General Woodworking
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Tripod Extension Arm
Making video of my projects has become a large part of the process, and sometimes the equipment I have limits what I would really ...
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Making A Deck Broom From Pieces Of Rope
It’s funny how one thing leads into another. I made a video testing how well the edge on my shovel knife will stand up, and ...
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How To Make a Wooden Printing Press
by Don Heisz My wife is always engaged in some artistic process or other. Recently, she has been very interested in making linocut...
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Making A Wooden Meat Mallet
A hefty mallet made from hard maple, with a smooth face for flattening and a textured face for tenderizing those economical cuts o...
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Making 131 Push Sticks To Give Away
This many push sticks could easily last me a life time, but I’ll be giving these away at an upcoming meet-up in Toronto. A f...
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Matthias Wandel Visits My Shop
Matthias stopped by and brought along a few of his homemade projects to compare with mine. In the time he was here we spent a few ...
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Wooden Light Stand
A few months ago I bought a new video camera for the YouTube videos that I do. My choice of camera was based on a number of factor...
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History
This article is more of a show-and-tell than a project, a walk down memory lane for me – it covers some of my older homemade...
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Building A Garden Shed
Well, I’ll call it that, anyway. For now, it’s a temporary place for about half of my woodworking tools and supplies &...
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Making a Drawing Bow
Easy to make and very handy to have on hand, it lets you draw curves and arcs of almost any radius. It’s made with a strip o...
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Re-Designed Push Stick
I use and have used for years one type of push stick, and it has served me very well. What I like about it is that it gives me com...
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Easy Miter Clamping Dogs
There are lots of different ways to clamp miters and several clamps that are specifically designed to do that. This is an easy to ...
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Wooden Bench Dogs
Like many others, my workbench has a row of square holes down one side that evenly spaced, and work with the wagon vise to clamp b...
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Perfect Circle Jig
To make a new wheel for my 2 x 72 belt grinder project I figured I would put together a circle jig that is used on the disk sander...
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Homemade Protractor
Having broken or scratched to the point of unreadability my share of plastic protractors, I thought I would make my own. After a q...
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Center Marking Thingamajig
When you make a lot of smallish circular parts, it makes sense to have a convenient way to mark the center. While making my wooden...
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Making A Glue Roller
To get started, I cut a piece of pine about 4″ long to use as the roller, and marked the centre on each end: The blank is tu...
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Making a Wooden Try Square
On several occasions I’ve been asked about the plywood try square that I’ve used in a few of my videos, so I figured I...
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Making a Wooden Contour Gauge
A contour gauge is used to quickly measure and duplicate uneven surfaces. To scribe a part to fit in tight to an irregular shape, ...
