I second the use of shellac. I’ve been using shellac on a maple cabinet project I’m working on right now.

Maple is a proper bitch to sand because it’s so hard. I wouldn’t recommend sanding higher than 180 at most of else you risk glazing the wood, which makes it hard for your finish to work. Also any alcohol finish is going to dry extremely quickly and be very finicky to work with… Particularly on a very large continuous surface like a desk. It’s not impossible, but absolutely, definitely, practice first. Figure out your brushes, your mixture, your technique all ahead of time. When you hit that desk there’s no turning back and it’s go time.

I tried over a dozen different oil and gel based stains for the project, and shellac was far and away the best looking, due to maple’s exceptionally tight grain, and high tendency to blotch.

Good luck! I really enjoy working with maple, but boy is it a challenging medium.

I am all for this. I absolutely cannot wait for it to be released!!! Super Mario RPG was absolutely one of my favorite games as a kid. I’ve been jonesing to pull in back out lately… This will be so much fun!

Holy god, I never thought I’d see someone else mention DCSS in the wild!! I used to play that a bunch about a year or so ago. Truth be told, I kind of miss it once in a while. Devilishly hard, but I did manage to break into Hell once. Even killed one of the pandemonium lords.

Shit… I might start playing again.

I played the crap out of borderlands… until one day I asked myself why… and… I never picked it up again. After that switch was flipped, the whole series just fell apart on me.

Same. I made a post to my local subreddit, and felt that hesitation creep in. I don’t get so much on Lemmy. Also, I had to laugh because it was immediately downvoted into oblivion.

You know, that’s a good point. Facebook may be littered with ads, but at least they are relevant to my lifestyle. My wife has purchased a fair few things she saw from Facebook ads. Reddit ads pretty much are universally uninteresting garbage.

I have been playing Pathfinder 2e for the last few years. We just finished a Starfinder campaign, and are starting up a Lancer game in it’s place. I’ve wanted to try Lancer for years, so I’m pretty excited for it! :D

oh god, that’s awful!! :( No barefeet… or doggies, I guess.

Please send me an update as you move along and/when you’re done! I’d love to see it develop!

That’s the big one, to me. It’s a huge source of water for damn near all of Crimea. Russia destroying the thing has dramatic implications both to their campaign in Ukraine as well as their perceived ability to withstand the Ukrainian counter offensive in Crimea. This is both terrible and very interesting…

Alright, like… every part of this is awesome. WaybackMachine proxy, photo scanning your shed… this is GREAT! I would like to recommend using something like OnShape instead of blender, though. I’ve never found blender to be super helpful when trying to put together diagrams and such. I used SketchUp for a bit, but found it too restrictive.

Lastly, another web-tool I’ve found to be ENORMOUSLY helpful with optimizing building materials purchases/usage is opticutter. It was hugely helpful for my most recent cabinet building project

The planes are sticking around, actually. Just character alignment is going away. :)

Really? I’m surprised to hear that take. I’ve only been excited for the removal of alignment! Why do you think apartment should stay?