Amateur DIY woodworking in India

Kill it, kill it with fire! There were at least 7-8 pairs of shoes on the staircase which leads to the terrace at our home, and my mom had complained for eternity that something needed to be done about that. One fine morning, I decided that instead of buying a nice shoe rack (which, in hindsight, probably would have been cheaper AND better looking), I am gonna build one ! So in spite of vociferous appeals by my parents not to do so, I went out and bought a 5x4 piece of 1/2 inch (12 mm) plywood and prepared a rough plan to build an open shoe rack with 4 racks. Without much knowledge of woodworking, and armed with a saw, some screws and a drill/driver, I went to work. The measurements were off, the racks different in size, the screws driven in incorrectly without pilot holes, and it wasn't probably a good idea to screw the 3 sides (2 sides + 1 back) to the shelves , instead of building a carcass and then putting in the shelves (which I learnt the hard way later).

You dare call it carpentry.. Hi all - finally after much procrastination I decided to put together a blog dedicated to my woodworking hobby. I hesitate to call my hobby carpentry for that it might offend serious carpenters and cabinet makers, and merely prefer to call it woodworking - hacking and hewing at cheap wood and commercial grade plywood with cheap tools in untrained hands! I'll try to capture in this blog the different experiences I had after I took to this hobby in the last year, and how it has captured most of my attention (and free time!) since, all the while amusing the readers with some hideous looking DIY solutions. Prepare for a bumpy ride ahead !