12 Woodworking Tips and Tricks for Beginners

This video covers 12 of my favorite tips and tricks to help make you a more accurate and efficient woodworker.
0:00 Breaking Down Plywood: homedepot.sjv.io/3PW6kX
0:46 Making Repetitive Cuts
1:28 Preventing Brad Nail Deflection
2:15 Drawing Perfect Circles
3:29 Preventing Tear Out
4:42 Centering a Pilot Hole: homedepot.sjv.io/5bE2k9
5:24 Keeping Project Notes Handy: amzn.to/3cCAKPg
6:03 Finding Angles: amzn.to/3BoBUYX
6:54 Marking Angles with Speed Square: amzn.to/3JdNUOT
7:30 Perfecting Imperfect Miters
8:16 Upping your Glue Game: amzn.to/3zGOr9c
9:14 Do More with your Saw Horses
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[@brianb9410]

I have been using a brad nailer for years and never knew how to keep the nails from deflecting. I will certainly try it your way. Thanks for the tip!

[@rogueengineer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pierredans3636]

Thank you for these good ideas !

[@leongeisberg294]

Great tips. Thanks

[@mkelly6591]

Couldn't love and appreciate this knowledge video more. The circle method is fantastic! Thank you for sharing with the woodworking community.

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you!

[@mattedwards4533]

You had me laughing at myself! I am a retired contractor and you showed me two simple solutions to problems I ran into often on jobs. Thanks for the video.

[@johnisley1285]

Simple but good refresher course. Thank you.

[@BobMuir100]

Enjoyed those very much, thanks Bob England

[@myerscok]

Great tips thanks 🙏 I never seen the rolled mitre edge tip before. Brilliant

[@bevhales6951]

Really helpful time saving and quality tips, thank you

[@Shujashaher]

Thank you for sharing in👍keep them coming ✌️

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you!

[@michaelholton2913]

Thank you for sharing love it .

[@dannywilsher4165]

Awesome tips! Thanks for sharing!!

[@scottbertrand2057]

Circle with paper was genius

[@wvp07]

Great video! Thanks for posting. Looking forward to putting that brad nailer tip into action.

[@patrickarchuleta9594]

Your work and video is second to none may God continue to bless you and your family outstanding info young man.

[@John-NeverStopLearning]

The Brad nail tip may only work for round head nails. I have been modifying Ethan Allen furniture for my wife. The “T” head nails turned so “T” is across the grain it splits the hard maple 1/2” thick strips. New tip I use a magnetic base with the on/ off on it to help guide wood through the table saw and band saw. Place it where you need it and turn on the magnet.

[@therelaxingwoodshop7495]

Excellent tips

[@rogueengineer]

Glad you like them!

[@FreevideosBH]

Thank you! Its very utility tips!

[@rogueengineer]

You're welcome!

[@leemajor1820]

That's a great informative video. I've learned a few new tips thanks to you. Really appreciate you putting this video together 👍

[@1972piledriver]

Thanks, love the Nail gun tip, I wish I'd seen your video a fortnight ago lol

[@kieranfoster902]

Really useful. Thanks very much.

[@rogueengineer]

Glad to hear that!

[@CAwolfguy]

Nice to see that you're not a 'tool snob'...lovin' that you seem to have a mostly Ryobi shop!!

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you! I have a hard time with tool snobs...

[@CAwolfguy]

@@rogueengineer I LOVE Ryobi!! I refer to them as the "Yamaha (as in motorcycles) of power tools". Cheap, sturdy, dependable.

[@papergatorzfedducca7998]

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[@MrLeram12]

Cool tips. Thanks.

[@rogueengineer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@awlthatwoodcrafts8911]

Saved those angled off-cuts. They can be used as clamping cauls when gluing up the angled workpieces you just cut. The off-cut will match the angle you cut as well as have a surface that is more compatible with applying clamping pressure. Another tip is if you don't have a vise. Get one of those old-timey wood screw clamps, clamp one side of the wood screw clamp to your work table/bench and then clamp your workpiece in the wood screw clamp. Viola! Instant vise. I've even used a wood screw clamp as a makeshift drill press vise.

[@thomasbyrne7770]

great stuff! Tom Byrne

[@michaelc.fischer2439]

Just found you! Awesome tips! Thank you!

[@rogueengineer]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@aleksandrfedotov5233]

Хорошая подборка приспособлений и способов , особенно понравился вариант N 10. Спасибо за видео. UP!

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you!

[@tonyborzumato8510]

Great tips; some I knew, others, not so much. FYI, the self centering bits are called "Vix" bits. I have no clue why.

[@fransiscoalvarezinski6293]

Even though I knew most of your tips and tricks in this video I still enjoyed it and I did learn something new. Very well presented and very well appreciated, thank you.

[@canadianwoodville798]

If you don't have a drill press, place two pieces of wood (2x4) offset from teach other, creating a corner. Use that corner as a drill guide.

[@MrKleebob]

Great tips, very helpful. Love your new shop!

[@rogueengineer]

Thanks so much!

[@cristianleone9860]

Hi, beautiful video. Please, can you say me the Model Name of Circular Saw Ryobi used in this video at the tips number 5?

[@Azumao]

I just wondered, but why aren't more woodworkers using compasses? In Europe we used them. Always in school and they seem to be perfect for drawing circles.

