hello everyone i'm Colin Knecht, today
hello everyone i'm colin knecht today i've got a brand new batch of really
cool ideas from subscribers just like
you who send me tips and tricks that
they want to share with everyone before
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let's get started with these new tips
and tricks today
now this tip comes to us from steven and honestly i had to chuckle when i saw
this because i thought this was such a
brilliant idea what stephen says is you
can use an old ironing board
as a outfeed table for your table saw or
whatever else and you know what this is
a great idea because you can get these
at thrift stores for next to nothing
they're not expensive to buy new they're
easy to move up and down
you can reinforce the legs with
something if you want they're they're a
tiny bit they can be a tiny bit tippy
but that's easy to fix for most of us
and you know what you could even put two
of them together if you had you know a
wide
wide
wide sort of an outfeed area
and you can move them around to
different saws different things because
they move up and down so easily i just
thought this was a great idea and you
know what what a simple way of creating
an outfeed table
and for those of you who haven't seen
this because i did this quite some time
ago i made i didn't have a spare ironing
board at the time so i actually made a
flip up
flip up
flip up on the back of my saw
and it even has a quick release on it so
when you're not using it especially for
those of us in small shops you can do
that
that
that but if you don't want to go to that
amount of work you can get yourself an
old ironing board and it works great
this next tip comes from bob and bob
says that he uses the camera
in his phone to take pictures of
different measurements and i think
that's a really smart idea because that
gives you a quick permanent record of
whatever it is that you're working on i
know i use the video in my phone in the
workshop from time to time when i have
to take something apart then i have to
order parts and then reassemble it later
on it gives me a good quick reference to
how things go together so using the
camera in your phone i think it's a
great idea for
a quick instant reminder of what we're
doing
doing
doing this tip comes from john and john says
if you're drilling a hole and you don't
want a lot of tear out in the bottom you
want to avoid that what you can do is
drill part way through the top flip it
over and commence drilling on the other
side that will give you a smooth cut now
i've done this quite some time ago but
it's worth repeating the other thing
that he says that if you drill a pilot
hole on the side it helps to release the
dust and it's much easier to drill a
hole and i've also covered that before
in the past but again
it's worth repeating because it's a
really good tip so i'm going to show you
how that works now if i've drawn a
circle with my compass i will drill
those dust release holes first of all
but in this case i'm just going to mark
the wood and cut it which is often what
i
do so i've just gone deep enough to mark where the hole is and now i'm going to
drill a couple of those dust release
holes and i just use a forstner bit it
really doesn't matter on the size of the
bit a little bit bigger helps
there and you can see those dust release holes now i haven't compromised the
outside of the
hole
hole
hole i've just cut a couple of release holes
in the center so i'm just going to go a
little bit deeper now
now i'm going to flip it over and do the same on the other side
and i may have to do a little bit of
alignment here which is often the case
now
now let's flip out that core for just a
second
there you can see those holes and now
and now
and now there's a little bit of fuzzies on there
but there's no roughness i wouldn't be
able to rub my finger around that if
that was that rough but you can see how
nice and clean that is there's no
real bad tear out anywhere along there
and now the spot for stephen stephen
thank you for sending in the easiest tip
i've ever done
steven's suggestion is to use a
toiletries bag and you've seen them
they're
they're
they're sort of long
hanging
hanging
hanging devices with a bunch of pockets in them
that you can store things in and steven
i don't have one i haven't been able to
find one um
but i still thought it was a good idea
because there's people out there that
could use that it's a good idea so there
you go there's stephen's tip for the day
so this tip comes to us from bob uh and
he said this quite a while ago and my
memory served me bob was from vancouver
and what he's done as he has added an
extension
extension
extension on his miter gauge to make it longer
that fits the t-slot let me show you
that so a lot of table saws have this
little what they call a t-slot down here
and that is to be able to fit when you
have a miter gauge and some of them come
with a little like a little washer in
there
there
there uh in case in bob's case he actually
used a flat bar like this now i thought
this flat bar would fit in there but it
isn't it's just some extra steel that i
had laying around now i'm not going to
take the time and put this together
because this isn't the kind of thing
that i would typically use and i just
don't want to spend the time to sort of
recreate this but some of you may be
interested in doing something like this
and of course the reason for that is it
extends the arm of your miter gauge but
i have something else that some of you
may be interested in that it sort of
satisfies the same thing a couple or so
years ago i made this fixed
miter gauge and all it is is a sheet of
plywood i did use a plastic runner for
the miter
the miter
the miter bar and i always recommend plastic i
never ever recommend wood because wood
expands and contracts it makes a sloppy
fit or it gets too tight so always use
plastic
plastic
plastic it's super simple to make because all i
did was align the miter or sorry a
carpenter square along one of the miter
slots here and then that's what i used
to make the back this took me maybe five
minutes to make it's super accurate
every time it only cuts square
but my my sliding miter only cuts about
a foot
a foot
a foot this one i can actually cut 24 inches
easily and safely and get perfect square
edges every time
so if that's something that might help
you i will put a link you'll be able to
go and see that that'll come up in this
corner where is it over here it's going
to show up in that corner at the top of
your video right there you'll be able to
go and have a look at that
and see if that's something you're
interested in making it'll also be in
the article link in the article on
woodwork web well that concludes my
video for today lots of really cool
ideas shared by subscribers just like
you and if you've got a tip or something
that you do in your workshop that you
want to share send it on in to me and
maybe if i haven't already used it i'll
use it in an upcoming video
for those of you who haven't seen that
video on the flip up table
the outfeed table for the table saw that
was a very popular film or a very
popular video for me and i got lots of
requests on that one for information so
if that's something you might be
interested in that video will pop up
here you'll be able to go and have a
quick look at it and maybe something you
want to add in your shop i'm colin kanet
for woodwork web thanks for watching