- how did you know? it's ryobi messaging me. got matt's big announcement today. - [nicole] cool. - yo, yo. i'm hopin' that this timewith the changes we made to the internet connectionthat we should have, at least coming from us, fairly flawless. all right, that's gonna start playing.
- oh. - [marc] skip the ad. who cares about wayfair? you know, the only thingi know about wayfair.com is it's the ad on youtubethat i always click skip on. was that what they were goin' for? 'cause that's what they've accomplished. what's up, everybody? - hi.
- nice shirt. - thanks. - very nice. - i couldn't wear it next monthbecause then it's november. - yeah, it wouldn't make sense, huh? that's right, this is our last opportunity for halloween stuff. - (chuckles) i know. - okay, so i guess usuallywe wait for confirmation
to make sure everybody can hear us and that something isn'tjacked up on our end, but i think we're okay. we've been doin' this for a while now. we're on tww live number five. - five. - johnny five. all right, you want to get started? - yes.
- hold on, hold on. air force. (airplane rumble) (woman chuckles) i refuse to be interruptedby the united states air force when i have control over it. - mmhmm. - hold on. - that's a loud one.
- it's coffee break. i've already drank all my coffee. - it takes a long time to circle around the wood whisperer estate. i think that's what they do. - they're like, "oh, he's recordin'." - "screw that guy. "oh, tww live?" "rrrr," all right.
that's what airplanes sound like when you fly them, by the way. rrrr, like a motorcycle. (woman laughs) all right, let's do a show, shall we? - okay, okay. - let's do it. is that going? all right, we're good?
- i think so. - okay, another tww live number five. - number five. - okay, happy friday. - happy friday. - it's a great friday. it's coolin' off here in phoenix, so we're kind of excitedthis time of year. - i'm super excited.
i'm wearin' my halloween shirt. even though we stillhave a number of days -- - yeah. - this is the only opportunityi can wear the shirt. - next month it'll be too late, so -- - yeah, it's november after that. - forgive her, she's excited'cause it's cool weather. okay, so i'm marc spagnuolo, this is my wife nicole spagnuolo --
- hello. - and we run a websitecalled the wood whisperer and hopefully you didn't just wander here and you're like, "who are these people?" you kinda know who we are. anyway, thewoodwhisperer.com if you want to learn something about woodworking. i have a lot of free contentthere for you to check out. now, quickly, new tradition for tww live.
we're gonna be givingaway a guild membership at every live show, so once a month -- - what? i know. - that's what mateo says, "whaat?" - yeah, our son says that all the time. "whaaat?" you'll be able to geta guild membership -- - yay.
- so you'll have tostick around to the end. we're gonna pick a winner from the people who are participating in either the chat on the live page at the wood whisperer, or the chat that's included on youtube. and if you're participating,you're entered. - yeah, completely random. - totally random. it's cool.
it's a good way for, you know ... i mean, the guild's notcheap and it's somethin' that we'd like to spread thelove around a little bit. so stick around for that. it'll be at the very end. the other thing is, yeah, soif you want to chat with us, do that on the live page or on youtube. - yup. - and you want to jumpinto the giveaways now?
- yeah, so every month we do a giveaway and last month we had an amazing giveaway for a 15 inch powermatic bandsaw. - ugh, that thing's a beauty. - i think that broke ourrecord for the number of entries and submissions -- - [marc] that's awesome.- [nicole] for it. and unfortunately we couldonly pick one winner, but that lucky winner is james henderson.
- yay! - i've already contactedjames, he's written me back. he's like, "i can't believe i won!" so regular people win. - that'll make your day, huh? - find out you won a saw like that? it's like, "uh, allright, i'm happy today." (marc laughs) - it's a new month, it's october,
and this month festool issponsoring our giveaway and we have a festool ct36 vac. - [marc] and the key with this thing is that's their big boy vacuum. - [nicole] yes. - [marc] you see the boom arm on there? that's included. - [marc] so you're gonna getthat really awesome boom arm and i think they have onehigher capacity vac now, the 46?
- do they have a 46? - yeah, i think so. - okay. - but still, the ct36 is more than, you know, you and i need honestly. pretty big unit. the cool thing though is this boom arm. honestly one of the bestinnovations i think festool came out with and i've beenusing one for years now.
because you always havethe dust extractor vac hanging off the table and you're kind of `bumping into it all the time. great thing about that boom arm is it elevates the hose and also the power cord and brings it at a work height level which is fantastic soyou don't trip over it. very, very handy to have around. - [nicole] mmhmm.
- [marc] definitely oneof my favorite things. you can go tothewoodwhisperer.com/giveaway to enter and there's a little widget there and all the information you need is there. - and we should mention not only are we giving away a festool vac and boom arm -- - oh, that's right. - we're also gonna give awayanother guild membership. so if you don't win it, ifyou're not here, don't worry.
we're giving another one away -- - yep. - through the giveawaysystem this month as well. so there's two prizesup for grabs this month. - dos prizes. - all right, so that's the giveaways. now we gotta couple ofnews pieces, announcements. woodworkers fighting cancer is coming up. this is one of the things i look forward
to the most every year. - this is huge. we've raised i think nearly $40,000 for cancer charitiesover the last few years. this year we're aimingfor about $15,000 again. really hope we can get there. - but the basis of this whole thing, the way it works is we allbuild a project together and then we basically makecompanies foot the bill.
so they essentially pledge afew bucks per completed project and then this way the more people build, the more money we make for the charity. you get to keep theproject or auction it off and give the money --- [nicole] donate it. - to the charity. you can donate it, whatever it is. and it's usually a kid's item and i'll actually show it to you later on,
but it's a toy chest for kids with some storage andreally cool features. so that's woodworkers fighting cancer. you can get all the information at woodworkersfightingcancer.com you see the shirt that i'm wearin' here? this is a official woodworkersfighting cancer t-shirt. we also have mugs and you can get these at the wood whisperer store,
which is twwstore.comand all of the proceeds from these things go to the charity. so if you want to head overthere and pick those up, that's a great way toshow your support as well. let's do the charityauction thing afterwards. - we also want to thanka couple companies. - yeah, so not only arewe donating five dollars for every projectsubmitted, but we also have a number of companies that are gonna
be participating this year as well. we have already onboardbell forest products, eagle america, festool,brusso, and powermatic. - if you are a companyand you're watching this and you're like, "youknow, that sounds like "a really cool charity event. "i'd like to get involved." email me and i can giveyou all the details on how you can participateand how you can get involved.
so you can email me directly at nicole@thewoodwhisperer.comand i can send you all the information on how your company can get involved in the project itself. - [marc] and here's a look at our woodworkers fighting cancer logo. on the woodworkers fighting cancer page, you can actually get anavatar that you can use on facebook and twitterjust to kind of show
your support for the monthsof october and november. we'll be doing that ourselves and we encourage you to do the same. - [nicole] did you mention whowe're supporting this year? - [marc] we are supporting,oh, cancer research institute. every year we change it up a little bit. last year it was cancercare, in the past we've done american cancer society, livestrong, so this year i really wanted to see
if we could push fundsmore toward research and cancer research institutedoes some amazing things and they rate incredibly high on the scale of organizations wherethe largest percentage of the money is fundeddirectly into the charity. - a lot of bigger placeslike american cancer society, for instance, a good proportion of the money you give them -- - administration.
