How To Cut thin Strips of Wood With a Circular Saw
While table saws make ripping easy, for the most part, not every home woodworking shop has one. Perhaps there’s not …
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How To Put SawStop in Bypass Mode
Power tools are dangerous, and extreme caution is required when operating them. Even the smallest and simplest power tool can …
How To Identify A Load-Bearing Post On Stairway
For those of us who like to do our own home renovation work, we easily and without doubt rip out …
How To Protect Wood Table From Heat Marks
After you’ve found that perfect slap of wood, or dimensional lumber you’ve joined with biscuits and glue, and assembled your …
How To Stop a Crack in Wood From Spreading
Is a crack in a piece of furniture, or a floorboard, a stair, or a table fatal? Does it mean …
How To Prevent Tearout When Drilling
Drilling holes in wood is going to be a regular part of your woodworking projects, and we want to be …
How To Prevent Wood From Rotting In The Ground
We know that moisture is the enemy of wood, and have mentioned that numerous times in past articles. Moisture such …
How to Prevent Painted Cabinets From Chipping
The expression “good things come to those who wait,” a synonym for the proverbial saying “Patience is a virtue,” certainly …
How to Cut Paneling With a Circular Saw
Paneling has a wide variety of uses and comes in a wide variety of materials. If you have added wainscoting …
How to Repair a Split Wood Post
Over time as wood ages and is exposed to large temperature and moisture swings in the outdoors, cracks will appear. …
How to Install Drawer Pulls Evenly
Remember when you were in high school math class, and it came time to study geometry? Geometry? What for? How …
How to Attach Table Legs to Apron
Have you ever sat for dinner at a table that wobbles? Perhaps a loose screw or two at the legs …
How to Recess Door Hinges
When you go through a door, you only pay attention to two things: the door handle, and that it opens. …
How to Use Wood Filler for Large Gaps
In a previous post here, we wrote about wood fillers, water-based, petroleum-based, and make-it-yourself. We also discussed wood putty, epoxy …
How to Use a Dovetail Marker
At some point in your woodworking projects, you will want to use a dovetail joint. Perhaps in making bureau drawers, …
How to Store Lumber to Prevent Warping
A warped sense of humor can be funny and fun, but warped wood isn’t. It will be either unusable or …
How To: Face Gluing Boards For Additional Thickness
We’ve written of wood glues, clamps, and edge gluing in the past here on Obsessed Woodworking, and we’ve either included …
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How to Remove Dust From Wood After Sanding
Serious woodworkers take finishing their project with great care. They will have measured twice and cut once, glued, pegged, clamped, …