If you can freeze baby gravy and it still works I'm sure glue would be fine

great video. i love shop experimentation. my solution to the vanishing pencil is having twenty of the things stuck pretty much everywhere in the shop and two in my apron. CA glue is strong initially but very susceptible to weakening from wood movement due to how brittle it is. it is also really weak to shocks because it can't flex like a PVA or most other glues can. every jig i've assembled with CA glue has come apart over the course of a few years when i was in areas with a lot of variability in humidity. these days i use CA in addition to PVA most of the time. most of the gluing surface is PVA with a few drops of CA with an activator to hold the part together so i can keep working without waiting on the PVA to fully dry. close to getting the best of both worlds. for oily exotics or things that will see a lot of moisture. i've switched to a quality epoxy instead of PVA and still usually use CA glue to hold it together while the epoxy cures. saves on clamps.

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Sorry ben, your doing the bloody pleasing the USA, whats up guys / woodworkers byyyyyyyy

I've accidentally left PVA out all winter, it was chunky so I put it in an old blender and it became smooth just like new and worked fine.....I often store Super Glue in the freezer so I knew that would be fine too.

Great video! I’ve just got into the pocket screws rabbit hole from KZbin and I thinks yours is the most informative haha

Note the photo on the Kreg boxes of screws shows the tool being used improperly. 😅

Just subbed come over from grey otter studio. Good video I think we can all relate to the disappearing pencils. I usually start a project with three or four pencils and still go to mark a piece of wood and see the pencil on the other side of the workshop. Steve aus.

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My disappearing pencil doesn't even wait to be put down anywhere, it disappears in my hand or pocket !!

On that point about being impressed by CA glue - James Wright (Wood By Wright) recently updated his long term (currently up to 7 years and counting) glue test and it was quite interesting to see the CA graph. Basically it starts out in year one being very close to the wood glues but tails off a lot over the years. Would recommend going to watch.

Great video Ben. Interesting results. I had one of those pencils, I think it’s in cahoots with my tape measure as I can never find that either. Fun video and really interesting results.

Super interesting test! Great video mate 👍

Hi Ben, great result on frozen glue, at lest the joints are solid, may be try some frozen nails or screws see how they fair up on the joints............................lol. I am interested in ordering the disappearing pencil as i've lost mine, it sort of disappeared. Great video, take care

Loved this video Ben - although I'm an advocate for bringing glue ups indoors in winter - last christmas I made a slab top workbench and it took over a week to dry in the cold haha

Hi Ben can I ask what width is your cart you use for the lumberjack 13” miter saw I’ve got one and trying to do a miter station and looking at building the the front out on miter saw bit. The extra space at back I’ve got an idea for that

really interesting Ben and entertaining as a bonus. Cheers

I have been looking for the amazing disappear pencil for years but have never found anyone who sells them. Apparently they are all ways out of stock. Really enjoyed your video.

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Hey mate. An older scouser here living in southern Ontario. Great video on pocket holes mate. I picked up my Krieg a couple of years ago and now I cant build anything without it. Absolutely love it and the whole 'pocket hole' solution. I see a few people have mentioned here about the Robertson screw and I'd just like to add my 2 cents worth. Yes its a Canadian invention and to my mind a bloody good one at that. I much prefer it over other screw head applications, simply because if you use a good quality screw with a good quality bit you just cant go wrong. The screw fits snugly onto the bit and you can drill from absolutely any angle and the screw doesn't fall off. This comes in really handy if you're up a ladder and using one hand to hold onto the ladder. As well you know, all us part time DIY bodgers are all very careful when it comes to safety! 3 point contact at all times when using a ladder (yeah right! that's how it works 😜). I recently finished building the missus an 10 x 8 potting shed from scratch all by myself. I screwed the whole thing together using Robbi screws. I didn't want to use nails in case I messed something up and had to take it apart. The screws worked a treat. So here's my tip when it comes to using square head screws and bits. Firstly always try to buy good quality. Secondly, if you do find your bit is caming over simply take it to a belt sander or grinder and trim it back 10 thou or a quarter millimeter. The bit tapers out obviously so you can only do this a few times before the bit will not fit into the screw head, but it definitely works. Lastly I find if its the screw head that's rounding off, do what I just mentioned and grind back the bit but do not chamfer or remove any of the sharp corners. push the bit firmly onto the damaged screw, then remove and replace it. Works 9 times out of 10. There you go, I'll stop writing this novel now before I bore everbody to death. Take good care all! Keep up the good work.

