- hold on, lady. that's not the right page to be on. we need to be on the watch page because there's the whole true live thing. hey, look there's shawn. there's our chat, and there's you. we're just getting things rolling,
so if you're tuning in right now, just give us a couple seconds. we're rusty. it's been a little while. two months, in fact. two weeks. oh, you said a bad swear word. - [nicole] who? you.
- [nicole] what did i say? on your google thingy. just do your thing. throw it onto the desktop if you can. - [nicole] i already downloaded it. - ok. - [nicole] where do i put it? it's in downloads. why's it doing it sideways?
- i don't know, it's fine. it's just a picture of a kid. - [nicole] it's normal that way. - i don't know, who knows. it's stupid. it's a baby, sideways or upright, they all look the same. all right, so test, test, test. everything look good?
we can get rolling here? how's the camera angle? really have to apologize for that, because i realize it looks stupid that i've got a giant table in the way and kind of have to live with it. make sure everything iswhere it needs to be. can probably do better than that. i think that should work.
hey-o. oh, this is a little weird, huh? we'll make it work. - [nicole] how long till it starts? how long till it starts? right now, it's 10:03, we're three minutes late. looking good? thank you.
i choose to believe it's mythree days of not shaving that contributes to that. you know, it's going to get hot in here. it's going to get hot up in here. - [nicole] so take off all your clothes. i did promise that i would keep my pants on today. and i absolutely will. all right, you ready to roll, hun?
let's do this. my notes, just so you know, my notes say mention who you are and what this is. my name is marc spagnuolo, and.... - [nicole] did we tweet? i did it throughout the morning, but if you want to do like, we're live right now, go for it. yeah, we're on a website called
the wood whisperer, youmight know that already, and if you do, that's awesome. thank you for coming byand hanging out with us. this is our live showthat we do once a month. and we haven't been able to do it in the last two months because nicole popped out a baby, unexpectedly, a couple months early, so this is just how we do it, apparently.
we have babies at 33 weeks. she's doing great. you want to throw up a picture, hun? - [nicole] yeah, it'snot showing up anymore. there we go. so, yeah, the audio doesn't work on that picture because itwas a last minute thing. but anyway, that was a picture of ava. she's a cute little bundleof joy, doing great.
and she's home now, solife is a little hectic. nicole's very tired. - [nicole] not as tired as i was. - not as tired as you were with mateo. - yes. - but yeah, welcome. this is tww live, we kind of change it up as we go, but the bottom line is we like to give you
news, updates, things that are going on, community issues, q anda, and also tool stuff, like showing new tools and stuff is one of my favorite things to do. we always talk about that show that used to be on the diy network, hosted by david teal. - cool tools. - not cool tools.
- oh, that was grundy. - that was grundy, that was later. by david teal, who now workswith popular woodworking, and he used to just show these tools, and it was just a very simple show. like here's some new stuff, take a look. it was pretty cool, and i like being able to do that because i kind of like tools.
it's my thing. so, we're going to get started here. by the way, this is my wife, nicole. - hi. - she makes wonderful babies. beautiful little babies,and great cookies too. it's that time of year again. - yay. - you can chat with us if you want to.
now, nicole, after sheleaves the work bench here, she's going to bemonitoring the chat rooms, both on youtube and on our website, at thewoodwhisperer.com/live. - yep. - and if you ask aquestion and it's relevant to what we're talking about, she'll shoot it over tome and then i'll be able to answer it, which is kind of fun.
and then at the end of theshow we'll have a q and a. also, toward the end, we'llhave a couple of giveaways. i've got a david mark'swoodwork season six dvd. it's still in a wrapper, ihaven't done anything to it, i may lick it, i do that once in a while. that's going to beavailable to a lucky winner, and a guild membership on the gaming table that we're building right now, which i'll show you later as well.
i'll show you my progress so far. - and we'll be picking from the questions that i retrieve from the youtube chat and from the wood whisperer chat, two chats. - so if you have a questionthat's been selected, you are in the running, so ask questions, and you might be rewarded. so, what else? oh yeah.
again, the camera angle, sorry about that. i've got a table that's in the way, so it's a little bitweird, but bear with us. so, let's get into the giveawayannouncements real quick. you want to take it? - uh, so... - do we have to say who last month's was? - well we had two months that we missed. so there were a number of prizes from
fuji spray, harbor tech... did we do a powermatic? my brian is a little fuzzy. - the last couple of monthshave been a little hazy. - but if you've entered those and you're wondering, "hey, i wonder who won?" you can go tothewoodwhisperer.com/past-winners and you'll see all the winners and i even have a handy little spreadsheet
so you can see all thegiveaways we've done. - you can see all thestuff you didn't win. because if you won, you know about it. - there's just a lot of cool... - it'll get you a little bit envious. - i love doing the giveaways for you guys. it's just an opportunity to get some cool tools into your hands. - cool tools, this month...
- yes, so this month's giveawayi'm super excited about, powermatic gave us a new pm2244 drum sander. - which we will be showinga little bit later. - just released i thinka couple weeks ago. - yeah, it's like hot off the press. hot off the taiwanese product line. - and i also have a new turbo shaft, from arbortech.
- by the way, that wasmy nickname in college. - turbo shaft? - shaft. - think about that for a little while. all right, go ahead. - so, they just announcedthat product as well last month, or maybe it was september, and we're giving oneof those away as well. it's really cool.
if you go to thewoodwhisperer.com/giveaway there's a neat video showingyou all the different ways that you can use this newinnovative turbo shaft. - turbo shaft. - and finally, our friendsover at toolnut.com gave us a festool syslite to giveaway. - a very fancy flashlight. - it's heavy duty, man. - no it is, it's well made.
- it's 175 bucks. - it's a crazy flashlight. - so all of those are beinggiven away this month. we're not going to dogiveaways in decemeber since it's the holidays. - you should be giving stuff away to your family and friends. we might do something a little lower key because i've got a ton of dvd's,
there's always overflowstuff that i've ordered or i'm not using anymore in the shop. - we usually do the holidayshow as the giveaway. - we give a bunch of stuff away. - yeah, we give a ton of stuff away. - so, yeah, it won't be the tool sponsored sort of giveaway, but itcould be this massive thing. so december is going to be fun. - and then i'll startup the tool sponsored
giveaways in january. i already have 2016lined up with the tools. - awesome. all right, so we're goingto jump into some news announcements, thankyou's, things like that. wood workers fighting cancer has been our most successful year yet. - we aimed for 15 thousand dollars, we are crushing that goal.
we are likely to hit 20 thousand. - if i have anything to do with it. - we're on our way there. so here's the thing, there's still time to build the projects, submit your photos, or submit your video. remember it's five dollars per photo if you build one and thenalso ten dollars per video if you happen to make videos online
and you want to send us one of those, ten bucks we donate on your behalf. - and you get added to our playlist, so if you're on youtube right now, and you're like, "oh,i'd like to see all these videos that are coming in." if you go to our channel under playlist, there's wood workersfighting cancer 2015 videos. we have i think nine orten videos in there so far.
- it's an involved project,we understand that, so not everyone is goingto be able to build one, but we appreciate it if you do. so if you want to submit yourvideo or project picture, go to thewoodwhisperer.com/wfc-submit, and you can send that in. also everything is atwoodworkersfightingcancer.com if you want more information on that. - should we tell them howmuch we've raised so far?
