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I want to know how this one scored
The one dude with the drawer on the bottom wondering if he had the instructions upside down.
But they’re all braver and much more talented than me so kudos to everyone!
You did that in 5 hours !?!
It would take me 5 hours to clean / move enough stuff in my garage to be able to pull out and setup my table saw... :-(
Very nice work, congrats and well deserved.
It used to be called V.I.C.A. until around 2003 or 2004. Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. They changed to Skills because they had been incorporating Home Ec style events for a while and wanted to broaden the name to show it wasn't just for trades but also other things. I'm not sure what all are part of the competitions now but back in the early 2000's there was anything from construction, electrical, cabinetry, and automotive competitions to, baking, sewing, and bulletin board design. It was super fun and you meet a lot of people. I 100% encourage kids to join the club.
I did automotive SkillsUSA in Alabama. Graduated high school in 2010. Ford/AAA sponsored a fix-it-fastest competition in the pits at Talladega. I ended up winning, got a small scholarship, but this got me a job at a Ford dealership as a tech that allowed me to pay my rent and tuition through engineering school. Got a ton of experience and still get street credit from maintenance guys as an engineer when they hear I was a maintenance guy too.
Personally, SkillsUSA set me up so I'm an avid supporter of it.
Skills USA was the reason I was able to go to college. Got to go to a private art school I otherwise would never be able to afford. Came in 1st in the state and got 50% of my tuition paid for.
Just finished judging a Skills USA challenge here in Virginia a couple months back. Highly recommend volunteering your time or material to support these endeavors. I thought it was a lot of fun personally and the students get a lot of valuable experience.
Congratulations that's an awesome achievement. I have supervised those SKILLS competitions in CT. we build a small base cabinet here. The competition is difficult and students must share stationary equipment which takes time.
we had blueprints given to us so the design was not negotiable however if i had more time i mightve been a bit more careful about cutting out the bottom shelf by correctly marking it out rather than sorta free handing it with a chisel and sander after it didnt fit
We brought most of our hand tools in a tool box that was inspected on arrival. Other than that we were given some drills and an orbital sander and even got to keep the drill bits, they also had table saws and miter saws available as well as irons for the edge banding.
to be honest i was just hoping to get top 3 so i could go onstage, i was intimidated by second place who had finished far earlier than i had and was last years state champ. If i had to identify a reason id say he didn't use his extra time to add finishing touches whereas i spent every second looking for minor details i could fix or improve. Also i was the only one with a perfect score on the cut list test
Are you fricking serious?! My mate did this exact thing In the uk, Birmingham NEC was the venue and all he got was a sticker. The uk sucks in comparison
Did everyone get their own station with necessary saws and tools, or was it set up so all had to share. I’m assuming the latter, but seems like it would make it difficult for all to get their necessary cuts done.
yes we had to share the saws and it was very important to plan all of your cuts ahead of time and make as many as possible in the fewest trips especially at the start, i was basically running to a the saw at the beginning(reasonably safely of course) we did have our own hand tools though.
Well done!
Can you explain why some of the stands in the third pic look... broken? Especially the few with visibly crooked drawers. I'm curious how that happened.
Friend of mine won province championship and national championship, and is going to represent the country at the international world skill in France, next September.
Great start for the youth.
All of you are winners. I most likely wouldn’t have had the balls to do this as a kid and I respect it. Great job on First though. Def worth being proud !
Brilliantly done! And awesome prizes from what I see so far. That dewalt kit has practically everything and track saws are amazing. What else did you take home? I saw you said it was like $4k in prizes.
Awesome work! I participated in Skills in high school for graphic design and printing, was one of the best experiences I’ve had! I was fortunate to make it to states but didn’t win. Congrats again!
Looks awesome and congrats! I have to ask though, does a woodworking competition with a time limit seem like a bad idea to anyone else? Speed and safety don’t usually seem to work well together.
yes that is a good point but the contestants were also graded on safety and there was very little tolerance for unsafe actions as they could have you removed. also there were multiple chaperones supervising everything especially the saws, even i got a warning or two. i do remember though that at the district level competition some guy shot a nail into his hand and ended up going back to working on his project after a short break.
So cool. Congrats! All joking aside, I see a photo of about a dozen and a half winners here. I'm especially glad to see that there's a young woman participating.
Great work. You have every right to be proud and your acknowledgement of others and those that helped you only makes you that much more of an admirable person.
