I made a custom tap handle for a great friend. It started with some unique pieces of walnut that were cast into TotalBoat Thickset epoxy, v-carved his name into it with a small CNC, and finally enjoyed some tasty brews with it!
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New skill! I needed to make a replacement cabinet door and thought it'd be super straight forward with the right tools.. but there were a few hiccoughs. I learned that making a frame and panel door is pretty simple.. IF you get all the sequencing correct!
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I've been needing a much better solution for storing my hand tools and keeping them easily accessible near my bench, well now I have it! Besides being awesome on its own right, I also managed to turn this weekend project into a year long exercise of procrastination!
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A brisket board is a large (think Texas big.. where they love brisket) cutting with a juice groove AND little reservoir cup in the juice groove to catch all those delicious drippings for whatever tasty idea you have for them. In this video I make them two ways. One with a more typical shop approach that fits most power tools or wood working machines, then another using a Shaper Origin.. which is a pretty addictive little gizmo I gotta say.
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Contrasting wood inlays are a great way to customize woodworking projects, and v-carving is a way to do that with great detail and crisp corners! This is my first time doing this and I show you what I learned along the way.
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This miter station is packed with features from easily accessible cubbies, ample counter top space, loads of storage, a unique scraps drawer, slide out trays, and a router lift! If you need a good miter saw station in your shop to speed up cross cutting and a good storage solution, this will do it! Thanks to TotalBoat for sponsoring this project!
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Here are 10 woodworking tips from a full time professional woodworking shop cranking out commercial work every day! I spent a week at Lakeside Woodworks shop in Kentucky while they were working on a batch of 63 tables for Buffalo Trace's new tasting rooms and a huge red oak bar to help out and see how they do things differently to keep up with demand.
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The trouble with restoring furniture is getting the new paint to adhere well and not start bubbling, peeling, or flaking off.. or have old stains bleed through. With the proper preparation, those issues won't happen and you'll have a like new piece of furniture that'll stay looking good for a long time!
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Can you cut on epoxy cutting boards? Is epoxy food safe? What finishes are food safe? Is any finish food safe? Are all finishes food safe? What's food safe even mean, can I eat it? In this video I give my best shot at answering this questions in this crazy confusing topic!
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I've been wanting to try my hand at some carving so I created a project need to be able to do that. My kids have been saving their gift money in jars for our next trip to Disney World and I thought it'd be fun to give them a cooler place to store them.
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The Big Build Off is a competition hosted by the Instagram Builder’s Challenge that I had the privilege of being invited to participate in! The challenge is to build a dining table and donate it to a family in need. I’m building a Nakashima inspired cherry and walnut dining table.
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The face or vase optical illusion we're all familiar with got me thinking, why couldn't it be a real face? Then I realized it could be a great gift idea, and a perfect DIY gift for Mother's Day! Fortunately, that holiday is nearby so this was the perfect opportunity to make my Mother's Day gift idea of a child's silhouette vase. We had to do it a bit early so I could share this idea with you in time to make one, but I'll tell you - my wife loved it!
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I made some epoxy charcuterie boards with lichtenberg figures with some help from a friend. Epoxy boards are already super cool, but the lichtenberg figures really take them to a new level! Many thanks to Adam from MoDiggs for helping with this project, and TotalBoat for sponsoring.
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This enclosed raised garden is easy to work in, provides 100 square feet of gardening space, and with the fencing and bird netting is protected any neighborhood critters that may eat your vegetables like deer and birds.
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A dust free wood shop. It may be a pipe dream, but I'm a lot closer to it. After several machine upgrades my old system really wasn't cutting it so I upgraded to a ClearVue Cyclone and ran all new ducting. Along with that, it only made sense to rearrange the shop. This video goes over all of that!
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Woodworking poses respiratory risks, that's obvious. But what are the risks, and how do we actually protect ourselves from them? This video discusses the two main risks in my woodshop, particulates and VOCs. And the three mitigation strategies I use to keep myself safe which are collecting pollutants at the source, wearing PPE, and using ambient air cleaners for both particulates and VOCs.
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Do you HAVE to use expensive tape to make an epoxy form? Do you even need tape at all? Does wax or mold release help get epoxy out of a mold? Watch to find out!
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This is an epoxy coffee table with live edge walnut slabs, blue epoxy resin, a steel base, and multicolor LEDs! It was a lot of fun and I love the result, especially how the LEDs shine through the epoxy and silhouette the walnut slabs if the lights are dim.
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Epoxy is expensive so you want to know how much to use! From a better way to "eye-ball" it to using Photoshop, I'll show you 4 ways to find out how much epoxy you need to mix for your pour whether it's a river table or something smaller!
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