- yeah, sure, i don'tknow what the total is. - oh, well i have it on the website, you should probably go there sometime. - i don't go to that website, it's slow. - i will also tell youthat if you do donate, or if you build, i have some wood workers fighting cancer stickers made up, and i will be sending those to you. - i meant to bring some in.
- we had that build-a-thon,and a ton of people donated, and i got all of the addresses, and we're filling outthose envelopes right now. we had some stuff goingon that delayed me. - you had a few things. a baby popping out at 33 weeks will delay you a couple days. - yes, but i am getting those out. so if you did donate and you're like,
"where's my sticker?", it's coming, i promise. in fact, your mom isalmost done filling out... - your mom. - ok, good. - so those are going out soon. - 17,189. - and that was as of november the third, so if you actually go to...
- that's fine, that's close enough. in other words we're getting there. - over 17 thousand dollars raised. - what did i say the amount was? that's going to push usover 80 thousand dollars since we started this thing in 2010-ish. so that's awesome. you can get any better than that. we're really excited about it.
well it could get better,it could just be more money, but that's what next year is for. all right, so i think we're good. i'm going to do the rest of the news, if you wanna go field some questions - and make sure thestream is still working. it's not good when no one is watching it because it could crap out and we're just talking to ourselves.
it's kind of like justwatching us in our living room. thanks, hun. - thank you. - well done, good job. your hair looks wonderful today. all right, so, other news real quick. black friday sales. so nicole says she'll be monitoring some of the awesome blackfriday deals that come along,
like you guys have seen the jet clamps the bessey clamps, thoseare always wonderful frantic feeding frenzies of sales, which we like to promoteand let people know about. so if anything big pops up, we're going to try to make sure we let you know about it through our facebook page and twitterand also on our website. so, keep an eye out for that.
quick thank you for everyonewho sent me stickers. this wall back here, my shop cabinet here, is getting loaded with allof your wonderful stickers. everybody is making cute logos and nice looking stickersand sending them to me. and we send stickers back in return, and this is just all on an exchange basis. do we have the address? yes, so if you want a sticker,a wood whisperer sticker,
or you just want to send me one of yours, send a self addressed stamped envelope to the wood whisperer p.o. box 8203, surprise, arizona, 85374. - just donate to charity and i'll send you a wood whisperer sticker too. - ok, so if you donate to wood workers fighting cancer you get the wood workers fighting cancer sticker plusthe wood whisperer sticker.
and by the way, if youorder stuff from us, from our store, it'sjust part of our policy, we always throw a sticker in there. that's just something we've always done. twwstore.com, you could pickup a t-shirt or whatever. and nicole also wantsme to remind you guys that we have a forum, did you know that? did you know that forums still exist? did you know that?
and we have a wood working forum at woodtalkonline.com. bunch of great folksthere, very knowledgable and very friendly people. it's not your average forum because we don't take crap. we're one of the only forums with a no jerks policy, and i haveto enforce that quite often. actually, that's not true.
maybe a couple of times ayear i have to enforce that. thankfully it's a veryself policing environment with a bunch of really nice people. so if you have somewood working questions, beginner, advanced,whatever, woodtalkonline.com is where you want to go for that. i don't have a featuredproject like i usually do, just because we're tryingto get back into gear here and get our heads back on straight,
but if you want to submita project to potentially be displayed on thewood whisperer website, which may show up on tww live, you can submit it atthewoodwhisperer.com/submit. so if you got something great, you're looking for a littlebit of free promotion, send us your pictures and we will put that up on the website. we have thousands, what'd you say now?
hundreds, let's be conservative. hundreds of projects. probably getting close to over a thousand, i'm sure at this point. we've been doing it for a long time. all right. is this a relevant question? - [nicole] i'm just goingto keep dumping them. nicole's going to keep dumping.
i'm just going to let that hang there. still have this cough i'm getting over, so pardon me. yeah, i'll try to answerthese questions as they come. i think that's more fun than just waiting till the very end. ok, andrew riscamp says, "your thoughts on athickness planer versus a drum sander?"
those are two very different tools. they seem like they're doingsomething very similar, a piece of wood goes inand you've got something removing stock from the tops, so fundamentally theykind of do the same thing, but they do it in such different ways. you've got to think of the planer as the stock removaltool and the drum sander as the finishing tool.
so, if you are using onein place of the other, that's not necessarilythe way you want to do it. i would say, get the planer first because that's what you're going to use to size your stock down. the drum sander is only there to do a couple of passes orit'll take you a long time to remove stock, so you can remove it, it's just going to take forever,
and use a lot of sandpaper. so, think of it as a finishing tool, not a stock sizing tool, ok? and that's where the drum sander becomes kind of the thing you getmuch later in the process when you can afford todrop the extra money on it. the planer is more of a necessity purchase if you're milling your own stock. matthew says, "when you slice veneer
but it turns out too thick, how can you get it to a consistent thickness without a drum sander?" that's a great question, matthew. you can use the planer. you would need to use a sled, and i actually did avideo on this recently. if anyone feels so generous to do this, you could go to the wood whisperer site
and look for a recent video i did called planning thin strips, orsomething about thin strips, i can't remember the title. and i showed a methodof using a planer sled to help size thin stock. you do have to be careful with it because that stock isfragile but it can be done with the planer. there's also a thing you can do
where you just leavethe rough bandsawn edge on one side, the other face of your veneer is nice and clean. so, we have like this, youcan't really see it that well, but this side has a veryrough washboard surface, this side was jointedso it's nice and clean. you bring your pieces together, glue the clean facedown to your substrate, leaving these somewhatuneven face at the top.
then once your panels are done, you can scrape, you could even use, it's home sawn veneer soyou've got some material there. you could use a smoothing plane on this if you wantedto or just sand it down. and it won't be absolutelyperfect and dead flat, but it's a way to get the job done, as long as you don't mind taking the time to sand that rough surface after the fact.
so you do have two options ifyou don't have a drum sander. ok, let's get to some of the tool stuff. i promised with the promos for today that we'd be talking about tools. all right, the gear upsection of our live thing is always about toolsbut i just have a lot that i need to show you today. so if you don't like tool talk and looking at expensivetools is something
that bothers you, youmay want to go watch a... what are those things that mateo watches? those egg videos? the kinder egg videos. oh, milly, we're doing a show. have some respect out there. milly. what's first? all right, this is kind of cool.
i poo poo'd this, when itwas first offered to us. this is by fast cap, theseare the stileright clamps. the reason i poo poo'd it is because i don't really do cabinetinstalls these days. maybe ten years ago this would have been something that would have been a lot more handy to me, untili got it in the shop. they were cool enough tosend them to us anyway, and i realized that this solves a
major problem that i've had with certain cabinet installations, and i've got an example right behind me. so, anyway, just to give you an idea, this is called stileright clamps, these are made by fastcap. let me show you with this cabinet, if i can get the cameraon a nice angle for you . so you see those two shelf pins?
or the shelf pin holes,right here and right here? and we've got a face frame going on, and one of the things with face frames is we typically have to do a compromise. a lot of times we've got to put some sort of reinforcement there, or you could even do pocket screws from inside if you wanted to, but it's very difficult toget good clamping pressure,
so that you have a nicegood glue bond here. so we have to rely onthings like nails, screws, other types of reinforcement to keep those face frames on. well, this is where this clamp comes in. if you put that rightin the shelf pin holes, for standard, i don't knowwhat it is in millimeters, it's standard sizing forshelf pin holes like that if you use a jig to do them.
