Wood Shop tricks Over the years, I have come up with a few 'tricks' to make a some things easier in the workshop. I figured I'd share some of those with you. Table saw tricks Avoiding tearout …

Resawing wide lumber My simple wood hardness testing method Macro photographing wood grains Investigating seasonal wood shrinkage Cutting up a log on the bandsaw The physics of …

Snipe is the slightly wavy part on the beginning and ends of boards that you get from a thickness planer - especially from a cheap thickness planer. It's caused because the head mechanism of …

Most air cleaners suck air through the filter, then eject it through a small port. I didn't want to stir up more dust in the shop, so I built this unit to eject the air through the filter. That way, I have a …

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Make it extreme Lots of mechanical hacks and machines, from metal. The hacksmith (Instagram) Lots of trying to make superhero stuff real (a Colin Furze wannabe)

The crank adjusts the device left right using a screw, to adjust precisely how far into the wood the cut is to be made. Having a screw adjustment is handy, because I can work out how many …

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I clamped a block of wood to the table to act as a stop for where to place the work piece, so that I didn't have to measure each piece as I clamped it onto the table to cut the mortises.

He has some box fans, with cheap furnace filters in front of them in his garage workshop where he does wood turning. In front of the furnace filters, he has pieces of paper towel to catch …