They say you needn’t drill a pilot hole into the work you are joining but I am working with teak which is very dense. Even with the fine thread it needs a lot of torque to complete. Using scrap is a great help to get proof of concept down. Nice talk, informative.

Can I ask where you get the big boxes of Kreg screws from cheers Steve 👨🏼‍🦽

Thank you for the metric conversion !!!

Thank you for sharing this. One thing I want to add is that there are pocket hole screws with star head. I chose Milescraft jig just because of that. They have those screws and I love it!

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An you explain how the measure,ents work. Where should the collar on the drill bit be depending on the width of the wood please.

I don’t like Gorilla due to the polyurethane foam squeeze out from joints.

I don’t particularly care for the square drive (Robertson) screws - you can get the same pocket hole screws from Milescraft with TORX drive instead, which is what I prefer.

Carpenter by trade but always admired furmiture and more fine woodworking. Picked up the 520pro few days ago. Gonna start simple with some closet organization

Can you do pocket holes on pallet wood?

Thank you.

You have a new member.I like this show....Buy the way the proper name for a star bit is "torx bit"

Sorry, I don't know if I'm being dumb here but I've watched lots of videos on how to make a pocket hole, but I am always left with the same unanswered questions because everybody always says "First you need to know the thickness of your material". OK, but doesn't orientation matter? For example, I can attach two 2x4s together in a number of different configurations. Doesn't that matter? Depending on the way I'm connecting them, doesn't that mean I'm measuring either the nominal 2 inch side, or 4 inch side? How do I know which side counts as the thickness? Also, what if I'm connecting a 2 x 4 to a 1 inch thick piece of plywood? Do I need to know the thickness of the material I'm connecting to, or doesn't that come into play at all with a pocket hole?

I could listen to you talk about pocket holes all. day. long.

Robertson screws are square, but not technically the same as American "Square Drive". The bit geometry is slightly different which does give a better fit and "bite" between bit and screw.

really nice ....but ...how do you access the interior for cleaning etc..etc

I bought an awesome all-metal pocket hole jig from Amazon and Torx head pocket hole screws, also from Amazon. Both were much better than Kreg, and much less expensive also.

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Hi Ben, Nice job on this. I jotted down all your tips and will keep them with my jig for future use. Another tip that may be worth mentioning is to drive the screws into face grain or edge grain but not end grain 😮

Amazon has Torx head pocket screws and some of the packages come with the correct fitting drivers.

Best introductory video I’ve ever seen on pocket holes. Thank you very much!

Aiming your screw direction away from a wood edge is a nice idea but most of the time you can't do that because you are trying to hide the pocket holes.

What is the procedure for drill depth settings when joining different material thicknesses?

great recording, thanks. What type of glue did you use?

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How to drive the screws in tight places: If all else fails, consider a Robertson No. 2 screwdriver! You can get Stubbies or 90-degree shapes. Personally, I like to do all my screws by hand. You will get a "feel" for the torque, which tell you if a screw is not biting well, and you will never strip the wood!

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The advice about always drill into the long direction seems to contradict the advice about placing the pockets where they can't be seen. A rectangle with screws driving in the long direction will have to have the screws on the outside I made a couple of bluebird houses with pocket screws. Most of the screws are on the inside, so all are inherently driving in the short direction. I did that for looks and so the holes aren't on the outside where they will collect rain. Weaker, maybe, but strong enough for the purpose. I also had to drive the screws with a ratchet due to the tight space. On the bottom the screws come in from the outside.

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I've got the Erbauer version of this tool & I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get the tables parallel. i can't see any adjustment for the infeed table which is about 1-2mm low at the edge & makes any wood tapered.