15 Tips That'll Improve Your Woodworking! Must Know Tricks and Techniques!

15 Tips That'll Improve Your Woodworking! Must Know Tricks and Techniques!

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0:00 Intro
0:12 Reinforcing Miter Joints
0:55 Fixing Miter Gaps
1:19 Jigsaw Trick
1:38 CA Glue Holddown
2:48 Iron On Wood Glue Veneer
3:48 Super Glue as Clamps
4:38 Filling Gaps with Sawdust
5:21 Perfect Segmented Pieces
6:10 Clean Tablesaw Crosscuts on Plywood
6:58 Clean Jigsaw Cuts on Plywood
7:27 Paying the Billz
9:01 Simple Straight Cutting Jig
10:21 Burning Edges? Let’s fix that.
10:51 Painter’s Tape as Clamps.
12: 01 Wedges as Clamps
13:19 Fixing Exposed Glue During Finishing

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50 Comments

  1. Woodwrkr1212 on January 2, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    If you had made your blocks and wedges taller you could have gotten better pressure at the top of your box for an even better hold. Thanks for the tips.



  2. Nic Roberts on January 2, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    Thank you🙌🏻



  3. Bill J on January 2, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    Great Tips!



  4. John App on January 2, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    Great tips. Try harbor freight for inexpensive clamps especially with the rubberized handle which are easy to tighten



  5. Laura Marshall on January 2, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    Great tips. I have your bandsaw box book but didn’t connect that it’s you. Just found your channel. Thanks.



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  7. richard slater on January 2, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    👍



  8. Flako on January 2, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    Love the format, especially with the pacing and the time indexes! make a few and put em playlist 🙂



  9. Jóssy Coser Dornelles on January 2, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    Hi. I am from Brazil and I would like to know how I could by your books. Thank you in advance. Jossy Dornelles.



  10. tbird low on January 2, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    Merci !



  11. Iesus ego confido in vobis on January 2, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    I wish I could do more than one click on the "like" button. Who are the people hitting the "thumbs down" ???? Great video, I will use this video over and over.



  12. Jayson Asher on January 2, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    Why does that shirt looks so familiar?!? I think I had the same one years ago.



  13. Forest Woodworks on January 2, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    Iron-on veneer tip…like, save (dedicated playlist), comment, do. Great tip, haven’t seen that one yet. Thanks a bunch.



  14. MyNamels Nobody on January 2, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    How do you keep saw dust and wood chips out of your drink? I have the bandsaw book and it’s really great and an accidental money maker. I made a few bandsaw boxes for some friends as presents, people saw them and the orders started coming in. I use pallet wood and your book with a used HF Bandsaw and can built them for next to nothing. Thanks and keep up the good work.



  15. Teague White on January 2, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    I’ve had a few failed joints over my lifetime, but never because of wet rags, rather wet nags…..lol



  16. Beaker Wick on January 2, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    Really this video should be sponsored by…(some blue tape company)



  17. Chopper on January 2, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Love your LGBTQ themed shop colors



  18. Russ Martin on January 2, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    Great Tips! Recently,, I had to hold down some small blocks of wood to rout recesses in them. I had no awareness of the wedge method you show, but came up with exactly the same thing. I made rectangles out of scrap to fit the small wood blocks, but on two sides attached the scrap wood at an angle for the shims. Back in colonial days, and later, they didn’t have our modern clamps. They made do with solutions such as using wedges. There is a video on YouTube that shows how to make a jig for cutting shims on the table saw. Saved me a lot of money and trips to HD to buy them.



  19. Dustin Weber on January 2, 2022 at 8:55 pm

    The jigsaw tip with the foam is a very expensive tip



  20. Brian Vesall on January 2, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    Great tips! I found you, Bob and Jimmy separately. To find the 3 of you on the same podcast is incredible!



  21. Dale Matthews on January 2, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    Don’t cut in to insulation foam, unless you want to buy new blades every two minutes.!



