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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.

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  • Please submit images with your tips.

  1. Hole saw arbor removal

    DuckSoup,
    • 8 replies
    • 2.6k views
    DuckSoup
    DuckSoup

  3. Workbench Magazine July-August 1967 Shop Tips

    John Morris,
    • 1 reply
    • 677 views
    Cal
    Cal

  5. Isometric paper for the people that don't use Sketchup

    kmealy,
    • 1 reply
    • 733 views
    lew
    lew

  7. Glues for chair repair

    FlGatorwood,
    • 10 replies
    • 8.9k views
    kmealy
    kmealy

  8. necessity is a mother

    kmealy,
    • 20 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Cal
    Cal

  9. How to make tapered legs (on a planer)

    kmealy,
    • 1 reply
    • 834 views
    lew
    lew

  10. How to shorten chair legs in one easy step.

    kmealy,
    • 3 replies
    • 17.2k views
    Cal
    Cal

  11. edge gluing thin pieces.

    kmealy,
    • 3 replies
    • 784 views
    Cal
    Cal

  12. Finding the center of a circle

    kmealy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    lew
    lew

  13. Making small feet

    kmealy,
    • 2 replies
    • 907 views
    Cal
    Cal

  14. Exact Fit Splines

    HandyDan,
    • 18 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Gene Howe
    Gene Howe

  15. Great Tips on YouTube

    Fred Wilson,
    • 22 replies
    • 2.1k views
    steven newman
    steven newman

  16. Old TS blades, alignment disk, sanding disk

    smitty10101,
    • 10 replies
    • 1k views
    smitty10101
    smitty10101

  17. Wedged tenons without a wedge!

    Fred W. Hargis Jr,
    • 10 replies
    • 1.9k views
    PeteM
    PeteM

  18. Red oak air drying

    Thomas_Z,
    • 18 replies
    • 1.8k views
    DRAGON1
    DRAGON1

  19. Glue on rods

    oldwoodie,
    • 0 replies
    • 721 views
    oldwoodie
    oldwoodie

  20. Label It

    Gunny,
    • 12 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Gerald
    Gerald

  21. Dial indicator

    Gunny,
    • 6 replies
    • 1k views
    Gene Howe
    Gene Howe

  22. Tip: Stock center finding...

    Stick486,
    • 3 replies
    • 754 views
    Kevin Beitz
    Kevin Beitz

  23. super duper work holding trick

    Cliff,
    • 4 replies
    • 906 views
    Ron Dudelston
    Ron Dudelston

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