- goes to administration. you screwed me up with that word. - sorry. - administrative costs (laughs). (nicole laughs) so we like to put themoney toward charities where the most money isgoing toward the charity. it just makes sense to do that. they rate very high on there.
- and this one inparticular, they are striving to get more awareness out, so ... - yeah, it's immunotherapy,so it's a little bit different than some traditionaltherapies for treating cancer and with this is a lotof prevention hopefully. so one of the thing'sthat's happening here is powermatic is puttingup an amazing drill press, which i will show you,give you a little hands on later on, but this is theirnew awesome drill press
and this is going up for a charity auction to be hosted at the wood whisperer. so you'll be able to bidon this item and if you're in the market for a drill pressanyway, this is a great one. it'll go to a greatcause and even if it goes a little bit over the value, the point is it's goin' directly to the charity. - [nicole] well, it'snot just the drill press, there's also someconsulting that you're going
to be offering as well, aren't you? i thought you were. - i guess i am. - it's a package, it's a bundle. so you win the drill, youcan talk to marc as well. - yeah, yeah, yes we're doing that. so look forward to that. all right, thank you, nicole. - okay, bye.
- see ya. if you want to talk tonicole and say funny things to her, go to the chat room and do that. i have to wet my whistle. actually, nicole, i need ya at the camera. - [nicole] oh yeah. - so a couple otherthings real quick here. i got a nice package. don't take that the wrong way.
you know what i mean. i received a nice packagefrom david picciuto over at the drunken woodworker. let me show you some of this stuff. now david and i, we talked recently about a few things justdealing with advertising and he decided to show his appreciation by sending me someawesome stuff from toledo. very specific local fare.
i've got some tony packo's pickles and peppers relish, which(mumbling) delicious. right? he's also got this stuffwhich, i'll be honest, this scares me a littlebit, but it's hot dog sauce. now on the packaging it kindalooks a little like dog food, but i'm not above eatingthings that look like dog food, but i'm sure it tastes delicious so i can't wait to have a hot dog.
and a couple other things here, but i'll tell ya, themost important thing, and this is what i love about what we do, is being able to connect with other people at a level that, i don't know,it's just something special. here is a handmade basketfrom david's fiancee, kelly. just amazing. i've never done anythingdealing with basket weaving. i don't even know what goes into it,
but this looks like a lot of -- - [nicole] i love it. - [marc] effort was put into -- - [marc] something like that, right? and you guys may recognize this from the drunker woodworker, david, his show. he made this beautiful bandsaw box and actually gave this to me. and i gotta say, i didn'tcry, but i thought about it.
'cause this is a touching gift. you know, a woodworkergiving another woodworker something like that isa very special thing. so absolutely gorgeous bandsawbox masterfully crafted. i mean, i have a lot of respect for people who can make a finish thatlooks like this, all right? that's my kind of finish right there and that's what we shouldall be aiming for, right? absolutely gorgeous.
you can actually see how he made this on his website at drunkenwoodworker.com. so thank you very much, david. thank you, kelly. this is a very heartwarmingthing you did here. thank you, i really appreciate it. whoops. oh, you know what? i even got a handwritten note on paper.
so that says a lot. i don't know when the last time -- - [nicole] it said a lot. - it did, literally. i don't know when the last time was that i actually wrote something on paper. okay, next thing up realquick, couple announcements. the bangle bowl is still going on. you can get your submissionsin now and that's at,
i believe,thewoodwhisperer.com/bangle-contest and you can turn yourself a bangle, give it to someone special,and win some prizes. pretty darn cool. another big announcement. this actually was just announced recently. my good buddy matt vanderlist over at matt's basement workshop, mattsbasementworkshop.com,is launching a patreon.
if you're not familiarwith patreon, as the word sort of implies, it's about patronizing and being a patron of thearts, a patron of creators. so this is a way to supportthings like free content, what matt's been giving us since 2005. so if you want to helpsupport matt, you got some great opportunities to get some extras in terms of like extracontent, maybe a nice little snuggle from matt once in a while.
that'd be nice, for the top tier. - [nicole] grape soda. - [marc] some grape sodas. but yeah, go topatreon.com/mattsbasementworkshop, see what matt's got to offer and you could really get started and get involved in this for very, very small amounts. you know, he's got some higher levels too, but you can get in the door,get your foot in the door
for a very small amount of money and matt has some great ways to say thank you for that sort of support. so again,patreon.com/mattsbasementworkshop and show matt some love, ya know? matt's the podfather. he's kinda the one that started it all and i think he deserves a few bucks (chuckles) to do what he's doing.
support free content'cause it supports you. i guess if you're payingit's not free anymore, huh? - [nicole] right, no. - voluntarily though, ya know? all right, let's move intoour featured viewer ... no, let's step back. this was actually a late breaking thing and i almost forgot about it. okay, so if anybody was onfacebook or twitter yesterday,
you probably heard the newsabout popular woodworking. the announcement went outthat three of the main dudes over there, chuck bender, bob lang, and glen huey, all decidedto leave and i posted it just kind of like, "wow, look at this. "mass exodus," and i gotta say, i was kinda disappointed in the response. a lot of people were throwinga lot of vitriol around. there was a lot of anger and comments
about how the magazine's goin' downhill. i don't know where that's coming from. personally, i think the magazineis great, it's been great, and i think megan at thehelm has resulted in it kind of staying true to its course and i personally enjoy the magazine. but hey, everyone'sentitled to an opinion. what i didn't like was howsome people kind of just threw megan under the bus and were getting
a little personal with her about it. but that's neither here nor there. i was just personallydisappointed in that. but anyway, the point is, i wanted to at least make sure the factswere clear because a lot of people are speculatingabout what all this means. first of all, none of us workthere, so we can only guess. the only thing worse than office gossip is office gossip about anoffice you don't even work in.
but i talked to megan this morning and got a little bit of information. bottom line is, they were not fired, they were not laid off,they voluntarily left. now something must havechanged, obviously. maybe a creative difference or a content creation difference. something internallychanged, they didn't like it, and they decided to leave.
but the truth, as faras i got it from megan, is that they were notfired and they would've had positions within the company in the woodworking divisionfor the same salary, so there wasn't evena cost-saving measure. so i don't know the details. whatever it was, it wasn't cool for them they're entitled to do that. i don't think anyone is inthe wrong necessarily here
and i think that's theproblem i had with this is everyone wanted to point fingers here and the truth is none of us know anything about what's actuallyhappening inside there. so settle down, people. settle down, calm down. let's gossip about somethin' else. - [nicole] who likes office politics? - everybody likes drama --
- [nicole] yeah. - to some degree and that's the problem. all right, let's jump into thefeatured viewer project now. if you have a project,you could always submit that over at the wood whisperer website. you want to show it off to the world? thewoodwhisperer.com/submitis a great way to do that. and i'm gonna show youroger's small folk harp which i think is anabsolutely beautiful creation.
i'll tell ya a little bit about it straight from roger's mouth. maybe actually his fingers. he says, "i've beenwanting to build a harp "for over a decade, so ifinally took the plunge "and ordered blueprintsfor a small folk harp "from a luthier in minnesota. "i used hard maple for thesound box, neck, and pillar, "and baltic birch plywood forthe soundboard in the back.
