25 Woodworking Tips for Beginners
25 Woodworking Tips for Beginners
When I first started out woodworking, I made a bunch of mistakes. And overtime I learned a bunch of tips and tricks to help my woodworking process go a lot smoother.
So here are 25 tips just for you to help with your woodworking success.
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Awesome video! FYI there was a very low frequency hum. You may want to through a high pass filter. I can hear it drop in and out during scene changes.
Here’s a tip for anyone looking for classes: check at your local community center. Not all the classes are free, but many of them are, and those that aren’t often have very reasonable tuition. You can also look for woodworking clubs and guilds in your area. Some of them have organized classes.
Also, look and see if there is a FabLab in your area! Fablab is a non-profit makerspace operating around the globe, bringing mini manufacturing capabilites and STEAM education to communities. They typically have full woodshops, as well as sewing rooms, art studio space, and or course, laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC making capabilites.
Good job on the video, great ideas for someone who is fairly new to woodworking. And for those of us who have been doing it for a while too! I know I tend to get a little bit lazy at times and end up with a few extra pieces of firewood LOL!
These are great tips thanks for sharing 👍
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Hello, could you do a video on 20 plus French cleat ideas for a pottery studio. You could do a few repeats and some new ones.
1. Cubbies for bags
2. Apron hangars
3. Small tools
4. Pencils and markers and small wooden tools
5. Garrottes and shipikki
6. Ribs and kidney tools
7. Throwing bats (disks for the pottery wheel head)
8. Texture rollers and roulettes
9. Stamps
10. Cookie cutters
11. Bluetooth speakers around room
12. Party platters for potlucks during long kiln firings
13. Masks and particulate masks for glaze mixing
14. 26L Bucket storage
15. Reference book hold open with a plastic guard for keeping the step by step article from getting splashed with slip. So it can be in front of you as you try a new project- no one wants to wash their hands and dry them every step of the way.
16. Glaze and coloured slip containers bottles
17. Test tile library,
18. Test tile palette a short shelf for up to five test tiles to rest on to see how they look together.
19. Texture rollers can go in tubes
20. Packing rolls of bubble wrap for shipping
21. Inspiration image of the day- put a foam back in a shadow box with a hard board that presses the photocopy of an inspiring pot against the window, you can store 50 behind the front one.
22. Dowels inclined up to hold kiln furniture accessibly when loading the kiln. They have holes in the middle it works perfectly, 2 meters away from the kiln for fire safety. Stilts, spurts and saddles get their own storage and by length.
23. Mug display grid. – a hanging shelf grid with each square displaying a mug by a different artist- a photo of the mug on the left side, info about how it was made on the right- artist, year, clay body, firing cone, which kiln, techniques, weight height, who has liked it, used it.
24. Throwing list for day- three or four pegs to hang a bookmark sideways made of clay saying what is being thrown(it has a centred hole about 1cm ) then on the left is a smaller tile with a number stamped on- 3, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 77. 98. 112.
25. Mason stains in little ziplock baggies. On a dowel organized by rainbow with blue at the front.
26. Orton cone boxes
27, spray bottles full of water
28. Soda sprayer
29. Goggles
And most tools will get wet so having a 3degree tilt for water to run off will help. Some tools are hot like kiln furniture so it needs hardwood or even a ceramic peg- no plastic for hot stuff.
30. Extruder plates/extruder dies
31. Paddles
32. Sponges all sizes
33. Dottles
34. Clearly labelled Slab roller canvases for brown clay , porcelain, low fire and stoneware. This prevents low fire dust exploding the porcelain in the kiln at the higher temperatures.
35. Storage labeled for wooden slabs for using wire to cut at a controlled height.
36. Fold out ware board shelves. Like one you did for wood storage
37. Paint brushes- European hairy side up, Asian, hung from pegs.
38. Eyewash station
39. First aid kit for bandaids
40. Full on first aid kit and book.
41. Throwing and trimming chucks.
42. Cottling boards and clamps
43. YumI or bow harps.
44. Kiln was cartons
45. Plaster bat for throwing station- at a 3degree tilt- for wet clay to be quick reclaimed.
46. Sprigg mold
47. Surform tool and spare blades.
48. Sandpaper sorter
49. Hand wash liquid soap holder and towel
50. Hand wipe towel holder by throwing station
51. Cattle syringes for mixing wild clay tests
52. Drill and big glaze mixing bits
I’d be happy to answer questions. I think you would draw in more viewers with this woodworker/ potter crossover and you could find a local pottery studio to do a beneficial install for them! It could be a series, one long one. Or you could have the show end with you dropping off the new French clear solution and interact with them to explain it/ ask about it. Love what you are producing and the friendly enthusiastic way you do it. Thank you so much for your work!
Can you do a video about how a beginner would go about setting up their shop
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Thanks for this tip collection. Such a convenience compared to taking notes from different videos.
Excellent video!!!
As for quality tools, go to yard sales. A person can find brands like Makita, de Walt, etc at a fraction of the price. "The reason is my husband passed away and I don’t want them." Sometimes you can equip your whole shop at a yard sale….
Chinese tape measures work well if Farm Tolerance is used , 1/4” .
Great woodworking tips for beginners! Thanks!
Thank u for this video
Wow. So useful tips
#26 – HAVE FUN!
Very helpful and practical tips! Thank you!
thanks!
The one thing that I disagree with. And this is just something that drives me NUTS.
Is hanging any hand tools on a wall.
And I can’t believe everybody does it.
I can’t stand reaching for a tool, that is hanging on a wall and it’s all dirty and dusty.
IT ABSOLUTELY DRIVES ME CRAZY.
And you know darn well, if a tool is sitting out or hanging on a wall. It’s going to get dirty or dusty.
So I have ALWAYS kept my hand tools in a drawer or cabinet.
This way they are ALWAYS clean and ready to use.
And I don’t get crap all over my hands and or my project.
Question I had been forgetting to ask you..
In your opinion do/would you trust stud finders?
Thanks in advance & may all be blessed!
Do not need a bloody fancy pc building program that takes a lot of time to learn all the different doda’s, just use a piece of paper and pencil and go , did it like that for 40 years and always accurate 😁😁👍👍 and here we have another one with a so called ”small” shop , boy you not even know what small is 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
As always if you find you’ve cut a little to much. Go immediately to Harbor freight and get a board stretcher! Remember to keep a little levity for your mistakes.
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These are Wonderful tips!! Thank You!!
Well done. Many thanks.
Cool Video!!!! Thanks For All The Great Info!!!!
Excellent information for the new woodworker and, at times, a veteran.
Great tips as always
Where’s the PVC?
Very useful tips. I learnt some of these by doing some costly mistakes…