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If you enjoy woodworking, gluing wood together is an essential job, for almost all woodworking. It sounds like and easy task, but anyone who has done even moderate woodworking can tell you, gluing can be some of the most frustrating tasks you can do. The reason for this is that if it is not done correctly, for a number of things, you can end up with MUCH more work to do than you planned.
I know this from experience, and probably most experienced woodworkers can vouch for similar "learning lessons"
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I often seem to get stuck with how to solve small details in the workshop. Things like trying to drill a hole into end grain on a dowel with my drill press, sounds easy, but how do you get a nice vertical hole and hold the dowel without spinning?
Fussing around with these kinds of things can use up a lot a valuable time in the shop while accomplishing little, except learning ... which is super valuable.
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In many workshops, the table saw is the most used machine and for all it's use, there are not many things we can do to make it much easier or or more precise, but there are still a few things ....
One of the things I have learned the hard way over the years is that the more precise I can make my cuts and joints, the easier it is to put wood projects together simply because the fit better.
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One of my biggest challenges in woodworking is not doing things that I have to go back later and FIX ... I hate having to re-do things because "something" went wrong ... and that something is ME ... nobody else to blame, so how can I do better??
5 Essential Woodworking Tips Today
The first thing is having equipment that works the best it can. I often don't have expense equipment and some of my limitations are the tools, but it's up to me to get them working the best they can ...