"the neck and pillar areboth made of laminated maple. "i used three layers ofhalf inch thick solid maple "with the center laid outat 90 degrees to the outside "layers to give it strengthas the neck of small harps "in particular must withstand almost "1000 pounds of tension from the strings." that's crazy. "i decided to stain themaple and after many samples "ended up using general finishesrosewood water-based stain
"as a base coat and then addeddark brown water-based dye. "i left the birch ply natural,a little bit of gold-leaf "was added to the trim andthe sound box in the back "followed by wipe-on satinpolyurethane as a finish." he says, "this is hisfirst fine woodworking "project and though i made mistakes, "i'm very happy with the results." and holy crap you should be. look at that thing.
i could just, i couldsee myself playing that in my underwear in the living room. should i get one of those, nicole? - [nicole] sure. - [marc] make myself a harp and you just, you wake up in the morning to the sound of a harp and mesitting there in my underwear with a cup of coffee. - [nicole] no, no, no!
- come on, that is a great image. that is a fantastic image. i like it. all right, let's see. doo doo doo, what's next? oh yeah, so let's do submit. where's the link for submit? submit. there you go.
all right, now hold on. i need to take a technical break. that's not code for going pee. - [nicole] do you need me to do something? - [marc] no what happened wasi put in a new memory card and i forgot to wipe it, sowhen we get to the demo portion. hang tight, people. i don't want to run out of memory while we're in the middle of a demo.
all right, and we're back. all right, so now this is ourin case you missed it segment where i usually findvideos or project videos things that i find very interesting and i want to share them with you. you can go watch them,it's all free stuff. this is a clip from thehighland woodworker. i'm gonna promote the highland woodworker whenever a new episodecomes out so get used to it.
highland woodworker isprobably the best ... it's a tv quality show onthe internet which is why i think it's pretty specialand they go into ... they take a lot of timeto make the darn thing. this is actually a clipshowing a gentleman named greg pennington, showing us how he makes windsor chairs. kinda uses a blend of oldschool and new school. - every class starts out,we make a set of spindles.
the drawknife is fantasticfor following the fibers. and you can see how nice the drawknife peels off these fibers. i do something a little different. i use line lasers and youcan just see the laser coming over the center axis of the drill. (drilling) we can actually get aperfectly matched fit so then you get this nicelocking joint just perfect.
- [voiceover] i believe thishad to been the arm right here. - [greg] yes, i've gotone in the steamer now so we can go over here and ican show ya how that's done. - [voiceover] well i can seethat time is of the essence. - [greg] yeah, you haveto move with a purpose, but you really have a lot of time. you have 45 seconds,which is plenty of time. (hammering) and that's all there is to it.
- right, you can see the full episode at thehighlandwoodworker.com. i highly recommend you do. there's a section inthere based on routers, like what routers youneed, with david thiel designing using proportionswith george walker. if you're into design, yougotta get into george walker's stuff because he reallybreaks it down in a way that people like you and ican understand and start to
apply things to our every daywork that we do in the shop. he has a large focus onproportions which i think is much easier to understand than always focusing on things like the golden ratio. and there's also a younglady named emily brock who makes custom kitchen tools and there's a little feature on her in there as well. so it's at thehighlandwoodworker.com. all right, now it's time to gear up.
nicole, i'm gonna need yourhelp over here at the camera. - [nicole] gear up! - is that what we usually do? gear up! i thought that's whatyou needed my help with. - well i always need your help with that. okay, over here at thevise, (clears throat), yep. recently ... let's get a piece of wood here.
i've had benchcrafted hardware on my workbench since i made it. the whole thing wasdesigned, the bench itself was designed, by benchcraftedand adapted for the guild. so it was designed to usethe benchcrafted hardware, though you could put any legvise on there that you want. so i've had their hardware for a long time and benchcrafted is one of those companies that constantly innovates.
they always want to changethings and improve things. so over the years they'vecome up with some things that i did not include on my original. one of those a lot of youprobably are familiar with already and that's the criss-cross glide system or criss-cross what would you call it? is that the glide system? - [nicole] (mumbling). - [marc] the terminologyconfuses me, but anyway.
instead of the parallelguide at the bottom, you've got a criss-crossingset of like almost their scissoring actionthat keeps everything nice and smooth so it'sso much easier to use than the traditionalparallel guide system. all right, so that was something that we did a retro-install on. and then just recentlythey came out with this new handle and a new glidewhich includes a smaller screw
with faster travel so thatyou can do things like this. boom, baby. all right, so it travelsquickly, you get a lot of momentum, and youdon't have as much stuff to worry about in terms of tuning the fit like you would with a parallel guide. the cool thing about this isthe hold on this thing, okay? you saw i (mumbling) pressure there. but this thing, it's not going anywhere.
the bench will move before it comes out. so it is very expensive,high-end hardware, but if you're using your vises a lot, it's just so easy to move fromone operation to the next. and the cool thing about thissort of ship handle dealy ... a lot of people toldme what that's called. i don't care, it's a ship handle dealy. with the handles in this orientation, you always have onehandle up and within grasp
and that's their justificationversus a single side handle that just kinda rotates with it. you always have to bend over, right? so it's all about just refining and making things a little bit better. really expensive hardwarebut oh my gosh is it fun. all right? so if you're in the market, you really should look into that.
the next thing i want to showyou is my new drill press. so we are gonna have totake a little walk, nicole. you and i, a romanticwalk to the drill press. - [nicole] (mumbling) get that thing? - [marc] yeah, that's hundreds of dollars. we'll get that eventually. here. - [marc] we're goin' mobile, people. (crash)
you just made that harderfor me to get through. - [nicole] well ... - [marc] we work so well together, it's like we share a brain. a very small brain.- [nicole] (mumbling). i'm gonna put this on the ground. - [nicole] okay. - [marc] sorry, people. this is what happens.
we're just podcasters. we're just youtubers, apparently. that's what i've been told. here is powermatic's new drill press. now it isn't often thati upgrade my tools. once i have one of thesebig pieces of beautiful machinery, they last foreverso there's really not always a compelling reason toupgrade something like this, like their newer bandsaws,the newer table saws.
in this case, they madesome serious improvements to this drill press that ireally, really appreciate. first of all, it's awesome. it looks awesome. some of the things you'll probably notice, a very woodworker friendly table. that's one of the things ihate about most drill presses is that they are not reallycatering to our market where we need nice flat table surfaces,
we need a replaceableinsert in the middle, we need t tracks, and weneed a reliable fence. most drill presses donot have that, so this was a huge improvement andit's just nice and flat, lots of good clampingsurface if you need to put an f-style clamp anywhere around here. the fence itself also has astop here and it's sort of a cam action lock in thestop, so there's no clamp. you can move it around andthen once you push it down,
it locks itself in positionand doesn't move, right? and you've also got some cam locks here to move the fence backand forth, all right? so really nice feature set with the table. that alone is an upgrade ithink that's totally worth it. of course, you could build your own table for a drill press if you want to. variable speed, has a laser, has lights. all the things you need to see the detail.