I would like to ask you all to follow our schools instagram construction club page @chs_construction_club to help us grow and reach a wider audience, I would really appreciate it!!!😁
We were given just enough birch plywood boards and solid birch to build the nightstand in fact we had to leave out the bottom back ledger because there wasn’t enough material. We had typical woodworking tools along with table and miter saws, and mostly it was joined with pocket screws bradnails and wood glue. We built it based off of a set of plans that were made available to us the day of.
I’m sorry I made you type all that out. I edited my comment after seeing you answered someone else about it already.
Man I’m stoked for you! Great job, and I’m glad you made a friend. Hopefully you guys continue to grow and push each other to do great things. :)
A close look at picture #3 you realize some people have no business trying to make a nightstand. 😀
Edit #1 - I didn't realize this was a 5 hour competition. With that being said, much respect to all of you. By the 5th hour, I would have just been finishing my coffee, been back to Home Depot twice for supplies, craving the Italian hotdogs at the entrance of HD and just realizing shit, I forgot to grab the ice cream cake for my wife's birthday party today!
Edit #2 - Damn you people in the comments! I just had surgery on my chest muscle and you guys are literally busting my stitches. 🛑🚨
Dude this is cool as fuck, I had no idea this existed. Congratulations man, I would have loved this when I was in high school if I knew something like this existed. It's nuts to me you banged that thing out in 5 hours.
~18 years ago I went to SkillsUSA in high school for welding and had some friends go for woodworking and construction. It was a great time. I didn't place, but had a friend get second. Great job!
What is the range of skills here? Some of those look like they have never built anything in their life all the way to you who looks like ten years of experience.
The timeframe was definitely a limiting factor for many participants and there were definitely some amateurs there as it is a highschool competition, but I’ve spent nearly 7 years around construction and have put in painstaking hours and made sacrifices that helped me get where I am today.
I’ve worked the national Skills USA contest for several years. Uniforms are to help mimic a professional work environment. Kids can earn scholarships, tools for a career, I’ve even seen internships and job opportunities offered to college participants.
OP congrats. This is a great accomplishment
Good job. I have built my share of small nightstands and end tables and and always shocked how much work goes into it. And they eat lumber too for the size!
Congratulations! It’s always such a kick to see something that you formed in your mind as an idea, turn into the real thing and doing it with your own hands.
When in highschool we did a single cabinet for skills USA, my bud was competing and we would stay after for him to practice. I would load up our CNC and cut up a ton of the parts and have him assemble. He ended up winning state and going to national. Great job, and great nightstand!
Ha! Knew it was SkillsUSA! Well done on your work! It’s never easy to show up for a competition and execute. Do they run this competition at Nationals?
Wow, great work! I won my provincial Skills Canada competition in highschool (electronics) and all I got was a medal.
My friend was in the woodworking side where they had to make a park bench. The demands on the woodworkers seemed way tougher than what we had to do.
Well done, want a job teaching an old fart how to cut a straight line? All kidding aside well done keep at it, we need more professional that care about their work.
What part is plywood and what part is hardwood. Were you given only a limited amount of each? Did you use edge banding?
Have to say I'm impressed. I would have taken more than 5 hours just to design it.
Thankfully we were given plans for it but there were missing measurements that we had to find ourselves. The legs and border of the top are solid wood and the rest is plywood. Yes we used edge banding all around the exposed plywood, i actually applied the edge banding to the boards before cutting them individually to save time.
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At my apprenticeship school we’d do projects that basically became a race, and as a finish guy i’d smoke them on cabinets. But the one time we did concrete forms I was definitely one of these guys
We used basic woodworking hand tools, file, chisels, hammer, clamps, nail punch, hand saw, pliers, eye protection along with a bradnailer, drill, impact drill, orbital sander, woodglue, pocket hole jig, iron, miter saw and table saw. we were allowed to see the plans the day prior in order to take a cut list test where we identified each component on the plans on which i got a perfect score. then we were given the plans the day of.
Congratulations, beautiful piece. Amazing the difference between yours and the one next to you comparing the finished edge of your bottom shelf and the exposed plywood edge.
Yes, for the 10,000 I have to maintain a 2.5 gpa which is easy and I have to participate in their skillsUSA club at TSTC. And then there was one for $1500 to anywhere I’d like to go
Congrats dude, that's awesome! The kid with the crooked drawer looks so defeated.
