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How to Make a Router Bit Bearing Removal Jig

Read Time: 2 mins

Anyone who uses a router bit extensively will appreciate this jig as a big time saver. If seldom ever have to change bearing on any of your router bits, there is no reason why you can use your router to do this job, it's just awkward and slow for many router versions ... this jig is simple to make and quick and easy to use.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/dbobWnaER64

To start off with you will need a piece of wood that is deeper than the length of your longest router bit shanks. This will ensure the bit sits as low in your jig as it can and will be less likely to shear off your wooden dowel and in the rare instance a router bit might get too tight sitting in the jig, you can always remove it my poking it through from underneath and those through holes, can also be used in the future for any other special holding situations you might come upon.

Avoid Wet Wood Disasters - Wagner Pinless Moisture Meters

Read Time: 4 mins

One of the downsides of working with wood is that it has the ability to absorb and release moisture, which means the wood can expand and contract. This can, and does, create major problems with some woodworking projects ... but there are ways to help reduce some of the challenges. The first thing we need to do is work with wood where we know what the moisture content of the wood is to begin with.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/lGPzYe0Ub7A

For many woodworking projects, a general rule of thumb is to only use wood with a moisture content around 9 %. This can vary depending on climatic conditions, but it's at least a good starting point. It is not unusual for freshly cut trees to have a moisture content in excess of 35%, so there is a LOT of water in the trees that need to be evaporated out, which in turn makes the wood we work with much more stable. It will still absorb and release moisture, but by the time it gets down to 9% these changes should be much more subtle.

How to Fix Woodworking Mistakes - Episode 1

Read Time: 5 mins

The nature of wood is ever changing and sometimes it is hard to use, other times easy but in most cases it is pretty forgiving, especially when it comes with inherent defects that either formed by the tree it'self, of were created by other elements like rot, insects or other burrowing animals or things. Luck for us, many of these things can be fixed one way or another.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/qyQxgs78jpU

The degree to how much or how little of a "fix" is required depends on many things from the woodworker to the intended use of the project and ... in many cases, you will find there are can be a few different ways of fixing these defects and it all depends on how much effort and expense that a project deserves.

Bad Ideas in Woodworking Episode 3 / Workshop Fails

Read Time: 6 mins

I think it can be said that most people in woodworking like to save time and money when they can and not suffer any of the consequences that can often come with doing these, and often we can, but sometimes, taking a bit more time and doing things correctly can save not only time and money, but also personal safety, and then, of course, there is always the unknown ... "I didn't know it could do that" ... and I have been there on myself occasion and learned from doing things the wrong way.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/89LlcJ7fQAI

It's always easy in hindsight to look back at mistakes and learn from them, it's even better if someone shares them with us so we can all learn these things before we attempt them.

How to Use the Wood Router Inlay Set - Freud Tools Inlay Set

Read Time: 5 mins

Inlaying wood is a great way of adding a special detail to a wood project. In the past, and to a certain extent even today, inlay work is done by hand by cutting shapes and strips of wood along with the pockets they will be fit into and eventually glued into, but there are are other ways of allowing machinery to help us with some of these tasks.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1a9nx1YzaSw

Of course, one way of making inlays is through CNC cutters or even through laser etching, but for this episode, we are using the good old wood router that has been around for decades and never seems to run out of things it can do ...

How to Make a Chamfer Plane / Corner Easing Plane

Read Time: 4 mins

I like having nice crisp sharp corners when I am preparing wood for a project, but sometimes they can be too sharp and even cause a small cut and when the project is made, we always want the corners to be less sharp and sometimes even rounded so that people using our wood project will not get injured either. In many cases I will quickly grab a plane, re-adjust the blade the plane off an edge or run those edges through my wood router table.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/L_SEFvraZrY

Those duties take a bit of time, and I have always wondered about having some little tool that could quickly and easily do this job for me. A tool that was set up, just to do this one job that doesn't need to be re-set or checked every time. Then I saw a few pictures online of a shop made tool that looked similar to what I had in mind.

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