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How to Use the Wood Router Inlay Set - Freud Tools Inlay Set

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Inlaying wood is a great way of adding a special detail to a wood project. In the past, and to a certain extent even today, inlay work is done by hand by cutting shapes and strips of wood along with the pockets they will be fit into and eventually glued into, but there are are other ways of allowing machinery to help us with some of these tasks.

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Of course, one way of making inlays is through CNC cutters or even through laser etching, but for this episode, we are using the good old wood router that has been around for decades and never seems to run out of things it can do ...

How to Make a Chamfer Plane / Corner Easing Plane

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I like having nice crisp sharp corners when I am preparing wood for a project, but sometimes they can be too sharp and even cause a small cut and when the project is made, we always want the corners to be less sharp and sometimes even rounded so that people using our wood project will not get injured either. In many cases I will quickly grab a plane, re-adjust the blade the plane off an edge or run those edges through my wood router table.

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Those duties take a bit of time, and I have always wondered about having some little tool that could quickly and easily do this job for me. A tool that was set up, just to do this one job that doesn't need to be re-set or checked every time. Then I saw a few pictures online of a shop made tool that looked similar to what I had in mind.

Subscriber Submitted Woodworking Hacks Episode 2 - Workshop Tips and Tricks

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I love it when subscribers share their ideas and tips and tricks, so I get to see what they are doing, and share it with the rest of the woodworking community ... that's what this website was initially set up to do ... share woodworking ideas

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I'm going to start off with something that has been submitted a few times to me and I have briefly covered it before, but many new subscribers have missed this so a quick re-cap on - What to do with your Drill Press Chuck Key ...

Crappy Woodworking Squares Can Ruin Your Projects / Checking Squares for Accuracy

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One of the things in woodworking that I am very passionate about are squares. In my early days of woodworking, unbeknownst to me, a couple of my squares were off by square by quite a bit and were causing me no end to problems and frustrations. I cannot tell you what a frustrating time that was for me. It wasn't until I purchased a decent quality steel square that I realized that not all squares are necessarily square.

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Once I realized that my problem all along was probably my squares and not my machinery or the way I was setting it up, a whole new world opened for me.