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I always love working with people who have more experience than me because that's how I learn new things, and when it comes to pro woodworkers and master carpenters, they have all sorts of little tricks and ideas they use on a daily basis to get quicker and more accurate results, so it saves them time and helps them get top quality results, what could be better??

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The first person I learned so much from was my High School woodworking teacher, "Charlie" Whittaker. When I joined his class he had already been a woodworker and a teacher for a number of years and had many little things he taught us that have served me my entire life ...

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I'm sure the wood jointer was the most frustrating tool for me to figure out how to set and use, but I stuck with it because I understood it was the foundation of everything I wanted to make that was straight and flat, and so I had to make sure I knew how to set up and use the jointer ... but I also learned there is a lot more to jointing wood  ...

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And one of the first things I learned was that setting up the jointer is job number one, and it needs to be done correctly or nothing else matters ... 

Read more: Advanced Edge Jointing Techniques with a Wood Jointer

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I hope I will be able to remember all the cool tips and trick for woodworking that Subscribers have sent me when it comes time to use them ... or, I can just go to this website and type in a single word into the search box, hit the return key and I will have the article, with an answer on the screen within seconds. 

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Every time people send me in ideas, I can't believe how much there is for me to learn that will make my woodworking more efficient and fun ... 

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Pocket Hole Machines are new, but as time goes on, they become smaller, more versatile, and more affordable, especially for anyone who would like to get into the woodworking industry and actually make a living at it. Of course, one way is to build cabinets, which are always in demand and there is no letup in sight. The cabinet market is strong and will be for a long time.


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In almost every market, anyone who can turn out good quality cabinets at a fair market price will have as much work as they can handle for the foreseeable future and of course, on way to accomplish this is to use pocket hole machinery to help make strong, attractive cabinets in a timely fashion.

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As long as I have been involved in woodwork, people have told me "don't worry about a small mistake, you can fix it with wood filler". But my experience with wood filler of any kind has given me poor results.  I decided to try a few combinations of shop-made fillers and one version of commercial fillers, just to see how they work and how they compare.  Note: Other Links as talked about in the video are below!!

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Remember too, there are other ways of fixing mistakes and defects in wood during the build process, wood fillers are only one way, and may not be the best way, but sometimes they are the only way ...

Read more: Testing Shop Made Wood Fillers!

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