So vast a topic, does the term ‘woodworking‘ state much of anything definitive when you say the word? Talk to woodland workers weaving hazel stems and weavers into a panel of fencing and you have one kind of worker of wood but in the raw as it were. Another bends a springy sapling attached to […]
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I actually made two workbenches to the pattern we’re giving in the video series. It follows the same principle pattern as my earlier models made from solid and laminated wood because my research via questionnaires and such showed that we had hit the mark with regards to the important factors. Three decades ago we tackled […]
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Finishes come in many different forms. The confusion is great and opinions based only on opinion and little more serve to make things worse. I’ll try not add only opinion but tell from my personal experiences. It might work. Oils intended to soak into surface fibres are supposed to, as they seem always to say […]
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3:15 – My bandsaw is burning wood, can a different blade help?
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5:48 – Any tips for dying assembled wood by hand?
8:49 – What’s the best cheese?
10:11 – As a hobbyist, what tools would you recommend for a home shop?
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13:37 – What’s the downside to a Hammer Combo Jointer\Planer?
15:56 – February 28th is the last day for the Powermatic Giveaway!
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16:37 – Did you pore fill the red oak for the table top you made recently?
18:13 – Is there a way to figure out what the Wood Whisperer Guild is about for free?
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21:38 – Do I need to build long extension tables when flattening a long piece of wood?
23:06 – If I preordered Essential Joinery from you, how can I upgrade to Hard Cover?
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24:35 – How long does yellow glue TB1, TB2, or TB3 need to dry before exposing to the cold?
26:01 – If you had a choice to choose Metric Vs. Imperial, which would you pick?
27:45 – If you didn’t have access to Baltic Birch, what would you have built your cabinets out of?
29:09 – Can benchtop jointers with CuTech extenders be used to joint 4-7 foot pieces of wood?
30:39 – Any good plans for a dresser in the Greene & Greene style?
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33:07 – Using a Bessey strap clamp, getting openings in the middle of the miter, what’s wrong?
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36:16 – How would you cut brass dowels?
37:23 – Have you noticed a time difference in the wood settling after moving to CO from AZ?
38:25 – Do you ever miss your 5HP Table Saw after moving to your 3HP?
39:46 – Now that Woodtalk is done, will there be more Ladies of Leet?
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42:11 – What blade guard does Marc have?
46:36 – Can a handheld planer be used instead of a stationary one?
47:27 – What do you do when your neighbor keeps trying to borrow your Festool sanding gear?
49:05 – Will you be incorporating the thread taps into future projects?
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50:11 – When will the kits for your tapering jig be ready?
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…For My Garden Bench Parts So it’s oak. It’s 5″ thick and you need 3 1/2″. There is no doubt that the bandsaw makes shorter work of ripping it to size but there is still plenty of labour surface planing and squaring up adjacent faces. My hands slowly and tentatively slide over the surfaces of […]
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Not everyone is one of our free subscribers to woodworkingmasterclasses so you might not know the woodworkingmasterclasses crew has put together an amazing video series on building my very unique plywood workbench that everyone is currently enjoying. You can subscribe to woodworkingmasterclasses for free and watch both Episodes I & 2, which are both currently […]
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We needed a shoe rack for a spot in our bathroom that always seems to collect shoes. Other than being narrow and having as much capacity as possible, I didn’t have any restrictions on the design. So I decided to have some fun by designing something different and maybe a little weird. Made from African Mahogany and Curly Maple, the rack features four shelves held to the legs via through mortise and tenon joints. The rack tapers upward and the shelves get proportionally narrower as they go up. The wood is doing most of the visual work on this piece and the little details might go unnoticed. I found this to be a fun exercise in joinery and designing on the fly. And thankfully, it actually works quite well as a shoe rack.
Product note: I used to use a lot of epoxy for long glueups. Since working with Titebond, I’ve had an opportunity to sample their hide glue and this just might be my new go-to glue for complex assemblies. Check it out.
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In this design I considered a variety of issues for woodworkers of all levels to consider. Some considerations surround the joinery while others consider the use of tools. In any product design using solid wood, and this project uses only solid wood, the designer must consider such things as shrinkage, swelling of wood fibres, things […]
Read the full post Quiz Questions: Part I on Paul Sellers' Blog.
Finishing off making the two-drawer organiser and filming it too made the week special. Filming for me is never without its trials, not the least of which is the interruption my brain goes through after a lifetime of developing as near an uninterrupted flow to my work. I have been used to the momentary disruptions […]
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I enjoyed building this two or more decades ago. I’ve enjoyed using it. I’ve enjoyed the organisation it’s brought to my work but, making yet another, what I have enjoyed is that it’s perfect for teaching the basics of carcass construction including drawer making. It was never intended as a teaching project when I made […]
Read the full post Making My Tool Organiser on Paul Sellers' Blog.
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4:08 – Can you give your opinion on CBN grinding wheels with square versus radiused sides?
6:05 – Gifts from our viewers!
8:28 – When is Nicole going to do more scroll or lathe work?
9:39 – What is the best way to attach feet to a bed frame with an I type (trestle-like) design?
12:27 – Has your video\thoughts on making your own veneer bag changed?
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14:15 – Any suggestions for hinges for a door with 2″ shelving?