and then you can just tighten this sucker right in place and it's going to hold your face frame and lock it in place. there's other uses for this, for instance if youneed to scribe a cabinet to the wall and you'rescribing your face frame, this is going to be handy because it's like an extra set ofhands to hold it in place, but utilizing the shelf pin holes that are
already in the cabinet, it's genius. so if you've got acouple of these on hand, now you have an opportunity to apply good clamping pressureacross a face frame, get a good glue bondand you might not even need any other reinforcement. now you might need to pick up quite a few of these if you wantto do a big job all at once. but getting this kind of clamping pressure
on this surface, especially when there's a back of the cabinet already in place is nearly impossible in any other way, unless you buy those edge clamps, i think bessey has them, where they grip the sides and put thepressure down this way, but those are super expensive. so, i think this is actuallya really good innovation if you do a lot of cabinet installs,
you build a lot of face frame cabinets or even something likethis tool cabinet here. this is a really cool, veryspecific purpose clamp. - [nicole] is this for face frames? yes. (voice off screen) hey, well there you go. now, he may be talking about joining face frames like theelements of the face frame,
the styles and the horizontal pieces, which is a little bitof a different question. but the timing is good. so, that's again, stileright,i believe they run... the text is small here. 32 dollars on the fastcap website, and i'm guessing that's32 dollars for a pair. that's what i have in thisbox is a pair of clamps. so, yeah, i mean these specialized clamps
aren't exactly the cheapestthings in the world, but that's what specialization is for, it's somebody going outand making something that other companiesaren't willing to make, so sometimes you've got to spend a couple bucks more to get that. let's see... i've got to skip some ofthese veneer questions and get back.
so, joining face frames, both the dowelmax and pocket hole jigs. so jeff veredy says, "what method do you recommend for joining face frames? i have both the dowelmaxand pockethole jigs." so, i think what he's talking about is joining the various elements of the face frames together. you know, if i'm doing them these days,
i probably would use the domino, but if you have the dowelmax that is a fantastic doweling machine. there's no reason why you can't use that for your face frames. it will be accurate, it'sgoing to be nice and strong. i would go with the dowelmax. if you want to use pocket screws that's going to be quicker,
and for face frames there's no reason you can't use pocket screws, right? either one of those is good, man. all right, so that's that. now, i have another thing. here's the deal, guys. i don't always show you stuff that you're going to want to buy, but i will show you stuffthat'll make you drool,
and then i'll try tomake a lesson out of it, i don't know. this is a very verynice turbine right here. you guys probably know by now, i'm a huge fan of fuji spray. and first of all, let metell you why i like turbines. i like turbines because they are a self-contained system like this. so if you want to getinto the spraying game,
maybe you don't have a good compressor that can handle the amount of air output you need to effectively spray, a turbine is a self-containedunit with a gun, the blower, basically,and you just have a hose to connect the two, works great. so, for small shop folks like us, or people who are on the road, it's a great all-in-one solution.
fuji makes really the best ones out there that i've had the pleasure of using. and i've been using them for years, back when i had my, you know, i didn't have a refinishing company, but i did a lot of refinishingand onsite finishing, and used my fuji q3 constantly. loved that machine. so this is fuji's new q5,
and q5 means five stage. it's a five stage turbine. there's turbines on themarket anywhere from, i don't know, is therea single stage turbine? probably, like the cheapest ones. then there's two, three, four stage. five stage means that this will, how can i phrase this appropriately? it will blow the balls off a brass monkey.
does that make sense? it probably doesn't, buti like the way it sounds. it's super powerful, and that means that it's going to have less trouble atomizing viscous finishes,very thick finishes. you should be able to blow out this thing like it's no big deal. so q5, very awesome. i'm going to put it through it's paces.
i haven't had a chance to use it, you can see it's stillshiny and brand new, but i'm really excited about this. i love hvlp spraying andthis is a really great unit. now, just to give you an idea, this is not cheap, this is a pro unit. it's 1300 dollars. so, here's the good thing about fuji. they don't just makeprofessional caliber stuff.
all their stuff isgood, but they also make two stage versions ofthese turbine setups. they've got their hobby pro and semi pro, and you can get into thatgame for i think 300. is it 300? where's my numbers? 399. so hobby pro and semi pro, you've got some options at the 399 price point. that's still expensive because
you can get turbines cheaper than that, but you can't beat thebuild quality on this stuff. good quality hoses are important so that if you step on them they don't snap or break. very brittle plastic hosematerial can be trouble like that. overall, really high quality unit. so check them out. if you're in the market for a really
professional level sprayer, q5 is going to be the way to go. but if you just wantinto the spraying game, 399 is still an investmentbut a worthy one, i think, and fuji makes some ofthe best stuff out there. - [nicole] does it spray latex? oh yeah, at five stage,see, if you're going to spray latex you can usually... the lower the number of stages,
two stage, three stage,the more you're going to have to dink aroundwith the formulation and diluting the latexin order to get it to atomize properly. it can be done, but alot of times it an be more finicky than it's worth messing with. by the time you get up to three stage, and if you do a lot of latex, i'm going to recommend four stage.
you get up to this fivestage and you should have no problems at all. frankly, that's what i want to do, is test it out with thethickest stuff i've got and see how well it atomizes, and see if it's any better. because a lot of timeswhen you go into latex, if you do a lot of thatyou may be better off with an airless sprayer.
that's a different type of technology, but it doesn't rely on thesame type of atomization and making the particles very very small. and that's hard to do withthick finishes, right? so, if you're a painter, airless might be the better way to go, but if you primarily do clear finishes, which you occasionally need to do latex, then you're looking at these four
and five stage units and thinking, hey, those would be a good idea. i'm just going to keepgoing with the tool stuff, and then, are there any questions pertaining to the hvlp? - [nicole] i just got one,let me send it to you. oh, robocnc, "if you were not sponsored, which festool domino would you buy?" yeah, we haven't been sponsored.
actually, we've got an article. that's another thing ifsomeone can put a link up to, i've got an article that says the festool domino 500 versus 700. just google that and you'll probably find the article that will give you my opinion, as well as a bunch of other people's opinions in the comments that will help you make a decision on that.
let's see, robocnc, well,that's one long name. "is the turbine betterthan hvlp on a compressor? you can buy a compressor and a decent hvlp gun for 1300 dollars." i wouldn't say it's better,it's just different. it's a self-contained unit, and that's all i have to worry aboutis carrying that around. so it depends on your current setup and your priorites.
having a compressor-run hvlp means you need to get a conversion gun. so, again, technology is different, but once it's all set up itkind of operates the same way. you know, some of thebest spraying equipment you have available on the market today will run on classic compressor systems, but if you need portability, and you don't necessarilyneed a big compressor,
that's where the turbinescome in as a viable option. so, it kind of just dependson what you're doing. all right, another thingi wanted to show you is a portable base. now, you guys with small shops, even in big shops, you need to put your tools on mobile bases to be able to get these things around, or make way for the carto get back in the garage.
mobile bases, there's alot of them out there. a lot of times, whatthey lack is the strength you need for extremely heavy tools. unless the company makes one specifically for the tool, i get alittle nervous about buying those universal set ups and hoping it has the capacity to work for thetool i want to put it under. so, portomate just came out with what they call their industrial strength model.
