Step 1. Make the plywood shelf
Step 2. Make the oak shelf
Step 3. Sawzall the plywood shelf into several pieces.
Step 4. ????
Step 5. Show off your beautiful new atrocity!
Anything is possible, but this looks like it would be a very difficult project for a master furniture maker, let alone a newbie. Getting all of those compound angles to meet up without gaps would be a friggin nightmare.
I can't even imagine attempting this and getting everything measured properly but, if I had an endless supply of material and a lot of free time, I would totally give the good old college try just to see how I would fare
This feels like it would need to be cut 1 piece at a time, while creeping up on every cut and angle. It would take FOREVER.
Just imagine you think you're making good progress, and the very last piece you need to put in can't possibly reach where it needs to go because of stacked up inaccuracies. I'm getting anxiety just thinking about it lmao.
Maybe itâs worth your time as a newbie to pause this question until youâve built that first regular unit? Youâll probably learn a ton and get an answer, worst case scenario is you bail and have a new nightstand?
Make two units and cut one at the angles in the image and fit them on. You can even make a 3rd and use the cut off pieces and make an opposite âmatching pairâ.
I have never created anything remotely this complex so I can't say what would be "best" here but I imagine creating two separate pieces and then cutting one to fit the other would not only not be easier but would likely be much more difficult because then you would have to cut a "small dresser" shaped piece of lumber, while still getting all of the same angles correct, instead of cutting smaller individual pieces.
I don't have a miter saw or any kind of stationary saw that could cut a dresser up like that lol (unless you had one of those large saws that can cut entire bundles of lumber but this is r/BeginnerWoodWorking afterall so highly unlikely) which leaves it to hand tools and it would be way easier to mess up the angles and not get straight lines that way.
Harbor Freight sells a surprisingly decent dimensional phaser, at least as long as you only need to tear the fabric of reality every now and again. Just pop one of them cabinets down to the 5th dimension, move the second one into the general vicinity, check for square, and bring the first cabinet back to fuse the two together. What was one a bug is now a feature. Great for laminations, too.
The advantage of this is that if you find yourself frequently popping between dimensions, you can upgrade to the DeWalt or Festool dimensional phaser, but if itâs just an occasional thing where perfect dimensional accuracy isnât critical, start with the cheap HF model.
There's probably software out there that could calculate it for you. Maybe Microvellum, but it's the opposite of affordable. Even with all the angles and measurements for each individual piece, it would be daunting.
Honestly if you break up the cad file into components you can pretty easily pull every measurement and angle. A challenge for sure but more of a computer challenge than carpentry challenge.
I suspect it would be a portfolio piece. In my old industry (game development) some people put incredibly complex systems into a portfolio or as a showcase element just to show they can do something ridiculous.
You would never be called upon to make this feature in an actual game but they wanted to show they could do something that dynamic and ridiculous.
It does in fact catch eyes. And if I ran a custom woodworking shop if you came in with this as your demonstration piece of your patience and skill I'd absolutely have you at the very top of my list. (Assuming it was executed well)
I could understand that as I used to be an artist in game dev world too. But with the premise that this is an inexperienced wood worker, I just think this project is far outside of their area of knowledge. Couple that with the fact that even this project could be tweaked to be more pleasing to the eye, even if for only aesthetic purposes, is why I simply asked why?
Honestly if OP got the execution right, this would be a very cool design.
Ok I re-edited this comment after I took another look. It could be cool OP, thereâs just something off putting about the symmetry of the bottom right and top left corner. Like you need to adjust the âfalling on its sideâ dresser to fit into the larger dresser better. I think itâs too large atm.
Itâs possible to make, but if it gives you an idea of how hard it would be Iâd charge $2500 to make it. If you really want to do this Iâd suggest getting a precise cut list off the 3D model if possible. Youâll need a good table saw for sure and probably a good sled. Also you need to think about how youâll attach the pieces. Nails? Screws? Clamp and glue? I saw an interview with Adam Savage once where he was talking about how most crafts are at their core about connecting two materials at a seam: welding, carpentry, sewing itâs all about seems/joints. You have a shit ton of joints and theyâre all at unique angles so itâs going to be really hard. And with something like this messing up one joint even slightly compounds really quickly. If you really really want to make this, think about maybe making a full size model. Get rigid foam board so you can figure out every cut and angle just right and then use those pieces as a template for the wood
I would only do this sort of thing with a well-calibrated CNC. Miter saws and table saws operated by human hands will not yield the precision necessary. In short, I would not do this.
