Woodworking Tricks You'll Actually Use || Helpful Woodworking Hacks

[@briansmith-ul4oj]

Tip: when using a nail gun, put painters tape down first, then shoot the nail.... when filling the holes with wood filler, you only get it in the hole, not all over the hole. After drying, peel off the tape and all that is left is a tiny hole to sand.

[@tadkramp2508]

Tip: You should always leave driver tips and marking pencils in your pockets so they get clean in the washer, and make the dryer sound extra cool with all the extra clanging.

[@kirkusmigirkus]

As an appliance repair guy, I don't like you.

[@edsonsebold]

@@kirkusmigirkusBut you should! More money in your pocket. LOL

[@Domarnett]

This has the added benefit of making your wife yell at you so you have an excellent excuse to drink more beers.. 😂🎉😂

[@richardbrown4234]

I let my wife sort them into a giant bin of bits, coins and screws right next to the laundry machine. That way I can eventually get fed up and throw them all away right before I need them.

[@deliaguzman1138]

My wife is yelling at you now instead of me!

[@jono6794]

One tip I picked up after watching a few of your cabinet videos - where possible, work in common dimensions. E.g. Cut all widths of the same size on the table saw at the same time. Then move to cutting all heights at the same time. Another tip I have - on your mitre saw, sometimes you need to cut a repeated length for a few pieces (for example the bottom piece of a cabinet), and then you need to cut other pieces (like some supports along the back and top of the cabinet) that may need to be shorter - accounting for the thickness of the side pieces because the sit inside the side pieces (hopefully that made sense). When I do this, I cut the repeated cuts using using a stop on my mitre saw fence, and then I place two scrap pieces of the timber I’m using against my stop and cut the other pieces. This effectively removes the thickness I’m accounting for without needing to measure again.

[@NoTime4BS7]

15:40. Why would you put a sparkling water sleeve over sparkling water?

[@kateemblom4222]

And if you buy Athletic brand "sparkling water," it still tastes like "sparkling water" but has the same kind of kick as actual sparkling water!

[@johnnymccann5607]

as a wood carver, knife maker I have many sharpening stones.i keep glass window panes and mirror squares and reface my stones by putting a sheet of cloth backed sandpaper on the glass and rub stones back and forth, side to side and true my surfaces. doing this regularly so I always have a perfect surface for my , carving knives, chisels, pocket knifes. it doesn't take long .😊 papa wishing you well

[@mattbinge5832]

That was your smoothest entrance to date 10/10 🎉

[@patcoulter3292]

Some of these tips are things I wish I knew when I started as a carpenter... Brilliant! I know you are teaching online... I sure hope you are teaching in person.

[@fuhgawz500]

I am constantly blown away by the quality of your content. This video is exactly what it says it is - nothing but useful tips and tricks. I also very much enjoy your humor - you manage to make me chuckle a few times for every video I watch. Keep it up - you have a follower for as long as you choose to create content.

[@pierra4716]

When I wipe off Rubio Monocoat, I make a last wipe with a microfiber cloth without pressing. That removes any pigment excess, no matter they are in cracks or in tight angles. This ensures the whole finish is made of one single thin coat, better drying, better render. Greetings from France

[@sparkyprojects]

So you score the chisels, the bevel will get steeper as you wear out the blade

[@titosrevenger]

Yeah exactly. I have a block with markings on it instead. I butt the edge of the jig against the edge of my block and then extend the blade to the marking. Does the exact same thing and I'm not marring the surface of my chisels.

[@JohnColgan.]

Every 100 +/- some sharpenings, scribe a fresh line, it's not difficult

[@geeksam]

A friend of mine just marks out the lengths on a piece of scrap wood. As a bonus, changing jigs just means tossing that piece and marking out a new one.

[@bobmartin6055]

I’d always wondered what the jointer would do to my fingers, handy tip!