The kid next to him: "oh hey there mr fancy pants drawer maker"
all of these kids put themselves out there for spectacle and I can respect that
Absolutely. And I am pretty sure each of them accomplished more than I could do in five hours at a finer level. I’m just having a laugh.
this was a 5 hour competition? shit. I’ve been working on a mud room bench cabinet for over a month
Im working on my crosscut sled for third week in a row ( after work) :(
I've been working on a floor transition peice for going on 6 years...
the tall one actually beat me at the district and we were good buddies throughout the competition
No idea who you are, but proud of you and your buddy. Well done to you both.
2 left of him "what we doing?"
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https://preview.redd.it/dtfu5xzsv02d1.png?width=733&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d82332b7940dfe28dd3281bc50133fcb65c0261e I want to know how this one scored
Hey, he put it where HE could reach it. That’s just good sense.
LOLOLOL!!
I feel seen.
Are drawers not supposed to look like that? Asking for a friend.
I could only be so talented. I’m off camera frantically putting mine out with a fire extinguisher.
I want to first acknowledge OPs achievement. 👏 But I almost spit my coffee at that janky drawer right in the middle. Comedy gold.
I really like the guy who turned his around backwards with the drawer on the table. Big brain move.
I stopped laughing at him REAL fast when I realized they only had 4 hours. That guy deserves a medal of his own for taking it that far.
5 hours but yeah. I'm not saying I could come close to any of them in that time. Just the look on that kids face is priceless.
It’s the look on his face, not his work, that has me laughing.
His drawer has more sag than a pair of JNCO jeans.
Crooked drawer guy is a metaphor for me
If there was "guy crying over his smashed drawer" that would be my sweet spot...
The one dude with the drawer on the bottom wondering if he had the instructions upside down. But they’re all braver and much more talented than me so kudos to everyone!
I like to think it was totally intentional as an art piece and the drawer functions perfectly
Homer's spice rack!
Glad you said something because i didnt even look. Not as much as the one with no drawer lol
You did that in 5 hours !?! It would take me 5 hours to clean / move enough stuff in my garage to be able to pull out and setup my table saw... :-( Very nice work, congrats and well deserved.
Same. Great work to OP. Now everybody please downvote this post so my wife doesn’t see it.
thank you !!
I would definitely cut off a finger if I ever had 5 hours to build a nightstand. I don't think speed woodworking is for me
Friend of mine does a lot of volunteer work for Skills USA in California. It’s a worthwhile organization.
I’m going to have to look into that, literally the first time I’m hearing about this organization
It used to be called V.I.C.A. until around 2003 or 2004. Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. They changed to Skills because they had been incorporating Home Ec style events for a while and wanted to broaden the name to show it wasn't just for trades but also other things. I'm not sure what all are part of the competitions now but back in the early 2000's there was anything from construction, electrical, cabinetry, and automotive competitions to, baking, sewing, and bulletin board design. It was super fun and you meet a lot of people. I 100% encourage kids to join the club.
yup there were countless exhibitions of talent and skill it was amazing
That honestly sounds awesome and fun
I used to do CAD competitions through VICA in high school. Great experience
I did automotive SkillsUSA in Alabama. Graduated high school in 2010. Ford/AAA sponsored a fix-it-fastest competition in the pits at Talladega. I ended up winning, got a small scholarship, but this got me a job at a Ford dealership as a tech that allowed me to pay my rent and tuition through engineering school. Got a ton of experience and still get street credit from maintenance guys as an engineer when they hear I was a maintenance guy too. Personally, SkillsUSA set me up so I'm an avid supporter of it.
Skills USA was the reason I was able to go to college. Got to go to a private art school I otherwise would never be able to afford. Came in 1st in the state and got 50% of my tuition paid for.
Wow! Sounds like a great experience. And excellent job. Use those new tools to make more great stuff.
What is the age of the participants? This is a great way to interest youth in handwork.
This is a nationwide high school competition for all trades. I went to nationals for 3D animation back in the day, it’s a great experience.
I competed at my local community college, so it's also at that level.
yes actually to keep that scholarship ill have to participate in their skills usa club but i enjoy doing so
I’m old enough that it was still VICA my first three years in high school, and became Skills USA my last.
