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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. Workbench Magazine January-February 1968 Shop Tips

    John Morris,
    • 2 replies
    • 774 views
    frenchwwr
    frenchwwr

  3. Measuring Tape Compass

    HandyDan,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    4DThinker
    4DThinker

  5. Walnut cautions

    Gene Howe,
    • 13 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Woodman
    Woodman

  6. An interesting article by Seve Ramsey

    Gene Howe,
    • 13 replies
    • 1k views
    Grandpadave52
    Grandpadave52

  7. Wedge Calcuator

    jthornton,
    • 10 replies
    • 863 views
    lew
    lew

  8. Use of an Angle & Taper Calculator in everyday woodworking

    Woodman,
    • 11 replies
    • 3.9k views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  9. Are you over paying for hardware?

    Gene Howe,
    • 17 replies
    • 1.2k views
    4DThinker
    4DThinker

  10. Some interesting FREE instructional woodworking Videos

    Gene Howe,
    • 5 replies
    • 828 views
    Cal
    Cal

  11. Excellent Video from Wood magazine's Jim Heavey

    Gene Howe,
    • 1 reply
    • 657 views
    lew
    lew

  12. Wide boards.

    FrederickH,
    • 4 replies
    • 1k views
    FlGatorwood
    FlGatorwood

  13. Sandpaper test...interesting conclusions

    Gene Howe,
    • 7 replies
    • 993 views
    sweensdv
    sweensdv

  14. Another myth destroyed

    Gene Howe,
    • 9 replies
    • 1k views
    Masonsailor
    Masonsailor

  15. When you are building a frame either for stained glass or pictures

    Smallpatch,
    • 5 replies
    • 577 views
    Smallpatch
    Smallpatch

  16. This is how I saw the perfect width for the inserts in to the corners of my frames

    Smallpatch,
    • 10 replies
    • 897 views
    Smallpatch
    Smallpatch

  17. Workbench Magazine September-October 1967 Shop Tips

    John Morris,
    • 0 replies
    • 551 views
    John Morris
    John Morris

  18. This saves me mucho time

    Smallpatch,
    • 14 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Cal
    Cal

  19. Everything needs a box.

    FrederickH,
    • 40 replies
    • 3.3k views
    HandyDan
    HandyDan

  20. New remote control for dust collector

    difalkner,
    • 1 reply
    • 784 views
    difalkner
    difalkner

  21. New idea for a shop-built box joint jig.

    kmealy,
    • 10 replies
    • 3.6k views
    Cal
    Cal

  22. Shop tip (finally) published

    kmealy,
    • 5 replies
    • 899 views
    Ron Altier
    Ron Altier

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