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18:14 – How do I find local wood suppliers?
21:13 – Did you use Baltic Birch plywood from Austin Hardwoods for the Miter Station?
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22:36 – How do you position your hands to make smooth bandsaw curves?
25:11 – Can I get redwood to look more like oak without staining?
27:18 – Make sure and tune up your band saw!
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30:26 – Any thoughts on changing grits for your CBN grinding wheels?
31:38 – Any tips for selecting walnut wood for the gaming table?
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33:52 – Do you try and match the grain on the legs of a table when glueing it up?
37:16 – How do you deal with tear out in walnut and highly figured wood?
39:01 – What would you tell your future self about woodworking?
40:18 – Can you put a water-based finish over tongue oil?
42:15 – Woodpeckers Exact Width Dado Jig demo
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54:21 – What are the differences in Shellacs?
57:11 – How long should tenons be for integral tenons?
59:35 – TS55 or TS75?
60:45 – Can you use a butt joint if you don’t have a domino for a long grain glue up?
62:27 – How would you stain hard maple and then finish it?
http://www.cn-woodworking.com/cn-pre-color-conditioner/
63:54 – Any tips on working with Hickory?
64:43 – Any updates on Essential Joinery?
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In my early days of trying to correct what went wrong, I tried to engage with so called professional woodworking entities like woodworking magazines, woodworking outlets like Woodcraft and Rockler in the USA and my own woodworking schools Stateside and here in the UK. I soon realised that such entities had their own agenda of […]
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From around three years old my boys were in the woodshop every day with me for while. The cut their teeth on Stanley spokeshaves and sharpened their skills by honing chisels and planes as I watched them. By the time they were all sixteen they were highly competent and they skills they learned are with […]
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Hannah found a great woodworking how-to book entitled as above to add to our library. My initial thumbing through the pages made me wonder whether this was a book for adults or for children. On the one hand the projects seem more than beginner-level projects and then the only image of a person in the […]
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My glued wood panels changed overnight. They mostly do. It might happen to you and at first you might panic, recut and reglue. Don’t! One thing I have learned through the years is that joints constrain wood and rarely does the wood have the power to resist the power of goo joinery. I had glued […]
Read the full post Unstable Wood? Don’t Panic on Paul Sellers' Blog.
I am excited and I hope that you are too! The intro for the plywood workbench series was announced recently here and the first episode went out today so this is just a heads up for you. You may be surprised that the whole series is free on Woodworking Masterclasses and goes out two weeks […]
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To push or to pull? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? Do you have coping saw questions? Oak, not Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but we have noticed a high number of searches surrounding coping […]
Read the full post Can You Cope With Coping Saws? on Paul Sellers' Blog.
There are quick ways to check accuracy in measurements in dovetailing. You can measure them, of course, you can gauge them by eye, very quick and equally accurate if you don’t need measurements, and then there is George. I’d laid out my dovetails for the drawer I was making ready to cut. Three of equal […]
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At what point something becomes a chest I am not sure. Probably more than two drawers I seem to remember from my early days with George. I made this one well over two decades ago and now find it an indispensable place for my special tools and equipment. It’s one of those pieces where simplicity […]
Read the full post A Tool-Drawered Unit on Paul Sellers' Blog.
Smaller draw-bore pegs are unlike timber-framing pegs, primarily because of size. On a timber-framed structure for a building the pegs can be from 3/4″ on up to 1 1/4″ depending on where the pegs are used–main frame posts, collars, tie beam, brace and so on. Draw bore pegs for buildings are typically shaped and sized […]
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6:15 – Last day to preorder Ashley Harwood’s turning project!
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8:51 – We’re giving away a Powermatic table saw this month!
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13:18 – In the miter saw build, Marc put a thin piece of wood between the clamp and wood, why?
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15:24 – Getting a 15″ Powermatic Helical Head planer – What type of setup can I expect?
17:53 – What is the best finish for outside items in hot dry summers and cold wet winters?
20:25 – Is there a good way to fix a build issue with the humidor project?
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21:58 – Hinges can be intimidating, any tips or tricks with them?
https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/knife-hinge-installation/
https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/videos/a-butt-hinge-mortise/
27:!9 – Will Marc offer a hardcover copy of the new book?
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29:37 – Is Woodtalk coming back soon?
29:48 – How do you choose between Bullnose, router and shoulder planes?
31:49 – Have you used the Minwax 3 times as thick poly?
32:41 – What router bit do you recommend to flatten a slab?
33:57 – What are your thoughts on fast vs. slow setting epoxy?
34:49 – What’s the best way to secure a workbench to a wall and to level it?
37:56 – Has Nicole finished making a table runner?
38:54 – My CA glue goes bad, anything I can do to avoid this?
42:03 – Do I need to go through all the grits in rotex mode?
45:56 – Are there any style router bits that shouldn’t be used in a router table?
46:40 – When joining boards, is there an advantage to the domino over a biscuit?
48:32 – Any tips on setting up a traditional jointer as opposed to the newer style tables?
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Yes, we Brits can be wimps. An inch or two of snow and snow stops everything. “The Beast From the East” headlines warn us for weeks of impending snow-and-ice doom and our resident media fear-mongers in smart suits and ivory towers continue to invent news rather than report it win out once more. One of […]
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