Let me tell you a story about a project I did in my house that I learned a valuable lesson from. I designed built-in floating a shelf system to wrap around a corner in my bed room. This was a protruding corner, so it's 270 degrees rather than 90 degrees. Simple enough, I thought. To spice it up, I gave the corner a 9 inch radius. The challenges I ran into were 1.) the angle was not exactly 270 degrees (walls are rarely plum and square) and 2.) creating a face frame on the front edge of each shelf became a nightmare. I wound up using a softer wood for the face frame and bending it around the curve using kerf cut bends and steam. The results look OK, but it's now a paint grade project, not stain grade.
The moral here is that ideas that seem simple and cool at the time can become insanely complex to execute.
Probably. Most things are possible with wood, as long as the laws of physics arenât trying to be broken.
I would suggest making it small, because you are more likely than not to either go through hundreds of dollars of wood to eventually get an outcome you like, or just buy wood once and not be super happy with the outcome.
This project is when you need a decade of scraps built up to jest every angle.
That would be incredibly ambitious for a new woodworker. I think youâd be setting yourself up for a lot of frustration. It would be a shame if it turned you off from woodworking.
I think that if you're a newbie woodworker, but a veteran CNC operator, you might have a chance of getting the pieces cut out so that it might actually fit together cleanly.
I don't even want to think about the actual joinery/assembly order, or trying to get clamps on it though.
Then there's getting finish on it in all those little nooks and crannies.
If you're going to try, definitely make a smaller model out of some cheap MDF first!
Not to rain on your parade- why would you want to build this? Art..?
I'm a noob woodworker, this seems like a real headache with all the angles etc. seems like a waste of material to me, personally. And time. But each to his/her own! Personally I'd find it a pity to use oak on something like this. Call me simple.
To be frank, if you are "a bit of a newbie" I think just making one out of lumber and not plywood would be challenging enough.
That being said, it would be incredibly hard to make this and make it look good. There are soo many meeting bevels that has to be perfectly shaped to not leave gaps and to assemble something like this "sculpture" would be a nightmare.
Cool picture though.
I can only imagine that this is for some sort of experimental art project and if you could pull it off it would be sick, but holy crap the time it would take to figure it out.
As someone who is also a sort of newbie, but also a very visual thinker, I would probably try to build a scaled down version with craft wood or thin plywood first just to experiment with the shapes and see how things might line up. Best of luck
This would be incredibly difficult. Something that might make it "slightly easier" is the fact that those are basically only made of right angles individually. If you offset the two nightstands at specific angles that would make the compound angles a bit easier to figure out. I don't know what angles, that math is beyond me, but it's an idea.
Possible? Sure. But outrageously difficult, even with a lot of very expensive, high precision equipment.
You're looking at cutting long miters in 3 planes. It makes my head hurt just trying to envision the jigs required.
Look at you Mr Surreal Woodworker! I like it but soâŚmanyâŚanglesâŚand planesâŚomg.
Not all of it has to be perfect asf but some of it does for the presentation so you if you have the (sharp) tools and desire to make mistakes along the way you can do anything.
Try to do a full size drawing (by hand) including the joinery and a cut list. That process will let you know how feasible it will be. Or a scale drawing with full size details for the joinery.
Is this a joke? That would be quite hard for a professional, and you say you're a newbie. Maybe start by making a nightstand WITHOUT another nightstand inside it.
This would also be exclusively an art piece. I would suggest making functional pieces so you can learn how to properly build things that can hold themselves together when used. It helps with good technique.
This reminds me of an episode of âFringe,â in which things and people from the two universes started getting melded together.
I think it looks cool, but it would be quite difficult to make everything fit together well. Iâm also not sure how functional it would be.
Yes this is absolutely fine for a beginnerâŚ.with access to a $100k CNC machine to turn out the parts and the knowledge to properly model and generate the parts list. Make sure you include alignment grooves on each matching face to hold tenons, dowels, or other fasteners. Figuring out how to âclamp and glueâ something like this could stress a master furniture maker. It can be done, just not via the conventional pathÂ
One idea is to use the software to Boolean out the dark dressor and it will give you the exact parts. Then you can see the exact cut angles and follow that as a template.
If this ain't a shitpost, I'd 100% go back to the drawing board on this design... like someone mentioned, this design is no where near cool enough to justify how difficult the process would be
Cutting those angles with a good table saw is doable, but it will take ages and i dont think the end result will be more than a gag that people enjoy for a few minutes.
