What tasks intimidate you

[James Pallas]

I started this thread so here is what intimidates me. My wife likes red oak. Every time I hear "You know what I think you should make for us" I want to run and hide. Here comes the red oak and all that goes with it, splinters, grain you could hide a semi in, and endless sharpening, and the smell. Why she doesn't like walnut, cherry, "It's too bland".
Jim

[Clark Magnuson]

Pepper making masks 11-7-2012.jpgMy friend turned a Walnut tree in his backyard into a dining room table, but making a sawmill with a 50cc chainsaw.
I like small projects, like chisel handles.

[Don Dorn]

Teaching my husband wood working. I love him to death but it's better for the entire world if he never holds a chisel again :P

That would be an entertaining video - thanks for the smile. Anyway, for me, it's chopping mortises accurately.

[Dan Baginski]

I’m getting ready to cut 10 dados in an entertainment center I’m building. They’re all over the place and obviously there’s no room for error. Especially when a piece of ash plywood costs $120 a sheet and I bought 2. I cut 2 the other day and spent about 2 hours measuring, remeasuring, and setting everything up to make a cut that took 30 seconds lol.

[Jay Larson]

Related to glue ups.

Making that first glue up of a carcass or project. Especially if it is something I came up with without all the drawing angles. Because as soon as it is glued up and dried, I think that "you know, if you would have mortised or this piece of hardware first, it would be much easier." Or forgetting that a piece should have been cut first...

[Kyle Foster]

Chairs. Not the aspect of making the pieces, but getting all the angles right.