1000ish Uses For Blue Masking Tape In Woodworking

[@jimhyslop]

Sadly, there is at least one major audio rental house here in Toronto, that when you ask for gaffer's tape, they'll give you a roll of silver duct tape. They aren't being cheap - they really don't understand the difference. For those who aren't aware of the difference: gaffer's tape is a cloth tape, and the adhesive holds well but does not leave a gummy residue when you take the tape off. It can also withstand the extremely high temperatures of a theatrical or film light fixture. Duct tape, on the other hand, is a plastic tape (vinyl?) reinforced with cloth threads. The adhesive leaves a horrendous gummy mess when you peel it off.

[@wortheffort]

This'll do well. Good idea.

[@camerontgore]

Plus it matches your planes!

[@vogonpoet5860]

in the UK we call duct tape, duct tape, and gaffer tape is a cloth dack tape, also blue tape is painter or masking tape and masking/ painters tape is cream colOURed. but i use masking tape (cream or imported blue ) when picture frameing to hold the corners while i dry test , and when finished i use it to cover the fitting staples that hold the picture or mirror in place stopping anything snagging the staples, weirdly I also use masking tape to mask off areas like glass or panels when I paint or varnish projects !

[@Andyloveswood]

"Blue tape" is not the same as masking tape. Isn't all duct tape "cloth duct tape"? In the UK, would you really use expensive Gaffer's tape as duct tape? Seems like a terrible waste of money to me. Duct tape is for sealing HVAC ducts. I put bright colored duct tape on the corners of shelves where I think I might bump my head. Doesn't work very well--I still bump my head on the shelves. Duct tape doesn't make you smarter. I'll try Gaffer's tape. Seriously, there are lots of uses for cheap duct tape where relatively-expensive Gaffer's tape in not needed.

[@matthewchavez7668]

This is my comment to help the algorithm! Great video! Love the gaff tape comments!

[@ianzharrison]

I have a plane i always use on my shooting board. The side is just a little shy of 90 degrees. A couple of strips of tape sorts this out and avoids the need to fiddle with the lateral adjuster each time.

[@markp6062]

I don't think I've EVER heard you say SO much when you get rambling! ;) Great stuff and gets me to thinking!

[@pierra4716]

I also use blue tape to clamp edge bindings without shooting any nail. Clamping strength is fine by adding tape every 2 inch depending the size of the piece. Keep going James, your channel is a mine of information. Cheers from France

[@johnhiemstra1464]

Nice video. Learned some things. Keep on taping James!

[@WolfPawArmoury]

That really blue my mind with all possibilities

[@karl_alan]

I also go through blue tape like nothing else. In addition to all of these, it's great for holding mitered corners together while gluing up.

[@margaretkrantz1469]

Great video! It's useful for labels in the kitchen, too!

[@wisewoodworking2739]

The epoxy mixing and applying tip is brilliant! Thank you!

[@Silent-G]

I did not expect to learn this much! Thanks!

[@andrewking1122]

A couple layers of blue tape on the face of a bench vise will also help hold irregular shapes when you just need that third hand.

[@MCsCreations]

Excellent tips, James! Thanks a bunch! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@criswilson1140]

Blue tape is a life save if you do edge banding. Gaff tape works better on non stop talkers.

[@hambrew]

I've seen it used as a compass... by Rex for rounding corners and other things

[@dragonbook2198]

Great video, I plan to use alot of these tips.

[@Ravedave5]

It's great for transferring hole patterns from one peice to another. Apply punch, remove apply

[@garryjohnson3107]

Assembly of small frames line up pieces end to end and fold together

[@DanielAKA]

I've seen people use it to clamp on Edge Banding or Edge trim when they did not have one of those stretchy clamps or did not want to use them

[@NicBock]

I'm with you on that, using duct tape instead of gaffer tape makes sticky cables. Gaffers understand that

[@dragonbook2198]

I've found that gaff tape leaves my cables sticky. Am I doing it wrong?