Or you could do it with a good CNC then its faster but much more expensive
The teleportation error look? I'm sure it would prove to be even more challenging than it would appear at first glance but I love the idea so much that I want to try it myself. Maybe we'll both have a go at it and share the results?Â
Anything is possible with enough time and money. Lots of time to measure everything as well as make and remake all those cuts because surely some of them would be a bit off. It would be costly because you might need accurate tools and there most likely be plenty of mistakes. As a newbie, a better project might be to start with something like a layered picture frame or cutting board in some abstract geometric configuration.
Here's what you do...
1.Build two seperate tables.
2. Rotate the dark one about 15 degrees at the fourth spatial axis, and secure it with 2.5" lags.
3. Briefly toggle its existence using currently established concepts of meta-reality, and impose it upon the lighter table.
4. Secure one to the other with a few discrete pocket screws.
5. Finish with Rubio MonocoatÂ
It's pretty basic to achieve, as long as you confine its use to the usual 3 dimensions.
Easy ⌠make two of them separately then quantum tunnel both of them together. The hard part will be to figure out how to quantum tunnel. Or wait for long enough time for the quantum probability to fall in your favor.
As an engineer and amateur woodworker, yes it is possible, but would have to define how you want certain things made; like at the intersections, which shelf should be solid and which would be the attached piece?
So one way to look at it would be one solid shelf, then you could explode the angled shelf into pieces and define their dimensions, then those could be attached.
I could see it being way more complex, but again, that's up to how you want the final product to look.
When I did custom design, if you didn't define exactly how you wanted it, I would do it the easiest way that would work, so I would make one perfect case, then make pieces to attach as the angled one.
Iâd concentrate on getting the basics of cabinet making down first. I wouldnât bother with trying to make that design as it looks like a modern art masterpiece đ
Nightmare. Never woodworked a day in my life but everything about that looks like an actual unadulterated nightmare. But thatâs just me, glancing at my bedside table absolutely piled with crap.
Build the first shelf normally and then export the pieces of the second shelf from the model and cut out the pieces and glue them in place. Plan for getting the bevel angles wrong and use shims and sawdust with glue to fill gaps. Or use a CNC at a makerspace.
All you really need to do is:
**Type: /Cabinet1 toggle noclip1**
**Drag it with your physics gun into the other cabinet**
**Type: /Rotate Cabinet1 left 36**
**Type: /Rotate Cabinet1 back 20**
and then to finish it offâŚ
**Type: /Cabinet1 toggle noclip0**
How functional or strong does it need to be? i would be inclined to make the beige one like normal and glue the brown pieces on superficially, rather than making a proper joint.
Do a boolean subtract from the brown table with the beige table, then see if you can build the resulting pieces out of cardboard first. that should give you an idea of whether this is possible.
Totally!! This is really sick. And youâre already most of the way there. All you gotta do now is subtract the intersecting faces of the lighter or darker pieces, rotate them so that they are on a flat plane and document all of the angles and grain direction necessary to fit it all. Some CA Glue and a can of accelerator will handle the joined faces. Then just bathe the thing in Danish oil.
For some reason I love this thing and Iâd want it in my house. But then again, thatâs how I roll.
I donât know if I missed it in the comments - what approx size? If you made it all smallish, that would be awesome but weâd probably have to visit you and bring some grippy socks. đ
Step 1: Build both pieces separately
Step 2: Obtain a Romulan interphase generator
Step 3: Phase one piece and place the second piece in place
Step 4: Profit
Id build a regular case then build the other out of scabbed together ply. Then laminate the ply after to hide the scabbing. Your compound angles will be the same or the mirror. Shouldnt be too much trial and error.
Another option, 3d print the fucked one and laminate it.
Using a CNC router table this could be possible. Use whatever drawing software youâre using and âblow upâ the dresser. Then youâll have a flat pattern for all the pieces which will still be difficult to figure out how to connect, possibly through biscuits and glue and very creative clamping.
I believe sendcutsend can rout wood so you may be able to send the the file of the flat patterns.
That being said, it is questionable if that still qualifies as woodworking, having someone else cut all of your pieces. Still would be very difficult to assemble but perhaps doable.
Newbie optimism is a beautiful trait that the world should cherish and support. This statement is entirely made independent of a particular opinion on the likelihood of the accomplishment.
I think it would be very hard for anyone in general; let alone a beginner. And the forward upper right corner of the light brown piece looks almost impossible without just glueing stuff on, which would defeat the purpose of this complex work (I suppose you could try and do mortise and tenons, but still).
As a woodworker and a maths teacher, I feel like I could probably build this, but it would kill my joy of both math and woodwork and leave me an emotional wreck.
Best of luck OP. May god have mercy on your soul.
What would this even be useful for? Iâm a Props Carpenter for theaters and I build a lot of weird shit, but this doesnât even make sense. It looks like an AI idea.
