…or should it be shredding it? Last year was quite a hard year. Moving house to start the year with, moving offices and business to our own new premises, building the garage workshop studio and keeping up with the videography the whole time to make things as seamless as possible. There were moments when you […]
Read the full post Shedding the Past… on Paul Sellers' Blog.
3:40 – Marc’s “vacation”
5:40 – New coasters!
6:33 – Happy Festivus
7:30 – Marc got new socks
9:40 – A letter from a fan
13:30 – What are the pros and cons of using a miter saw vs table saw for crosscuts?
15:30 – Jon Funk is a swell guy!
16:35 – When is WoodTalk coming back?
16:53 – How does epoxy go through the planer?
18:19 – For a sliding dovetail, should I glue the whole joint or just a section of it?
20:20 – Is there a relationship between pin to tail ratio and dovetail strength?
22:31 – Do you have any info on the book presale deal?
23:33 – How do you reset the bevel angles on your plane irons?
25:58 – What are your must-have tablesaw accessories?
36:00 – Is the Sawstop sliding table attachment worth the cost?
37:15 – Should I tighten a drill chuck in all three of the holes or just one?
40:08 – What’s with the clock? http://amazon.com/shop/thewoodwhisperer
40:47 – Do you find mortise chisels more efficient than regular chisels when prying up mortises?
43:10 – How do you feel about your carbide tipped drill bits?
45:43 – Is it safer to use a 7″ blade in a 10″ tablesaw?
48:18 – Do you have a recommendation for a quiet air compressor?
51:06 – What are your top time-saving tips for hobby woodworkers?
56:55 – Thanks to new Patrons! – https://www.patreon.com/woodwhisperer
58:50 – Business dealings with Russia
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I’ve been experimenting with rust bluing for a little while, but haven’t been able to achieve the results that I know are possible. After a decent amount of research I came to the conclusion that I was not removing the loose rust that forms during the bluing process properly, and that is why I was […]
My table saw, drill press, jointer, and bench top morticer are Powermatic. My bandsaw, orbital sander, and dust catcher are by Rikon. The smaller equipment such as 12” miter saw; 15 gallon compressor; and my various types of drills, both electric power and battery, are by DeWalt. My router equipment is a nice combination of both DeWalt and Porter Cable. The types of compressed air fasteners are all by Bosch and Passload.
My shop and all it’s equipment take up the 649 square feet of a small garage. It has taken me almost three years to make, and sometimes remake, cabinets and storage for all the equipment and tools necessary to do my work. I am a retired rough frame and trim carpenter. I am enjoying my retirement years doing what I like to do best with what I think is the best and still affordable equipment to do anything my mind is still able to conjure up.
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It was 5.30 Friday evening when George and I finished the big ritual of sharpening all of our tools. Planes, saws, chisels and spokeshaves were lined up with bright shiny cutting edges ready for our return to work the next Tuesday morning. George was a happy man when all the tools were in order, I […]
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Woodpeckers Corner Jig order deadline is Dec 31st!
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Putting my tools away for a few days, sweeping up shavings, my last project suspended between the making of it and its departing to its new home, these things rewarded me in the making and doubly when I closed them out to stare at them. Watching them as if they might fly as sleighs or […]
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I’ve had a few days off sick because of a cold that seemed more than a cold and more like bronchitis. It’s gone now. Yesterday I took a drive north and visited my home town, Stockport, stood on the spot where I was born. walked the field of my youth, drove roads of my paper […]
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In modern times we might refer to our self-employment as freelancing. It sounds better and seems to settle the matter for those we’re telling the outcome of our recently completed degree years to. Of course in certain spheres large companies force you to become ‘independent contractors’ so as not to have to employ you directly. […]
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0:44 – Welcome to Friday Live!
1:42 – Items\gifts received in the mail
2:28 – Awesome package received!
4:09 – When will card scrapers be back in stock?!
https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/tww-card-scraper/6:20 – How can you remove dried glue from the corner of a bookcase?
7:29 – Do you think you might update already completed guild projects? (Such as the Chest of Drawers)
https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/chest-of-drawers/9:16 – Why did you use Osmo’s food grade finish over PolyX?
11:!0 – How’s the electrical heating working in Marc’s shop?
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13:00 – Respirator for people with beards!
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27:08 – Any thoughts on what finish to put on the Ruobo?
https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/split-top-roubo-workbench/
28:16 – Have you thought about converting the guild to a physical school?
30:25 – How would you make a very wide taper on the underside of a table?
31:44 – Do you have a plan to have a Bell Forest package for the Gaming Coffee Table?
32:40 – Do you do anything to protect your Sonos One in the shop?
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33:54 – What hoses do you recommend for dust collection?
