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You mean other than the detailed comment the reddit OP made with links to all sorts of resources?

Which in turn links to a topic on Cloudy Nights that is his build log!

Search for Stellafane telescope making. There are a lot of other resources on the net as well. CloudyNights forum has a great ATM section.

There is no secret in this and if you follow exact instructions you too can make a mirror and Dobson mount. The beauty of this is that it's easy. Just don't complicate and over-analyze and you'll be fine ;)

OP posted an FAQ:

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/frdd1d/im_17_years_o...

You can find it easily if you change the domain to old.reddit.com (as suggested by jakeogh in a sibling comment).

change the domain to old.reddit.com