  22. J J on January 2, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    👏👌



  23. Joy Hammer on January 2, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    Very cool tricks. I have a gap in my shelf I’m making but it’s a shelf within a shelf. It’ll be hard to sand. I’ll try the glue trick. Thank you.



  24. Peggy Raun-Linde on January 2, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    Great tips. Thanks.



  25. José Wilder Franco on January 2, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    please subtitle in Latin American Spanish



  26. True Snuh on January 2, 2022 at 9:00 pm

    Very good stuff, thank you! Nice jigsaw btw, I have the same one.



  27. AWL THAT Woodworking on January 2, 2022 at 9:00 pm

    Man if there is one woodworker that I hope succeeds and gets huge, it’s you. I’ve been a fan for a while and the fact that you went from web design into woodworking is a great success story and gives me hope that as a software engineer I can let learn and grow in woodworking. For real, love your stuff, I have your band saw book and I don’t even have a band saw yet I’m such a fan. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your knowledge and journey, it’s cool to watch.



  28. Shadow Comic on January 2, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    Nice tips



  29. Bird Lady on January 2, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    These are all practical help. Thank you for teaching us, who don’t do this often. It makes projects feel a bit less intimidating.



  30. David Mims on January 2, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    You rascal! That segmented bowl tip solved my problem completely!



  31. Brandon Strenkowski on January 2, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    Just found your channel today and I’m absolutely loving it.



  32. My Mai on January 2, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    Brilliant video…makes me feel more confident.
    Much appreciated.



  33. X88B88 on January 2, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    Glue won’t be strong enough for the mitre? Are you nucking futs? The wood will break before the glue.



  34. Joe Ennis on January 2, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    tell me more about the bourbon finish , a data sheet or something like that just to answer the wifes questions



  35. AwesomeGuy9000 on January 2, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    Is your table saw on a foot pedal or something? How did it turn on and off while your hands were above the table top



  36. William Mead on January 2, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    New sub here. Thanks for sharing these great tips. I look forward to future content.



  37. R W on January 2, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    I didn’t know yiu could use any super glue with the Ca activator. I thought it was a special glue. Love these tips .



  38. C Hiebert on January 2, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    Learned lots. Thanks 🙏



  39. Woodworks on January 2, 2022 at 9:09 pm

    Hey Dave. Sad news, did you hear wood Jesus Rob cosman sadly got his speed dovetail record obliterated from Matt estlea who challenged any woodworker to beat it. Now we’re putting together a top secret team of woodworkers to try and beat it. Are you man enough for the challenge!



  40. Chris Emens on January 2, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    Do not put painters tape on your piece.



  41. Manuel Bustos on January 2, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    Great video, thanks for sharing your your tricks and tips.



  42. Steven Ro on January 2, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    I thought
    I heard it all but first time for me to hear your top. even with your commercial it was good



  43. PF Woodturning on January 2, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    Awesome video! Thank you. I’m definitely going to grab the bandsaw book…I haven’t attempted one yet!



  44. fireworxz on January 2, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    Thanks



  45. Jiri on January 2, 2022 at 9:21 pm

    This is probably the most practical set of tips I’ve seen on YouTube so far. Thank you!!



  46. Terry on January 2, 2022 at 9:22 pm

    Thank you for this video. There were several tricks that I will use.



  47. Russ Martin on January 2, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    I really like the veneer tip with regular wood glue. Genius!



  48. Make Something on January 2, 2022 at 9:25 pm

    Thanks for watching! I’ve make a playlist of my favorite woodworking projects: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhqK_8dnaIW3V6a66AdyRI9DJUZwCSm83



  49. Clem McGuinness on January 2, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    Love the sandpaper live edge method. Instant jig. Nice



  50. The Wood Lab [Jim Ashley] on January 2, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    Great tips David! I’ve switched from double stick tape to the CA glue/blue tape when I first saw it some years back. I wanna hear more about the bourbon oil finish though! Lol