sounds like it should betylenol industrial strength. 149 is the price. it's got a 1500 pound capacity. now, the funny thing, alittle bit silly in a way, is i've got my router table on this thing, and of course this has no problem with my router table. it laughs at my router table's weight, but this is what i happento need a mobile base on.
so, what makes thisdifferent is you've got this channel here as opposed to, most of the time it's likean angle iron material on these mobile bases. this one actually has this metal tube on all four sides and itmakes it incredibly strong. so, you've got your little releases here, pop them up, like that, and now it's going toroll around no problem,
one handed movement. (sneezing) bless you, nicole. all right, no big deal,it can handle movement really really well. and once you have the position you want, bring your little flappies down. those are officially calledflappies, by the way. there's a flappy, there's another flappy,
and now it's stableand not going anywhere. i've used it for a couple of weeks now on the router table and like i said, it's a little bit overkillfor a router table. this is really designedfor heavy equipment, your planers, your jointers, drum sanders, bandsaws, whatever youwant to put on here. but if you really needgood weight capacity up to 1500 pounds, it's 150 bucks,
it's a good investmentfor something like that. i like it a lot. it's portomate that makes that. industrial strength mobile base. what else do we have? ah, i should have justkept the camera over there. wah, wah. so you guys have heard me talk, if you've been payingattention to my twitter feed,
i was talking about thepowermatic drum sander recently. and i did have a chance to assemble it, get the bad boy together. and i would like to talkto you about it now. drum sanders have been out for a while, and to be completely honest with you, it kind of seems like most drum sanders fall out of the same factory. i don't know if youguys have noticed that,
but so many of them are very similar in design and a lot of theproblems i have with them are consistent throughout, and it's difficult tofind a company that really innovates and does somethingunique and different that makes the sander better. that's what i like about this unit, it actually does improvesome of those things that drive me nuts.
so, good example, i usedto have a drum sander, i think it's the jet pro unit with the sprawling leg design, and it is a bear to calibrate and to me, no matter how well a tool performs, if it takes me more than a couple hours to calibrate it, i start to find ways toget it out of my shop. because if i'm down for a day, and sometimes a day or more, calibrating
a tool, that's stupid, right? so, i decided to getrid of that drum sander and i picked up the super max, which is sitting back here. that's a really nice drum sander but again it's that same design that's been on the market for a while, but it did have, over my previous jet, it did have an improved adjustment system
to control, i guess, the parallelism of the conveyor with the drum. and i like that, sothat's what i went with. well, powermatic just came out with their newest offering, and this thing is the bee's knees. a couple of notable features, first of all, let's turn this guy on. so, we've got an led lit display here,
which, you know, i calledit gilding the lilly, because it's a beautiful tool, it would be fine without this, but there are some cool things here. you can get your feedrate displayed right here in feet per minutes,or you could move over to metric if you needed to, and you've got a feedrate control dial here, and it just kind of adjusts as you go.
there's a feed logic, which, i should have looked all this stuff up, but the feed logic looks to me like these things have safteys that engage, so if you are putting too much pressure and the drum is having trouble, it will automatically adjust the feed rate to compensate for that and make sure you're not over feeding and you don't get
burning and you don't killyour sandpaper that way. so, you can kind of see the meter goes up if it's under more pressureuntil the feed logic turns on and now you knowit's slowing things down. so, you may want to bring the drum up a little bit to ease the pressure. it also has a depth display. now, this is not absolute depth. you've got a littleclassic analog dial here,
a strip that tells you you'reabsolute height adjustment, and that's on every sander. why did i turn it off? this is kind of cool because this is sort of a relative depth adjustment. so if you put your drumdown on your work piece and hit the zero out button,that's your zero point. now if you raise or lowerthe drum from that point, you have a display tellingyou exactly what height
you've gone, or how muchdeeper you're going. let me give you a littlecloser look on that display. so let's say i say i set it at zero. i'm on top of my work piece now, and i want to cut in a little bit deeper so it goes to negative because i'm now in the thousandths, and i'mturning the top wheel now at this point, andthat's telling me exactly how deep i'm cutting into the wood.
so if i wanted to go, i don't know, let's say we're going tocut in a quarter inch. .25. look at how easily i can dial that in, that's crazy. not that you would want to sand a quarter inch at a time,that's a little aggressive, but it's a cool feature. that's just built in to the board,
which is pretty sweet. another thing i want to show you, and this came up in the periscope, was the fact that the beds are offset. check this out. notice anything weird about that? you see how much more support surface there is to the front versus the rear? asking that question, i got feedback from
the engineers over at powermatic, and they said what this does is it actually helps decrease slippage. anyone who's used adrum sander for a while, you know on some work pieces, i find on longer work pieces it tends to happen the most, the work piece kind of just stays still and the drum just keeps going
until the grippy stuff catches and helps push it through the rest of the way. because of the way this works, most of that pushing happens here on the in feed side. so if we have more grip surface pushing the thing through, thegripping surface on the exiting end, the out board side, is almost irrelevant.
so they do this because this gives you that much more gripping surface area to help power that stuff through the drum, and you don't really have to worry about it on the backside. so that's kind of a cool feature. now i'm going to showyou my favorite feature. see that little dial there? one of my biggest complaints,as i've alluded to before,
is adjusting the drum height. this is the first tooless adjustment i've ever seen on a drum sander. any other model i've ever seen has bolts that have to be loosened, usually you have to use an alan wrench or a regular wrench to make the adjustment and then usually it's a very shoddy adjustment, it's very difficult tobe accurate with it.
but you dink around with it a little bit then you tighten the boltsback up then you test. then you adjust again,loosen, adjust, tighten, and then test and itbecomes an all day affair. this is actually a dial,and there's no lock, you just turn the dial,and i'm not turning it because i've already calibrated it, so i'm not going to touch it. but it's very sensitive, not sensitive,
what's the right word for that? you have to turn it quite a bit to get the motion to go, i knowthere's a great term for that and now i sound like an idiot, but if you just bump it a little bit it's not going to knock the whole thing out of calibration, just kind of move it right back to where it was. so you've got some room for error here.
but ultimately it's very tight. it's not something thateven if you bump into it's not going to move. you really have to bedeliberate about turning it, which is great. that just lowers andraises the out board side of the sander and makesit very quick to adjust. that feature alone isworth the asking price. no one else has this andi've never seen it before,
and this is probably thebest answer i have seen yet in a drum sander design to how do you get these things to be easy to calibrate. i love it. very very nice. - [nicole] dave picciutowants to know about how easy it is to switch out the sandpaper. - oh, ok. well, i was actuallyjust about to show that.
david pacciuto, you guys know him. i didn't get a copy because i'm lazy and haven't ordered one, but have you guys seen david's new book? his bandsaw boxes book? you guys should check it out. david if you want, self promote, man. throw your link up in the chat. - [nicole] links havenever worked in chat.
