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Video Post #1: Woodworking in America: Frank Klausz on Dovetail Design 2010
An introduction to the design of dovetails and their purpose from Frank Klausz. He’s probably cut more dovetails by hand than any other woodworker in the world. Related posts: Woodworking In America:...
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Video Post #2: Shop Tip: Fixing a Zero Clearance Insert
Keep your old zero clearance inserts and reuse them for dadoes. Here’s a short video showing how I reused a zero clearance insert that I had ruined. Related posts: Video Post #5: Shop Tip: Squaring a...
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Video Post #3: Shop Tip: Tuning Up A Jointer with A-Line It
When you tune up your tools, whether they are hand tools or power tools, you’re doing yourself a favor. Beautiful furniture requires excellent joinery, and excellent joinery is not only functional and...
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Video Post #4: USFA Trophy Bases: Repairing Voids in Walnut with Epoxy
The stock for the USFA Trophies has been roughed and stickered in the shop for a while. I’m on vacation from work, and now that Christmas is over I had five hours in the shop today and made good...
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Video Post #5: Shop Tip: Squaring a Table Saw Miter Gauge with Magswitch
Quick video I put together today showing how I use my Magswitch featherboard to ensure my table saw miter gauge is square to the blade for perfect crosscuts. Check out Magswitch at Eagle America....
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Video Post #6: USFA Trophy Bases: Cutting the Miters and Clamping Square
I’ve made a lot of progress on the Trophy Bases this week, as you’ve seen in my recent posts. After ensuring my miter gauge was perfectly square to my blade and my blade was 45° to my table it was time...
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The Awesomeness of Woodworking for Mere Mortals
In the online woodworking world, there is (thankfully) lots of content from lots of sources, covering a very wide range of topics and catering to a broad range of skill levels. If you want to learn...
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Video Post #7: Woodworker’s $160 Portable Spray Booth Part 2: The Finished Booth
I’ve been holding on to some video for a while, things have been busy at work shipping the Internet Explorer 9 RC. If you aren’t running IE9, you should, and check out the Site Mode Integration for...
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Video Post #8: My Shop Buddies
Having a buddy in the shop is always a good thing. Sometimes our buddies are human, like my buddy Greg that helped me build the Thomas Walnut Dresser. Sometimes our buddies are dogs, like Shannon...
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Video Post #9: Weekend Treeworking
We recently had a storm come through and the high winds and soft wet ground meant we had a tree blow over. Today I used my truck, some come-alongs, some rope and fly-fishing knots to right the tree and...
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Video Post #10: Get Woodworking Week With Red Toolbox Kits
Get Woodworking Week Tom Iovino, over at Tom’s Workbench rallied the online woodworking community to create Get Woodworking Week. Uniformly we are all onboard – we love bringing others into the craft....
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Get Woodworking Cub Scouts
Get Woodworking Week Over the holidays I had the opportunity to build some Arrow of Light awards for a local Cub Scout troop. These are simple cherry boards with a routed edge detail that the Scouts...
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Woodchat Gorilla Glue Prize Packs: Woodchat Transcript July 11th, 2012
Tonight we discussed adhesives again, and announced the Gorilla Glue Prize Pack giveaway over at Andy Brownell’s site. Click here to enter the contest by the end of Friday the 13th. Woodchat Transcript...
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Woodchat with the Wood Whisperer: Woodchat Transcript July 18th, 2012
Tonight we were joined by Marc Spagnuolo, the Wood Whisperer for a great #Woodchat. Marc discussed many things with us including his entry into woodworking, the shop he’s building, his free site and...
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Woodchat about Pinterest and Reddit: Woodchat Transcript March 6th, 2013
Tonight’s Woodchat focused on reaching out to new woodworkers that are hanging out on Reddit, and using Pinterest for design inspiration and connecting to customers. Woodchat Transcript March 6, 2013...
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Woodchat & Get Woodworking Week: Special Guest Tom Iovino from Tom’s Workbench
Tonight special guest Tom Iovino headed over to talk about Get Woodworking Week 2013. Woodchat Transcript February 6, 2013 @uppercutwood: The hardest part for me is always is getting started #woodchat...
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Woodchat & WIA 2012: Woodchat Transcript October 10th, 2012
Tonight we discussed Woodworking in America 2012. Woodchat Transcript October 10, 2012 @woodshaver101: hey guys whats the topic #woodchat @weilworks26: I try to live vicariously through other bloggers...
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Woodchat & The Furniture Project: Woodchat Transcript March 13, 2013
Tonight we were very luck to have Eli Cleveland from the Furniture Project (@DesignBuildShow) and Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac join us to discuss finding, preparing for, and executing...
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Woodchat is Going Strong: Almost Two Years and 48 YouTube Videos
Tonight we had another great Woodchat, just like we do darn near every Wednesday at 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern. When we were done I went to the YouTube page to check on things. That’s when I realized...
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Woodchat with Jimmy DiResta’s First Take on Top 10 Tools
We were lucky to have Jimmy DiResta join us for Woodchat on December 4th, 2013. After some Google+ technical goop that we had to work through, we had a great chat with Jimmy. If you don’t know Jimmy,...
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Woodchat with Jimmy DiResta’s Revised List of Top 10 Tools
Jimmy DiResta came back to Woodchat on December 11th, 2013 to answer even more questions from Woodchatters and revise his list of Top 10 Tools. You can also watch Jimmy and his brother John in the DIY...
View ArticleHayden Renews her Holzapfel Workbench Top
Workbenches are meant for work. They get dirty, stained, and tell stories with the drips and drops of finish and glue. Hayden’s workbench also tells stories: of painting with chalk by rubbing her...
View ArticleYe Olde Woodchat YouTube Archives
Woodchat is a great thing. It just isn’t a great thing I’m spending much time on anymore. I still love it, I just don’t have the time or energy for it right now. Creating content that is compelling...
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UCWW #18 Tool Tour Grizzly H192 Sander
For Christmas Wifey got me a Grizzly H8192 8″ Disc/1″ Belt Combination Sander. I finally assembled it and gave it a run through. It’s very similar to the Rikon 50-142, so much so that the Grizzly is an...
View ArticleUCWW #19 Tool Tour Eagle America Spline Jig Pro
I’ve built spline jigs before. Quick and dirty ones. It was time for me to get a more permanent, better built spline jig. Eagle America came out with the Spline Jig Pro a while back, and when it went...
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