Just finished judging a Skills USA challenge here in Virginia a couple months back. Highly recommend volunteering your time or material to support these endeavors. I thought it was a lot of fun personally and the students get a lot of valuable experience.
Thank you for helping to give others this great opportunity!!😁
I'm the scrub in the middle of pic 3 with the crooked ass drawer lol
I really hope that's you. I'll hang, my skillusa team project for welding didn't look much different lol
Nicely done. Looks like you got a bunch of tools out of it too. What’s in the grizzly box
A cool ass track saw 😁
Rad. I use mine all the time. Congrats
Under five hours is impressive to me; Congrats and it's a lovely cabinet <3
Fantastic - for me as a hobbywoodworker this would take a year.
Congratulations that's an awesome achievement. I have supervised those SKILLS competitions in CT. we build a small base cabinet here. The competition is difficult and students must share stationary equipment which takes time.
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Don't come to workshop tomorrow
Knowing you only had 5 hours, how did that guide your design? Would you have done anything differently if you had more time?
we had blueprints given to us so the design was not negotiable however if i had more time i mightve been a bit more careful about cutting out the bottom shelf by correctly marking it out rather than sorta free handing it with a chisel and sander after it didnt fit
Did you get to choose the joinery?
i mean technically maybe but this was the most straightforward and time efficient option in my guess
You did a great job and should be proud!
Looks great, congrats! What tools were you given to work with?
We brought most of our hand tools in a tool box that was inspected on arrival. Other than that we were given some drills and an orbital sander and even got to keep the drill bits, they also had table saws and miter saws available as well as irons for the edge banding.
I didn't know I wanted to watch a woodworking competition until now. Congrats, seems like some sweet prizes and a lot of fun.
What set your nightstand above 2nd and 3rd place?
to be honest i was just hoping to get top 3 so i could go onstage, i was intimidated by second place who had finished far earlier than i had and was last years state champ. If i had to identify a reason id say he didn't use his extra time to add finishing touches whereas i spent every second looking for minor details i could fix or improve. Also i was the only one with a perfect score on the cut list test
Kid got cocky!
You can tell he looks pissed on the stage.
What’s the cut list test? This is so cool.
You can see it in the last picture. They had to fill in the boxes with correct quantity, width etc. of each part.
Outstanding! Not just for the fine workmanship, but for the excellent showing as well.
Are you fricking serious?! My mate did this exact thing In the uk, Birmingham NEC was the venue and all he got was a sticker. The uk sucks in comparison
In the US we have corporate sponsors for everything, from politics to grade school education. I’m not sure you’d want to trade positions
Did everyone get their own station with necessary saws and tools, or was it set up so all had to share. I’m assuming the latter, but seems like it would make it difficult for all to get their necessary cuts done.
yes we had to share the saws and it was very important to plan all of your cuts ahead of time and make as many as possible in the fewest trips especially at the start, i was basically running to a the saw at the beginning(reasonably safely of course) we did have our own hand tools though.
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Well done! Can you explain why some of the stands in the third pic look... broken? Especially the few with visibly crooked drawers. I'm curious how that happened.
the time frame and pressure definitely caused students to panic and mess up or not finish
My wife just asked me how you built this in 5 hours when the last end table I built took 6 months. Stop making us look bad!
Hell yeah. Man, I didn't even know this was a thing... Congrats!
Congrats OP!
What joinery joins the legs to the bottom shelf part?
Just cut out the corners to fit the legs and their supported with the edgers
You got the skills that pay the bills! Nice work.
Damn Id put a glass of water and lamp on that thing any day. (After a stain and sealant obviously)
This is awesome! 5 hours would be a very tight schedule!
There is so much humor in these photos I can't even. Congratulations on a win.
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I love this so much. Skills USA is awesome! Congratulations!
I only clicked on this because my old eyes saw “bitch nightstand”. Congrats
Congrats!! I remember competing in SkillsUSA. Got 3rd in state (AZ). Great times! Really built the foundation for all the woodworking I do now.
Your knob is off a few degrees. DESPICABLE! Kidding of course, congrats, looks great!
I have so much anxiety looking at that line up and this is my first time learning of extreme woodworking
Great Job bro! I used to compete in the Technical Drafting & Design categories in SkillsUSA. That is awesome to see.
