I have shared many times on this issue, even if the word is slightly different. Many say there is no such thing as truth but of course, there is! Truth, in fact, literal fact, is everything! In my working with wood I have earned that any compromise with regards to veracity means I leave something…
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Noun or adjective, fitting works, and, well, no it’s not woodworking, but someone has to do it. Fit them I mean. I put one of these on the doors to create a hands-free door and found that they work so well I wanted them on all the doors. They do take a while to stop…
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My wood seems such a solid thing when all else seems to shake. Perhaps it’s not so, but I rely on it more than most and see it as that more than most, I think. These past two months of lockdown seem to have changed the world we once felt more solid about. People search…
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00:00:35 - Welcome to the WoodWhisperer Morning Show 00:01:10 - Thanks to our new Patreon subscribers 00:01:38 - Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt Work In Sanity podcast 00:03:17 - Mail time! 00:05:20 - Do you have experience adding toner to finish? 00:07:01 - Any update on guild projects this year? 00:09:50 - Any advice on the bread box guild project? 00:10:30 - How is the dust collection on different brands of miter saws? 00:12:10 - Are helical cutters easier to set up in jointers? 00:13:25 - What's the difference between a regular jointer and a parallelogram jointer? 00:14:20 - What are some of the most important features you look for on a drill press? 00:15:55 - How can I weatherproof panels of an exterior door? 00:18:02 - What kind of finish can I use on my countertops? 00:19:15 - Are there any decent plug cutters that don't burn the wood? 00:20:45 - How can I fix a router gouge in the show face of a piece? 00:22:40 - If you had the knowledge you have now, would you have continued being a furniture maker? 00:24:08 - Nicole clears the air 00:26:12 - How can I remove too tight dovetails that I dry assembled and can't get out? 00:27:57 - What tool should I get first if I want to process rough lumber? 00:28:53 - How can I account for the wood movement when making panels for the G&G entry bench? 00:29:37 - Is there adjustment that prevents snipe on a drum sander? 00:31:03 - How can I learn to cut dovetails? 00:32:10 - When can I skip plane my board? 00:33:25 - What finish can I use for a shaving brush that will be in the bathroom? 00:34:50 - What sizes dominos do you normally use? 00:37:30 - How can I help boiled linseed oil keep from seeping out of the wood? 00:41:00 - How can you finetune the amount of suction on your random orbit sander? 00:42:25 - What is the minimum HP on a drill press to use a forstener bit? 00:43:45 - What's your opinion on Richlite hard wax oil? 00:45:34 - Guild project winner! Congratulations!
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With the shoe bench built and in place, it became obvious really quickly we needed some more organization in the back room.
Once again I grabbed some stock from the maple stash and decided to build…a box…a box to store some wicker baskets that will hold all sorts of items that seem to just get put somewhere I usually can’t find them.
For this project we kept the joinery super simple using nothing more than a biscuit reinforced butt joint, and to add a small detail to it, I cut, shaped and added an applied moulding to the front edge.
Quick, easy and super simple!
Some of my fondest days have been spent in wild places where few men trod, cowboys rode on paints and cattle roamed vast tracts of ranch land. I watched a roadrunner lift a rattler, spin it in midair and kill it in a single move with it pointed beak. A wild boar with three-inch tusks…
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It’s time for another Q&A session and this time it is live! We want to do these more regularly so we’ve decided to have a ‘theme’ each time, to focus on one topic. This week our Q&A will be on wood preparation. Please send in your questions via the form below. The live Q&A will…
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I am often told of this plane or that plane coming from an alternative culture, as though somehow never had a western version and that somehow we might be behind when in reality what we had simply got dismissed by being forgotten in the flotsam and jetsom of our industrial ‘progress’. In reality it is…
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00:00:45 - Welcome to the WoodWhisperer Morning Show 00:02:08 - Thanks to our new Patreon subscribers 00:02:35 - Shout out to Gene! 00:07:22 - What's the best beginner guild project? Shaker Table & Writing Desk 00:09:00 - What feedback have you gotten on the quality of Bell Forrest kits? 00:11:00 - Is a planer/jointer combo worth the floor footprint savings? 00:12:15 - What brand Japanese saw is a good brand? 00:13:38 - What is the best vice option for the Roubo bench? 00:15:55 - Can you use spalted pecan wood in a smoker? 00:17:50 - What's your favorite router bit? 00:19:20 - What Festool router size do you recommend? 00:20:47 - How can you prevent bleeding when using two tone stain? 00:23:00 - What's a common geometry of how far down an apron starts on a table leg? 00:23:55 - Are wedding rings or watches a safety hazard in the shop? 00:26:50 - What size and how many parallel clamps would you recommend? 00:30:01 - Do you prefer double stick tape or blue tape with CA glue? 00:33:40 - Did you finish the interior of your dog holes on your bench? 00:34:14 - Any tricks on keeping champfers crisp when sanding? 00:35:00 - Any recommendations on creating champfers with hand tools? 00:36:50 - What are some examples of open pore woods? 00:38:13 - Any recommendations on resizing the roubo? 00:39:42 - What are your thoughts on windows in the shop over wall space? 00:41:35 - How many teeth do you recommend for a ripping blade? 00:42:21 - What's the best way I can power carve a block of wood into a cloud? 00:44:23 - Should I get the 500 or 700 domino? 00:47:53 - How can I sharpen the pin on a marking gauge? 00:48:55 - Do you sand between paint coats? 00:49:55 - How do you mark out large right angles? 00:50:55 - Guild project winner! Congratulations! Guild Discount code! "justbecause" for 40% off a guild project! - Offer ends 5/26
