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Drilling holes in wood is an important part of woodworking, and I know that I very often just take it for granted ... until I have a failure, like wood cracking on me, or I can't find the bit I need, or I can't find the key to my chuck, I try to hold the wood with my fingers and end up making a bad cut ... and the list goes on ... There are many, many things we can do that will make our hole drilling quicker, easier and almost always give us better results too, and for me, sometimes it's just slowing down a wee bit to take the time to do a better job, and a lot of doing a better job for me means convenience ... that is, having things handy to use and not having to go looking or making things just so I can drill some holes ...

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Keeping the things I use most frequently close to my drill press has helped me a lot. Not having to waste time looking for things reduces my frustration ... and as I talked about in the past, looking for the key my chuck used to be a big deal ... not anymore ...
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Wood Routers used in conjunction with Router Tables open up a whole new world of uses and one of those uses is cabinet door making. There are many different kinds of bits available from numerous manufacturers for making all sorts of different styles of doors ... and it is super easy to make them. Like all tools, setup is important in order to get good consistent results and one of the ways to help achieve this is using jigs. You can make doors several different ways, but using jigs can help give you repeatable, quality results, and one of the jigs to do this is Coping Sled. Basically, all a coping does is help to hold the wood for you as it passes past the router bit on the router table. This may sound easy, but when you car crosscutting wood on a router table and looking for very fine results to get nice tight joint connections, a copying jig is one way of helping to achieve this.

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To make my more basic Coping Sled I rummaged around my pile of used plywood and came up with a couple of ideal pieces ...
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Saving time in the workshop means being better organized, and for me (who is usually unorganized) it means slowing me down so I can take more time to do a better job. I love woodworking and the pleasure I get from it, so anything that can slow me down so I can enjoy it more is a good thing. I love to think about what things I can do to make it even better ...

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Lugging sheets of plywood around, especially when they are 3/4 inch thick is not something I look forward to, so this little item is a huge help ...
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One of the elements that makes woodworking projects stand out is the attention to detail that the woodworker builds into their works. In some cases, one of the details that help to define a piece and break up large areas of plain wood ... is something called Fluting. A commonplace that you might find fluting would be a surround of a fireplace. Often there are wide pieces of wood around a fireplace and one way of making these plain pieces of wood more attractive is to "flute" them.  You will also find fluting on table legs, bookcases, large wooden beds and other things that use wide boards in the construction. 

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My goal with this jig project was to make a jig that I could use on many different projects that I could rely on as being accurate and for making repeatable flutes when I need them ... 
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Dedicated crosscutting machinery really started with the old Radial Arm Saw which emerged around the 1930s. In its day this was a revolutionary saw and for anyone who could afford one, it really picked up the production of the shop by leaving the table saw to do mostly the ripping, which is what it is best at. When the Radial Arm got really popular when it reached a price point more people could afford, it was realized just how dangerous this saw could be without proper instruction. Radial Arm Saws are great, but they are unforgiving if you make a mistake or slight miscalculation. Fortunately, as things go, the Radial Arm slowly got replaced with a much safer Chop Saw and later the Sliding Mitre Saw, but don't ever get complacent with these saws either, all saws are dangerous and need to be treated with utmost respect.

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Of course, like most tools, woodworkers are always adapting and making attachments and jigs to make these saw work even better, and often safer too and here are just a few of the things that can be done to make chop saws and sliding miters even more effective ... 
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