i don't honestly usethose very much, but maybe as my eyes get worse andi get older, maybe i will. variable speed and it'sprobably not worth it, but there's a hand crank on the side. it's a hand wheel on thisside to adjust the speed. so i'm gonna turn it on and we'll do a little speed adjustment. (revving) so i'm just turning the wheel.
watch the numbers up here. so you can really dial it in. very nice control over there. normally the variable speedcontrols on drill presses, a lot of times they involve moving a belt onto a different pulley and that's no fun. the other thing is on this side i've been waiting for this for a long time. i'm sure some othercompanies have them as well,
but the depth stopmechanism is a quick-release version using one of these jobbies, right? so you can actually set thedepth and on the last one, it was a great drill press,but on the last one to stop you had to actually rotatethese little nuts up and down. and it would take forever. if you needed to move it over an inch or so, it's like mmm, you know? you're sittin' there forever.
so quick release on something like that is a very welcome addition. the only other thing is, i don'tknow about other companies, but i know the previousversion of their drill press had a handle in the back thatcame almost straight out. so as you're tryin' to crank this thing, you have very little leverage to turn it. it was such a pain in thebutt, but this one now is, the orientation in order to actually crank
this thing up and down with ease, right? so that is a nice additional feature. so, if you're in the market, i believe it's about 1400 bucks. i also believe we just gave one away a couple months ago, right? so, let's go that way. - [marc] maybe our lucky winner of that drill press is in this session right now.
- [nicole] you should send us a picture. - [marc] of yourself. and also a picture of the drill press. - [nicole] you don't want togive everybody sea sickness. - [marc] if they get seasickness, they deserve it. - [nicole] no they don't. - [marc] they need to take dramamine. okay. - [marc] now watch, thenext thing i need to do
we probably have to move the camera again. (laughs) we do! but you know what? you can stay where you are. - yep, just turn the camera. so i mentioned the woodworkersfighting cancer build, right? so it's a big charity effort that we do. we build a project together and this year it's a big toy box andthere's some cool features.
you might initially lookat this thing and go, "what's the deal with the curves?" and i'll explain that. all right, so this is just the shell. it's got a milk paint finish on it. we're still not done. i need to apply a nice clear coat to it. i've got a little bit of clearcoat on some of the top here. we're gonna have a nicepiano hinge in the back
that will allow the lid to lift this way. so toy box, right? now normally you have toinstall safety latches on there or something to slow the descent of the lid or at least lockthe lid in a vertical position. we may add those too, butone thing that we designed into this are places whereit's sort of less of a chance that a finger is gonna get smushed. so i think not only does it look good,
'cause it adds some nice curves to it, (mumbling) hand happens tobe anywhere in this zone, basically like 90percent of the top ledge, there's a relief there soit doesn't pinch fingers. - [nicole] did you say when this video's gonna be coming out? - not yet. this video will be outon october 17th and -- - [nicole] on the free site.
- yeah, on the free site. so assuming everything works out right, steve over at mere mortalswill be doing his own version and we're alsoencouraging other bloggers, woodworkers, podcasters,anybody who has access to a video camera to filmyour version of it as well and put that out there andwe'll share that with everybody. so if you want a littleextra traffic, send us your video and we'll promote it.
okay, so again, finger relief here. the top ... you see, i like multi-purpose furniture, especially for kids becausethere's just so many things and creativethings you can do that you might not normally do with a piece of fine furniture that you are building. so on the top here i put thislittle lip because i want this top to actually be a worksurface or a play surface,
so the lip preventsthings from falling off. now you have to be strategicbecause obviously when you lift the lid, anythingup there is gonna move back. so we got a nice three quarterinch lip to hold stuff in, but what i'm thinking is we'reeither gonna put his little, mateo's little thomas thetrain track materials up here, or put down those legogrids, screw them to the lid, and then he could buildlego stuff on top of here. and assuming it's stuck tothe grid, it's not gonna
go anywhere when the lidlifts, which is pretty cool. on the sides we've got book storage. so both sides have this little relief. you basically just put thebooks up, tilt them back. now it's not gonna hold a ton of books, but it'll hold a couple and my son has ... nicole buys him books likeevery day, it's ridiculous. - [nicole] i like books! - there are so many booksin the house, so any time
we have a place to store somebooks, that's a good thing. and that's on both sides. now the front and theback i struggled with this a little bit because obviouslyyou only need it in the front if you're gonna do somethinglike this, but to keep things simple, front and back both have a whiteboard insertthat's gonna go in here. and this way if the kid wantsto draw on it and decorate it and do something fun withit, they can do that.
you could put a chalkboardin there, you could put a magnetic board, youcould put a peg board. i don't know why you'd want to do it. maybe the kid has some toolshe wants to hang there? i don't know. but i'm gonna do whiteboardon both sides, all right? so that's pretty much it. milk paint, finish, and you can do whatever you want with yours.
if you're gonna build this,we'll have details about the project in the projectvideo, but the bottom line is you gotta incorporate someof these ideas to prove to me that you actuallymade this just now. if you just have an oldtoy chest that you made five years ago, and itlooks nothing like this, that's not gonna count, all right? so you have to include side storage, top storage, or these curves.
like something that makes it very clear that it was for this event, okay? - [nicole] woodworkersfighting cancer for all the details and that's where (mumbling). - yeah, woodworkersfightingcancer.com is where you'll find all the details. that's kinda the home pagefor all of this stuff, including the videos that we have on this as well as the sponsors who were involved.
all that good stuff, okay? let's head back. i think we can do a little q and a. hi there, my name's marc. i like woodworking. - [nicole] is that good? - nope. yeah, you're too far away though. - [nicole] oh.
- [marc] i like a close personal relationship with the viewers. hello. so i preselected threequestions for the q and a and nicole is going to select a few more that i will hopefully beable to read over here. so let's start with thisquestion from daniel taylor. he says, "for a woodworkernew to building furniture, "would you suggest starting with plywood
"or solid lumber projects?" well, i actually think youshould start with both. the bottom line is whenyou're building furniture, it kinda doesn't even matter what style. you're gonna work with both materials and they both have differentstrategies and different tools and different specificswith using those materials, so i don't know that i wouldnecessarily limit myself at the beginning to say, "i'm gonna start
"with plywood or start with solid wood." i would pick a project thatyou really, really want, an item you really want,and then see what happens because a lot of timesyour projects are gonna involve both plywood and solid wood. i mean that toy chest is a great example. plywood on the interiorbut a solid wood frame because that's how youaddress wood movement issues. so i don't think you shouldwork with one or the other.
i think you should dive rightin and try to work with both. honestly, that's at least what i would do. let's see, sarina flores,that's a beautiful name, asks, "how do you feel about using designs "from stores like pottery barn "and crate and barrel as inspiration?" well i think it depends. if you're talking about meusing them for inspiration and then producing plans based on that,
that could be a little bittricky because i'm distributing those plans, so i have to be very careful with how much i can be influenced. i'll tell ya what, i'minfluenced by everything i see. so sometimes, yeah, i'llsee a commercial design and say, "that's somethingi want to build," and i try to change itenough that i feel confident if i put it out therethat no one would look at that and see it as a copy.