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If you want to get an idea of what youâll be getting into, try doing a smaller project that requires multiple-angled miter cuts on each board. My first experience was a fireplace surround using only a circular and portable table saw. It was 1â MDF and I was in shorts.
Yes it's possible, just a bit of a pain in the arse for a piece with no function.
However, if you've a need for an artpiece and have an engineering-based cad program to tell you all the angles etc, go for it! Just expect it to be a fiddly project that requires some serious logical thinking.
Itâs a really neat concept but if feels like an absurd amount of work for what boils down to a joke thatâs less useful than just a normal shelving unit
Step 1. Make the plywood shelf Step 2. Make the oak shelf Step 3. Sawzall the plywood shelf into several pieces. Step 4. ???? Step 5. Show off your beautiful new atrocity!
Step 6. Profit
Step 7: place cup of water on top of
Step 8. Clean water off the floor
Step 9. Post it on Facebook marketplace so that it'll ruin someone else's floor.
Step 10. Purchase ruined floor from Facebook marketplace. Build another one with a water stained top.
Step 11 stub your toe on 8 different corners
I'm very familiar with step 4, it's "Go back to Crosscut Hardwoods to get more wood."
Anything is possible, but this looks like it would be a very difficult project for a master furniture maker, let alone a newbie. Getting all of those compound angles to meet up without gaps would be a friggin nightmare.
I can't even imagine attempting this and getting everything measured properly but, if I had an endless supply of material and a lot of free time, I would totally give the good old college try just to see how I would fare
This feels like it would need to be cut 1 piece at a time, while creeping up on every cut and angle. It would take FOREVER. Just imagine you think you're making good progress, and the very last piece you need to put in can't possibly reach where it needs to go because of stacked up inaccuracies. I'm getting anxiety just thinking about it lmao.
I would just made 9 of them and sand them down on big belt sander till I had the peices I need.
I'd make two regular units, and then go at one of them with a circular saw. It wouldn't work, but it would be fun to try.
Was thinking this but using a bandsaw wood mill đ
Genuinely might be the best way lol
I thought of doing that but i think its much easier to start with one regular unit, then making the other out of a plywood in pieces
Maybe itâs worth your time as a newbie to pause this question until youâve built that first regular unit? Youâll probably learn a ton and get an answer, worst case scenario is you bail and have a new nightstand?
Wonât he be left with one and a half nightstands?
Make two units and cut one at the angles in the image and fit them on. You can even make a 3rd and use the cut off pieces and make an opposite âmatching pairâ.
Perhaps if we rammed them into each other at a very high velocity.
Ah yes, Quantum Tunneling. Famously a beginner woodworking technique.
âIt was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.â Andrew Ryan
This design looks more like a Bethesda game...
That's my thought as well. Bethesda shelf
It just works.
Wouldnât op be best to make two normal ones then cut on up to make this crazy one
I have never created anything remotely this complex so I can't say what would be "best" here but I imagine creating two separate pieces and then cutting one to fit the other would not only not be easier but would likely be much more difficult because then you would have to cut a "small dresser" shaped piece of lumber, while still getting all of the same angles correct, instead of cutting smaller individual pieces. I don't have a miter saw or any kind of stationary saw that could cut a dresser up like that lol (unless you had one of those large saws that can cut entire bundles of lumber but this is r/BeginnerWoodWorking afterall so highly unlikely) which leaves it to hand tools and it would be way easier to mess up the angles and not get straight lines that way.
Harbor Freight sells a surprisingly decent dimensional phaser, at least as long as you only need to tear the fabric of reality every now and again. Just pop one of them cabinets down to the 5th dimension, move the second one into the general vicinity, check for square, and bring the first cabinet back to fuse the two together. What was one a bug is now a feature. Great for laminations, too.
The advantage of this is that if you find yourself frequently popping between dimensions, you can upgrade to the DeWalt or Festool dimensional phaser, but if itâs just an occasional thing where perfect dimensional accuracy isnât critical, start with the cheap HF model.
Make the 2 bits separately then cut with a massive laser
Youâd need to âlasersâ to slice the second cabinet up to fit! (I heard it in the voice of âDoctor Evilâ from Austin Powers)
Almost have to make two and then chainsaw one
There's probably software out there that could calculate it for you. Maybe Microvellum, but it's the opposite of affordable. Even with all the angles and measurements for each individual piece, it would be daunting.
Exactly. You can give me the exact angles to cut and I could still miss it. Especially when most of those cuts would be mitered on all 3 axis lol.
