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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 ...

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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.

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I still get many questions from woodworkers about using CA glue for all sorts of different uses and projects and as we use this versatile glue we learn even more of how to better use it and where it is most suited ..

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/PKZNWpjYoXY

You will note that this video has been sponsored by our friends at Starbond who are offering a 25% discount on all their products up until October 20th, 2012 and you MUST use the code - WOODWORKWEB25, and the link to their site is here Starbond Website.
That's a very generous discount .. and for woodworkers in Canada, Mexico, UK, Australia and NZ and more ... I recommend if you can, to link up with other local woodworkers to place an order and share the shipping costs, which I know can be onerous ... just something to consider.

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30 years ago I purchased a wobble blade for cutting dados. Back then I didn't have much money to spend on tools, AND I didn't want to invest in much more expensive stacking dado set because I knew I would not be using it that much. 
Well, over the years I ended up investing in stacking dado set, which I don't use that much, but it does work well, but I still love my old "Wobble Blade" for doing other things ...

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ymctM5tUgaQ

It's harder to find wobble blades these days, except at garage sales, swap meets and second-hand stores. Every time I stumble across one, I have a good look at it and most of them are in great shape having had very little or even no use ... 

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Sadly, not every log or bit of lumber that lays on the ground or in the forest turns into a spalted lumber candidate. There are many reasons for this and finding spalted logs or lumber takes a bit of a unique set of circumstances for it to actually occur and to become something as you can see in my video where I chose some logs that "looked" like they might have some spalting in them, but when finally cut, had very little.

Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/x8QYUOQG-H0

Sometimes logs or wood can rot and not show any real signs of usable spalting ... wood gets wet and just rots so in order to get spalting it does need some ideal conditions, fortunately, I live in an area, the Pacific Northwest, where those conditions occur often, quite naturally .. but not always. 

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