This is the bottom of the cabinet itself? So there is space under it where the toe-kick is? This probably would have allowed the cut, as long as you have the room to swing the ass end of the multitool around inside the cabinet. Not sure what you are trying to replace—just the cabinet bottom? If you were able to…

Yikes. That looks like a lot of work with the threaded rod... Although it damn sure isn't coming apart.

Nice job, even if it isn't my aesthetic. But just based on the tools available to you, I'm guessing you might be in a position to evaluate the risks of using pallets better than the average person this tutorial was aimed at. Judging from the size and uniformity of the bands, I'm also guessing you ripped them all and…

Do you recognize that you get very defensive when challenged in any way, and your response invariably seems to be to get all over-the-top-aggro? I'd suggest that doesn't seem very healthy for you or the people around you. And, notwithstanding your claim to "maturity," you seem to sink to the lowest form of…

I've never been anything but civil to you. You're the one who went all snarky with the bullshit rhetorical embellishment. Your "reply" to me was nothing more than setting up a couple strawmen arguments with a lot of attitude folded in—hyperbole, nothing more. So now, after I call you on it, your ace-in-the-hole is…

Yes, because there are no alternatives between building a coffee table from a pallet and throwing the pallet in a dumpster. And there is no middle ground between building a table from pallet wood and a heirloom table you can pass down to your grandchildren. Must be really hard to knock down those strawmen, huh?

If you've been poking around, know what you are doing, and can actually find decent pallet wood, that's great. Most of the time, that isn't what you are going to find in a pallet. And if you really are talking about "the handyman, DIY garage shop type," they might not know the risks they are taking using a pallet,…

The fact they used pallet lumber is immediately obvious—there are screw holes from the pallet. Look, it is fully apparently to everyone you don't give a shit about the end product and probably think a cardboard box is a fine night table. Bully for you. But if there are other people (say, normal people) thinking…

I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time working with wood. Wood makes its way into pallets because it isn't fit for other uses—it typically has excessive sapwood, it may have been exposed to contaminants, it was used for other things first, it isn't uniformly dried, it's knotty, it's got surface pitting or…

If I ever make a jello shot, I will follow these procedures, I assure you!

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that 99.999% of the people doing jello shots don't care about the subtleties of flavor.

This isn't a calculation of the value of your time versus the time saved by using decent lumber—using decent lumber may save you some time, but that isn't the reason to do it. It is advising people that making furniture takes time to get a decent result, and if you are going to invest that time, the cost of using…

Pallet wood can be recycled in other ways (pallets, in fact, can and are re-used as... pallets). Besides, I exclusively use FAS-certified woods and would encourage others to do the same—wood is a self-replenishing natural resource. And, since you pulled the eco-card, I'd note the rest of this project is based on an…

I've said it before and I'll say it again—there is reason that the wood that is in a pallet ends up in a pallet rather than being sold as lumber. It is terrible—splintery, tends to have a lot of internal stresses, its sapwood, etc. If you are going to invest the time to do a project, the cost of buying decent lumber…

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. If you have landlord/tenant issues, see if there is a law school in your area—many have landlord/tenant or other legal clinics staffed by law students who can provide a lot of good advice (and representation) for free. In the state where I ran across this, for example,…

Mmm. Yes. I'm not even sure you wouldn't mar 0.5mm aluminum by writing with a ballpoint pen without a writing pad underneath. I definitely think a glass top is in order.

I seriously commend him for dedicating the time to put in a bazillion screws, and think the aesthetic is pretty cool, even if it isn't my taste. That said, I'd be thinking a custom cut glass top... Sharp metal edges and screw heads where your arms are? Ouch.

I think my point is that if you really want to treat this an an investment decision, model the scenarios. These are highly individualized decisions, and I feel like any "rule of thumb" is going to be of really dubious utility. Frankly, if you are considering this, you should be able to figure out pretty easily if…

I'd sort of hope that home buying decisions are based on more than this. When I bought my first home, I think I built an Excel spreadsheet that compared everything I could figure in about home ownership (mortgage costs, insurance, upkeep, taxes, deductions, agent fees) with everything I could figure in about home…

I've looked at Rootmetrics data before—there are some oddities with it. In a lot of cases, I recall their data being skewed to the last launched network. In a city where LTE was just rolled out by a carrier, the speeds were fast because the networks were lightly loaded. As the user base picked up—the carriers…