34:30 – Gift for Marc……. And the audience
35:10 – New Meat Affiliate!
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41:04 – How do you handle temp vs ventilation?
42:23 – Are you still running the Guild Mentorship program on Facebook? https://ift.tt/2rAOGyz
43:37 – Which Tried & True product do you recommend?
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44:26 – How would you glue up a cutting board with a breadboard end?
46:33 – Would the positive air pressure mask dry out contacts?
48:30 – Do you use floating tenons? Would you mix standard and floating tenons?
50:16 – What gloves do you use when applying finish?
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51:50 – Would you buy a domino or upgrade a DeWalt Lunchbox planer?
52:57 – Would laminating boards work when the temperature is getting into 50 degrees?
54:41 – How would you do stopped angle channels in a challenge coin holder?
55:36 – What is your opinion on making the Maloof chair with only hand tools?
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You can find just about everything we discussed in our Amazon Store in the US and Canada!
0:55 – Welcome to Friday Live
4:07 – Today is a Special Holiday Gift Guide
5:40 – Mechanical Pencil Set
7:39 – 3M 6500 Respirator (With Pink Filters!)
11:24 – Woodpeckers 641 Square
11:24 – Woodpeckers 1281 Square
12:57 – Wood Whisperer Branded Card Scraper
(Non-Branded version)
15:13 – Megapro 15 in 1 driver
16:53 – JayBirds Earbuds
20:37 – SoundPeats Earbuds
21:15 – Blue Spruce Chisels
24:21 – Hybrid Woodworking (Marc’s First Book!)
25:06 – Essential Joinery (Marc’s NEW Book!)
27:51 – Home Automation\Electronics
28:10 – Amazon Cloud Cam
29:27 – Nest Protect Smoke\CO2 Detector
31:30 – Sonos One Smart Speaker
38:18 – What chairs are those?
Blacker House Chair that Marc built at the William Ng School and the Sculpted Rocker
39:27 – Marc uses rapid taps when chiseling, where did he learn this technique?
42:25 – Congratulations Scott Hampshire on your new baby!
44:58 – Now that you have had both the Bosch and Kapex Miter Saw, which do you think is better (at half the price)
46:34 – Is there any piece of advice that you have done a complete 180 on or that you have evolved most on?
50:00 – Do you have a recommendation for a hardwood source in Denver?
Austin Hardwoods – https://www.austinhardwoods.com/
51:44 – Have you ever thought about making a speaker\speaker box or have you in the past?
54:26 – Do you use a pore filler before Osmo or is the Osmo enough?
55:24 – Why didn’t you paint the walls before doing the trim for the home theater room?
57:51 – Did Marc make the trim around the door?
60:13 – Go to Marc’s Instagram to see his Home Theater project
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61:58 – Wood Whisperer Loot Bag!
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There is work for which one charges a fair price and then there is work for which you can add a design fee. Don’t forget such things. A fair price would not be a good guide for me if I spent several weeks developing an idea to make a design come to reality that I […]
Read the full post What’s My Worth—Part II on Paul Sellers' Blog.
I received four books for review this week. They got bogged down in the post and should have arrived 6 weeks ago. Glancing at the covers of a couple I can see the content will not be for fine furniture as such but more, alternative pieces using wood that’s basically secondhand be that shaped, square, […]
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My son has been asking for a bunk bed for a while. To be honest, I procrastinated due to the scale of the project and I am surprised Nicole didn’t just go out and buy one. Thankfully, she didn’t and this sweet bunk bed with slide is the result.
Built with a crap-ton of Alder from my local supplier Austin Hardwoods, the bed is big, heavy, and takes a while to build. But the smile on your kid’s face makes it work every second of effort.
Plans will be available soon.
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Today I was fully in the saddle to almost close out the baby cot project I’ve been working on. It went particularly well and the end result will indeed be the sturdiest take apart, knock-down, almost flat pack cot in existence. The fasteners facilitate taking a large rectangle of frames and panels apart into five […]
Read the full post Cot’s Coming Close to the End on Paul Sellers' Blog.
The internet opened many doors for communication. It’s hard to believe that YouTube is only 13 years old! You can learn more about woodwork and its counterfeits than ever in the history of woodworking just on YouTube alone. The problem we small guys face is that, as the audience searches ever the widening net, we […]
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We haven’t done an old school Gift Guide video in a while so we decided to do one live on our Friday Live show. Because the video was recorded live, it’s not quite as “hi res” as our usual content. But we thought you’d enjoy seeing some of these gift recommendations anyway. You probably know I’m a tech geek as well so some of these items are a little “off topic” but have some tie-in to life as a shop woodworker.
