This episode, along with all the other tips and tricks submitted by Subscribers, I have a TREAT for everyone, a new video from my 89 Year Young woodworking budding at Al's Tinkering, who will show us a detailed and innovative way he makes perfect mortise and Tenon joint ...
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/rNUCNDS08gE
But before we get to Al's Tinkering, here are some great ideas from other Subscribers ...
Here's a project I have had on my mind for a long time. Upgrading my wood router table to some sort of a new flat table. My existing table is one of those that is made from MDF, which when new is flat, but over time many of them develop a bow or dip in the middle. This appears to be partially due to the constant weight of the router on the MDF ...
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_GfivHG_9C0
but is also likely caused by the fact that the MDF does absorb moisture (like all wood products) and in the process it makes the wood or in this case MDF, expand. Since the MDF cannot expand on the top because of the glues on arborite or plastic laminate, the MDF can only bow upwards on the sides, which is what can cause the center to drop. In my case over a sixteenth of an inch.
Sometimes it is the simplest ideas that really catch my attention ... one of these you will see later in this article. I am often guilty of making things a bit too complicated and I can take a lesson from those who have easier ideas that are equally effective.
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/k7TTkaAtLXQ
First off is a tip I should be using more often, and now that I have a stronger magnet hook, maybe it will work for me.
Read more: 5 Quick Subscriber Woodworking Tricks & Tips - Episode 25
Circling back to the Wobble Blade or Adjustable Dado blade as it is more accurately called, and because of its small diameter or 7 inches, it lends itself to making things that most other blades cannot do ... like coves and bowls, not to mention decent dados.
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/RRy8lxCoLag
My attempt at making these bowls, was actually for making concaves for nesting boxes for cavity-nesting birds, and a video that I first made about 12 or so years, then another update a few years after that where I used the fence on the table saw as the anchor ... which worked for that saw, but for my newer saw it was not quite as convenient so I devised a new jig to do the job along with some new techniques for trimming bowls ...
Read more: MAGNETIC Table Saw Bowl Jig / How to Make a Wooden Bowl Without a Lathe!
Safety in the workshop needs to be priority one! Always. We all try to work as safely as we can, but very often we are trying new things, ideas, and techniques or even new tools and things can go wrong very quickly in the workshop with spinning bits, blades, and machine parts.
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/s3dp8Kh0Cvo
Luckily for most of us, when things have gone wrong, often innocently, we only get a scare and often escape any serious injury, and knowing what went wrong and why and thinking about these things in the future helps us work safer and often create better products.
Read more: Bad Ideas in Woodworking Episode 6 / Workshop Fails