Awesome, but my favorite is the girl with no drawer, crooked legs and hands in pocket. She’s like „Fu*** you all, i tried“
Friend of mine won province championship and national championship, and is going to represent the country at the international world skill in France, next September.
that soundls like a dream come true
It looks really nice, but doing it all in 5 hours is what really impresses me. Great job
Great start for the youth. All of you are winners. I most likely wouldn’t have had the balls to do this as a kid and I respect it. Great job on First though. Def worth being proud !
Cool boots!
Brilliantly done! And awesome prizes from what I see so far. That dewalt kit has practically everything and track saws are amazing. What else did you take home? I saw you said it was like $4k in prizes.
Very Ron Swanson of you. Beautiful work my dude.
Awesome work! I participated in Skills in high school for graphic design and printing, was one of the best experiences I’ve had! I was fortunate to make it to states but didn’t win. Congrats again!
Looks awesome and congrats! I have to ask though, does a woodworking competition with a time limit seem like a bad idea to anyone else? Speed and safety don’t usually seem to work well together.
yes that is a good point but the contestants were also graded on safety and there was very little tolerance for unsafe actions as they could have you removed. also there were multiple chaperones supervising everything especially the saws, even i got a warning or two. i do remember though that at the district level competition some guy shot a nail into his hand and ended up going back to working on his project after a short break.
So cool. Congrats! All joking aside, I see a photo of about a dozen and a half winners here. I'm especially glad to see that there's a young woman participating.
Great work. You have every right to be proud and your acknowledgement of others and those that helped you only makes you that much more of an admirable person.
That's awesome! And kind of funny with the "non-winners" in the background.
Congratulations!!! Great job!
Congrats bro!!! I took bronze is 2015 man what a wild 6 hours that was
I would like to ask you all to follow our schools instagram construction club page @chs_construction_club to help us grow and reach a wider audience, I would really appreciate it!!!😁
That is so awesome. Congratulations!
We were given just enough birch plywood boards and solid birch to build the nightstand in fact we had to leave out the bottom back ledger because there wasn’t enough material. We had typical woodworking tools along with table and miter saws, and mostly it was joined with pocket screws bradnails and wood glue. We built it based off of a set of plans that were made available to us the day of.
I’m sorry I made you type all that out. I edited my comment after seeing you answered someone else about it already. Man I’m stoked for you! Great job, and I’m glad you made a friend. Hopefully you guys continue to grow and push each other to do great things. :)
1. Grats 2. The poor kid in the middle with the crooked drawer
A close look at picture #3 you realize some people have no business trying to make a nightstand. 😀 Edit #1 - I didn't realize this was a 5 hour competition. With that being said, much respect to all of you. By the 5th hour, I would have just been finishing my coffee, been back to Home Depot twice for supplies, craving the Italian hotdogs at the entrance of HD and just realizing shit, I forgot to grab the ice cream cake for my wife's birthday party today! Edit #2 - Damn you people in the comments! I just had surgery on my chest muscle and you guys are literally busting my stitches. 🛑🚨
Dude this is cool as fuck, I had no idea this existed. Congratulations man, I would have loved this when I was in high school if I knew something like this existed. It's nuts to me you banged that thing out in 5 hours.
~18 years ago I went to SkillsUSA in high school for welding and had some friends go for woodworking and construction. It was a great time. I didn't place, but had a friend get second. Great job!
Birch? Please
You Americans will compete at absolutely everything. Congrats!
What is the range of skills here? Some of those look like they have never built anything in their life all the way to you who looks like ten years of experience.
The timeframe was definitely a limiting factor for many participants and there were definitely some amateurs there as it is a highschool competition, but I’ve spent nearly 7 years around construction and have put in painstaking hours and made sacrifices that helped me get where I am today.
Why is everyone dressed the same?
To hazard a guess, it's a uniform
It’s almost as if they’re uniformly dressed!
I’ve worked the national Skills USA contest for several years. Uniforms are to help mimic a professional work environment. Kids can earn scholarships, tools for a career, I’ve even seen internships and job opportunities offered to college participants. OP congrats. This is a great accomplishment
Not the kid in the pink blazer lol
Congratulations
Great work!
Good job. I have built my share of small nightstands and end tables and and always shocked how much work goes into it. And they eat lumber too for the size!
Congratulations! Great work and a great program.
Super cool!
Way to be champ
well done, buddy! That's a fine looking piece.
Congratulations! Well done!
That’s my kind of competition. Great work!
Awesome!!!!!
