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Learn These Tips To Sharpen Your Workshop Skills

Learn These Tips To Sharpen Your Workshop Skills - Woodworking Tip #35

Clamping Boxes and Picture Frames Tip

Smaller items that need clamping can easily be done with masking tape. You do NOT need tons of pressure when gluing, often only enough to bring the 2 sides together so they don't move ... let them set for about 30 minutes and that is enough to bond the sides, though the glue will take longer to harden and set, many types of glue are workable in an hour or so.

Double-Sided Tape Substitute

In fact, often this little trick works BETTER than most double-sided tapes and it's easy to do. Basically, you put masking tape on both sides of the wood you want to clamp together, then run a bead of CA Glue down one side and spritz the other side with an accelerator, put the two sides together, and hold them for about 10 seconds. Instantly you have a super-strong bond that can be used for a variety of things.

Laminated Wood Joinery

I have known for years that laminated boards ... that is boards I glue together as I showed in the video, are very strong. So I decided to test it. As you can see from the results, according to my rudimentary testing, the glue really made no significant difference to the strength of the wood ... and I learned something new. and that it that the density of the wood appears to have more effect on the strength that the lamination ... at least with thicker more robust laminations.

Wood Screws

Butt Glue Joint Test

I decided to throw this joint in at the last minute because I have had fairly good results with this joint. The system I have used is applying glue to the end grain of the wood, letting it dry (or near dry) then reapplying glue to both surfaces, clamping, and allowing the glue to cure for at least 24 hours. In this case, the joint failed very quickly and very noticeably, what is interesting is that it failed at about the same pounds of force as the pocket hole joint at around 175.

Dowel Joint Test

I expected the dowel joint to perform at least as well as the lap joint, the nice thing with the dowel joint is that it is without question the easiest joint to make and it performs exceedingly well. In my test, the dowel joint began to fail at around 225 pounds force, but in this case, it is clearly the fault of the wood as you can see none of the dowels broke and all of the tore the wood fibers from inside the 2x4.

Lap Joint Test

This test failed at around 275 pounds force, quite a bit more than the pocket hole but I thought it could have gone more.

175 Pounds

Pocket Hole Joint Test

I was pretty confident going in that the pocket hole would be among the poorest joints, especially for these softwood 2x4s and it was no surprise to find out that it started failing at only 100 pounds force, but because this joint uses mechanical joiners (long wood screws) the joint did not fall apart until it reached around 175 pounds force.

Woodworking Shop

Was I Wrong about Glue Joinery?

Was I Wrong about Glue Joinery? - Joint Testing 2x4s

Furniture

Furniture Woodworking

Furniture Making

NEVER Use 2x4s for Furniture Woodworking!

Woodworking Jigs

Center Table Living Room

Wood Warping after Jointing

I discovered my jointer blade had rust on it, at first I wondered how that happened, but then I found that all the wood I had recently jointed was now all warped, uneven, not straight, and most of all ... not useable. What happened there?? Well when the wood is not dry, what happens you skim off the top of the wood that is dry, exposing the inside of the wet wood, that immediately starts to expel the moisture. The industry standard for moisture content of wood is 9%. #woodworking

Wretched Workbench Wheels Replaced

Replacing the horrible wheels on my woodworking work bench! #woodworking

Woodworking Tools

Wood Crafts

Outfeed Table

Best technique for pushing wood through the jointer

The best technique for pushing wood through the jointer is starting off on the infeed table, but as soon as you can safely "grab" the wood on the outfeed table, put your pressure on the outfeed table and continue to push the wood through. If your wood has an arc or bow in it, the cupping must be down, depending on the thickness of the board. Then you may need to ease up on the pressure otherwise you are only transferring the cupping to a newly jointed side.

Sanding

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Need To Know

Sanding Pads

Here's a trick I adopted many years ago when I first discovered those anti-skid pads. I use one on my sand bench and it works great for 3 reasons, it stops the wood from moving around, it helps prevent the wood from getting banged or wear on the underside of the wood and the kind of anti-skid material with the holes tends to trap a lot of sawdust that would otherwise get up into the air. I NEVER sand without one. #woodworking

Easy Finding Center Trick

One of the tricks I learned while taking carpentry (house building) class was how to quickly measure the width of a board to find a center point for cutting it in half. This method works very well just make sure you use the same side of the tape or ruler each time. It's a quick accurate way to find centers and if you are decent a math, you can find thirds, quarters, etc. too.