A weekend project If you have a weekend free then make this lovely tray. Perhaps you need an additional Christmas gift that will hone your skills at the same time. It has many obvious and not so obvious uses ranging from small tools tray to pocket dump container or tea-for-two server. I use one for […]
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…Once upon a time… …when I looked back to an era knowing that hand planes and saws, chisels, draw knives, braces, things such as that, were more artistically and creatively created by what might have been called artificers using their hands to make, I was pulled into thinking to myself, ‘What happened?‘. Fact is, that […]
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Woodworking by hand is purely sensory. I read someone who said he bought chisels in and used them as “beaters”. It saddened me because though I knew what he was saying and where he was coming from, it was a highly disrespectful way of referring to what was indeed a violent act. I’m not sure […]
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0:01 – Welcome to Friday (Offcuts) Live!
00:09 – Black Friday Sales
Bell Forest – 25% off!
Powermatic 10% Off Machines and Accessories
Jet 15% off Machines and Accessories
JET Clamps 25% off at Acme Tools
Rockler & Woodcraft both have sales
TWW Store has a sale! 30% off!
Current guild project that is on sale – Blanket Chest!
4:07 – What’s the worst purchase Marc has ever made?
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5:18 – If something happened to your Domnino would you quickly replace it?
6:23 – What happened to the Ninja Turtle that used to be on the wall?
6:54 – What’s the best\safest way to remove old yacht varnish?
9:05 – Did Marc used to use more Festool tools? Why?
13:19 – What is your opinion on the various brands of T-Track?
15:20 – Any concerns with scaling the width down of the Trestle Table?
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Legs, Through M&T, & Dimpling – Knock Down Trestle Table Pt. 1
17:14 – Using the woodshop widget – What do you do with the data?
20:05 – Is Nicole’s Chicken Pot Pie recipe available?
21:18 – What hand tool helps you fit tenons? Can I use a router plane?
23:39 – Can you put a date on the wall behind you?
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26:32 – What is the benefit to using a brass mallet for chisels instead of a deadblow hammer or block of oak?
30:03 – Are miter saw and table saw blades interchangeable if they are the same size?
31:06 – What guild project would you recommend for a newborn baby?
33:!6 – What should I use to get the sticky stuff off my new jointer?
33:50 – Jay-Birds – How do you put them on the charger?
34:34 – Nicole should do the voice-overs on at least one video.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA!
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I’ve gathered some tools to my bosom over the years. Special ones in some cases, some simply beautiful in art form and then those that will never be made again. Some are more rare than good looking or even particularly old. I do like the rarer ones though. I’m not interested in collecting for collecting’s […]
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“You have never been able to resist taking an otherwise useless hand tool and making it work, nor a vise or any other piece of woodworking equipment.” Rusted scissors are lifted from the bottom of an old basket in a junk shop and the name searched out with a scratch of a thumbnail. I had […]
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It’s the strangest thing. As far as I know I’ve never advocated that people not use machines, except perhaps in the odd situation where it was unnecessary and it might have stunted their growth in mastering a skill. Something like that. Neither have I ever said I don’t use them either. What I have always […]
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I have put out an introduction to bandsaws video to help people who might seriously consider using a bandsaw. The reason is probably obvious but I have used one for five decades now and feel that owning will be helpful to others for a variety of reasons. I know it’s often said that I don’t […]
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A bandsaw box can be pretty perplexing if you don’t know the tricks involved in making one. Once you understand the process, there are so many cool shapes and designs you can build. What you see here is my very first bandsaw box. I took a great deal of inspiration from my buddy Dave Piccuito’s book The New Bandsaw Box Book for this first trapezoidal design, but my second box went off the rails a bit: the Deadpool Head Bandsaw Box.
The bandsaw blade I’m using is a Carter 3/16″ – 4 TPI blade. I found this worked quite well but I can see how you might need to change your blade depending on the complexity of the design. For really tight corners, consider something like a 1/8″ blade.
All in all it was a fairly simple process with fairly immediate gratification (as woodworking projects go). Give one a shot!
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A mill stop is one of those simple things that really comes in handy when you need to make multiple of the same part. I’ve used everything form the little tiny ones that clamp to the vise jaws, to Kant Twist clamps. While almost anything will work, sometimes you have a work piece that is […]
There are good but perhaps somewhat hidden reasons that we use stepped housing dadoes that may or may not be obvious, especially not to a new woodworker. Actually, many seasoned woodworkers are more likely not to know than know. There are three types used mostly and then variations on the theme that are scarcely used. […]
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The Shoulder Plane There are obvious tools I am grateful for that need no mention. A hammer to drive nails, a chisel hammer and mallet, tools for which there is no substitute, but then there are those well worth honourable mention because I did not include them in my last book Essential Woodworking Hand Tools—perhaps […]
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Say amateur to most and the reaction expresses the opposite to how I feel in using the word. Often it’s suggestive of a sort of diminished ability, but negative connotation or not, justified or not, there is no reason to take over a positive to turn it into a negative. By positive I mean amateur […]
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I enjoyed Vlog #4 very much and having it as a premier gave me the chance to interact for half an hour or so. This is a new challenge for me but in many ways not so different to what I already do in writing my blog, being at one with nature and then interacting […]
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Some days were made longer by the repetitive elements in the projects. Joinery often comprises subassemblies of frames, be they the replication of same-sized frames or individually sized ones. The pile of frame stock on the pallet truck was six feet high four feet wide and the lengths varied from 18 feet long down to […]
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This week I made an oak cot, or at least I began making my granddaughter’s cot. It’s oak. I had saved some specially figured oak for something special and what could be more special? I got the more complicated work completed so I felt pretty good. Oh, and I am filming it for woodworkingmasterclasses too. […]
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iVac contacted me a few months ago about automating my blast gates and dust collector. I gave it some thought and there were two reasons I jumped in. First, I’m kind of an IOT (Internet of Things) geek. My house has well-automated for security, safety, and convenience. I even have my mom enjoying a wifi-enabled coffee maker! So the idea of bringing some level of automation to my shop was quite appealing. The second reason is one of safety. After running a ducted system in my shop for over 11 years, I know that I don’t always open/close the blast gates optimally. Of course I open the blast gate of any tool I’m using but I rarely run around and close all of the other blast gates in the system. This can decrease the air flow at the current tool and sacrifice collection. A dust collection system that not only turns on and off automatically but also opens and closes my blast gates automatically is pretty much a dream come true.
This video serves as a quick overview of how I installed the iVac system in my shop and is not intended as a replacement for the instructions provided by the company. Below are some links to the products shown in the video.
This video was filmed over a month ago and I’ve had some additional time to get to know the system in my shop. So far, so good. I’ve had one instance of a blast gate not opening when it was supposed to and it was just a matter of pushing on the movable metal plate to get it working again. Also, my “heads up” in the video about the cords and power still stands. If you cluster your tools like I do, you’ll need to plan for the additional power requirements and cord management. Overall, I’m happy with the system and it’s great not having to hunt around for a remote anymore!
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…You Will Say Some say this way is correct. It’s the only way… …Then you will say but I have been taught that this is a better way… …and then this way, now this, and this, and this, and this, and this……. But when the wood takes me in a different mood I can adopt […]
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