Make Table Saw Fence Clamps / Saddle Clamps Table Saw Jig
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I'm often making "slots" in wood, sometimes it is for jigs, but other times it is in the construction of a piece of furniture or some other woodworking accessory. I can often cut these on my router, but it requires a bit more work because I often need to set up a temporary fence either on my existing router table, of a temporary fence that consists of a straight board clamped to the wood I am cutting. For me, it's almost always faster to cut slots in wood using my table saw, and simply make 2 cuts the remove the inner core and now I have a perfectly straight slot.
Make Table Saw Fence Clamps / Saddle Clamps Table Saw Jig
I find that many times I need to make more than one slot, especially if I am making jigs so it's pretty common for me to need to move the table saw fence back and forth, depending on the cuts ...
Pocket Hole Tips / Pocket Hole Jig Tricks
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Pocket-hole Technology has been around for many, many years and provides a good, quick form of joinery that doesn't require the user to be an experienced woodworker or carpenter, and still be able to make some good quality projects and repairs.
Pocket Hole Tips / Pocket Hole Jig Tricks
Like many things in woodworking, there are a few things that we can do that will make using pocket-hole technology even more convenient and things to help improve the quality of our joints in certain circumstances ...
A Primer to Epoxy Resin Wood Projects / Simple River Tables
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Epoxy Resins have been used in woodworking for a few years and are becoming more and more popular because of the increasing number of ideas and situations that they can be used in to enhance our woodworking projects. In some cases they are used to make new and interesting projects, in others they are used to extend the strength or volume of wood by making projects larger by incorporating resins in them.
A Primer to Epoxy Resin Wood Projects / Simple River Tables
Working with 2 part epoxy resins is not an inexpensive alternative in woodworking but more like an investment in creativity. Epoxy resins are not inexpensive to purchase so if you are using them you will want to make sure you use them wisely and effectively, and that is really the purpose of this article and video ... to give those who are interested in experimenting with resins a better idea how the work and what to expect ...
Fixing Woodworking Mistakes Episode 2
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Fixing woodworking mistakes doesn't always mean fixing things a woodworker may have done wrong, it could also be fixing wood that inadvertently broke, chipped or cracked, but sometimes fixing mistakes means working with the wood to prevent mistakes from happening later on because often it is better to fix things before they break than after ...
Fixing Woodworking Mistakes Episode 2
One of the first challenges we all have to deal with from time to time are sanding scratches, and these can be the most annoying because we all know that we created these in the first place, so it means fixing our own workings ...
Miter Saw Angle Jig / Making Wood Stakes
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Sometimes the simplest jigs can be the most used and the handiest, and this angle jig for the miter saw is one of those. I have had a jig like this as far back as my chop saw but for some reason it seems to have disappeared, so time to make a new one ... and this time I will label it so I don't take it for some other jig or worse, take it apart for some parts in some other thing I am creating.
Miter Saw Angle Jig / Making Wood Stakes
The best wood to use for this jig and many jigs are plywood because it's stable and strong, for this jig I used 1/4" plywood for the base which was 12 inches square ...
Tips to Straighten Boards and Squaring Lumber
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One of the most important things we ever do as woodworkers is truing lumber because it is the foundation of what we will be working with. If the boards are not straight and true the whole project will be a struggle to put together and likely will be ill-fitting as well. It is very frustrating to try and build a quality piece of furniture or other woodworking projects, and have it come together perfectly ... when the wood we are working with is not true.
Tips to Straighten Boards and Squaring Lumber
Of course, the first step in truing lumber is selecting the wood you will be using and that wood should be the best wood you can find for the price you are willing to invest. It should be a straight grained and as dry as you can find and are willing to invest in. If you need to let it dry a bit longer you can often find lumber that is somewhat lower priced.
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