How Long Does Wet Wood Take To Dry?
It may seem like such an obvious statement that you should only work with dry wood when making furniture. Yet, …
Woodworking Q&A
Does Wood Expand In Heat?
Temperature change affects water greatly in both directions. We know that water expands as it gets heated and eventually becomes …
What Does Vinegar Do To Wood?
When I was a coffee drinker, I remember using white vinegar to clean the coffee maker every couple of weeks. …
Does Burning Wood Seal It?
If you have ever visited Japan or watched videos of Japanese techniques in woodworking, chances are you have learned of …
Can You Sand Wet Wood?
We’ve measured and cut the wood for our project; glued, attached, and assembled the wood according to the project plans; …
Choosing The Right Wood Filler (Or Putty) For Your Project
We’ve written quite a bit about wood fillers and putties, products that fill nail holes, cracks and holes in wood …
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Why Is My Stainable Wood Filler Not Staining?
Wood filler is a substance used to fill imperfections in wood, such as nail holes, cracks, and dents. It is …
Can You Stain MDF?
Everything today has an acronym, and they have become a part of the English lexicon in everyday use now. You …
Can You Use Pine For A Cutting Board?
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t use a wooden cutting board in my kitchen. All of my cutting …
Can You Stain Caulk?
We recently published an article on the question of staining wood filler. Most of us use nails or screws in …
Can You Screw Into Wood Filler?
When speaking with a lawyer friend one day, he was telling me one of the most common questions he was …
Does Plywood Need To Acclimate?
The human body becomes acclimatized to the environment in which we spend most of our time. We often hear about …
Can You Screw Into Wood Glue?
In matters of science and cutting-edge experiments, especially dangerous cutting-edge stuff, ethicists tell us we should ask two questions: can …
What Is Green Woodworking All About?
Green has become a popular color in the past decade for a number of reasons. The term “green” often refers …
Does Sealing Wood Help Prevent Warping?
Even though the warp drives in Star Trek lore were merely make-believe and came from Ray Bradbury’s imagination, engineers and …
Can You Paint Over Non-Hardening Wood Putty?
It’s inevitable that we will make holes in or dent wood as we work with it on a project. We …
Do You Need To Prime Wood Filler Before Painting?
There are times when the wood you are using in a project will have a hole, a dent, a scratch, …
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Can You Make Dovetail Joints With Plywood?
In a recent article on these pages, we asked the question: How many corner joint methods are there? We wrote …