[@paulkribbs1701]

Wonder what one takes them off cleaner,the spiral blades or the straight knives

[@rayginID]

I saw this happen when I was an apprentice back around 1975. Another apprentice was jointing plastic laminate edge banding to apply to a rabbetted edge. His fingers slipped down the banding and took two of his finger tips clean off. It was a busy commercial shop and those blades were honed sharp daily. Good lesson learned! Work smarter@

[@simonmorris-p7m]

@@paulkribbs1701they both do a tidy job but the spiral takes a lot longer to get the slices out of all the corners if you don’t get it cleaned up before it dries. 👍

[@bltoth1955]

Back in the day, we would take a screwdriver and wrap it several times with wire and then touch both ends of the wire to the battery terminals to magnetize it. 👍🏼

[@patzed3928]

The beard brush is the best tip! I just kept buying New DeWalt caps 😅

[@bltoth1955]

When I was a kid, we used to take wax paper and rub it on our metal slide. It was a game changer.

[@geeksam]

Same. My mom used to keep wax paper and old soft drink cups (this was the '80s; IDK if they still use wax now) in the car for when we went to the park. We'd sit on them and go down the slide. A few trips down and you'd be at risk of breaking an ankle on the dismount!

[@Citadel1974]

Why do I have the sledding scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in my mind now? 😄

[@jimandkids]

We used potato chip bags (which were made with waxed paper) back in the sixties.

[@idek3867]

This is the second vid I've watched on this channel, and I'm already absolutely in love! Keep up the great work 🖤

[@fleetus123]

The magnetiser works by aligning the particles in the steel to make them magnetic. If you pick up some metal shavings that are all over the place with something magnetic you’ll see it on a larger scale as they will usually stand on end. I’m not 100% sure about the demagnetiser but I’d say it’s safe to assume it works by making the particles face in all sorts of directions

[@redbloodedamerican7130]

Wax for the table saw helps me out. Thanks for the tip sir!!! 👍💪🇺🇸

[@terryt2910]

Excellently entertaining video. Doesn't matter if you already knew these or not. Here's a couple tips I'll share. Keep a chunk of bee's wax handy and drag your wood screws through before screwing them in. Helps lubricate and makes it easier to screw them in. Put a piece of blue tape down along the length where you are brad nailing, and nail through the tape. Fill the set holes, scrape off the excess, and then remove the tape. In most cases, this will eliminate 99.9% of the glue leaving only a tiny bit to sand level. Note: I didn't invent these tips. I learned about them from someone else, like my dad.

[@SweetSillyFun]

Good tips. Follow up question: Where do you buy your chunks of bees. And do you wear protective gear to prevent stings? 😜

[@terryt2910]

@@SweetSillyFun Ah, yes. Good questions. One day, after leaving a window open while working in my shop, the sound of my table saw drew a swarm of bees in. They set up a hive under the saw and mind their own business until I need them. When I'm going to be doing some assembly, I just grab a chuck of them - yes, perhaps a bunch would have been a better word - and put them in my apron. They seem content there and are willing to come out and lubricate the screws whenever I need them. Thanks for asking.

[@danthechippie4439]

In relation to sharpening your chesil. Every time you sharpen you are bringing fresh metal to the edge which is reducing the length of the chesil. So a scord line on the back will put a slightly different angle on every time. What you need is to set up a stop block so the distance from the honing guide to the EDGE of the chesil is the same every time

[@mrxmry3264]

the way you handle that nailer reminds me of what happened to erin in final destination 3. 6:40 there's just one problem: as that chisel gets shorter, the angle will get steeper. i'd just set a stop block at 20 inches. way more consistent.

[@FearsomeWarrior]

Same with the marks but I figure it’s for people who aren’t going to get to that point. That or they progress and their ability goes beyond needing it.

[@salimufari]

16:45 I do this but with a fine steel wool & paste wax. Works great & if buffed well doesn't effect the wood. Works well on any flat top tool or circular saw plate.

[@treybryant7194]

The nail gun tip is a game changer

[@gcranston83]

Similar to the half-lap machine setup, when cutting mortises and tenons using the table saw, always cut from one side then flip the piece and cut the other side to keep the mortises and tenons perfectly centered.

