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I often try to improve on existing woodworking tips and tricks by testing new ideas, when these new ideas work better than previous versions, I seem to forget about them and just carry on using them without sharing them ... so here are a few improvements I have worked on ...
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And starting with a "speed square", a tool I seldom use, and yet I have 3 of them, all different sizes and only the smallest one is accurate enough to use for woodworking, the other 2 I only use for carpentry work like building fences and other home reno builds ...
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Not every idea in the workshop is a good idea, some are even dangerous but fortunately, most of us can recognize the really bad ones before we do them. It's often the ideas that "seem to be good" that turn out not to be so great, I know, I have tried MANY of them and found out the hard way why they aren't so great.
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But even more, I always want to dig into the reasons WHY they sounded good but turns out not to be such a good idea after all, and often I uncover things I had not thought of in the past that I can then apply to other woodworking tasks ...
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I often wonder how many other people spend the same amount of time that I do in making "things" in my workshop work better. I see SO MANY things that could have been easily made better or more convenient at the factory where they were made, or at the very least, made less frustrating to use ...
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but now I am tasked with making those alterations and adjustments myself. And in some rare cases, other manufacturers that make the SAME tool of the appliance, see the same things and remake the new tools better ... I love that !!
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Bad ideas in the workshop are not just about things that don't work ... or things that are a waste of time, they also include things that are potentially dangerous or can cause injury, and often, it can be a combination of bad things.
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I'm going to start off with something that I have rarely seen, but it does seem to happen with a few new woodworkers ...