Workshop tip: Leather straps hold irregularly shaped tools
Wall-mounted panels are a great way to keep tools organized yet easily accessible, and making custom tool holders is fun. For odd-shaped utility tools like …
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Workshop Tip: Protect outdoor furniture with epoxy foot pads
This method works on outdoor furniture to prevent the feet from wicking water up into the legs and inviting rot, and on indoor furniture to …
Workshop Tip: Protect clamp bars with waxed paper
I love my parallel-jaw bench clamps, but I don’t love how glue squeeze-out drips onto the serrated bars, making the clamps hard to operate. After …
Workshop Tip: Protect clamp bars with waxed paper
I love my parallel-jaw bench clamps, but I don’t love how glue squeeze-out drips onto the serrated bars, making the clamps hard to operate. After …
Workshop Tip: Simple, effective setup for trimming plywood edging
Trimming solid edging on plywood is a tedious task, especially if you have a lot of shelves and cabinet edges to process. I know the …
Workshop Tip: Simple, effective setup for trimming plywood edging
Trimming solid edging on plywood is a tedious task, especially if you have a lot of shelves and cabinet edges to process. I know the …
Workshop Tip: Turn a drafting square into a shop square
Not all shop squares are 100% accurate, but plastic drafting squares are. Being transparent, however, they make it tough to see gaps between the square …
Workshop Tip: Open blast gates without bending and reaching
Blast-gate locations usually aren’t very accessible, requiring awkward stooping and reaching to open and close them. I solved the problem with a simple mechanism that …
Workshop Tip: Open blast gates without bending and reaching
Blast-gate locations usually aren’t very accessible, requiring awkward stooping and reaching to open and close them. I solved the problem with a simple mechanism that …
Workshop tip: Fine-tune your mortiser with a small stick
To produce smooth-walled mortises with your hollow-chisel mortiser, it’s crucial that the face of the chisel be precisely parallel to the machine’s fence, so each …
Workshop tip: Acrylic spacer blocks to set joinery machines
To make sure the fences on my biscuit joiner and Domino end up parallel to the base, at precise heights, I use a set of …
Workshop tip: Quick way to sharpen a wheel-type marking gauge
Some wheel-type marking gauges are not sharp out of the box, and even the best dull over time. It takes a long time to sharpen …