[@robbellbottom]

I learned this when I was a cabinet maker at a small custom shop. If you are building casegoods and cut a panel, stretcher or other lumber part just slightly smaller than the other pieces, use a piece of iron on edgeband to "shim" out the short piece. If it's a painted cabinet then this can be useful on all faces. If it's stained or clear coat then you'll need to make sure the edgeband isn't going to create an odd shadow line.

[@HarisWoodshop]

The easiest way to remove glue squeeze out in my experience is a thin line of paste (or bees) wax on the sides of squeeze out before glue up. Let it cure and simply scrape it off with 1 pull. Even a plastic scraper leaves a glue free surface.

[@richpeggyfranks490]

Thanks for a fun "Tips & Tricks" video. I have used the magnetizer for decades and am surprised how many of my experienced DIY friends have never seen it. Works great. Also, for quick touch-ups on the beds of your tools, try neutral Kiwi shoe polish. It doesn't take up any room and contains carnauba, paraffin and microcrystalline waxes.

[@drdax]

I definitely didn’t know about the nail gun one. Thank you!

[@christopherpavlicas]

This is a tip everyone figures out the hard way. I'm glad you learned before you messed up a job.

[@drdax]

@@christopherpavlicas oh no, I’ve definitely messed this up several times. I just thought I sucked at getting the nail gun parallel lol

[@joeybadventures7883]

Seriously awesome tips. Game changer stuff for me I never thought of most of these!

[@tchevrier]

If you're concerned about glue squeeze out in the corner of pieces, I saw a good tip a while back. Place some painters tape along the edge before you assemble the pieces. Then any glue that squeezes out will be removed when you remove the tape

[@Steve8587]

Oh yeah, lots of good stuffs. I’ll try em. First hydration cover.

[@Erik_The_Viking]

Nice trick with the brad nailer. For glue squeeze out, I'll grab my chisel plane to get into the corner really tight. For the planer, I just use a melamine board which helps with snipe and has little friction for wood to run through.

[@billj5645]

When you first start to sharpen anything, whether a chisel or plane blade or knife, put some ink on the edge from a marking pen. Then do your setup and take a couple of strokes and look at the edge of the tool under magnification to see if you are taking off the ink right where you need to be sharpening. This will let you know if you are off a tiny bit.

[@patrickbink4617]

That was the most entertaining ad for Square Space that i have ever seen!

[@kevinf3641]

Tape measure trick is awesome

[@CeeJayThe13th]

I've got a small tip to go along with the little magnetizer thing. If you don't have one of those handy but you need to get a screw into an awkward spot and you happen to have some gum you've actually got something that will work. Chew the gum a little until it's not super mushy and pinch off a tiny piece. Then you stick that into the slot on the head of the screw and it should be sticky enough for the bit to hold onto it until you get it into place. I wouldn't do this much in woodworking unless the screw isn't going to be really visible as it's sometimes hard to get the gum back out of the slot. Chewing gum like Wrigley's seems to work a little better because it's firmer but it likes to stay stuck more. Bubble gum like Dubble Bubble works too but it doesn't like to hold as well which actually makes it easier to clean off. I know this is just a silly little trick but maybe somebody will read it and it'll help them out in the future.

[@mattelias721]

The gum trick is a neat idea, actually. What I do is find a spare magnet (the rare earth ones work best) and slap it to the shaft of the drill or bit, and then the whole thing acts like a magnet. When you pull the magnet off, there's virtually no permanent effect. Also, the rare earth ones don't tend to fly off when the drill gets up to driving speed.

[@15X98]

If you don’t have gum or a magnet, you can stick the screw thru a piece of masking tape and tape it to your bit

[@CeeJayThe13th]

@@15X98 that's actually pretty genius and I would never have thought of it on my own. I learned my trick messing with electronics like where you're trying to get the shell back on an N64 controller but you've gotta hold it in a certain orientation to keep everything from falling out of place so that might have not worked as well. Once I learned it, I never needed to learn a new trick because I've always managed to either find some gum or just brute force my way through. I'm keeping your trick in the back of my mind though!