- [marc] even our chat? - [nicole] even our chat. well, our chat on our website, but not in youtube. - [marc] well that's youtube's problem. - [nicole] well, that's where he's at. - [marc] oh, david, come one, man. stop using youtube, go to our website. well, anyway, i'll just say it.
go to amazon or david's site, i don't know if he stillhas a limited number that he's signing andselling from his website, but either way, david's new bandsaw book, look it up, it's on amazon. all right, so the drum is pretty standard, you've seen a drum sander,you've seen this before, but i haven't taken itoff and put it back on. but i have inspected the clip, and one of
the big advantages that i'm seeing here... the trick is getting the sandpaper in and being able to squeeze this. - [nicole] precise is theword you're looking for. - [marc] yes, it's more precise, but that doesn't explain, you know... never mind. that's just a rabbit hole. so i like the fact that ican very easily grip it.
this usually, with the other designs, in fact, let me see if i canshow you on the other one. ok, what they've done isthey've moved the point that you have to push to the other side. on most drum sanders, the clip, the spring loaded clipis on the other end. so it actually is a little bit awkward to push it toward youbecause you're trying to wrap the drum a certain way.
so you have to push the clip toward you and to squeeze it while you drop it in. the one on this side worksexactly the same way. what they've done onthis drum is they moved the clip to the front side,which is so much easier. this is something i hadnever even given much thought to until i saw this design. having the clip on the frontjust makes it so much easier.
if you don't know what i'm talking about, take my word for it, i don't know why. it's just the motion of the drum and how you're trying to wrap it around, it's just simpler. and again, that's oneof the only drum sanders i've seen that does that. now, ultimately wrapping paper around a drum like this is never fun,
no matter what you do, but if there are little tiny things that they can do to make the job a little bit easier, that's always appreciated. it is mobile, there are wheels built in but unfortunately the wheels only go in one direction, and this is something that happens, my other drumsander is like that also. all the wheels are this way.
so if you want to turnit, you kind of have to, let's not tip over thedrum sander, marc... you have to just kind of push it in one direction or the other and the wheels just scrape on the floor and if you have concrete floors that's no problem at all. but you guys saw me move it before. it's actually not thatdifficult to move around. push it this way or roll it that way.
fit and finish on thisthing, everything is just heavy duty. this is powermatic quality overall. it's a really well builtmachine, super powerful. super easy to adjustwith this dial like this. it's a winner, it's an absolute winner. what's the price on that, hun? 2499? - [nicole] it retails for three,
but i think you can find it for 25. - [marc] yeah, it's on amazon for 25. ♫ that's the powermatic drum sander ♫ do da lee doot do do da do ♫ all right, and the last tool related thing i'll cover very quickly here. this is an on going thingthat i'm working on. you guys heard that i'm replacing a lot of my festool gear withmore accessible brands,
and on the gaming table project that we're working on right now, i wanted to, because i've got a bunchof different router sets, i've got two miter saws,i'm working with them exclusively for a project, and just trying to get to knowit and then dealing with the little nuances of the tool so i can understand it better. this particular roundwas focused on bosch.
my throats dry, i'm parched. (coughing) pardon me. so, i used a bosch router. this is one of the combo kits that comes with the plunge baseas well as the fix base. i don't use the fix base for anything, but i wanted to buy the unit that most people would be buying themselves.
so i've got the plunge base and i picked up the edge guide. just to give you a little quick review, i like it. i really enjoyed using the bosch, it worked well. i'll show the gaming table later. anything that required a router on that project i used this.
dust collection on itis not as good as the of 1400, the festool that i used because they have that sort of built in shroud that goes right around here. but if you're using the base, you can attach a little shroud that actually does a pretty effective job of collecting the dustunderneath the base, which is, in fact, whenyour bit is extending
past the base that's kind of the best place to collect it. anyway. festool has dust collectiondown to a science, and the other companies seem to just be catching up and doingtheir best at this point. so, overall, fairly happy with it, but dust collectioncould always be better. the tool works as advertised,
the motion on the plunge is pretty good. it's a little, you know,i'm comparing everything to festool at this point, so it's a little roughcompared to the smoothness, the sort of one handed operation you can do on a festool. but good enough, guys,i mean, it works great. the what do you call it? the turret stop system here,
that works just fine, ihad no problem with that. and i've got a micro adjustment here for depth of cut. the edge guide does leavesomething to be desired. you know, they have a spring system here, they've got a micro adjustment here, but i find that it's a little wonky. it's not smooth, let's put it that way. it's a little bit difficultto make slight adjustments
and have the springs dowhat they're suppose to do and everything to engage properly. it works. the good thing is once it'slocked in, it's perfect. but getting that perfectsetting might take you just a little bit longer. but absolutely serviceable tool. so, so far, i am happy with this one, and this is a contender fora permanent spot in the shop.
back here is the festool, old habits die hard... is the bosch miter saw. i'm not going to spendtoo much time on this but i did enjoy using it i do miss the quick clamps that came on the the kapex but these clamps do get the job done. dust collection is probably,
compared to the kapex i would say maybe 25% of what the kapex can do. there's a lot more dust spewing. but i've seen some aftermarket modifications that people made to thedust shroud down here, including buying a sevendollar part from festool and putting their dust shroud on here. it's just wider andbigger and that actually dramatically improves the dust collection
from what i've read. so i'm not doing anymods on this just yet. i'm just evaluating it for what it is. table's flat, 90 degress,adjustments are pretty good on it. it was fairly well tunedright out of the box. needed to make a few adjustments on it, but so far so good. definitely a good quality saw, and again, another contender.
i've got the makita that i'll be testing on my next project and we'll see how that one stacks up. so, the tool replacementadventure continues and i'm having a lot offun with it to be honest. get back where i need to be. how are we doing on time? pretty good? good.
all right, and the finalthing i want to show you before we get to our q and a, is the gaming table. close this door. so the gaming table is a projectwe're doing in the guild. if you're not interestedin the guild that's fine. we'll be doing lots of free videos here, coming up in the winter assoon as this project is over. so, the gaming table,the idea behind it is
to be able to remove these inserts and have a recessed place surface for rolling dice, cards,whatever you want to do, but you could of course also play on this top surface as well. so you've got this nice frame with proud joints on the end. these are just reallynice proud bridal joints. i'll give you a little close up of those.
has sort of a, you know,greeny green influence certainly with the proud jointery, but i like it a lot. and what you see down here is not necessarily decorative. it was designed so that itlooks fairly decorative, but the aprons areactually an accessory slot. so we'll be able to usea plate that has a couple of t bolts on there.
you can drop a couple of t bolts in, move this around wherever you want, tighten it up and we can make cup holders, dice holders, tabletholders, book holders, whatever you can come up with that can engage with this system. and basically you've gotthe t track on the top and then a support strip on the bottom to help support the weight.
and this is how we're just going to add, you know, your imagination is the only limitation here, you can kind of add whatever you want usingthose support strips, which is pretty cool. so you can see i'm pretty far along. i'm at the point now wherei'm working on the top, and these are my ply wood cores, and over here i'm working on my veneers.
so the veneer sheets are just cherry, and i'll be able to gluethose down to the substrate. you'll see kind of a neat trick here, this is not your typicalway to do veneering. a lot of times you'lltake your ply wood panel, then you'll take your veneer sheet, glue it down, cut it to final size, and then glue on edge banding. this is exaggerated because it's like
a birch ply wood surfacehere and cherry trim. imagine this was cherry. you would still see anobvious grain change and you would notice the frame around the outside and i really didn't want that look. i wanted continuousgrain all the way across. so, a cool trick is to putthe edge banding on first. make it part of the panel,
and then when you do your veneering, you bring this guy over. now you've got this edgethat gives this thing the appearance of solid wood, right? because we're just rolling from cherry into cherry on theside, cherry underneath, and you don't see a frame. you just see the corners of the veneer. so it can be a little bit morefragile, but in some cases,
especially with a good 16th of an inch, 3/32 of an inch thickness in veneer, this is a great technique to give the illusion of solid wood. so that's why i wantedto do that with this. so think about that. sometimes put that edge banding on first, and you can create some pretty cool effects that way.
