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A BLIND DEPTH GAUGE FOR CYCLONE BARRELS
by Grant in Iowa Drill a hole in the top of your collection bin to receive a wooden dowel as tightly as possible. Might need to add an end stopper to keep it from falling in when the bin is empty. Whe...
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A CHEAP, SIMPLE ROUTER MORTISING JIG
by Ken in Regina Here's the jig I built recently; I pulled it from Gary Rogowski's book Router Joinery. It's simple and cheap to build. I just used some scrap 3/4" MDF. I made the base long enough to ...
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A FLUTING JIG FOR TURNED SPINDLES
by John Lucas Several years ago I built a jig for my router so that I could cut flutes in spindles that were turned on the lathe. I did this because I needed to make a fluted split turning for an anti...
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A GREAT BOX JOINT JIG
by Carole Valentine As a new woodworker, the idea of a box joint jig intrigued me, and I had looked at a lot of plans. However they all seemed somewhat limited in that they were constructed for one si...
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A LEXAN® FEATHER BOARD - A SIMPLER METHOD
by Gord Graff in Newmarket Ontario After posting a "How To" on making traditional feather boards I received a number of e-mails, and one in particular caught my eye. It seems the fellow doesn't have a...
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A NEW KIND OF FEATHERBOARD
by Wally Schneeberger in Calgary AB I've always had problems with traditional finger-type featherboards. It's a real nuisance to discover that when the featherboard is applying enough pressure to hold...
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A SAFE JIG FOR ROUTING COCKBEADING AND SMALL STRIPS
by Mike Bon I had to round over some small strips for cockbeading to wrap some doors and drawers and remembered this tip that I read somewhere in a magazine. Because I was using the bottom of a multip...
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ADJUSTABLE MITER BAR
by Robert Tutsky When I made miter bars for jigs out of wood n the past, I found it difficult to get a perfect fit. Another problem is that over time the miter bar swells or shrinks making it fit too ...
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ADJUSTABLE STAIR RISER JIG
by Wally Schneeberger in Calgary, Alberta I had to make some stairs for a friend and required a jig to rout the stair stringers so this is what I came up with. I have made some before but they weren't...
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ALIGNING JOINTER TABLES
by Jim Rahbe, Bedford Tx I use two large drafting triangles that I bought at a drafting supply house. I just place one on the out feed table and the other on the in feed table and butt them together b...
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ATTACHING CROWN MOLDING TO A CABINET - THE SPLINE METHOD
by Jim Shaver This method was passed to me by my good friend KC Constable in Texas. He demonstrated that attaching crown molding to a cabinet using a spline helps with alignment and adds greatly to th...
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BANDSAW INSERTS
by Doug Ridley, Paducah, Ky My Delta bandsaw has a 2½" insert so I took a correspondingly sized hole saw and drilled six holes part way thru a long board not much wider than the diameter of the hole ...
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BANDSAW SAFETY TIPS
by Terry Daniel and BubbaBob Hayles Terry Daniel: A trick I learned years ago when using the bandsaw to cut turning blanks is to lock my little finger of my left hand under the table so that fingers o...
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BANDSAW TIP
WoodCentral Jigs, Tips & Tricks by Keith P. Tompkins When using a bandsaw, use the BACK edge of the blade as guide. It's the same idea as riding the bevel on the lathe. It makes it a lot easier to...
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BENDING / DRILLING ACRYLIC
Excerpts from The Messageboards Joe Pack asked: I need to make a few stands for pens, bottle stoppers, etc., modeled on pictures I find on the web. I am considering using acrylic, but have never worke...
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BENDING PVC PIPE
by Mark D. Dolson Set your barbeque temperature for about 300 degrees. Fill the pipe with sand to help keep its shape, rotate over the heat until it is pliable, and then form to what you need....
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BROKEN SCREW REMOVAL TIPS
WoodCentral Jigs, Tips & Tricks by Dave Anderson ,Thomas Williams, Andy Wright, Jon Arno, Gary Camp, Jim Reed and Robin Frierson Robin Frierson was on the last screw, installing the hinges on a he...
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CENTER PIN FOR ROUTING/BANDSAWING CIRCLES
WoodCentral Jigs, Tips & Tricks by Steve Jenkins Rather than using a screw for the center point I use a shelf pin. Basically a piece of 1/4" rod. I have found that using a screw will loosen over s...
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CHOPLESS DOVETAILS
Excerpts from The Message Boards Bill Tindall, E.TN: I am making some trays for Christmas that involve dovetailed corners. I don't get any joy from removing dovetail waste. Anything that reduces the t...
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CLAMP TOO SHORT?
by Stephen Shepherd I was gluing together a cabinet recently and didn't want to break out the tenfoot panel clamps, so I just used some clamp extensions made of hardwood. The extension (or “stretche...
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