that's the key for me isto differentiate it enough. if you are building foryourself, and for your family, in my opinion, you can build whatever the heck you want to build. maybe there are actual laws about that, but realistically, who'sgonna know what you're building for yourselffor your own use, right? as long as you're not out there selling it as a product and trying tomass manufacture something
that competes with anotherproduct that's out there, i think you're perfectlyfine to take inspiration. you're perfectly fine todo a top to bottom copy of something else if it'sfor yourself, all right? it's when you start todistribute these things that you step on toes andyou have to be careful. now if you want to take some inspiration and then build a productthat you're gonna sell, that's where you have to decide
for yourself where to draw that line. 'kay, next one here wehave from todd sparger. todd says, "have you beenhappy with the rubber "floor tiles that you'reusing in your shop "as far as being able toroll around heavy tools?" well here's the thing, todd. i don't actually roll around heavy tools. my tools are pretty muchwhere they're gonna be. the only thing that rollsaround are the dust extraction,
a couple of mobile carts,and things like that. now if you want a close look, these are what the floor tiles ... this is what the floor tiles look like. heavy gauge, you know, rubber material. it's made from recycled tires. very durable. it's about not quite a1/2 inch thick, maybe 3/8. okay?
really good durable stuff. now the thing is though, they interlock. you guys have seen the moreinexpensive floor tiles you can get at the home store or, you know, sam's club or costco. you buy in a multi-pack. well they're a lot likethat in the way they lock together, but the hold is much better because each one ofthese tiles, it's heavy.
there's a lot of heft there. so when they lock together,they're a little more stable. so it will sustain alittle bit of rolling, but one thing i'll warn ya aboutis if you have heavy tools, if they're already on thesurface and you have a very sort of almost likemonolithic layer on the floor, you probably have a good chance of being able to move those things around. if you have it like i've got it where
i have certain sectionsoutlined with this stuff. so if i were rolling tools,a lot of times the tool's gonna roll from theconcrete floor onto the pad. that's bad news. it almost always startsto bunch up on you. so it kinda depends on your layout. even if you have itspread all over the place, you probably don't wanna make a habit out of moving big tools because big ...
we're talkin' like 500,600 pound tools, right? so moving that around,it has so much weight down on it, as you start topush forward, a lot of times you will get a little bitof buckling, all right? so, yeah, i would say itcan be done, but i think the heavier the tool gets,the more you run the risk of having a problem with buckling. and if that occurs inthe middle of the floor, you might start to shift things around
that then become difficult toget that tile back in there. the good thing is if youreally need to move a tool through a particular path, just take the tiles up and put 'em back down. but i have no regrets aboutthis particular floor tile. it's fantastic, i love it. all right, so that's all ofmy pre-selected questions. (mumbling) spacebar? - [nicole] i'm trying toseparate the questions for you.
what do you mean spacebar? you're so weird, nicole. all right, i gotta get this to a point that i can actually read it. nicole says, "butthead"? transformer110, "what's your opinion "of diamond plates for sharpening? "thinking about getting some dmt plates "since they're on sale at woodcraft."
i like diamond plates. the thing is there are people who can use diamond plates for all oftheir sharpening needs. let me grab a few here. so if you're not familiarwith a diamond plate, this is a dmt diamond platethat's actually two-sided. and you can get them invarious grits, so between these two you probably have allof your grits covered. and the idea is this is your only
sharpening medium that you need. i like them and dmt makessome really good products. for some reason, though, what i've kinda just gravitated naturallyto, and i can't even say it's a purposeful thing,it's just what happened and what makes me comfortable,is i use the dmt plates for the lower grits ofsharpening just because it's a nice flat surface iuse them to even resurface some of my other water stones,
but i'll use, it's coated with black. i don't even know exactlywhat they call that grit, but it's the lowest one they offer. so i'll use that for mylowest, usually when i'm reshaping a bevel or something, that's when i break that out. and then for the higherstuff, i use water stones, and i honestly don't know what it is. i like the feel of thewater stones better.
now that said, thatdoesn't mean that you can't successfully have a sharpening regimen completely surrounding diamond stones. these are fantastic products, but some people just don't like 'em. (mumbling) love them, you have to ask around, maybe try 'em yourself. at the very least, getyourself the lowest plate because you're gonna findthat useful for flattening
other things as well as, likei said, the low level honing. they also make some of these, which i haven't really gotten into. they're a little bit of a different beast than this type of plate. it' just a big heavy chunk of steel with some diamond grit on the other end. when i went to tommymack's shop in boston, he pulled a couple of these out
and he swears by these,absolutely loves them, and i haven't really gotteninto them that much myself. again, that doesn't mean anything, it's just my personalopinions on that stuff. so if you want to go that route, i don't think there'sanything wrong with it. bottom line is there'sprobably a good 30 or 40 ways you can arrive at an extremely sharp edge on your tools, and they're all right.
it's a matter of preferenceand what you have access to. transformer! 110. more than meets the ... okay, rich leiber says, "how would you get "nice 90 degree angles with a planer?" how would you get nice 90degree angles with a planer? - [nicole] todd's questionis still on the screen. - oh, yeah, sorry, thanks, guys.
i don't have a ... i don't understand that question. if you're talkin' about apower planer, usually the way you get a nice 90 degree angle is to establish that angleat the jointer first. if you send it to the planeroff 90, all you're gonna produce is a line, facethat's essentially parallel to the one that's on thebottom, so they'll be parallel but they may not be 90degrees to the other faces.
so that's where the jointer comes in. so i'm assuming that'swhat you're talking about but i might be completely wrong. if you want to clarify that, go ahead, but we might not see it. cactuschrismakes? that's his whole name? is his last name makesand his middle name chris? i'd love to know.
i'm sure that's just his show's name. "are those the floor tiles they sell "at woodworker's source?" i have never seen the floortiles at woodworker's source. my guess is no though. i got these from rubberflooring inc. and they're really heavy duty materialmade from recycled tires. i don't think this is somethingthat woodworker's source carries, though they mightcarry something decent.
i don't really know aboutit, but when i looked, this was something that i had to go to a specific flooringcompany to purchase. and rubber flooring inc. isactually located in phoenix which might save us some shipping money. - [nicole] is it rubberflooringinc.com? - yeah, rubberflooringinc.com. if you go to the woodwhisperer's site and search for flooring, there was an article
when i was doing the shop. i've got a couple of articlestalking about my flooring options and then anotherarticle talking about specifically rubber flooringfor the shop question mark, something like that, whichgoes into some of my thought process behind this and you'll also find the links to the website iused to make the purchase. okay, rjsomething says,"have you ever used "colored or tinted waxwhen finishing a project?"
nope. nice question. i honestly don't use a lotof wax on my projects at all, so i never really gotinto the finishing effects that you can get with colored waxes. i know a lot of people like to use 'em. you can do some pretty cool things. sometimes if you're doingmaybe an antiquing effect, you may be able to hitit with a colored wax
and then as you're buffingit out, some of that wax kinda stays embedded in thedeep grain and also the corners of profiles and moldingand things like that and can give it a little bit more of an aged appearance and an aged look. but i've never really had awhole lot of luck with wax. i don't enjoy using it,so wax i use primarily for lubricating screws, wiping down tool surfaces, and that's about it.