but, it's moving right along. probably three morevideos due out on that. i had to post pone this week just because my son decided that itwas more interesting to fry his hand than pancakes, and i had to deal with that. so if you are interested in that project, go to thewoodwhispererguild.com, you can get access to it right now
and catch up on all the videos. i have decided that i willbe doing a shortened version, a very quick version withlimited to no explanation on the details of it, but show the process of it being done. one of those fancy sped upvideos that we like to do like the fancy sped up food videos. but it'll be a quick one and that way people who just want to see it go together
and see the final product, you can see it. that'll be on the free side of things. - [nicole] somebody askedwhat kind of accessories are you going to... - i mentioned that already. - [nicole] oh, ok. - so let's move into some q and a. i've got a bunch ofquestion already queued up. nicole, if you would like, can you...
even if i didn't read the question, just from the people who submitted so far that you picked, can you pick a winner that we can give the gaming table project to? - [nicole] sure. - we're going to giveaway a guild membership with the gaming table project. if you already have that project,
we'll just substituteanother project for you. what ever you like. we are flexible. - [nicole] i'm going tosend it to you right now. - sure, the person? - [nicole] yeah, and with the questions that you haven't answered yet. - sergey? ok, sergey francis who's question was just
getting started, "whatare some basic projects that i can make or sell easily?" i'll answer your question, sergey, but you are the person who won. so how do you want themto message you some how? - [nicole] i'll message him. - nicole's going to message you. she'll get your contact information, and we will send you access.
you'll get emails fromthe guild explaining what you need to do,but you'll have access to the gaming table project. congratulations, sergey. - [nicole] he just needs totype something in the chat. - just type something in the chat so she can message you. so he asked about buildingand selling projects easily. there's a book called bandsawboxes by david picciuto.
you could steal hisdesigns and sell those. - [nicole] he has awhole thing on his site about making and selling his craft items. - oh, does he? - [nicole] yeah. - well you say that as if i knew that. i did not know that. yeah, google it, you'll probably find some good resources like whatnicole just mentioned
on david picciuto's website,drunken wood worker, and you know, i just think boxes and think gift items, right? boxes, kitchen items are fantastic. people love cutting boards, cheese boards, wooden spoons, and that's why these things are so popular for makers to create is because people love them, they make great gifts.
for years now, for years,nicole has been asking me to make cutting boards for christmas, and one of these days itwill be a christmas miracle and i will make them. but the reality is, asmuch as people know me for the end grain cutting board, the reality is i think i'vemade maybe three of those. ever. i don't really make alot of cutting boards.
but i made a video once, so there's that. i did stay at a holiday inn last night. wow, questions, questions. holey schmoley. all right, so we're going to put a ten minutes cap on this, ok? because i don't want thevideo to be too long, we do that too much. all right, l. zicarosays, "what's the better
miter saw between dewault and mikita?" that's a little tricky for me to answer because i've never used the dewault. judging just from public opinion and the vibe that i've heardfrom other wood workers, a lot of people do likethe dewault, but the mikita tends to get the edge for accuracy, and i've had the mikita. but, you know, again,that's just what i've read
in reviews, it's a littleunfair for me to say that if i haven't had my hands on the dewault. so i'm hesitant to even givea definitive answer on that. but you know, look at the reviews. if you can get your hands on both of them, try it and bottom lineis, if you tune it up, they're probably both going to work great. ok, "what grits do youuse on the drum sander starting and finish?"nstein78 wants to know.
not ben stein, n stien. i usually use anywhere from 80 to 120. i typically have 220 and 180, but i don't often use those. there's certain projectswhere it's going to save me a bunch of timeto go put the other grits on there and run my stuff through. a lot of flat work is good for that. but most of the time i'llkeep like, 120 on the drum.
from there i can justtake it to the work bench and do a quick scraping. i'll use my cabinet scraper, and then i'll do a light220 or 180 grit sanding. so, it's laziness winningout type of thing. so i keep about 120 griton the drum at all times, and i actually very rarely change that. there are certain specialprojects where i will throw the higher grit onthere just to save me time,
but most times i just keep it at 120. ok, luke wants to know,"how can you tell if you have proper tension on your bandsaw? i bought a used one and i'mgetting a lot of drift." proper tension is one ofthose difficult things because everyone sayswhen you can only move it this much and there'salways this question of how much pressure do you actually apply to determine how much it's moving.
typically, you don't want it to move, at least for me what seems to work, you don't want it to move more than an eighth to a quarter of an inch, and a quarter inch even startsto push it a little bit. so, razor guides up,tension it, and test it. give it a little bit ofpressure, you're not really doing a lot, you're kindof lightly tapping it, and if it moves more than about an eighth
of an inch, it's too loose. i'd tighten it up a little bit more. i've been promoting this a lot lately because it was a good experience for me. look up the snodgrass video on youtube on bandsaw setup and hewill give some really solid good advice on overallsetup of the bandsaw. aaron says, "how do yousharpen your chisels well with an oil stone?"
i can't answer that, aaron because i don't have oil stones. everything i have is water and the reason is because i have a petpeeve, just a personal thing, about oil on my hands. oily finishes, oily lotions, like handlotion, if it leaves an oily trace on my hands it drives me flipping nuts.
so having oil on my hands for sharpening just isn't going to work. so water for me all the way, water stones. do you need a spray booth? guest26 wants to know,"do you need a spray booth if using a turbine indoors?" yes, absolutely. if you're going to spray indoors, you need to get theoverspray out of the shop.
you run into issuesespecially when you're doing flammable sprays. i probably would never in most home or semi pro type shops like mine, i would not spray anyvolatile stuff inside at all. you need a pretty heavy duty spray booth, serious spray booth to beable to get all those fumes out of the shop and makeit a safe environment. you can usually get awaywith the water based stuff.
you don't have to havea perfect spray booth, you just have to have goodairflow to pull it out and replace the crappyair with good fresh air. so, it can be done, buti would not do it without water based. and generally speaking, that'swhy i just spray outside. i had all kinds of visionsin my head of spray booths in the shop and finishinga lean-to over at that window and putting a bigindustrial fan in there,
explosion proof fan, and then reality hit, and i realized that wouldbe a really expensive thing, i'm not sure how well it would work, and i'm still spraying inside the shop. my best bet is to pretty much just take everything outside doall the spraying out there. maybe lay a tarp down on the ground so it catches the over spray. but it's just easier forme, and more realistic.
i think for most peoplejust taking stuff out in your driveway is probablythe most realistic way to go. "when building aworkbench out of something like douglas fir, i knowit's generally good to use a hard wood as yourvice chops, would it be crazy to laminate onestrip of the hard wood on the edge of the topto help with durability, or should i just leave the whole top fir?" you know, scott, there'sprobably going to be
different ways of thinking about that, but i like the idea ofhaving a softer material there for your chop andpart of that reason is because this is the thingthat's gripping your work. so if it's a really hard matierial, there's a better chanceyou're going to dent the material, so that'swhy i line mine with suede on the inside of my clamp faces. it not only grips it, but it also makes it
a softer grip. i don't see any reason why you necessarily need to line it with something harder. you can keep it douglasfir and it would probably do better because if youclamp cherry with doug fir, if anything is going to dent, it's going to be the doug fir not the cherry, which is probably a good thing. that's just my opinion.
who's here? do you want to come say hi? not you, ma. we have a little visitor. it's a little bundle of joy. that is miss avaelizabeth, who is sleeping. she's very uninterested in our tww live. here, let's get a littleclose up of her grumpy face. look at that grumpy face.
chins up, ava, don't be sad. did you like that? do you see that spagnuolochin right there? lucky girl. she got daddy's butt chin. there she is, that's ava. little baby ava. she's probably almost eight pounds now. - i think she's over.
