DIY Chainsaw Case: Build Your Own Ultimate Case
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One the best things about being a woodworker is that if there is something you need and you either can't find it to purchase for a reasonable amount (or any amount for that matter) or can't even find what you are looking for .. you make it!
DIY Chainsaw Case: Build Your Own Ultimate Case
Such is what I did recently with my chainsaw, that is terrible for weeping chain oil, even after I drain it, and 5 months later it is STILL weeping a small amount of chain oil ...
Simple Jig for DIY Veneers Anyone Can Make!
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Since purchasing my 14" bandsaw a few years ago, I have had little occasion to use it for cutting thin slices of wood, or "veneers" as they are referred to, but this requirement has changed.
Simple Jig for DIY Veneers Anyone Can Make!
Now that I have the XTool Laser Etcher, and having sampled some of it's capabilities, a whole new world of woodworking ideas have taken hold ... many or which require thin pieces of wood between 1/8th to 1/4 inch or 3 to 6mm.
Thin Strip Jig Upgrade You Can’t Ignore
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One of the many benefits of YouTube is that sharing ideas with others often helps all of us improve what we do. Such is the case with this Thin Strip Ripping Jig I made a few years ago. My buddy Bill, from the Sunflower Woodworkers Guild near Wichita, came up with cool safety adaptation for this and today I am going to make re-make this very popular jig ...
Simple Jig for DIY Veneers Anyone Can Make!
One of my concerns with this style of jig, especially when ripping very small pieces of wood, the blade "could" flip a small piece of wood upward toward the operator ...
My Favorite NEW Shop Made Planer Stand
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I seem to have spent a lifetime creating and re-creating shop made stands, work benches and cabinets. After purchasing a new tool, I often need to make some sort of a stand for it, which usually means something "quick and dirty" with the idea I will make a better one later or ... which I do, but sometime MUCH later ...
My Favorite NEW Shop Made Planer Stand
Such is the case with my Planer Stand. I love my little 13" (thirteen inch) helical head planer. With my other tools, it is perfect for my shop saves me tons of time and works like a gem, but the stand has always been an issue for me ...
Recreating the Genius WWII Ammo Box (a Memorial Project)
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Woodworking sometimes leads me on strange journeys, and this was one of the most enlightening. The original goal here was to build a replica World War II Ammunition Box for a memorial display. I thought, how difficult could it be to build a box ... right? Then I made the mistake of going on to the Internet to see if there were any examples and that's where the fun started.
Recreating the Genius WWII Ammo Box (a Memorial Project)
There were TONS of examples, some old, some new some replicas some originals in every shape and size you can imagine, but I had to figure something out that was "original to the time era" as best I could, and what I uncovered was truly startling ....
5 Rookie Mistakes in Woodworking to Avoid
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I have always loved learning new things from other people ... I still love this and I am still learning new things every day, but now I find myself wanting to give back to others what I have learned along the way, and this video is a quick synopsis of things that I wish I had learned much earlier in my wood working adventures ...
5 Rookie Mistakes in Woodworking to Avoid
The video is only 14 minutes long, not long enough to describe some of the details so I will share what's NOT in the video here ...
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