also to keep my bikini line in shape. all right, rookiemistakes0607 says ... and this will be the lastquestion, by the way. - we're gonna move into our demo. - "can you sharpen bandsaw blades "or do you just replacewhen they get dull?" depends on the bandsaw blade. most bandsaw blades usuallycan't be resharpened. they're meant to be replacedonce they're completely dull.
there are a couple brands, atleast one that i can mention that i know of that is resharpenable and that's the laguna resaw king. it's got carbide teeth onit so you can send it back, pay a couple bucks, getthe thing sharpened, but you're gonna pay acouple hundred dollars for this thing in the first place. so you can do the math onit, how many sharpenings you get out of it, the originalcost, compare that to how
many blades you might go through in the disposable world,and maybe you'll break even. i don't know, you haveto do the math on it, but the bottom line is the resaw king cuts like a champ and stayssharp for a very long time. the good news, again, isthat it is sharpenable. so most brands that i'm aware of of bandsaw blades will notreally take a sharpening. okay, so that (mumbling).
i'm gonna wet my whistle one more time. why don't we work on adunkin' donuts sponsorship? i mean, when i got sponsoredby powermatic and festool like early on when we firststarted, it was because we said what products didwe use, what do we like, what do i have in the shop already, and i had powermatic, ihad a couple of festool 'cause that's all icould afford at the time. it was very hard to justifybut it was a good purchase
and then it just worked out and it made it a whole lot easier to be sponsored by companies you truly believe in. and i have to say i trulybelieve in dunkin' donuts. i really do. - [nicole] i do too. - and nicole does too. it's totally spagnuolo approved. all right, let's getset up for a demo here.
the demo today is gonnabe on quick mortising jigs and this is kinda loosely organized. i'll do my best to make some sense. i will probably need you on thecamera for this, girlfriend. 'kay, okay. do i need any of this? eh, maybe i'll glance at that. maybe i should have some of this sweet hot dog sauce while i'm ...
just eating it (laughs),eating it with a spoon. is that how it's done, david? - [nicole] no (laughs)! - (laughs) he said i'm supposedto eat it with a spoon. all right. and we can probably do a stop here. give me the full view for now. i'll tell you ... you'll know when we're doing it.
i'm gonna do some routing, some gluing. whoa. - [nicole] oh, sorry. - whoa! ready? ready to roll. so if you're a fan ofmortise and tenon joints, you're gonna have a lot ofsituations where you need a creative way to geta mortise in a location
that's not all that convenient and you're probably gonnause your router to do it. but a router needs to be guided. so if you've got, let'ssay mortises that are right near an edge like this, wellthis is good because you can use an edge guide with your router. you can mark start and stoppoints on the workpiece itself and just kind of eyeballit to get it close, but there are times where youwant absolute consistency.
you want something thattells you when to stop and start or you bump into a guide that tells you when to stop and start. or sometimes the mortise is in a location where you can't reallyuse your edge guide. maybe you're making a through mortise. i used a technique likethis on my mortise chair where that front leg tenoncomes up through the arm and you need to be able to route
at a very specific location. so it can be really helpfulto know how to build your own guides, your ownjigs, to guide the router and make it go exactly whereyou want to go with (mumbling). here's another example. this is one of the demopieces i used for the display cabinet recently and ineeded these little notches in the leg because a shelfis gonna go into that leg. so i needed to do this fourtimes on four different legs.
so what i found to bethe easiest thing to do was to build a jig that looks like this. now this is just out of plywoodscraps, nothing special. and that's the cool thing about this. i make these on the fly. there isn't a whole lotof thought behind it. so the way this works ... let's get this angle right. it just basically, this is our fence,
it goes against the workpiece like this, i have a center lineto tell me where to go, clamp it in place, thispiece back here (mumbling) and then the router bitjust goes in, cleans it out, and i just remove the clampand go on to my next one. pop it in, route, and i'm done. and you can see there'sjust not much to this jig. just a couple of strips of plywood is all it took to make that.
so i'm gonna show you another example. have you ever seen green and green pieces where they have what theycall a waterfall detail? so the legs actually have anindentation that looks like a little ramp that just gets deeper as it goes toward the bottom of the leg. well this is a jig thati used for that, right? pretty much the sameprinciple, but the idea is it's meant to slide downon top and cradle the leg.
the leg goes up inside here and the sides of the jig are what guides the cut, right? and you've got your start and stop points built into this as well, so you could really take this concept and just a couple pieces of scrap material for making this and you can apply it to just about anymortise you need to make. the way this works, andthe reason it works ...
take a close look at this. there's my router setup, right? this is the key thing. of course there's a straight bit in there, but the real magic is this guide bushing. i use these all the time. i've got a little set here ifyou wanna take a look at this. this one's sold by rockler. you can get this probablyfrom various router companies,
but it comes with a whole bunch of different guide bushings and they ... here we go. they look like this. so it's got a collar that goes around and most router bases,they will come with, or at least have available,a base that accepts these and they're pretty standardized. even festool, who's likeone of the companies
that prides themselves intheir proprietary products ... take a look at the router again here. even they include thislittle metal piece in here which takes these standardrockler guide bushings. so the guide bushinggoes as part of the base and then a bit lives inside that. now the (mumbling) need toneed is the offset, 'kay? in order for the bit to fit inside there, obviously there needs to be clearance.
so if you're designinga jig, you need to know what the distance from the outside of this guide bushing is towhere the bit is cutting and usually it's about 1/16on each side, all right? and if you had a smallerbit or maybe you had a bigger guide bushingwith the same size bit, that figure changes and you need to know what that figure is. (laughs) here, back up and i'll show you
my very high tech demo item here. nothin' but the best. this is a toilet paper roll. this is our guide bushingand here's our bit. so the idea is you've actuallygot a very set distance between the outside of the guide bushing and where the bit starts to cut, okay? and that's the figurethat you need to know.
and there's just another greatuse for toilet paper rolls. (nicole chuckles) you're welcome. okay, so in this case,it's 1/16 of an inch on both sides of my bit,so if you were to do the math on that, ifyou're designing a jig ... let's say we want a 3/4inch notch on this leg. i want it to be 3/4 of aninch wide when it's done. so how wide do i need tomake this gap here, right?
the guide bushing is gonnacome in contact with the side. we know it's 1/16 per side, so it needs to be 1/8 inch oversized. bless you. (nicole sneezes) nicole's sneezin' over there. it needs to be 1/8 of aninch oversized, right? so instead of 3/4, i make this gap 7/8 and i center it where it needs to be
centered and i'll know thatwith this guide bushing intact, it's gonna actuallycut a 3/4 inch notch. so you always have to do that math to figure this type of thing out. let's actually make one here because i think it's really cool. a lot of people don't know how to make through tenon jointery,through mortise and tenons. one of the ways that ilike to cut the mortise
is with a router justbecause it's so clean. can you grab me that over there? - [nicole] (mumbling) that is? - that bent arm leaningup against the wall. she grabbed the lamp (laughs). yes, please, bring me the lamp. - [nicole] (laughs) it had a bent arm! jerk! - okay, so this is an examplefrom the mortise chair
where i needed to put asquare mortise just in a very awkward section and i wanted to have exact locations for these walls. so just putting an edge guide along here wasn't really cuttingit for me so i came up with a jig that allowedme to do that very thing. and that's essentially what i've got here. so the great thing about this process ... get a tight shot here.