[@chacehawkins4708]

Thanks

[@Clark42EoC]

Very helpful video. I'm really under using my tape.

[@justinjones9255]

I’m intrigued by the drill depth thingies you quickly mentioned. Didn’t find them on your website tools page. Did you do a video on them you could direct me to?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Here is the video on the whole setup I use. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3rJmImYabqgh7s

[@justinjones9255]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Got it, tks.

[@terristroh3965]

All is want for Christmas is blue tape.

[@morrisonsusan]

Loved it!

[@chiplane3976]

Nice video!

[@walterrider9600]

thank you

[@wouterengels7769]

a bit beyond woodworking, but wouldn't it help to prevent your drill bit slipping and sliding when you're drilling into tiles?

[@vogonpoet5860]

Sshhhhhh! that one is a real secret, driilling tiles we tell S W M B O , that we need all the bandaids to stop drills slipping, if they knew the secret of blue tape they would suss just how often we cut ourselves and SWMBO would increase our life insurance and loosen certain handles !

[@raoulselten9480]

when i superficially scratch/cut myself and im too lazy to get a band-aid i just use blue tape haha also when using the mitre saw, putting blue tape over the saw lines can prevent tear-out

[@ianstewart7605]

So, does anyone know the best cheap masking tape here in the UK? Blue tape is not common (yet) and the green Frog Tape is way too expensive for non paint use like these excellent tips.

[@zacburgess5318]

Some good ideas for blue tape I wouldn’t have thought of! However I’m just curious, are the dovetails in the drawer at the end of this video facing the “wrong” way? I always thought you wanted the tails on the sides of the drawer to keep it from pulling apart or are they just decorative dovetails?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks. From the standard conventional viewpoint yes the dovetails are facing the wrong direction. However flipping the tails around is something that has been done for a long time if they're going to be showing on the face. The reason being is if you turn them the other way then they look like finger joints and nobody likes to look at that. As to the structural integrity honestly doesn't make any practical difference one way or the other. It's a clue is going to fail the glue is going to fail but it's generally going to fail because of other problems not just because the glue is going to fail. And if it's the type of thing that worries the maker he can easily just put a pin down through the tails and lock them together.

[@zacburgess5318]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo thanks for the explanation, keep up the good work sir, we always enjoy your content

[@lazyhobo2454]

Good video bud 👍

[@TadTheTinker]

I just want to know where to get gaff tape locally. Great vid!!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Usually I have to buy it online unless I have a theater supply store nearby.

[@thomasgreen8532]

There were several that I had never thought of before, thanks Old habits die hard. I painted professionally for decades and I really don’t like blue tape all that well as it should. Scotch brand painters tape is much better. Not a the cheap stuff. (2040) it maybe hard to find these days since Everyone seems to be in love with blue tape but it had cost me a lot of pain and dollars fixing it because it wouldn’t hold. The green frog tape is not too bad and it’s my go to tape these days but again stay away from the cheap tape regardless of the color.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Another thing handy as a pocket on a shirt

[@alexanderkononov1113]

Nice 😀

[@dannyhale7645]

I have four kids. 13, 17, 19, & 21. My best parenting advice is this: Silence is golden, and duct tape is silver.

[@ianbracken7973]

Also currently liking the ratio of Ian comments ☺️

[@muon23]

I found the quality of 3M blue tape is going down the hill. The paper is weaker than the glue is sticky, so it often tear vertically while I was pealing it out from the roll. I found an old one hidden behind one of my drawers and its paper is tougher than those recently bought ones.

[@ianpearse4480]

But why doesn't blue tape work on my sony reel to reel James? Sounds awful! LOL.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Cuz you went with a Sony LOL

[@ianpearse4480]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo LOL.

[@user990077]

You can wrap your whole body in blue tape and pretend you are a Smurf. You have a good start with your blue shirt.

