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Plywood racket (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by luftruessel@feddit.org to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

I needed a racket for some tennis like sport. Since the sport is kind of local to my area, there is only few offers for these rackets, and some have quite high waiting times. Since they are made from plywood anyway, I decided to make it myself.

The melamin plywood I picked was a pain to work with, and I fiddled quite a bit with tape on the wood, drill speeds and everything, to avoid tearing the surface. I still did on the back, propably pushing too hard, so I scraped off the first layer. The clean black melamin would have looked better I think, but at some point I got so annoyed that I'm happy I was able to make it at least look decent.

scraped backside

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[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm probably weird for this but I think the scuffs in the black backside actually look really pretty with the way the wood-tone scuffs contrast with the black

this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
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