so the great thing about thisis process is all you need is plywood or mdf, juststuff you have layin' around. this was all one piece of mdf, so essentially i cut a couple strips. how big these are kind of is a reflection of like your router base size. this is the platform that you're building. you're gonna put thesepieces on the inside so when the jig isfinally together, you have
to just account for whereyour clamps are gonna be and how big your router base is. but most of mine, as youcan see from this one, most of mine come outto be about this size. so i cut a couple of stripsjust at the table saw. then i gotta cut these guys. now these are essential because whatever the width of this piece is reflects how big that opening is gonna be, right?
and the way i calculatedthat based on my router and my guide bushing is i add 1/8 to it. excuse me, whoof. so whatever my desired dimension is, plus 1/8, that's thewidth of these inserts. and we're cutting them at the same time and then cutting these two pieces apart so i know that they'reabsolutely the same width. i also mark center lines on here.
if you have center linesinside your jig it's very easy because then you just measureand mark on your workpiece where is the center of this mortise and then you have themthere for reference, right? so we'll glue this together real quick. (clears throat) hopefully it'll be quick. i'll use some ca glue. like this. here's another thing, i tookanother little piece off
of the end, cut a little nub off of there because i want this to be square, right? a through mortise that's nice and square. so these are cut to aparticular dimension. i cut this extra pieceoff, turn it this way, and i can use that hereas a guide to make sure the distance in the otherdimension is exactly the same, essentially ensuring that ihave a perfect square now. and that's how we're gonnaglue this thing together.
so bear with me as i do that. hopefully this ... i'm gonna rush it a little bit. i'll do one at a time here. a little quick activator. 'kay, here's one. here goes two. i'll put this block in here. (clears throat)
this obviously does not get glued in. it's just a spacer. 'kay, pretty good. poop on a stick! let's do that again. yeah, normally you'renot rushing like this. whose great idea was it to gluea jig together in real time? - [nicole] you. - [marc] oh me, that's right.
all right, this is not gonna be perfect. bear with me. let's see if we can't ... the problem here isthe mdf is very thirsty so when you do somethinglike this it's ... gonna soak up a lot ofthat glue very quickly. now let's give it a little bit of time and hopefully this is gonna stay together. 'kay, now while that's drying,
if you wanted to, youcould cut another strip, measure back a certain distance. so let's say you want thissquare to be a couple inches in from the edge, asit is in this example, you would set up a fence thatmakes sure that your square is placed in a consistentplace so when you have multiples to do, youactually can reduce one of the dimensions that youhave to worry about, right? so by putting a fence along here,
it would line up exactlywhere we want it to be. so i'm gonna let that sit. hope it doesn't fallapart during the routing. here is a piece ofsycamore and let's assume we want a nice square right about there. the crosshair is very easy to find. if you're making plans forthis, you know the center point in most cases, where you actually want that mortise or the tenon to poke through.
so if you have a set ofcrosshairs, those crosshairs are gonna line up withwhat we have in our jig and we'll be able to get itexactly where we need it to be. and again, if you have a fence in place, if you install a fence, youcan eliminate one of these. you don't have to worry about one. you would only have to worry about placement along the length. right, so if you'regonna do this operation,
you need sacrificial materialbecause your bit's gonna go all the way through so youwant to be using some kind of either plywood or mdfor something underneath to just catch the bit as it comes through. you also need to do thatbecause you need full support on the backend of thisworkpiece, otherwise the router can cause a lot of tear-outas it pokes through this. so if you have another pieceof material nice and flush, it's gonna give you apretty clean result here.
i'll try to get some kind ofa clamp situation going here. (hums) talk amongst yourselveswhile i get this set up. please don't fall apart. okay, so i'll give ya a little closeup of what i'm lining up. you're not gonna be ableto see it when i do it. 'kay? my jig gluing skills arewhacked out (laughs),
so my lines aren't where they'resupposed to be, all right? but ultimately you wouldline up those center lines onto your crosshairs andthat's why it's a lot harder to put that center line there after this thing is glued together, right? so it's a good idea to putthose in there ahead of time, then glue it together, and now we know we've got dead center where we need it. so let me throw on some clamps.
we'll pretend that this is perfect. let's see here. actually, we need to movethis way a little bit. and if you ever wonder ... a lot of people ask why do i have the split top in my workbench? you're seeing why right now. it allows me to do uniqueclamping situations like this. boy, this is not a sturdyjig, let me tell you that.
but we will persevereand hope for the best. all right, so let's cutthis mortise real quick. it's gonna be a little bit messy. get some eye protection. and bear with me. it's gonna take a couple seconds to get through all the material. it's a little bit deep. plunge router really helpfulon something like this.
fixed base is a little trickier. - [marc] gonna go for it. (sawing) (vacuuming) - [marc] one more. all right, let's clean up. get a nice closeup if you can of that. sorry about the noiseif that was unbearable. - [nicole] that was unbearable to me.
that's why i turned it down. - [marc] oh. shouldn't have been that bad. - [nicole] it was. - [marc] to them, i'm talkin' 'bout. - [nicole] i really wish (mumbling). - [marc] okay. of what? - [nicole] it was a terrible angle.
- it's a router, there'snothing you can do to get that angle to look good. 'kay, get closer. so we'll see what we did here. - [marc] remove the template. see what we're left with. now you see what happens here. you cut around the perimeter and you just go a little bit into that material.
thankfully that's not my workbench, right? it's just a piece of plywood,which is really cool. and look at this piece. nice and clean at the top,nice and clean at the bottom. now of course a routercreates rounded corners. you would need to square those corners up, but really 99 percent of the work is done and the dimension, because we used the template, the dimension is fixed.
so if i'm trying to sizea tenon, i can actually be pretty confident thatall of the tenons i need for this project can bemade to the same size because i know all of mymortises are gonna be made with this template and they'llall be exactly the same size. 'kay, come back up. airplane break. if it happens when i'm in themiddle of somethin' it's fine. - but if i'm, if i gotta break anyway.
oh, telephone. (cell phone rings) - [nicole] (mumbling) - all right. can you get that real quick? she's quick, it's fine. all right, so ... all right, so that's fora nice square mortise and this is really one of them
that would be the most challenging. so imagine applying thesame concept to making a simple jig for a standard mortise where you could basically cut the middle piece to match whatever the combination of your guide bushingand router bit requires. a lot of times what i'll dois make this middle section the exact dimension of the guide bushing. so if you do that, there'sonly one way for it to go.
you plunge down, put the guide bushing in, and push it across. so if you're doing astandard mortise and tenon, you just use 1/4 inch bit and then use whatever guide bushing you have. make the channel thesize of the guide bushing and that bit now has a place to travel. and all you're doing with these is, these middle sections, it's dual purpose.
