{"id":199,"date":"2026-01-19T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:37:51","slug":"my-first-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/furniture\/my-first-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yikes! For this piece, my first attempt at furniture, I had only a circular saw at my disposal. Made of the cheapest wood from the big box store; put together with glue, screws (into end grain no less), and nail; hopelessly skewed and awfully stained: and yet I proudly displayed this for years in my entryway, the first sight that visitors laid their eyes upon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This table, which, now that it has been scrapped, I freely acknowledge as awful, is the epitome of my philosophy in woodworking. I am not a professional and I never will be. Perfection is not my goal. I do this for the joy and the pride of creating and building with my own hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145936-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211024_145900-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211017_104506-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes! For this piece, my first attempt at furniture, I had only a circular saw at my disposal. Made of the cheapest wood from the big box store; put together with glue, screws (into end grain no less), and nail; hopelessly skewed and awfully stained: and yet I proudly displayed this for years in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-furniture","tag-common-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorukakan.com\/woodworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}