- and being born at fourpounds seven ounces, she's about doubled her weight since she was born on september 14th. so we're very happy with her progress. she's healthy. - oh, she's smiling. - there's a little fart smile. she's farting for you guys. cool, well good to see you, ava.
- she's going to go over and help me retrieve questions. - oh, nice. if you have any questions for ava, send them to nicole, we'll see if she can help answer them. everything ok? awesome. - [nicole] thank you.
- thanks, ma. hold on. say hi, ma. - [marc] if you guys order a shirt or anything from the store, she's the lady who's packing them up. warning. she's very friendly. she may talk to you, ask youhow your family is doing, how the wife and kids are.
- [ma] and there's a problem with that? - it's just, you know, a littletoo touch-y feely for me. she's the friendly sideof the wood whisperer. "do you ever use veneer orother glued on material, if so what kind?" willmar112 is asking. well, we talked aboutthe gaming table, right? that's got veneer on it. so the adhesive that i use,i've got it right over here, i can show you.
i used to use, basically,what i learned with veneering was like, urac 185 and unibond 800. the stuff that's really nasty. it works great but the urea resin glues, they contain formaldehyde, they're not the friendliest glues in the world to use, but you get a long opentime and a really good rigid glue bond. but if you're going todo this stuff a lot,
you really do have to think about your health and long term. fortunately there's alot of veneering glues that have come out in the past decade that work pretty darn well. and they have theformulation set so it's very much familiar. it's a lot like the type bondone, two and three pva glues that we're so familiar with.
so one that i'm using ismade by the same company that makes the unibond 800. it's call unibond 1, one part veneer and laminating adhesive. so it's much moreenvironmentally friendly, it's much more friendly to me, and this is what i'll be using to veneer my table top. it's my first experience withthis, i'm giving it a shot,
but i think the tech hasfinally gotten to the point that i'm comfortable using those glues on something that really really matters because i always defaultto the scary stuff when i'm not sure. but in this case, i'mready to take a gamble. worst case scenario, iguess i make new top boards if it happens to blow up on me. "what mobile base for a drill press?"
chris thomas wants to know. you're right to be concerned, chris, because a drill press is so top heavy, i don't think that there's any mobile base that makes it not wobbly. anything, especially if it hugs the base, you sort of got an issue there. so you have to be careful with it. i don't really have a great recommendation
that would make thedrill press less wobbly. i don't even think usinga different mobile base would help. i guess if i were tryingto make this more stable, i would try to put aplatform on the underside to give the whole thing a wider base. so if you can get a kind ofreinforced plywood platform that's bolted to the bottom and gives it a wider footprintand then have that
set within a mobile base, that might give you a little more stability. if anybody's done something with that, put up a link or talk to chris, and see if you can givehim some advice on that because that's the only way i can imagine getting that done. nicole, you may want toalso pick a winner for the dvd, in case you have to go.
- [nicole] ok. all right, we'll keep going here. got a couple more minutes. what'd i say? let's go five more minutes on this ok? - [nicole] just answer allthe questions i gave you. - that's what i'm doing, there'sjust a lot of them there. "hey marc, i'm in the market for a good entry level drum sander on a budget,
what you do you suggest for the best bang for the buck? thanks for taking my question." alright, daniel. i haven't really had a lot of experience with the entry level drum sanders, but i'm pretty sure grizzly has a model that you might want to look at. jet will have a model to look at
and supermax willprobably have some models to look at and all threeof those will probably do a decent job for your entrylevel sanding operations. but look at the reviews,see what people are saying about it, but ihaven't used them myself, so again, if i haven'ttouched it, it's hard for me to give a definitive recommendation. but that's at least astarting point for you. chris thomas again,"do you find the plunge
base mechanism sticky on the bosch? mine has big issues with that, otherwise it's a great router kit." yes, and i think i mentioned that when i was talking about it before. you may have asked that question before. it is a little bit sticky,and that's what i'm coming from with the of 1400has a very smooth fluid motion to it and you could even plunge
with one hand if you wanted to or very light balancing pressure. it's a little harder to dothat, so it kind of like, you push, then when itfinally goes, it jumps. but, i don't think that's adeal breaker by any means, it's just something youhave to get used to. for the price differential between them, it's still pretty good. for me it's a matter of what does it do
after you lock it in? and if i can get wherei need and lock it in, same thing with the edge guide, if i can get there and lock it in, fine, even if it takes a little bit more fussing to get there. i think the problem is a lot of these double purpose onesthat go from fixed base to a plunge base, the majordisadvantage you have there
is it's not a purpose built functionality. the of 1400, it's a plungerouter, that's all it is. it doesn't pretend tobe a fix based router, so everything is built in. the motor does not have to be removable, and i think the removablemotor is probably what causes us a lot of the problems that we have with accuracy and precision on some of these router kits.
that said, i haven't seen any evidence of problems on the boschthat i've used so far. she makes little goat sounds. ok, brendan terry wants to know, can i touch on the guidebushings for that router, "heard it's a pain in the butt." you know what, i found it's not that bad. let me see if i've get them on here. the guide bushings on there,
i've got this quick adapter, i don't know if you can see it but it's in the base, it's a little quick adapter, and then you can usebosch's guide bushings. now, their guide bushingset looks like this. these are ones that fit, where is my other one? i'll have to look forit, i must have lost it. you can use their guidebushings if you want to
and they fit right intothat quick adapter. but they also have a separate unit, which is missing, and that is the adapter that will work for anyother guide bushing set. so, for instance, i alreadyhave rockler guide bushings, and these are the same sortof classic porter cable guide bushings that areall the same dimensions across the board. so, if you have that little bosch adapter,
oh, maybe it's already in there. maybe that's what i'm thinking. let me see. yeah, that's what that is. so you've got the quick adapter in there, and you can see thenon-bosch guide bushing fits in there just fine. so all you need is thatadapter to do the job, and you're good to go.
so it's not a pain in the butt, it's just not as clear asit might be on some others. so, my point here isyou don't need the bosch guide bushings, but youdo need the adapter, which is available as a separate purchase. when i'm evaluating a router, i'm not just looking at the router itself and, you know, the plunge mechanism, but guide bushings arean important detail,
and edge guides are an important detail. a lot of these i've already answered just in the process of doing... agusto campo wants toknow, "what star wars character will use a wood light saber?" the only one stupid enough to use a wood light saber would be jarjar binks, right? everybody's favorite punching bag in the star wars universe.
jeremy urban wants toknow, "marc, is there anyone that makes ascraper like the one on the wall behind you today?" yes, actually, maybe not the exact model. this is the stanley number 80, this is a classic design,but it's out of production. sometimes you can pick these up used, maybe on ebay. the closest thing i've foundis the veratas scraper.