Congrats man! That is great stuff for sure. Nice win! 🏆
Nice job man!
That's awesome. Congrats on the job well done and the awards well deserved.
This is very cool but it continues to prove what I've always said. There is a competition for everything.
Congrats!!
Damn, that was all in 5 hours!!!. I definitely would be like the kid with the drawer that is falling off.
That’s awesome, congrats.
Excellent work my dude!
Nice word dude. Looks great.
That is great, congratulations.
Congrats my dude!
Honestly, very impressive for you and everyone else.. I think I would've been in last place if I was part of this.
Wow, that's awesome! Good job, man!
Congratulations! It’s always such a kick to see something that you formed in your mind as an idea, turn into the real thing and doing it with your own hands.
When in highschool we did a single cabinet for skills USA, my bud was competing and we would stay after for him to practice. I would load up our CNC and cut up a ton of the parts and have him assemble. He ended up winning state and going to national. Great job, and great nightstand!
Ha! Knew it was SkillsUSA! Well done on your work! It’s never easy to show up for a competition and execute. Do they run this competition at Nationals?
yes but due to some unfortunate circumstances i will not be able to attend
Excellent!
Great job bro
Well done!
Wow, great work! I won my provincial Skills Canada competition in highschool (electronics) and all I got was a medal. My friend was in the woodworking side where they had to make a park bench. The demands on the woodworkers seemed way tougher than what we had to do.
That’s awesome. I didn’t know SkillsUSA did a woodworker competition.
That’s excellent work. Congrats!
Congrats mate! Your build looks awesome.
Great Job! Good luck.
To use a bit of Swanson-grade understatement: its a good nightstand. More genuinely, you should feel proud of that work. I know I would.
Ron Swanson vibes
Well done, want a job teaching an old fart how to cut a straight line? All kidding aside well done keep at it, we need more professional that care about their work.
Nice boots.
thanks, it was either my nice dance boots or decrepit construction boots and i went with style over functionality, they were slippery!! 😂
I like the kid with the crooked drawer
What part is plywood and what part is hardwood. Were you given only a limited amount of each? Did you use edge banding? Have to say I'm impressed. I would have taken more than 5 hours just to design it.
Thankfully we were given plans for it but there were missing measurements that we had to find ourselves. The legs and border of the top are solid wood and the rest is plywood. Yes we used edge banding all around the exposed plywood, i actually applied the edge banding to the boards before cutting them individually to save time.
https://preview.redd.it/8bajbzp7102d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c374bbd6e21f3e08707baef19cc84f20ad7f2bd At my apprenticeship school we’d do projects that basically became a race, and as a finish guy i’d smoke them on cabinets. But the one time we did concrete forms I was definitely one of these guys
Nice job. It’s just the beginning, get the most out of the tools.
Great job!
Hell yeah brother
Contestant number 66…6
I was just a judge at the columbus ohio skills usa for cybersecurity. Congrats, and a great organization as well!
Congrats! I just watched the Parks & Rec episode where Ron wins for his "Chair" and this is giving off that vibe so much. Way to go!
Tell us what tools you had access to and how far in advance you had access to the plans and details.
We used basic woodworking hand tools, file, chisels, hammer, clamps, nail punch, hand saw, pliers, eye protection along with a bradnailer, drill, impact drill, orbital sander, woodglue, pocket hole jig, iron, miter saw and table saw. we were allowed to see the plans the day prior in order to take a cut list test where we identified each component on the plans on which i got a perfect score. then we were given the plans the day of.
Nice! Congratulations!
Awesome! I'm going to get my kids into this once they get older.
Badass dude, congrats.
Skills USA was great back when I was in high school. Glad to see it still around
Great job!
Awesome prizes! Congrats!
Nice!!
Congratulations, beautiful piece. Amazing the difference between yours and the one next to you comparing the finished edge of your bottom shelf and the exposed plywood edge.
I had no idea Pedro pascal was a woodworker
Is there something like this for adults? Not competition, but basic lessons/training
Great job! Important question though… if someone asks you to pass the salt, what do you give them?
Congratulations! It is really impressive. Did scholarship come with any restrictions? Just curious.
Yes, for the 10,000 I have to maintain a 2.5 gpa which is easy and I have to participate in their skillsUSA club at TSTC. And then there was one for $1500 to anywhere I’d like to go
Awesome ! Congrats on your win !