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Ripping With A Circular Saw A circular saw straight rip guide is useful for cutting long sheets of plywood when there is no table saw available or when cross cutting. The best way to do this is with a track saw [Read Track Saw Comparisons] but if your starting out you may not be able to…
The following guest post was written by Marcy Tate. Marcy is a home improvement blogger at fixyourhome.wordpress.comblog and has been working with carpenters for over a decade. The Different Types of Wood for Woodworking Before beginning woodworking projects, the first step is to pick the right wood for the craft. Start by researching the different…
Hand Saw Tip – Hand Saw Maintenance There is more to hand saw maintenance than sharpening the teeth. Keep Hand Saw Rust Free Storing your handsaw in a case or sleeve and keeping it moisture free is important to keeping the blade sharp and from staining the wood your cutting. Adding silica gel packets…
Using A Drill Press Tips for using a drill press include matching the speed of the drill to the bit being used and matching the drill bit to the material being drilled. Drill press speed depend on lots of things: the type of material being drilled and its hardness the hole size the type hardness…
Getting More Out Of Your Woodworking Pipe Clamps: In my world of finish carpentry and remodeling pipe clamps are a necessity when building bookcases, mantles and built-ions. Pipe clamps (sometimes called bar clamps) work by attaching clamping mechanisms onto a standard size gas pipe. Wood working pipe clamp sizes come in 3/4″ pipe and also…
Carpenter’s Tip To Drilling Precise Depth Holes When drilling holes in wood or masonry the trick is always ensuring you’ve reached the correct depth. As a carpenter and remodeler there are many times when I find myseld having to drill several holes to exactly the same depth. Many of my drills have depth gauges, but…
Carpenter’s Tip – Use a Test Piece for Tight Fitting Parts Practice makes perfect I always say, but so doesn’t test pieces. Whenever I’m doing finish work and I’m making what I call a “money cut,” which is a cut that has to be perfect, I always cut a test piece out of scrap wood. …
Image: http://www.lemurzone.com/rfg/ Carpenter’s Tip – Prevent Split Wood I’ve seen it a thousand times, a well intentioned person is installing a nail at the end of a board and POW the board splits!!! If using conventional nails, watch out at the ends of pieces of wood this ios an area that tends to split easy.…
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