PSA: I am pretty new to woodworking and don’t have a ton of experience and this is a very small project (like literally tiny)

I need to make a box that is 2” wide, 4” tall, 2” across the top. I am using 3/4” plywood and am unsure of the best way to join the sides together. All corners are 90 degrees. I’m not very experienced with a router and I’ve tried dovetails with a saw and chisel but have not mastered that one yet. I have a table saw, miter saw, hand saws, and skill saw. I don’t have a set of dado blades either. I was thinking maybe tongue and groove but don’t know if it will be thick enough.

UPDATE: Okay everyone I lied. The plywood that I bought is 1/4 inch thick, I just measured cause y’all made me second guess myself. It’s leftover from another project (not scrap but had a lot leftover because it was on sale). When I looked up the receipt on Home Depot, it said 3/4 inch thick. My bad 🫡

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Hi all! New to the community, and fairly new to woodworking in general, but finally decided to stop talking about it and actually make it a hobby. I do have some experience with the basics of woodworking, am fairly handy, and am a 15+ year journeyman Electrician... so not unless (unless we're cleaning up) but I'm hoping some people on here who actually know what they're doing can have a glance at my plans and guide me in the right direction.

This is goona end up long, so bear with me. But again I am in no sense of the word a pro, just trying to keep my hands busy on days off so if you have any tips, advice, criticism or otherwise please let er rip... talk to me like I'm a green first year.

My first project is a makeup vanity for the wife. My vision is a table with 3 drawers, and a hinged counter top that flips up ~95° to reveal more storage, and a couple mirrors and lights on the underside of the flip up top.

Rough draft plans are to have the desk stand 34" high, 36" wide and 16" deep. (I'm aware these may be oddball dimensions, but it's being built to fit)

3 drawers will be on the right, 14" wide and increasing in depth from top to bottom (4",6"& 8") this leaves a 22" wide gap to fit a chair, and allows for a 6" deep storage space below the counter top, while leaving a little wiggle room to trim the bottom down if I made it too tall.

Plan for the very top piece is to cut at 38" wide and 18" deep for a 1" overhang around the perimeter. Back will be hinged (x4) and somehow incorporate some sort of dampner / lock to prevent lid from falling closed. On the inside of the lid there will be a mirror mounted flat (PL500, fastener tabs, hopes and dreams?) With a strip of vanity LED's along the perimeter, as well as an extendable makeup mirror that folds out.

Current plan for materials is as follows :

4' x 8' x 3/4" sanded aspen Plywood for sides, middle, and backing

4' x 8' x 1/2" sanded aspen for drawers + storage space

2' x 4' Red Oak Plywood for the counter top.

Hoping to fake my way through making some dado's, otherwise likely lots of wood glue, brad nails, and lag bolts as required, although I'm sure there are more suitable joint options. I think I've accounted for all other miscellaneous hardware such as hinges, drawer slides, a dampner for the top, handles, etc so won't include all the extras here.

I'm aware I may have bit off more than I can chew with this as a starter project but I'm committed now, and I already tricked her in to liking me somehow so she won't run off if it ain't perfect... But I'm sure there's books worth of things that I'm not thinking about or approaching in the wrong way so please throw your wisdom at me, from materials to methods to where to start / what order to complete, ill take anything ya got.

Bonus round - I'm planning on staining the whole unit black and sealing it with some sort of bar top (top lid especially) I had an idea of accenting the exterior by gouging / dremeling with some sort of design and filling it in with a lighter blue epoxy(?) Prior to sealing... but I have no idea how I would do this, how to make it look good, or if it's even worth it.

If you've made it this far I really appreciate ya taking the time, and would love to hear some advice from the experts.

Cheers

So, Im part of A DND group, and our dm is allowing us to use some of his wood to make replicas of our weapons, mine is based on Jayce's hammer from arcane, and Im asking advice on how to possible reduce weight but balanced enough to not be too light, also a way that i can keep the silhouette/shape about the exact same

So, Im part of A DND group, and our dm is allowing us to use some of his wood to make replicas of our weapons, mine is based on Jayce's hammer from arcane, and Im asking advice on how to possible reduce weight but balanced enough to not be too light

Need Advice on what I can do with the corners now on my first table build. They didn't end up coming together evenly. Wood filler?

The two stools in the kitchen are finally worn down and I am looking for any beginner friend kitchen counter high stools. I wouldn’t be opposed to putting some foam and fake leather on top but ideally just wood for now.

Looking to make a table like this but am having trouble finding plans.