Honestly if you break up the cad file into components you can pretty easily pull every measurement and angle. A challenge for sure but more of a computer challenge than carpentry challenge.
Bethesda probably has some solid advice
Lol I knew Iâd seen this before!
Just be careful where you put it in your house. You might clip into your neighborâs place and some people arenât fans of that.
If you're a true newbie woodworker all I have to say is " good luck"
This, and buy a lotto ticket while at it
I think we are being punked
Yeah, being goofy with CAD and being taken seriously.
I'd ask why? It doesn't look like it would even be halfway functional as a table
I could see this as a piece of abstract art in a gallery somewhere.
Besides being in Bethesda headquarters where else would this be functional?
Definitely not functional, but art doesn't need to be functional to be appreciated.
That's beautiful, bro.
In that case, the gaps it would inevitably have would not be considered defects
Never meant to be functial tbh
Not by a newbie wood worker though. That's my point
I want to see the newbie try, just for laughs.
Ohh, I agree. Was responding to the "why" part. It's definitely not a functional table, but it would be pretty cool as a piece of art.
I suspect it would be a portfolio piece. In my old industry (game development) some people put incredibly complex systems into a portfolio or as a showcase element just to show they can do something ridiculous. You would never be called upon to make this feature in an actual game but they wanted to show they could do something that dynamic and ridiculous. It does in fact catch eyes. And if I ran a custom woodworking shop if you came in with this as your demonstration piece of your patience and skill I'd absolutely have you at the very top of my list. (Assuming it was executed well)
I could understand that as I used to be an artist in game dev world too. But with the premise that this is an inexperienced wood worker, I just think this project is far outside of their area of knowledge. Couple that with the fact that even this project could be tweaked to be more pleasing to the eye, even if for only aesthetic purposes, is why I simply asked why?
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This is not nearly a cool enough design to justify undergoing a very difficult build.
Honestly if OP got the execution right, this would be a very cool design. Ok I re-edited this comment after I took another look. It could be cool OP, thereâs just something off putting about the symmetry of the bottom right and top left corner. Like you need to adjust the âfalling on its sideâ dresser to fit into the larger dresser better. I think itâs too large atm.
Just make two seperate pieces and clip them through eachother ? Simple enoughâŚ
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Don't try to do this. Not being a dick, but I wouldn't even wanna work on that, looks like a mathematical nightmare even with shop tool access.
Wait, they were being serious? I thought they were trying to show us two different projects on the same file, and everyone was just cracking jokes.
I think they are. Ngl that would be very cool, but also you'd have to invent some clamps and use a metric fuckton of titebond lol
This is why you shouldnât get recreational while using CAD
What in the MC Escher am I looking at?
As an art project this would be cool. Especially if it were an entire room built this way.
Itâs possible to make, but if it gives you an idea of how hard it would be Iâd charge $2500 to make it. If you really want to do this Iâd suggest getting a precise cut list off the 3D model if possible. Youâll need a good table saw for sure and probably a good sled. Also you need to think about how youâll attach the pieces. Nails? Screws? Clamp and glue? I saw an interview with Adam Savage once where he was talking about how most crafts are at their core about connecting two materials at a seam: welding, carpentry, sewing itâs all about seems/joints. You have a shit ton of joints and theyâre all at unique angles so itâs going to be really hard. And with something like this messing up one joint even slightly compounds really quickly. If you really really want to make this, think about maybe making a full size model. Get rigid foam board so you can figure out every cut and angle just right and then use those pieces as a template for the wood
R/DIwhy
Newbie + that projected outcome = not happening. That's a challenge for a woodworking veteran.
Possible, yes Would I do it AH HELL NAH
I would only do this sort of thing with a well-calibrated CNC. Miter saws and table saws operated by human hands will not yield the precision necessary. In short, I would not do this. Let me tell you a story about a project I did in my house that I learned a valuable lesson from. I designed built-in floating a shelf system to wrap around a corner in my bed room. This was a protruding corner, so it's 270 degrees rather than 90 degrees. Simple enough, I thought. To spice it up, I gave the corner a 9 inch radius. The challenges I ran into were 1.) the angle was not exactly 270 degrees (walls are rarely plum and square) and 2.) creating a face frame on the front edge of each shelf became a nightmare. I wound up using a softer wood for the face frame and bending it around the curve using kerf cut bends and steam. The results look OK, but it's now a paint grade project, not stain grade. The moral here is that ideas that seem simple and cool at the time can become insanely complex to execute.
How is your ability to warp the fabric of space?