lee valley has one thatis basically that design, but has some improvementsand a wider base to it. that's probably the closestyou're going to get. but yeah, go to lee valleyand you should find that. matt here wants toknow, "does venting your dust collector to theoutside suck all the ac out with it or are you notrunning it for long enough periods of time for it to matter?" matt, i'm guessing you'reprobably looking at
some older videos because in the old shop, i did vent outside. in this shop, i havea double stack filter, and i don't vent outside,although i would like to. obviously if it's suckingair and pushing it outside, it will take away some ofthat air conditioned air. in my old shop, i got totell you, i didn't really notice that big of a difference with the air conditioning on, imean, i'm sure it has
to make some difference, but nothing that i could really detect. i didn't even reallyhear the air conditioner running much more. in here, this is a littlebit more of an air tight environment than my old shop was. it might be more noticeablein here, quite frankly. and i don't know becausei haven't done it yet, and i don't know if i will do it.
but i do think the comfort level that i have of knowing that all ofmy fine dust is being blown out of the shop, like, i still get nervous about a filter stack. am i keeping it clean enough? is it building up? is it as effective? is it still pushing through?
are all my seals nice and tight? is there an air leak? all those things just kind of weigh on my mind all the time. and if it's something that is simply vented outside, i don't haveto worry about it anymore, as long as there's nowindows on that side, you're fine. so for the peace of mind it brings,
i'll pay a little bitmore on my electric bill to keep the shop cool enough and replace that air that's beingpulled out of the shop. that's just for mepersonally it's worth it. - [nicole] apparently you answered wrong with the star wars,there was a right answer. it was chewbacca in the animated series. - oh, really? which animated series?
is it the new star wars though? - [nicole] i'm guessing. - because i haven't really watched that. i had trouble getting through that. i did watch the clone wars though. i didn't know that chewbacca had a wooden light saber, what's up with that? let's see. ok, is there a way thatwe can put this link,
maybe we'll put thelink in the show notes. ok, we'll put the link in the show notes. there's a lot of questions coming in about the relationship with festool, why i'm replacing my festool stuff, and it's something i'vecovered in the past. the most detailed explanation was one that i put up in a forum threadover at woodtalkonline, so i put the link up to that forum thread.
i'm going to ruin the ending for you, it's not that interesting. we'll put the link there ifit satisfies your curiosity. all right, i think we canprobably call it a day here. pick a winner, chicken dinner. so we're picking a winner right now for wood works season six,one of the best seasons, one of my favorite seasons of wood works. and by the way, just a plug for david,
if you go to david's website djmarks.com, you can pick up all ofhis seasons of wood works, as well as some of his other dvds. he also has a blog there and you can catch up with what he's up to. david marks, one of the most inspiring crafts people alive today, in my opinion. we got a winner? - [nicole] here we go.
- give me, give me, give me, who is it? hey, he just asked a question, i just answered his question. matt here, congratulations, matt, you just got yourself this dvd. we will be sending that off to you. nicole is going to contactyou to get your address and all your information. "are there better thirdparty edge guides?"
this is nstein78 again. "are there better thirdparty edge guides that you can use with the router?" there might be. there's a very expensive edge guide, i can't remember the name, but you can use an adapter to connect toit and you can use that, but i don't want to spend like 150 bucks on an edge guide justto get a certain router
in my shop. i'm trying to find routers thatmake their own edge guides. so, yeah there are aftermarket ones you could use. porter cable has a decent edge guide that i believe can be usedon some other routers. but you've got to watch thehole spacing for the bars, and that's usually oneof the difficult things. - [nicole] did you see joe v's question? he's very upset that you didn't answer.
- oh crap, joe v. i'm sorry. where is it? - [nicole] it's a veryopinionated question. - i don't see it. - [nicole] it's in there. - i see jeff v. - [nicole] it says, "outrageous." - joe v.
i don't see any question from joe v. can you resend? - [nicole] he wants to know, let me find it again... - yeah, i don't see it, hun. - [nicole] he's saying powermatic is outrageously priced. - well ok, i don't work for powermatic, so if you're looking forme to mount a defense
in powermatic's favor on pricing schemes, that's not my job. if any tool brand, festool, powermatic, anything i use, is outrageous to anybody, that's how the market place works, so don't buy it. i don't know what i cansay to help justify that. for a lot of people,certain brands of tools that are a little bithigher priced are worth it,
for other people it's not. it is what it is. did i answer the question? - [nicole] yeah, he waswanting to know about... - and just if you know,if you look for instance, at the drum sander it's actually not that outrageously priced. if you compare it to a comparable supermax i think it's like 100,200 more than the price of
the supermax. so if you're getting a littlebit more quality for that and a couple bonus featuresthat you find useful, that might be worth itfor someone to spend a couple hundred more. but, yeah, don't ask me to ever justify a company's pricing, that's not my job. that's not my job, man. all right, so we'vegot our winners picked.
i think we're going to close it out. - [nicole] he just want to know if you think it's worth the price. - i think they're worth the price. i had powermatic stuffin my shop before i did the wood whisperer. it was something that i valued back then as a business and continue to value today. i'm just fortunate thatwe continue to work
with them in the capacity that we do. it just makes my life a whole lot easier. you can catch us on facebook. facebook.com/thewoodwhisperer. of course, our youtube channel, just look us up there, the wood whisperer. @woodwhisperer on twitter, and i've been doingperiscopes, not every day, but every couple of days usually,
and that's just quick live videos right from my phone in the shop, and those can be a lot offun, and very no rules, unplugged, i occasionally curse, which is always exciting. it gives me a chillwhenever i say the s-word. so, yeah, check me out on periscope, and what else, hun? anything else we want to say before we go?
we'll be doing a show in december, and i think our december show will be our holiday show. so it'll be a little early in the month, but why the heck not? and we'll have a bunch ofgiveaways and fun stuff and it'll be a great wayjust to come and hang out, drink some eggnog with us. have a little pre-earlyholiday party kind of action.
- [nicole] download the app. - download the app,the wood whisperer app, on android and ios, and what else? join the guild, thewoodwhispererguild.com. buy hybrid woodworking, my book, at twwstore.com. all my pitches are done. - [nicole] oh, periscope. - i did, i said periscope.
have a wonderful weekend, everybody. nicole, you want to comeand say goodbye real quick? ava's sleeping away over there. she's so sweet. so yeah, thank you, here's nicole again. thanks for hanging out. - [nicole] good job, hun. - i didn't do anything. we'll catch you probably a month from now.
first friday, we'll look at the calendar, but usually it'll be thefirst friday of december, and we'll have some party action going on. - [nicole] egg nog. - some egg nog, the eggnog will flow, my friends. no alcohol, i don't likealcohol in my egg nog. i'll be completely soberand full of sugar and milk. - [nicole] look at allthe questions i sent you. - ok, have a great time folks.
- [nicole] bye. - i guess i should turn it off, huh. - [nicole] yeah, i guess we should go. - i need some water. water. all right, let me go kill the stream. here let's close out with a shot of ava. (grunting) heavy camera.
look at her, what is she doing? there you go. bye, ava. oh, that's the same facei make, coincidentally, and put my hands up to my face, close my eyes and go ok, i can shut everything down. - [nicole] you want me to stop right here? - [marc] yeah, but we'vegot to stop the youtube
thing too.