Swaggermager
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Wallride!
Nov 10 2010 4:37PM
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Shreddysaurus
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You have 24 weeks? Build a house.
Nov 10 2010 4:37PM
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