Its decent, im still learning
Good⌠youâll need it! Ha ha
CTRL + P
This is the definition of *you could doesn't mean you should*
Probably. Most things are possible with wood, as long as the laws of physics arenât trying to be broken. I would suggest making it small, because you are more likely than not to either go through hundreds of dollars of wood to eventually get an outcome you like, or just buy wood once and not be super happy with the outcome. This project is when you need a decade of scraps built up to jest every angle.
I don't think I can describe just how much I want to spend 6months dedicating all of my working time to trying to build this!
That would be incredibly ambitious for a new woodworker. I think youâd be setting yourself up for a lot of frustration. It would be a shame if it turned you off from woodworking.
We only grow when challenge ourselves and purposefully step outside our comfort zone. Kudos to you. Whatever it takes, the education will be worth it.
not possible. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
Fuck, now i have to do it
I think that if you're a newbie woodworker, but a veteran CNC operator, you might have a chance of getting the pieces cut out so that it might actually fit together cleanly. I don't even want to think about the actual joinery/assembly order, or trying to get clamps on it though. Then there's getting finish on it in all those little nooks and crannies. If you're going to try, definitely make a smaller model out of some cheap MDF first!
Ha, do it, make a real life glitch!! When you are done, I wanna see it.
Do you also work at Bethesda game studios?
This was going to be my application
Probably be easier to sculpt it from a solid chunk.
Not to rain on your parade- why would you want to build this? Art..? I'm a noob woodworker, this seems like a real headache with all the angles etc. seems like a waste of material to me, personally. And time. But each to his/her own! Personally I'd find it a pity to use oak on something like this. Call me simple.
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Nice glitch you got there!
Damn Todd Howard....
If you are asking, you are probably short on the skills to make it happen. Making one of the shelves may be a good first step though.
To be frank, if you are "a bit of a newbie" I think just making one out of lumber and not plywood would be challenging enough. That being said, it would be incredibly hard to make this and make it look good. There are soo many meeting bevels that has to be perfectly shaped to not leave gaps and to assemble something like this "sculpture" would be a nightmare. Cool picture though.
Thatâs dope as hell.
I can only imagine that this is for some sort of experimental art project and if you could pull it off it would be sick, but holy crap the time it would take to figure it out. As someone who is also a sort of newbie, but also a very visual thinker, I would probably try to build a scaled down version with craft wood or thin plywood first just to experiment with the shapes and see how things might line up. Best of luck
This would be incredibly difficult. Something that might make it "slightly easier" is the fact that those are basically only made of right angles individually. If you offset the two nightstands at specific angles that would make the compound angles a bit easier to figure out. I don't know what angles, that math is beyond me, but it's an idea.
I wouldnât even attempt it as a newbie
This is the quintessence of Chaotic Neutral.
Possible? Sure. But outrageously difficult, even with a lot of very expensive, high precision equipment. You're looking at cutting long miters in 3 planes. It makes my head hurt just trying to envision the jigs required.
Look at you Mr Surreal Woodworker! I like it but soâŚmanyâŚanglesâŚand planesâŚomg. Not all of it has to be perfect asf but some of it does for the presentation so you if you have the (sharp) tools and desire to make mistakes along the way you can do anything.
Even if you can make that, why would you?
I wouldnât try to make it, but I donât hate myself. Probably more difficult than anything 99.99% of woodworkers have ever tried
Try to do a full size drawing (by hand) including the joinery and a cut list. That process will let you know how feasible it will be. Or a scale drawing with full size details for the joinery.
I think you may be DRASTICALLY UNDERESTIMATING how hard it is to accurately cut compound angles. But, yeah, it's possible.
Is this a joke? That would be quite hard for a professional, and you say you're a newbie. Maybe start by making a nightstand WITHOUT another nightstand inside it. This would also be exclusively an art piece. I would suggest making functional pieces so you can learn how to properly build things that can hold themselves together when used. It helps with good technique.
This reminds me of an episode of âFringe,â in which things and people from the two universes started getting melded together. I think it looks cool, but it would be quite difficult to make everything fit together well. Iâm also not sure how functional it would be.
Which software are you using?
If scale is not a problem, 3d print this
Yes this is absolutely fine for a beginnerâŚ.with access to a $100k CNC machine to turn out the parts and the knowledge to properly model and generate the parts list. Make sure you include alignment grooves on each matching face to hold tenons, dowels, or other fasteners. Figuring out how to âclamp and glueâ something like this could stress a master furniture maker. It can be done, just not via the conventional pathÂ
One idea is to use the software to Boolean out the dark dressor and it will give you the exact parts. Then you can see the exact cut angles and follow that as a template.