[@CeeJayThe13th]

@@mattelias721 that's a really good idea as well! I tend not to have magnets around though. Also, (like I mentioned in the other reply) I learned this messing with electronics and I have a pathological fear of having magnets near technology. I know most modern tech isn't bothered by magnets but I ruined two PS1 memory cards and two CRT TVs with magnets back in the 90s. I disappointed my uncle and lost a deep save in FF7 along with other games on the memory cards and made playing games a lot harder with the TVs so I just don't do it. This is just personal to me but since I'm over-sharing, every time I see a DIY project or hack with magnets, I immediately dismiss that part because I know I'm not messing with them. Magnets go on the fridge and literally nowhere else for me. I won't even buy magnetic screwdrivers or driver bits if I know they're magnetic.

[@mattelias721]

@@CeeJayThe13th That sounds like a painful mistake, dude...! I work with wood, so I'm far less worried about what the magnets do to that material. Rock on!

[@specialmustard237]

Hey brother will you do a video on how you put together your cut lists to reduce waste?

[@VampyrumFerox]

As a guitarist, I really appreciated the jointer tip.

[@IvoryBayouWoodworks]

For squeeze-out, I use a triangular paint scraper. Rockler sells one for $18 with multiple heads, but you can find a cheap one elsewhere. Allows you to get in those corners without having to scrape away the wood. Especially important when working with plywood. I do this every day at work.

[@halsonger1317]

To get a clean and uniform cut line on your sparkling water can, screw a utility knife blade to a scrap piece of wood whose thickness is the height of where you want to cut. If you project the tip of the blade out over the edge of the wood you have a perfect slicer, just put the can against it and turn it to have a nice even cut all around.

[@mattdavis6052]

For setting the chisel angle just take a piece of plywood and with your chisel in the honing guide at the proper angel just glue a stop onto the plywood at the distance for each. Then all you need to do is put your chisel partially into the honing guide and but it up against the plywood and push the chisel until it hits the stop block and tighten it down.

[@kennethmiller2333]

I've now seen two youtubes who had incidents with that helical-head joiner. One lost part of a finger, once lost three fingers. That thing is no joke. Looking forward to getting a bourbon blade when I get back from Italy.

[@Moebettaish]

For glue clean up I take a straw cut a 45. Works beautiful

[@bah7797]

Jason that was one of your better rolls.

[@quirkygreece]

Good to see the tips back, cheers Jason.

[@kentwesley13]

Get a vertis chisel guide and it sets the angle and has a off set wheel so you can set your 2° with a turn of the wheel knob

[@businessleadership2717]

Hi. I am new to woodworking and have watched a lot of your videos. I like your build style and methods you use. What would you recommend that I start building first? I am almost done with my workbench but I wanted to know your suggestions.

[@rjrotermund]

You can also remove squeeze out with a plastic straw cut on a bias while it is still wet/damp. Works great! I keep a bunch of straws on my shop.

[@jbergenudd]

Was going to write this!

[@iambear.6526]

I think he had that in another tips & trick video

[@rjrotermund]

@@iambear.6526 I never remember where I get the idea, so I'm horrible at giving credit where it is due.

[@rogerl.9573]

Silly Washington has outlawed straws. Now have to smuggle them into my shop.

[@powerofviking3392]

I got a brand new brad nailer. Its a nice trick for this. Thanks Mate

[@inmyimage1081]

Tips worthy of a snack for the algo

[@robrdavis]

Tape measure pencil trick is genius.

[@rs2024-s4u]

Thanks! Ray

[@mdglussier]

Lie Nielsen has free plans for an angle-setting jig that will work for every standard angle, will stay accurate as you continue sharpening your chisel or plane irons, and it's quite easy to make. That said, I love this angle finder trick for if you're out of the shop or cant find your jig.

