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Feb 24, 2017
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Looks like mahogany to me. Honestly, the price is very decent for a piece of solid wood that has been cut, shaped, and sanded. Couldn't do this at home for less than $14.99 unless you had a workshop with the right tools. Looks like it can easily be polished with danish oil to slick it up.
Feb 24, 2017
rootwyrm
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Feb 24, 2017
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sculpty+1 for you sir. I tried to make my own wooden wrist rest. "It's just take a chunk of wood and then sand it a bunch! Easy!" AHAHAHAHAyeaaaah no. Not easy at all.
Feb 24, 2017
sculpty
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Feb 24, 2017
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rootwyrmYou're far from the only one, haha. I've been there as well! Sanding is VERY time consuming. Not to mention no guarantee that it will even come out even. I'll happily throw down $15 for all that work.
Feb 24, 2017
BrainFlush
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Feb 27, 2017
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rootwyrmMy neighbor has a full wood-shop, he won't even make them for me. An actual shop, wants $75hr for machine/labor time.
So when I hear people say anything about "I can do it at home" yeah you can, in your dreams.
Feb 27, 2017
MarkDennehy
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Mar 10, 2017
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BrainFlushhttp://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2017/03/09/wristrest/ 30 minutes of time. About €2 for materials and the glue and finish. And that's with hand tools only in an 8'x6' potting shed. It is *not* difficult. Do this for a batch of these in a workshop and you're looking at about the same for materials and about three minutes work for each. (Glad to see my officemate had the wrong pricetag though, he thought it was $95, not $15)
Mar 10, 2017
BrainFlush
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Mar 10, 2017
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MarkDennehyYou still have the necessary tools and skill set. Not cheap or free.
No one at home without an investment and the time to learn the skill is going to make a wrist rest comparable to those available on MD.
Sorry even your 20 min job didn't convince me. How could it? I still need some basic tools.
Appreciate you living up to your buddy's offer. You showed him. No sarcasm.
Mar 10, 2017
MarkDennehy
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Mar 10, 2017
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BrainFlushIf you add the basic tools to the pricetag though, the first one you make will cost you around about €22 to buy a plane (€10 on ebay), a spokeshave (€2 on ebay), a saw (€8 on ebay or at any builder's merchants) and the materials (€2). But your second one will cost €2. And you could resell those tools on ebay to get back the majority of your money (and if you cleaned up the plane and the spokeshave and listed them as "vintage", you might make a profit, that tool market is weird).
Honestly, it really is about the simplest thing you could make from wood, it's just an offcut trimmed to the right width and length with a saw, and cleaned up to smooth with a plane, that sloped bit at the front done with the plane, and then the corners knocked off it with a spokeshave. You could do it on a kitchen table. And the timber yard I normally buy my timber from would give away offcuts in this size if you just wanted one and they had it kicking around, I've been given larger bits of sapele by them in the past like that.
Mar 10, 2017
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