[@ianbracken7973]

UK here I call it duct tape not duck tape. "gaffer tape" is a brand over here. Not heard it called gaff tape though.

[@thomashverring9484]

In Denmark gaffer tape and duct tape is just called gaffa tape.

[@tomhargreaves8820]

I use the blue stuff a lot as spacers: getting #$*&@! dust collector hose fittings to fit the other hose or the equipment outlet; making a spacing jig a little wider or taller; straighten something sitting crooked. I've used it to wrap fingers when I had to do a little close wood carving and I couldn't find anything else. And the obvious one: tape a saw cut line to reduce tearout. Bonus: If someone were to use Duck Tape in the shop instead of Gaff(er) Tape, would you then call that gaffe tape?

[@warrenmunn3224]

Guessing Sarah can make a better gag out of the Blue Tape for you.

[@c.a.g.1977]

I also have many rolls of tape lying around my shop. Just as handy as having decent paper towels, popsicle sticks, stanley knives, pencils, etc. All those bits and bobs that make life in the shop so much easier! BTW, James, you got mentioned in a BlackTail Studios video on restoring an old saw! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ani3oqKAacuFaKM The bit where Cam talks about sharpening 😃

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@pmewUK]

Ah, but what came first, the gaffer or the tape?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

The gaffer. The tape is named after the theater position.

[@roydaley3413]

👍

[@alangknowles]

Surely the hose should be nearer to the plane's blade. No good at all near the rear tote.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

What. Sorry you lost me.

[@wouterengels7769]

There''s something wrong with that plane (a #5 I'm guessing), it's not blue yet!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

LOL no that's an a5. It's aluminum.

[@wouterengels7769]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo well.. in that case you probably want to keep it that way, but if not, there's always non-ferrous blue hammerite ;) (or other stuff like it)

[@sheilbwright7649]

You do know what gaffer is slang for in England?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

A boss or the person I charge. It is from the same place as the position of a gaffer. In the theater they are up in the air and higher then others. The tape was invented for the theater lighting industry over 100 years ago. And as gaffers were the ones that used it they refered to it as gaffer tape.

[@sheilbwright7649]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Don't you just love eytomology? Here's one from this side of the black stump, chippie.

[@MrMNRichardWright]

From my experience, not all blue tape is made the same. I prefer the 3M. Not just because I’m in Minnesota, but rather because it works way better. Further avoid the store brands

[@robertlagrange6388]

Is blue your favorite color?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

How did you know?

[@ricos1497]

As a professional kidnapper, I prefer something with a little more strength.

[@brianfreeman8290]

You wanted comments because it helps the algorithm, but I can't think of one.

[@mypony891]

Painters tape has gotten really expensive around here

[@BR0JASON]

Easy zero-clearance table saw throat plate in a pinch. Put it over the hole with the blade down, cut a slit for the riving knife, turn the saw on, and raise the blade.

[@What_Other_Hobbies]

No blue tape is injured in the making of this video. Or is it?

[@edm00se]

Gratuitous Australian comment.

[@RonHoglund]

Place blue tape here.

[@VivienLEGER]

hello James, comment down below!

[@angazi1341]

The comment down above?

[@dallashanson895]

Comment down below.

[@Rocketninja200]

Cover yourself with tape. Beat on trash cans. Blue Tape Group.

[@jeanlucdesselle1447]

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[@mattomon1045]

James with taping your mouth . is that Sara's Idea.!!!!!!!!!!!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

how did you know!

[@ToraKwai]

See I am british but as a Lord of the rings fan there is only one meaning for gaffer, and Samwise knows what that is

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Both meanings come from the same place.

[@Nerdfighter1123]

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[@darthstewie76]

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[@DillyDally024]

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[@pedropereira3793]

All lies!! You use it because its your colour!! Cheers

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Don't go spreading my secret lol

[@dannyhale7645]

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[@MartinPaulsen87]

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