[@titosrevenger]

Another good trick for glue squeeze out in tight corners is to use a plastic straw to scrape it away before it dries. If you fold the straw you'll be able to make a sharp corner that removes all the glue. You'll probably still want to scrap it after in case there's any invisible residue but it'll make that task a lot quicker.

[@BakonPancakes]

Just instantly bought the magnetic thing need that

[@thomasbyrne7770]

Great nail gun stuff ..... Tom Byrne

[@hebie666]

15:00 a magnet by itself can do this, those oldschool u shaped ones work best.

[@donaldrice1867]

I use balsa wood with a polishing compound for my strop. It works great.

[@warofwrath]

Try corrugated cardboard. Thank me later.

[@jimmclean829]

As you sharpen those chisels, would those reference lines not get closer to the cutting edge and therefore over time change the angle of that cutting edge.

[@warofwrath]

It's going to take tons of sharpening...the thickness of the scribe line on its own would probably take 1000 times before it moves from the the millimeter of distance accounted for in the scribe line. 😊

[@EchoS1x]

Omg the Brad nailer trick! I never knew that.

[@jimysk8er]

so the demagnetizer steps work by making the item fall down the steps repeatedly. You start at the top step and push downwards to make it hit every step on the way down. The sure fire way to demagnetize anything is to heat it up or to impact or drop it a bunch.

[@pepperman5752]

A link to the chisels and honing gig would be nice!

[@kimberlyvaughan3430]

Love the can trick ❤. I have to wait until I can get a bourbon moth blade but I want one. God Bless.😊 where’s your foreman?… miss him 😊

[@cyberkender1949]

Actual hat brushes are a thing. But unless you're into felt hats, you probably don't know.. You can use any strong magnet to magnetize ferrous metals. Just stroke the magnet in the same direction a few times. To demagnetize, just swirl the magnet around it in a semi-random direction.

[@BeatsbyTheHuman]

Okay, legit the chisel into a card scraper trick is really good to know.

[@RootedInThePastWoodworking]

There were some good tips in here! Thanks 👍

[@raylowry1265]

The brad nailer. Genius!

[@dgymnast6473]

We used to used wax paper on the metal slides.

[@JC-ur4pq]

Love your channel so much 😂😂😂

[@SomewhatAbnormal]

You should have used a wood stretcher for that part at the end. Though I’ve heard they are very expensive and not many people own them.

[@imsoviolent]

Love the video, as usual. A perfect blend of useful tips and tricks, comedy, and sarcasm. Question: A few of your mockups for the bourbon blade featured a black or gun blued chisel blade. Will you be releasing this as an option later?

[@garybadger325]

Question...Won't the bevel angle change after a few sharpings, since you are removing material from the chisel?

[@RICHat22]

Being not a woodworker, I've been using the air hose trick all my life. And as soon as you said "A really good tip" at the jointer I said don't stick your *ick ticklers in there. Turns out you already knew that tip. Love the can tip. I was lazy and just poured up in a different can.

[@JTOTHEW3000]

Safe table rollin after a few good sparklilng waters...NIOCE :)

[@calebdunn1288]

They're harder to come by now-a-days but a newspaper works well as a strop

[@allanc.finnical4445]

Use a vacuum to clean tools, don't use compressed air as it blows the dust and dirt inside the tool, switches, motors, etc possibly damaging parts and shortening the life of the tool.

[@patriciamay638]

How are the building permits coming along so we can share the rebuild through your videos

[@graywulf19]

When I was a kid, we used the wax paper trick on sliding boards at the playground to slide faster.

[@rodneystice7771]

Some nice tricks. Waiting for my knife/chisel or chisel/knife or chisel or knife. It will arrive way after my birthday

[@wyngaart1]

Wood glue and ketchup. I always have the tip of the wood glue bottle hardened with glue. So what I do now, is when I have an empty ketchup bottle (with this anti drip cap) I clean it and fill it up with wood gleu. Works perfect and makes it easy to dose the gleu.

[@robt2151]

Vic at DownUnderWoodWorks does that and I keep expecting for the glue to come out red.

