Tricks of the Trade
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Free Glue Applicators with Your Coffee
Typical glue brushes are too soft for spreading glue onto the walls of mortises, and they can be hard to squeeze into tight spaces. Scrap wood applicators work better, and here’s where you can get them for free.
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How to Keep Glue Caps from Sticking
Have you ever had the cap on your CA Glue get stuck? Thanks to a helpful reader, Chris Marshall has a solution.
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Golf Ball File Handles
The best handles for files, by far, are old golf balls!
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Coat Hanger Bits Align Screw Holes
Ever have trouble lining up the screw holes when reassembling project pieces? Here’s a simple solution.
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The Benefits of Making a Furniture Project Prototype
The time you spend making a project prototype will help you work out the best design details, catch mistakes before they happen, and help you figure out how to build your final project successfully.
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Molding Head Cuts Smoother Coves
Milling coves at the table saw is a great way to get large, customized moldings in any species you need. I use a different cutter.
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Doweling Jig Makes Great Mortises
I don’t have a mortising machine, and until recently I used my drill press instead. But, I find the doweling jig makes mortises as well as my drill press did.
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Simple Tip for Erasing Pencil Marks
This tip makes it easy to remove pencil marks from wood. You don’t need to wear out your pencil erasers. There are a couple solvents that wipe away pencil marks with ease.
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Lacquer Thinner Rejuvenates Wood Putty
If you have solvent-based wood putty that has sat too long in the can and now is as hard as concrete, all is not lost! Don’t throw it away.
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Handy Quilter’s Tool Checks Dimensions
My mother-in-law was a quilter, and among her supplies I found this aluminum measuring tool.