Hey all I am looking to build a hidden Murphy door book shelf with 5 shelves. I have the hinge from Amazon, Kreg jig and pretty much all other tools needed for the job. I have a rough opening of 32x82-1/2 and a concrete floor so far. I’m assuming I have to make a door jamb first then build the book shelf. What should the dimensions of the book shelf be?

I wanna put my whiteboard in front of my library, and have as a "cabinet door" for the storage behind it. I was thinking on putting some rails so they board would slide up and down, but I havent find the rails i need online. Ive also thought of other options but would like some opinions

Im very new to building cabins i havent even built one yet, planning on my first one after winter and i asked my woodwork teacher and this sub. They both reccomended i use cement but i cannot access it and transport it its a long story but basically what im asking could i place down layers of tarp where im planning to build then put my foundation over it? Thanks

We do lots of sanding/finishing on our old picnic table in the backyard. Has anyone built a picnic table with like holes for bench dogs/ clamps? We’d still try to make it presentable for guests

I’m building this vinyl record shelf and don’t know the best way to attach these legs. I was going to buy furniture legs but those won’t work with a flat bottom piece where the wood is just shy of 1” thick. What type of hardware would I use? Haven’t built the legs yet because I’m not sure what the top of them look like.

The pinned post for this sub has an amazing resource of many years of shop Notes magazine PDFs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Woodworkingplans/s/XFGsFx5xhv

I downloaded them a while ago and have been slowly reading them. It is a LOT of info tho, and in this format, not easily searchable.

Does anyone know of an online or PDF index for this archive?

I'd love to have either a Table Of Contents that I could use to search the entire archive for a single topic, or an Index that indicates which Volume and Issue a given topic like 'router table' shows up in.

Thanks!

I'd like to make this table but I can't find any plan to make this system.

It's an extending table, the table top is sliding to one end while the extension is coming from under and slide in place, then you close the gap by sliding back a bit the table top.

anyone got a plan for the mechanism that is hidden in the sides? it doesn't have to be this one table but something similar.

edit: flair

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Hello! Does anyone have any Tatami chair plans?

Tatami chairs are also known as Zen Chairs. They are chairs with no legs and just a back and seat. I would like to be able to add a pad. Thank you!

Looking at options that are budget friendly but still fully functional. MDF, plywood , or?

I am building out my shop but on a budget and wondering what people are using for table tops these days

Hi everyone, I have an old countertop installation I’m trying to retrofit for a new range (there was previously a separate oven and stovetop right next to each other). I basically need to cut a piece of the countertop out (the cavity in the cabinetry is already large enough). I was thinking that the only real way to do this straight would be with a circular saw/track saw setup, but the problem is I can’t get at it from the underside of the wood. So I’m worried I’ll damage the hell out of the surface and it will end up looking terrible.

My kitchen hasn’t been touched since the late 80’s, and it realistically just needs to be torn down to the studs, but I can’t afford to do that for probably another year or two. I can’t pull up the existing countertop without disconnecting the sink plumbing, and if I’m doing all that, then I would just buy a new countertop since the existing ones have some heat damage in another spot. Then, while I’m at that, my hot water heater needs to be replaced and for some reason it is entombed under the countertop and completely inaccessible. Then if I do that, my plumbing should be redone due to very poor quality of work and corrosion, etc etc

The gist of it is I would really like to figure out how to cut these countertops while they are still mounted to the cabinets. Is this a terrible idea? Is there any possible way to prevent chipping and tear out of the finished part?

Thanks in advance!

This one appears to be curved, one that is straight would be preferred, but not strictly necessary.

I am a small business owner and I want to add records to my store! I found these and wanted to tackle building them. I'm looking for help to draft plans to build this as my skills in wood working is zero but I am great at following directions

Am I too over my head is trying to build this?

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I am a High School student looking to construct a workbench and create workbench plans for a senior project in Design and Technology.

I have created an anonymous form to collect information about peoples workbenches.

https://forms.gle/KQNgSM4piy9piWFcA

Thanks in advance.

I’m making large (1M x 2M) end grain wallhangings, at roughly 1” thick. When they get hung up they can tend to cup a bit, likely a change in the air temperature and moisture in the room…they tend to flatten out after a while hanging there but I’d like to eliminate this movement.

I’ve seen other people, on Instagram, router steel frames into the back of their piece. They’re not making end grain panels but they are using full wood rounds in a board. They also use resin, so maybe this helps with securing the wood into place?

When I first started out I tried to cut the wood real thin, almost like a veneer, and then attach it to a ply board, but that did not work because when the board got hotter (I.e. in the sun) all the individual pieces flexed off the ply. Because of this I assumed that nothing could really hold them in place and have just left them to do their thing. I would love to have a more consistently flat finish though.

What do you think?

TIA