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I like to try and have a theme for all my videos but when it comes to subscriber submitted tips, it's hard because it is so varied, but today I managed a bit of the theme with glue and finishing ... 

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One thing I have found in the past few years of doing these tips videos is just how much some product differs from country to country, even with countries. For example in the US, someone in California is purchasing 2 part epoxy glue in bottles whereas someone else in says Georgia can't find it in bottles, only in squeeze tubes and different brands altogether... but no matter, we all have a pretty good idea what how these things work. 

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I finally broke down and purchased a Digital Angle Finder or Inclinometer as some call them. Basically, they are a small box that after being "centered" they can be tipped to one side or the other to measure the degree of angle, simple ... or so I thought.

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Someone gave me one of these well over 10 years ago, he told me that he had owned for a while but that it didn't seem to work correctly and that I could have it and if it didn't work, I was to throw it away, he didn't want it back. Well, after fussing with it for a time, I chucked it out and let him know, that he was right it was not working and I disposed of it ... roll forward about 15 years ..

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There is so much to know about using plywood that as I was making this video I kept thinking to myself, I could use a whole YouTube channel just on PLYWOOD, there is so much to know and learn.

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One of the first things every woodworker should know about plywood is that there are some basic "need to know" things about plywood and first of all is the species selection ...

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More and more ideas and tips from my YouTube Subscribers this episode and if you have NOT already subscribed to my Channel, you are coordinately invited to subscribe, it's free, painless, and easy and if you click the Bell Icon as well, you will even get notified each time I upload a new video 

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To has a mix of new an old tips, some tips I re-discovered from many months ago and finally getting around to posting them ... enjoy 

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The whole point of workshop tips is to find a better way of doing things and to share these ideas. What happens a LOT to me, and other Subscribers see these tips and they (or me) often come up with improvements or other ideas that leads to other interesting ideas and suggestion. I know that some of the ideas I get are not actually tested by some that send them, I know this because they tell me that, but I test everything before I publish it. 

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My testing might not be intensive, but I do need to build, modify or otherwise test out all of these suggestions, which of course takes time, and once in a while I find things that either don't work, or maybe not that well or that I think are not necessarily recommended or might even be somewhat unsafe ... 

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