it's creating the width ofthe channel, but it's also serving as a start and astop point as a guide, right? and that's what makessomething as simple as this really one of the bestthings you can know how to build and it's just made with scraps. you can certainly makethese in standard sizes to go with certaincombinations of guide bushings and bits, so if youalways want to have access to let's say a two inchlong, 1/4 inch mortise,
you can have a little jig, you know. cut it, put it on thewall, use something better than what i used to glue ittogether so it's a little more permanent, but you willalways have access to that. now there is something idid want to talk about. guide bushings are good, but some people may be inclined to use apattern bit and the reason is because if you use a pattern bit, you can make whatever size you want.
the size of the openingwould be, theoretically, the exact size that youwould cut, so you don't need to do any calculations with a pattern bit because the bearing of a pattern bit ... if that helps. ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding. the bearing rides along the edge and then the cutter does the cutting. but there are a couple ofproblems with pattern bits.
number one, the spinning of that bearing and the proximity of theblade sometimes results in cutting into your template, okay? especially if you happento lift out on an angle. i find it just a littlebit scary to work with and my templates don't last as long when i use a pattern bit, unfortunately. the other thing is becauseyou're driving down like this. think about it.
the length of the cutterhead on the pattern bit is going to be crucial nowbecause there may be a point where i push down so farthat my bearing is no longer in contact with my template,so you have to have various pattern bits of variouslengths in order to be able to successfully cut a wide range of mortises using one of these. so personally i find just the straight bit and a good guide bushingset to be a whole lot
more versatile than relyingon pattern bits to do it. and i think your guides and your templates will last longer because now the bit isn't anywhere near the edge. you're just putting abrass collar of some sort into your guide and moving around, so i think it helps it last a lot longer. so no matter what kindof mortise you have, no matter where it is, ifyou've got some plywood scraps
you could make yourselfa little mortising jig. and really you're justlimited by your creativity. this is really justthe tip of the iceberg. all right, so that's it for the demo. i can answer a couple questionsif anyone has questions about this technique, butthe final thing we're gonna need to do is pick a winnerfor the guild membership. and by the way, that is exactly what i used on the mortise chair.
notice something? it's curved, right? this portion down here,thankfully, the first few inches is flat and that wasintentional because i knew i was gonna need to sit ajig on this nice and flat. so the curve doesn't actually start until you're a littlebit behind that mortise. so it helps to know whereyou're going as you're designing these things,because you could design it
to work in favor of the joinery method and the cutting method you're gonna use. - [nicole] got a couple questions. i'll send them to you. - send me the questions. "wouldn't the bit follow the already "routed portion of the mortise?" yeah, john, it will, but what happens is, you look at the length of the bit.
you get to a point where you go so deep you're gonna cut throughyour base material that's protecting the workbench and you'll cut into your workbench. so i've actually gotpattern bits that just have little 1/4 inch cutters on them. so yeah, you can keep goingdeeper as you start to ride along the inside of the mortise cut area, but you have to be careful of the depth.
the second thing is a lot of these bits don't cut perfectly flush, all right? and if you've used enough of them you know what i'm talkin' about. so if you start riding onyour template but then you get to a certain depth where nowyou're riding on the actual material that you've cut, ifthat isn't absolutely perfect, when you're riding on the material you actually get a differentdimension, all right?
it's not gonna happen withall bits, but there are some bits that will not cut dead perfect flush. so referencing from thematerial that's been cut could lead to aninaccuracy in that mortise. "how do you get rid of the rounded "corners on the mortise cut?" look no further than this wall. chisels, that's all you need. it's a very simple matterto take your chisel,
run it along your edge ... i usually for something like this would use one of my wider chisels 'cause the wider it is,the more i can reference off of the existingflat edge that's there. so if i'm referencing offthat edge, i just kinda push into the corner and slowly establish from both sides, establishthat corner line. and that helps you prevent over-cutting
'cause if you just kind of ... if you try to just line it up like this and start chopping down,what'll usually happen is you'll push back alittle bit so your corners will dip back and that's no good. so i usually use theexisting reference material with a nice wide chisel andstart cutting in that way. is that it for questions on this? - [nicole] uhh, there's a delay.
- couple more seconds? - [nicole] there's a delay. so (mumbling). - here, you know what's gonna be fun? - see if i can break this. look at that. yeah, in a case likethis, i would normally use regular wood glue and a clamp and walk away for a couple hours.
let the jig dry beforeyou attempt to use it. i just wanted you to see the jig go to together and then see it in use. "do i use a tormek for sharpening?" i do not. i've got a jet wetsanderwhich is effectively the same thing as a tormek,but i don't really use it. most of the time i rely on my stones and i've got a system in place for that.
nothing wrong with wet stones like the tormek, but it's a system. so it's just a different way to do it and it's perfectly viable. a lot of people love it. - [nicole] all right. - we're good? - [nicole] um, yeah i guess so. - all right, let's give awaythat guild membership then.
wrap this thing up. wow, we're over an hour. holy smokes. anyone who watches this, like the recorded version, good luck. - [nicole] all right, so ... - so we're gonna pick a winner for the wood whisperer guild -- - [nicole] they have to be here so --
- one year membership. - [nicole] we're gonna say their name and if they're stillhere, then they'll get it, but if not, i'm movin'on to the next name. - yeah, you have to be here. - obviously. - [nicole] okay, so parker compton. - parker ... ? - [nicole] compton.
- [marc] parker compton. - [nicole] yep, so if you'rehere, make sure you -- - parker, are you here, parker? parker compton. is he here? - [nicole] i don't see him. - well we have a delay, right? there's a little bit of a delay so let's give him some time.
- [nicole] still lookin' for questions. - okay, so if there's noparker then we need to move on. parker's not here. the second person i pickedearly on, which he's still here, i know he's still here, but i picked your name early on, david azar. azar, a-z-a-r. - david azar, david azar. i'm gonna say azar.
okay, so you know he's here then? - [nicole] yup -- - all right, david -- - [nicole] he's beentalkin' the whole time. - cool. david azar, congratulations, you get a one year guild membership. get your information to nicole. do you want him to email you?
- [nicole] i'll contact him. - she'll contact you. we'll just need your email address. we'll set you up with aone year guild membership. you'll get access to the current display stand that's in progress right now. latest video came out today. really nice build. and you'll get whatever projects
come out in the coming year. so you have a free one year subscription so congratulations and i'llsee you in the guild, sir. all right, let's close this off. let's do this. okay, i don't knowexactly what the date is. i haven't looked at thecalendar but we always do the first friday of the new month. so we will definitely seeyou again in november.
yikes, thanksgiving's on its way. we'll be talkin' aboutturkey by that time. so yeah, next show will be in november. contact info if you wantto get a hold of us. of course, let's see. thewoodwhisperer.com, we have a contact page there that you can use. you could use #twwlive if you wanna ask a question at wood whisperer on twitter,
and facebook, just searchfor the wood whisperer, you'll find us, butfacebook.com/thewoodwhisperer. we've got a lot of cool stuff goin' on on the facebook page. a lot of good discussion too. tons of fun. i think that really wraps it up, so i don't want to makethis thing any longer than it absolutely needs to be.
thank you very much,everybody, for showing up and all the sponsors of the woodworkers fighting cancer campaign,we appreciate your help. thank you to nicole for runningthe chat room over there. she's very busy, typingfuriously over there. all right, thanks, everybody. have a wonderful weekend, happy friday. we'll see you later.