tips & Techniques
There are a ton of finishing options for cutting boards at a variety of price points, application methods, and all with varying levels of durability. Which is best? Watch to find out!
You can easily get the look of breadboards without spending a lot of effort doing time consuming joinery, without ignoring wood movement! Here's one approach I take when doing breadboards but speed is important.
Woodworkers can be really tough to shop for, so here's some ideas of things they'll love and why they'll love them!
There are a ton of finishing options for cutting boards at a variety of price points, application methods, and all with varying levels of durability. Which is best? Watch to find out!
You can easily get the look of breadboards without spending a lot of effort doing time consuming joinery, without ignoring wood movement! Here's one approach I take when doing breadboards but speed is important.
Everyone knows what tools you need in the shop, but there's a lot we use that aren't "tools." In this video I go over some of those oft used non-tool items in our shop!
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Here are 10 woodworking tips from a full time professional woodworking shop cranking out commercial work every day! I spent a week at Lakeside Woodworks shop in Kentucky while they were working on a batch of 63 tables for Buffalo Trace's new tasting rooms and a huge red oak bar to help out and see how they do things differently to keep up with demand.
Can you cut on epoxy cutting boards? Is epoxy food safe? What finishes are food safe? Is any finish food safe? Are all finishes food safe? What's food safe even mean, can I eat it? In this video I give my best shot at answering this questions in this crazy confusing topic!
A dust free wood shop. It may be a pipe dream, but I'm a lot closer to it. After several machine upgrades my old system really wasn't cutting it so I upgraded to a ClearVue Cyclone and ran all new ducting. Along with that, it only made sense to rearrange the shop. This video goes over all of that!
Woodworking poses respiratory risks, that's obvious. But what are the risks, and how do we actually protect ourselves from them? This video discusses the two main risks in my woodshop, particulates and VOCs. And the three mitigation strategies I use to keep myself safe which are collecting pollutants at the source, wearing PPE, and using ambient air cleaners for both particulates and VOCs.
Do you HAVE to use expensive tape to make an epoxy form? Do you even need tape at all? Does wax or mold release help get epoxy out of a mold? Watch to find out!
Epoxy is expensive so you want to know how much to use! From a better way to "eye-ball" it to using Photoshop, I'll show you 4 ways to find out how much epoxy you need to mix for your pour whether it's a river table or something smaller!
Which gauge? 15, 16, 18, 23? Battery? Pneumatic? There are so many choices to picking a nail gun! This video explain it all and shows you several tips to get better performance out of them!
Woodworkers can be really tough to shop for, so here's some ideas of things they'll love and why they'll love them!