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Woodworking Tips

Use this sub-forum for General Woodworking to submit your tips and tricks related to woodworking.

Tips Rules

Please read and follow these guidelines before submitting your tips:

  • Please stay on topic related to the original tip submitted.

  • Please do not submit another tip within the same tip topic that was created by another member.

  • Please do not get into the back n forth, regarding how you would've performed the same operation, in other words please stay away from, "what you should of done", "what I would have done", "here is my method" etc etc. It defeats the purpose of individual tips created by each unique woodworker.

  • If you have a different way, or improved way to perform a tip that was already entered by another woodworker, please submit your own version in a separate tip topic.

  • Title your tips accordingly, the title should reflect what the tip is.

  • In addition to the tags you will be using for your tip, please always include a tag "tip".

  • Please submit images with your tips.

  1. Squeeze Me Baby!

    MrRick,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.1k views
    BB1
    BB1

  2. One way to joint board edges on a tablesaw

    MrRick,
    • 6 replies
    • 349 views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  3. Workbench Magazine November - December 1968 Shop Tips

    John Morris,
    • 1 reply
    • 449 views
    kmealy
    kmealy

  4. Quick Level

    HandyDan,
    • 3 replies
    • 390 views
    DuckSoup
    DuckSoup

  5. Salt in your glue

    MrRick,
    • 6 replies
    • 484 views
    MrRick
    MrRick

  6. Jig for doweling through a miter.

    MrRick,
    • 1 reply
    • 198 views
    lew
    lew

  7. The Square of Thales......everything old is new again

    calabrese55,
    • 11 replies
    • 1.9k views
    calabrese55
    calabrese55

  8. Tool Enhancement #1

    Bubba,
    • 10 replies
    • 590 views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  9. Tool Enhancement #2

    Bubba,
    • 3 replies
    • 313 views
    Grandpadave52
    Grandpadave52

  10. Router Bit height adjustment

    MrRick,
    • 7 replies
    • 449 views
    PostalTom
    PostalTom

  11. Quick Measure

    HandyDan,
    • 2 replies
    • 695 views
    MrRick
    MrRick

  12. Even spacing

    User74,
    • 9 replies
    • 1.8k views
    MrRick
    MrRick

  13. Simple Dado Gauge

    JimM,
    • 5 replies
    • 377 views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  14. Single use jig

    Bubba,
    • 8 replies
    • 636 views
    lew
    lew

  15. Router Table Essentials

    Fred Wilson,
    • 1 reply
    • 458 views
    lew
    lew

  16. Workbench Magazine Sept-Oct 1968 Shop Tips

    John Morris,
    • 4 replies
    • 438 views
    John Morris
    John Morris

  17. A FREE 12-Day Course on Woodworking Joints

    Fred Wilson,
    • 4 replies
    • 488 views
    Grandpadave52
    Grandpadave52

  18. Mortise gauge

    MrRick,
    • 8 replies
    • 816 views
    MrRick
    MrRick

  19. Simple Edge Beading Tool

    MrRick,
    • 6 replies
    • 664 views
    MrRick
    MrRick

  20. Here’ my Lumber Jock drill guide

    Steve104c,
    • 2 replies
    • 993 views
    Grandpadave52
    Grandpadave52

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