DIY jig: Circular saw grade cuts using a jigsaw
Guide | 9 months ago
And I'm not joking. You'll see how, with this bearing‑guided jig, the jigsaw can make cuts as good as those from a circular saw. Sure, not as fast as a circular saw blade can cut, but it’s still a very versatile jigsaw that now makes perfectly vertical and ...
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DIY miniature log cabin with Authentic Log Joints
Video | 9 months ago
I’m building a miniature log cabin using wooden rods that mimic real logs. Each one is 8 mm in diameter and about 30 cm long. To make them stack neatly in the corner joints, I routed a curved groove along their entire length using an 8 mm round‑nose router ...
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The Best Installation of the Mortising Attachment for a Drill Press
Guide | 10 months ago
With a few woodworking tricks, it’s possible to get the most out of this square‑chisel mortising kit for a drill press. When using a mortising attachment for a drill press, we can build a sliding base that supports the parts responsible for holding the wood...
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Two Simple Improvements That Make Your Switch Safer
Video | 10 months ago
What a mistake! I had it installed incorrectly, and although it worked, the safety switch I use for the power tools was neither as effective nor as practical. I had mounted it in a horizontal position and didn’t realize that a piece of wood could fall onto ...
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My DIY Router Table Now Has a Metal Top - It's Worth Every Penny
Video | 10 months ago
I was fed up with the wood sliding poorly on the plywood tabletop of my DIY router table. So I bought some stainless steel sheets to make a metal surface. Now the wood slides much better and routing wood is much easier. I cut the sheet metal pieces to the n...
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The Easiest Router Table to Make
Video | 10 months ago
I needed to make a simple, compact router table. And I wanted it to be a very easy-to-build router table. So, with a palm router insert plate, a couple of strips of wood, and some thin plywood sheets, I made a very useful and attractive router table. And it...
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Centering Bearings for Routing Mortises in Wood
Video | 11 months ago
How easy it can be to route mortises to make mortise and tenon joints! I put a couple of centering bearings on the base of my plunge router and routed two mortises in a strip of wood. Installing the bearings and making the adjustments was quite easy, but I ...
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Now I can use Large-Diameter Detachable router bits on a DIY router table
Guide | 11 months ago
These large router bits don't fit through the hole in the router table's insert plate. Luckily, I have several insert plates, and one of them seemed easy to modify. I removed the inner edge. But they still don't fit through the opening in the base that hold...
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DIY Benchtop Jointer | Turning a Horizontal Router Table into a Metal-Surfaced Jointing Tool
Video | 11 months ago
In this woodworking video I show my idea to convert my horizontal router table into a small benchtop jointer by adding a long base with steel plates to create a perfectly flat metal working surface. With this modification, the router table acts like a minia...
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I adapt a workbench Vise to the shop worktable
Guide | 11 months ago
I have a workbench vise that I've been installing on various workbenches I've owned. Now I'm going to install it on the worktable I have in my hobby woodworking shop. This worktable is made of metal profiles, so I have to mark the position where the rod gui...
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Hardest Hole to Drill: Perfect Drill in a Piece of Wooden Dowel
Guide | 11 months ago
Drilling a hole from side to side in a piece of wooden dowel isn't easy, I can tell you right away. Not even with a professional drill press like the one I have. And even using some woodworking tricks that helped me in previous videos, I couldn't get the ho...
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No One Warned Me! A Drill Press Won’t Give You Straight and Centered Holes
Short | 12 months ago
I went in all happy to drill some nice, straight, and centered holes in a few pieces of wooden rod. But it turned out the holes didn’t come out centered on the ends of the short pieces I cut from a wooden rod, nor straight. I suppose the 6 mm drill bit is f...
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