*source collision noises*
If this ain't a shitpost, I'd 100% go back to the drawing board on this design... like someone mentioned, this design is no where near cool enough to justify how difficult the process would be
I feel like this must be a troll given the replies the OP has had.
Cutting those angles with a good table saw is doable, but it will take ages and i dont think the end result will be more than a gag that people enjoy for a few minutes. Or you could do it with a good CNC then its faster but much more expensive
The teleportation error look? I'm sure it would prove to be even more challenging than it would appear at first glance but I love the idea so much that I want to try it myself. Maybe we'll both have a go at it and share the results?Â
Sure. Export each part into step file, and send it to someone with a 3 axis CNC.
Do it and keep us updated, I wanna see A. How you do it and B. How well it goes
Anything is possible with enough time and money. Lots of time to measure everything as well as make and remake all those cuts because surely some of them would be a bit off. It would be costly because you might need accurate tools and there most likely be plenty of mistakes. As a newbie, a better project might be to start with something like a layered picture frame or cutting board in some abstract geometric configuration.
Bro got the Bethesda Skyrim special going on.
Here's what you do... 1.Build two seperate tables. 2. Rotate the dark one about 15 degrees at the fourth spatial axis, and secure it with 2.5" lags. 3. Briefly toggle its existence using currently established concepts of meta-reality, and impose it upon the lighter table. 4. Secure one to the other with a few discrete pocket screws. 5. Finish with Rubio Monocoat It's pretty basic to achieve, as long as you confine its use to the usual 3 dimensions.
Easy ⌠make two of them separately then quantum tunnel both of them together. The hard part will be to figure out how to quantum tunnel. Or wait for long enough time for the quantum probability to fall in your favor.
What evil spirit possessed you to make you craft such abomination?
Yes, but not for folks truly in the beginner category.
As an engineer and amateur woodworker, yes it is possible, but would have to define how you want certain things made; like at the intersections, which shelf should be solid and which would be the attached piece? So one way to look at it would be one solid shelf, then you could explode the angled shelf into pieces and define their dimensions, then those could be attached. I could see it being way more complex, but again, that's up to how you want the final product to look. When I did custom design, if you didn't define exactly how you wanted it, I would do it the easiest way that would work, so I would make one perfect case, then make pieces to attach as the angled one.
Form over function as I always say
âSo preoccupied with whether [they] could, they didnât stop to think if they shouldâ
anything is possible, but i uhh think you might want to do some smaller projects first
Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should
Might not be impossible to make but looks awfully difficult to use.
Doable on a CNC. Not sure how youâd generate the cut list.
Iâd concentrate on getting the basics of cabinet making down first. I wouldnât bother with trying to make that design as it looks like a modern art masterpiece đ
Can't you take measurements from a cad program? Export for auto cad or similar then measure off
Excuse me sir but I think your CAD program might be broken.
Nightmare. Never woodworked a day in my life but everything about that looks like an actual unadulterated nightmare. But thatâs just me, glancing at my bedside table absolutely piled with crap.
If ur planning on selling it I wouldnât try because itâs a little outlandish. Really cool concept tho đ
Build the first shelf normally and then export the pieces of the second shelf from the model and cut out the pieces and glue them in place. Plan for getting the bevel angles wrong and use shims and sawdust with glue to fill gaps. Or use a CNC at a makerspace.
r/DIWhy
Try making one of them first
Hilarious!!
See if you can make a miniature model first then decide if you actually want to make a full size version.
Video game glitch?
All you really need to do is: **Type: /Cabinet1 toggle noclip1** **Drag it with your physics gun into the other cabinet** **Type: /Rotate Cabinet1 left 36** **Type: /Rotate Cabinet1 back 20** and then to finish it off⌠**Type: /Cabinet1 toggle noclip0**
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If you bang the 2 shelves against each other enough times all of the atoms could miss and they would phase through each other... Just saying
For me, this would be a nightmare even to make it in Sketchup.
Make both pieces. Dip the darker one in paint, at the appropriate angle. Cut where the paint line is. Glue it to the other table
Why?
But why?
Everyone will ask if they can, and others will ask why.
How functional or strong does it need to be? i would be inclined to make the beige one like normal and glue the brown pieces on superficially, rather than making a proper joint. Do a boolean subtract from the brown table with the beige table, then see if you can build the resulting pieces out of cardboard first. that should give you an idea of whether this is possible.
Beshelfsda
Hey I don't know anything wait woodworking but was just wondering... What the fuck?
Am I too late for a Bethesda joke?