[@mattelias721]

I have not tried the ketchup (or mustard) bottle trick yet, mainly because I use sriracha bottles - most have that twisty green cap that seals and leaves a tiny amount that you just wipe onto your shirt or pants, like we all do. Sriracha bottles are kind of one-time use for glue, but in my house, there are always sriracha bottles being cleaned out. They also hold the exact amount of the 'standard' Titebond bottle.

[@patrickhigdon7050]

you're forgetting to add the blade kerf using the tape trick, all you cuts will be consecutively 1/8" short. and planers are designed to feed the material, you never want to "push" the material through.

[@SirGingerOfKnight]

Grub-Screw Drill bit Depth Stop Collars are just as handy for when you're using a chuck that is too deep!

[@yobgodababua1862]

Ha! I inherited an antique pair of clothes brushes and they also do this beautifully! I wonder why they stopped making them?

[@benhynum9879]

I needed that wax paper tip!

[@jschlierf1323]

Can't do half laps on my DeWalt table saw cuz the blade height changes slightly whenever I turn it on and haven't figured out how to fix it. Never noticed it until I tried to do some dados on a piece.

[@jasonhealy5022]

For the table wax I use glide coat off of amazon

[@brianzhong9692]

oh my god! we use the same yellow mechanical pencil!!

[@Goolio2020]

Fantastic video!!

[@stevestormssr5492]

Brad nailers are predictable, but the depth adjustment changes with almost every type of wood depending on how hard or dense the wood is. Set it for pine and then work on oak or walnut and you get Hangnails. They hang onto the nailer or the head hangs like a willow tree. 😂

[@Wheel_Horse]

Tip: @2:23 NEVER put your hand over the business end of a nailer! ESPECIALLY when it is connected to air and your fingers are so close to the trigger! Another point about nail blowouts... you might have noticed that the nails can tend to follow the grain of the wood, especially in hardwoods. So keep that in mind too.

[@imsowright90]

Good tips.

[@MurphysLawNZ]

I just sat down with a good Irish whiskey on a Saturday night and see a new Bourbon Moth Video came out 5 mins ago, Life couldn't be better

[@1deerndingo]

1. But if you mark a permanent position to set the length for sharpening a chisel what happens over time as the chisel gets shorter. 2. If you mark multiple points to cut along a length you'd have to allow for the blade kerf.

[@Bourbonmoth]

Well your mark will wear off by the time that happens as you are sharpening the back too.

[@ourcommonancestry6025]

You had me at brad nailer hack

[@warofwrath]

Leather crafter chiming in. It's odd since I work with leather that I'm advocating for something not leather lol, but if you don't have a strop or a spare piece of leather for your chisel, a piece of corrugated cardboard with some jewelers rouge works really good In a pinch.

[@Coltwins]

Scoring your chisel will only work for the first time... each time you sharpen, you reduce the length of the chisel, which increases the angle... I set the angle and then measure the distance from the front of the sharpening jig for both angles... the distance should be the same for all chisels that have the same honing angles...

[@tony-ps4qw]

Tip: If you have a screw head that's about to strip out use some pipe joint compound- dip the end of your screwdriver tip in the compound this will keep it from slipping out of the screw head- I also use an extension clamp to hold the screwdriver down on really tough screws it works...just sayin!

[@paulkribbs1701]

Sometimes a rubber band will work to grab slightly rounded out screws

[@rickscarpellotherapy]

Rubio crack residue… this is worth gold 🤘🔥🤘

[@robertlevine2152]

When you start sharpening a chisel you should start with the back. The first inch from the tip should be polished from 3,000 to 10,000. This needs to be done once.

[@aaronhuntington5798]

I just bought the demagnetizer. Jason, you are funny. Thanks for the video.

[@raydriver7300]

Me too 🌞

[@pauldent3059]

You may encounter an issue with your chisel marking tip, the angle will change each time it's sharpened as your removing material, I know it might take a while but after 20 odd years of sharpening I've lost about 1.5 inches off my favourite one