Thursday, December 1, 2011

15 Woodworking Tips


Woodworking Tip #15 -- Pseudo Tabletop -- a way to maintain proper alignment of a table top and it's base during fabrication

Woodworking Tip #14 -- Norse Fasteners for Tabletop --  using these very strong and adaptable fasteners to attach a table top to its base

Woodworking Tip #13 -- Doublesticking Drawer Faces  --  a method to keep drawer faces properly positioned on a drawer while the two parts are screwed together

Woodworking Tip #12 --"Pre-square" Large Glue-Ups -- a major helping hand in maintaining the squareness of a structure or carcase while the final glue-up is done

Woodworking Tip #11 -- Curvaceous Corners -- a decorative and error-concealing treatment to solid wood edging applied to plywood shelves

Woodworking Tip #10 -- Traction for Plywood -- keeping extra weight over a pickup's rear wheels while still allowing the space required to transport plywood sheets

Woodworking Tip #9 -- Wedges for Hungarian Shelves  -- a quick way to make wooden wedges for Hungarian shelves or most any other purpose

Woodworking Tip #8 -- Anti-Skid Miter Gauge -- preventing lateral movement of a piece of wood placed against a miter gauge and enhancing safety

Woodworking Tip #7 -- Doweling Jig Stability -- a sure method to keep a doweling jig from tilting while boring a dowel hole in end grain

Woodworking Tip #6 -- Magazine Storage -- a small addition to shelving for magazine storage that keeps all the issues parallel and vertical

Woodworking Tip #5 -- Velcro's New Coat -- an obvious way to use a PSA sanding disc on a sander equipped with a hook and loop type pad

Woodworking Tip #4 -- Level Biscuits -- attaching a line level to a plate joiner in order to keep a biscuit slot parallel to a board's surface when the joiner's bed is unsupported

Woodworking Tip #3 -- Old Sole Eraser -- a cheap and usually available "eraser" to clean sanding belts or discs

Woodworking Tip #2 -- Corner Cut Outs -- a method to assure equal multiple corner cut outs using a table saw sled

Woodworking Tip #1 -- Precision Chops -- pushing a miter saw to the same precision slices produced by a knife trimmer




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