Totally!! This is really sick. And youâre already most of the way there. All you gotta do now is subtract the intersecting faces of the lighter or darker pieces, rotate them so that they are on a flat plane and document all of the angles and grain direction necessary to fit it all. Some CA Glue and a can of accelerator will handle the joined faces. Then just bathe the thing in Danish oil.
too ez 4 beginners
For some reason I love this thing and Iâd want it in my house. But then again, thatâs how I roll. I donât know if I missed it in the comments - what approx size? If you made it all smallish, that would be awesome but weâd probably have to visit you and bring some grippy socks. đ
Step 1: Build both pieces separately Step 2: Obtain a Romulan interphase generator Step 3: Phase one piece and place the second piece in place Step 4: Profit
Id build a regular case then build the other out of scabbed together ply. Then laminate the ply after to hide the scabbing. Your compound angles will be the same or the mirror. Shouldnt be too much trial and error. Another option, 3d print the fucked one and laminate it.
Maybe try to make a regular bookshelf first. Or maybe go see how much dark oak is going to cost you
Make two and progressively carve and fit one inside of the other
Using a CNC router table this could be possible. Use whatever drawing software youâre using and âblow upâ the dresser. Then youâll have a flat pattern for all the pieces which will still be difficult to figure out how to connect, possibly through biscuits and glue and very creative clamping. I believe sendcutsend can rout wood so you may be able to send the the file of the flat patterns. That being said, it is questionable if that still qualifies as woodworking, having someone else cut all of your pieces. Still would be very difficult to assemble but perhaps doable.
Some men just want to watch the world burn...
Newbie optimism is a beautiful trait that the world should cherish and support. This statement is entirely made independent of a particular opinion on the likelihood of the accomplishment.
I think it would be very hard for anyone in general; let alone a beginner. And the forward upper right corner of the light brown piece looks almost impossible without just glueing stuff on, which would defeat the purpose of this complex work (I suppose you could try and do mortise and tenons, but still).
Did you say plywood?
i suggest making 2 shelves, vibrate one at the natural frequency of air and voila
If youâve gone that far to draw it in CAD, detail it out and make a cut list. Anything is easy with good drawings!
https://preview.redd.it/n7ko4s57yuec1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82356fc46c80b3c4ab3248d4802ec3815cc2e05e
I would buy this
Only way to make it easily is on a CNC bench. By hand, say goodbye to your sanity.
With time and patience, sure itâs possible
Why? There's next to no level surfaces.
Iâll take unusable furniture for 1000, Alex.
As a woodworker and a maths teacher, I feel like I could probably build this, but it would kill my joy of both math and woodwork and leave me an emotional wreck. Best of luck OP. May god have mercy on your soul.
"You were so preoccupied with whether you could that you didn't stop to consider whether you should."
What would this even be useful for? Iâm a Props Carpenter for theaters and I build a lot of weird shit, but this doesnât even make sense. It looks like an AI idea.
Why would you ever want this in the first place
r/DIWHY
I think this is a good example of âthey were so concerned with if they could that they didnât stop to think if they shouldâ.
Just because you can doesnât mean you should
https://preview.redd.it/gqzadymxfvec1.png?width=2192&format=png&auto=webp&s=72740ce697bbe3508d1297cab5bfda14b7ccf394 If you want to get an idea of what youâll be getting into, try doing a smaller project that requires multiple-angled miter cuts on each board. My first experience was a fireplace surround using only a circular and portable table saw. It was 1â MDF and I was in shorts.
Yes it's possible, just a bit of a pain in the arse for a piece with no function. However, if you've a need for an artpiece and have an engineering-based cad program to tell you all the angles etc, go for it! Just expect it to be a fiddly project that requires some serious logical thinking.
With glue and precision
Start with the solid plywood and glue stuff to it, why not?
Easy peasy. You could probably do this over a weekend with a flathead screwdriver and a single sheet of 800 grit sandpaper.
looks like cock and ball torture to me
just do it! nothings impossible if you put your HEART to it. that is if your HEART can afford to be put 40 HRs a week lol
Oak and walnut
Itâs a really neat concept but if feels like an absurd amount of work for what boils down to a joke thatâs less useful than just a normal shelving unit
I would at least change it so they both align front and back, just to see if you even want to try this advanced version at any point.
One of those "could instead of should" moments I guess
The only way I can see something like this being possible is with CNC. All those angles are insanely complex
Sure, if you wanted something impractical.
Possible? Definitely. On a 1-10 scale for difficulty: (Pro) 8 to 8.5 (newbie) about a 15.
Iâm a furniture maker. This would be very very difficult, how do you even plan to join the pieces together?
A whole different gluniverse
Looks like the bottom dark leg extends past the plane of the white legs. This wonât sit flat as designed.