[@wvp07]

I can’t say whether folks use them or not, although I always have. My first thought also was, “why isn’t he just using a compass?”

[@oldkingcrow777]

@@wvp07 why use a compass? Not like he's lost in the woods. I'll see myself out 🤣

[@denniscotey8182]

Unlike England and Ireland, (my guess would be that it's the same in other European countries), here in the states a person can teach themselves how to build cabinets or furniture, and, in most cases, simply apply for a position at any woodworking business that has a position to fill. And some shops will hire someone with no experience at all. I've been a cabinet maker and furniture builder for over 40 years and have seen guys, and girls with no experience absolutely excel in the craft. On the other hand, I've seen 20 year old "kids", (I'm 60) that can't read a scale/tape measure,(fractions here in the states) and would never understand the metric system! Unless these young people took some kind of mechanical drawing or drafting class in highschool, they don't even know what a compass is!! At least in England and Ireland an apprenticeship is required before you can become a cabinet maker. LOL, And dont get me started on Metric and imperial! Just kidding.

[@stephenwatson1873]

Use hockey pucks instead of the foam for cutting sheets

[@michaeljjordan7142]

Cut a round piece of laminate and glue it to the side of a tape so u can write down multiple cuts

[@rogueengineer]

That’s a good one!

[@oldkingcrow777]

My tape has that from the factory. I love it

[@davidcurtis5398]

Foam - been doing that for a very long time... Miter saw tip - no comment.. Nail gun - never had a nail come out. You were tipping the gun to the side... How to draw the circle - nice tip... Avoiding tear out - have been using tape for over 50 years... Self centering bits - love them... magnetic clip - Wife uses them in the kitchen - to bad I haven't any metal cabinets in the shop... Angle finders - great item, I have 2 different ones... One plastic - not real good - one metal, great one... Speed square - most people don't know how many things you can do with one... Burnishing the miter - good tip, but cut the miter at 44.8 degrees and get a perfect outside corner... Glue bot - love them... Saw horse tip - good one...

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you!

[@denniscotey8182]

He tipped the nail gun to simulate a nail that has deflected. If you look at a "clip " of brad nails, you'll see they are beveled on their sides, not the front and back. If that bevel strikes anything in the wood even a particularly tight area of grain, it will "deflect in the direction of the bevel. That's why you hold the gun the way he suggested. Ive been a cabinet maker and furniture builder for over 40 years and if you hold that gun the wrong way, its not a matter of if it will happen, only when. Framing nails, on the other hand, fired from a gun, rarely deflect for at least a couple 😢 reasons. Their point is rounded and not beveled. They are much bigger /stronger and are not affected the same as a puny brad nail. And they are usually fired at a much higher pressure. Although it has happened to me when building shipping crates with a framing nailer.

[@MichaelCampbell01]

You have a Ryobi AND a Kreg track saw? What are the use cases for 2?

[@bryceyorke986]

Thank you for the great tips! Can you tell me the type/brand of clamp that you used several times in the video. It looked very slick.

[@bhough410]

The one he used on his miter saw fence was a Kreg face clamp. Most other box store brands cost 1/3 - 1/2 of the Kreg.

[@jupiterjac6438]

PLEASE HELP : looking for some ideas on how to secure melamine cabinets on a wall that has plywood behind it ! My backing for cabs is 3/4 thick I would assume sheetrock is 1/2 and plywood half inch or 3/4 I usually use 3” screws on walls without the plywood directly to studs ANY IDEAS help any info on certain wood screws anything !! Was just thinking to use longer screws and put a bunch on each cabinet for extra strength TIA!! Also I think I will be putting legs on the cabinets

[@bhough410]

Note sure why anyone would put 1/2" ply over drywall? 3" cabinet screw should hold them just fine unless you're loading the cabinets down with lead or concrete. In that case you could use a permanent cleat, a 4" truss head screw (usually they're a brass/bronze color if that isn't an issue) or as a last resort bolster 3" cabinet screws with drywall toggle bolts.

[@stephenwatson1873]

For rolling the mitre use a 3-4 inch nail

[@joselejonathanortiz7090]

Wooow

[@jbenson9403]

Angle finder is a must and cost so little that I think miter saw makers should throw one in the box

[@johnnyz7752]

Tip # 3, uh, how about, hold your brad nailer perpendicular to the wood.

[@beck645]

That’s just what I was thinking. If you don’t pay attention to how it’s oriented then sure you will have it go sideways. I use a brad nailer all the time and it shoots very straight AS LONG AS I PAY ATTENTION to what I’m doing. Nails DONT just go sideways.

[@jack5402]

Maybe just me, but your swaying back and forth was really distracting. Good tips though.

[@garycorey7668]

Prefer the sawhorses over the foam on the floor. Too old to be working on the floor

[@redfield312]

Thanks for the tips.However the background bass is so distracting i almost didnt make it to the end.If you use earphones it is really bad. i would rather listen to you clearly thanks

[@Thomas-pq2qz]

Why do I watch this tool.

[@wowyummyyy]

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[@johnmack537]

Good tips, but found your rocking from side to side while you talk distracting.

[@rogueengineer]

Thank you!

[@bestbuilder1st]

Another copy and paste video. These ideas have been in mass on KZbin for over 10 years.