IBUILDIT BlogBy: John Heisz
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How I Would Build The Great Pyramids
I guess it’s been Joe Rogan‘s interest in ancient civilizations that has made the topic as popular as it is currently....
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How Strong Are Wooden Bar Clamps?
That’s a question I get often with regards to the ones I’ve made, and I think people expect that I can put a number on...
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I’m currently building a new pair of speakers for my office and in a departure from my usual more practical approach, I̵...
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Off and on over the last year or so I’ve been thinking about a design for a drill press table. More accurately, I’ve b...
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I’ve been in this shop now for 5-1/2 years, and my goal over that time has been to gradually improve it, to make it more eff...
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Twas The Night Before Push Stick
In this video, Kevin from the YouTube channel krtwood set up a secret Santa open to everyone in the woodworking community: In it, ...
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It has become an annual happening, where my brother Don and I go out for a day to look for abandoned places that might be interest...
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As many of you regular visitors to this site and / or viewers of my YouTube videos know, I do this for a living and have been sinc...
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Save Money Building Your Own Kitchen?
Since I’m back to working on my kitchen again, I thought I would talk about the in and outs of what’s involved if you ...
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I’ll start this off by saying that it would be a lot different for me now, if my work life had taken a different path. A maj...
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Is Russian Birch Plywood Good Enough?
For most of the shop projects that I build, especially jigs and machines, I prefer to use Baltic birch plywood. The main reason is...
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In this one, I want to talk about developing the ability to see and to rate in importance the different factors that affect a proj...
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To Paint Or Not To Paint your shop projects
The question: Should you paint your homemade tools and shop projects? The answer: Yes and no. Sounds confusing, right? I’ll ...
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Based on the comments that I receive on many of my videos, glue strength when joining wooden parts is widely misunderstood . This ...
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I often get comments that it’s better to buy things like clamps and other small shop tools instead of making them yourself, ...
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Shop Too Small – Build On or Build New?
When I moved here 5 years ago, my (somewhat unrealistic) idea was to finish the major renovations on the house within a year, and ...
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The Truth About Laminated Wood
In the comments on my build video for the doors I’m making for my house, a number of people questioned the use of plywood as...
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Fix That Crack Like It Never Even Happened
Back in July I made a foot stool for my office from the branch of a maple tree I had cut down the year before. Kind of a “ch...
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To get started in woodworking can be daunting, but like so many other things in life the important part is to just begin. A simple...