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I’m sitting in the cafe thinking about all of the people I have nudged along this road I call real woodworking. They have come and gone and I expected them to eventually leave to do their own thing. Men do that. Go their own way, strike out, set up as what is now a disguise […]
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So what makes them bandsaw boxes? Nothing! Other than they magnetise perfectly with the bandsaw and accessibly useful tools. Of course they will work for other tools too. I made a couple of bandsawn box trays using the bandsaw and then one identical to those using only hand tools. They take nothing to make by […]
Read the full post Another Unbandsaw Box on Paul Sellers' Blog.
Yep! I love it! What would I change at the end of eight months here? Not a thing. I’ve set up enough workshops in my time to know what I want and what I want is what I need and nothing more. In times past I needed to expand to accommodate additional people to work […]
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…A Bandsaw Box Tray By Hand… I did the bandsaw box tray exercise to fly in the face of the man who said, “I don’t mind you using a bandsaw in your videos so long as you don’t make another of those bandsaw boxes!” Today I made one by hand minus the bandsaw because I […]
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1:36 – SimpleCove Contest – https://www.simplecove.com/contest/2018-year-review-contest/
3:00 – Nicole is getting glasses!
3:32 – New Patreon supporters – https://www.patreon.com/woodwhisperer
4:30 – New Woodpeckers tools – Polygauge SS – https://www.woodpeck.com/onetime-tool-polygauge-ss.html
6:39 – The only reason everyone showed up today – The Giveaway
8:08 – Why Marc’s got the OneTimeTools
8:55 – Polygauge Demo/Q&A
11:40 – Marc is popular with the Instagram ladies
12:15 – Full disclosure on the Woodpeckers goods
14:54 – How do you utilize your drum sander in your workflow?
17:15 – Do you have any ideas what next year’s projects will be?
17:38 – Any experience with the NOVA DVR Drill press vs a Powermatic?
19:44 – Do you have opinions on variable speed drill presses?
20:40 – Can you talk about end vs long grain cutting boards?
23:05 – Sculpted rocker on sale this week – https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/sculpted-rocker/
24:20 – Are there visual clues on appropriate amounts of glue and clamp pressure?
27:08 – Ben can’t apply glue appropriately
27:40 – What is the laser level you used to layout your alcove cabinets?
30:05 – How can I fit doors to a cabinet that is not square itself?
32:17 – Marc is a terrible trim carpenter
33:45 – What happened to the Guild scholarship?
34:55 – Have you met James King?
36:00 – How do you go about putting stars in a wooden flag?
37:43 – Would ipe be good for a glued up mallet head?
38:35 – Would glue be sufficient for a bookcase shelf in a dado, or would you use screws as well?
40:32 – Will you have a book bundle with both books when the new one releases?
41:40 – Is a jointer planer combo worth it if I’m doing mostly hand tool work?
43:50 – How do you get past the anxiety of cutting into expensive stock?
47:05 – What was a tool you felt like you had to have, but when you got it, you realized you didn’t really need it?
49:27 – Is there an advantage to breaking a large tenon up on a breadboard end vs one large one?
50:13 – When will we see a plan for the tapering jig?
51:11 – How high a grit do you use on your drum sander?
51:38 – Any recommendation for wheels to use for mobile tools?
52:32 – Is there etiquette for buying used tools?
54:13 – Have you played Starcraft?
55:45 – Do you have a guild project you recommend for someone who has a limited shop? https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/product/shaker-table/
57:08 – Is it possible to get guild projects converted to another format other than sketchup?
57:47 – DelVe square winner! – Mark Nylan
58:40 – Guild project winner! – Greg Brown
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Someone said, “I don’t mind you using a bandsaw in your videos so long as you don’t make another of those bandsaw boxes!”, so I did. Hannah had brought me a wire metal version of a magnetic container intended for a fridge and I liked its usefulness for keeping wrenches like spanners and Allen […]
Read the full post An Exercise Project For the Bandsaw on Paul Sellers' Blog.
It’s been a good week overall. Special in some ways. I visited with my new granddaughter four times and it’s been so enjoyable getting to know her. I finished her first cot, the pine one that goes to my house, and will hopefully finish the second one for filming this coming week. That’s the oak […]
Read the full post My Week Passed on Paul Sellers' Blog.
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 […]
Read the full post Cognitive Feedback on Paul Sellers' Blog.
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?
4:30 – Thanks to our new Patreon supporters!
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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?
or
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?
25:45 – Are you using the Incra 5000 still or did you build a new sled? https://ift.tt/2PNu0BY
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.
37:10 – Is this just to make money on superchats?
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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 […]
Read the full post Metal-cast Rarity Planes and Uniqueness on Paul Sellers' Blog.
“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 […]
Read the full post Joseph’s right! on Paul Sellers' Blog.
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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