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As a boy I peered into tool chests filled with some of the most beautiful tools ever made in the history of tool making. They were all hand made, of course! They usually remained just under the bench aprons and at the ends of workbenches and on the rare occasion that they were left open…
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If you are interested in making a new toy for and with your children this one will be for you. I loved making this and suspect it may well be the first one that’s been made by hand tool methods in decades if not ever. You need very few tools to do it and it…
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I have a bandsaw capable of resawing most of the stock I work with, but occasionally I have pieces wider than it can accommodate.
While I have an auxiliary extension for the bandsaw to increase its capacity, it’s time consuming to install, and even then it’s sometimes more of a hassle than it’s worth.
In about the same time it would take to set everything up (even with the extension already in position) I can easily resaw thick material using a combination of my tablesaw and a rip-style handsaw.
I’ve had mixed results using this combination before, but here’s how I do it now, and given the great results I’m getting, I’ll continue to use going forward.
I planed wood and stood staring into the depths of chatoyancy. Each reflection, I knew, reflected the significant order and the significance of order I placed on every facet of my working. As I looked with single-eyed resolution into the eye in the wood I sensed the prize of fine workmanship that was soon to…
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There’s an ancient song from my childhood that my mother sang that goes something like this: When you’re smilin’, when you’re smilin’. The whole world smiles with you… And as I was planing my wood I started to sing this: …and when you are planin’, when you’re planin’. The whole world planes with you. Sawin’…
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Well, I finished the last of the ten projects promised today and now I am onto the next woodworking masterclasses project, which began with a clean-up and put-up of the shop and a sharpen-up, as always. We must stay isolated here. It’s to soon to return with confidence yet. This place feels bigger everyday and…
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It’s hard to believe that I have now done 17 vlogs. I enjoy filming these so I want to keep doing them and hope that you enjoy them too. I like being able to dip in and out of my world and work with you. Take you on at least a little of my journey…
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My hands strained into the night. Something stopped me from stopping. Had I stopped I would have lost something so precious that I knew I would never find later. That’s how creativity works in me. I don’t stop when I am tired, I stop when I feel I must. Creativity works inside me at all…
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There’s nothing like scratching two things off your to-do list with a single effort. In this case it’s replacing a real eye-sore of a project (that wasn’t as helpful as originally thought…see “The Good, the bad and…It’s Ugly”…,) and also another way to use up some old stock that’s just been taking up space for far too long.
This version of a shoe bench is great not only because it can store more pairs than the old one, but in addition you can actually sit down while you’re putting them on. So perhaps it’s actually more like scratching off EVEN MORE items from the list!
In addition to all of the above, this was a great opportunity to push myself on joinery as I used one of my least favorite joinery techniques, the angled half-lap.
Many things have struck me over the past two months. As a man used to working on his own in a crowd, and then without the crowd, I might see things differently, perhaps even somewhat skewed. It has never been singularly normal for me to go to an office or a factory setting, even wearing…
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The only thing I love more than woodworking is barbecue and my favorite way to cook it is on a kamado grill. After I got my XL Big Green Egg, I just had to build a stand worthy of it. Made from Sapele, this stand is beefy enough to take the substantial weight of a large ceramic grill and then some. The cloud lifts in the rails hint at Greene & Greene influence and take the humble BGE Table to a whole new level. I designed the table specifically for an XL Big Green Egg but you can certainly adapt it to any size or brand kamado you like. I also made sure the stand is compatible with the protective covers Big Green Egg makes for their own tables. If you want to make your own XL Big Green Egg Table, check out our plan and templates.
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The sandbox drawings are done, as is the prototype which is fully made and currently being tested by my granddaughter who is putting it through its paces with daily testing on the deck outside. My potatoes are doing really well, both in the ground and in the growing boxes I made. I am hoping to…
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