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Maintaining Your Woodworking Equipment Is Easy

As a woodworker, the tools and equipment you use is what defines you. Most of the tools and not cheap to purchase. Furthermore, if you do not maintain them well, important tools will become blunt and rendered useless.

Jul 1st, 2009
by Ryan Henders

How To Make Wooden Pens Easily – Woodworking

Today, I will discuss the bits, mandrels, bushings and other equipment you need to start making and building your own wooden pens.

Jul 1st, 2009
by Ryan Henders

Woodworking Guide – Learn To Control Dust

Almost everything we do whether it is work or recreational has some type of safety factors that apply to it and woodworking is no different. Apart from the tools, there are the environmental hazards to be concerned with and here it would be the workshop dust. You may notice that many of the newer tools that you may have purchased are paying attention to dust control as well. Although you are not going to be dust free when working with wood there is much you can about it to keep it under control.

Jun 30th, 2009
by Ryan Henders

Woodworking Plans – Learn To Refinish A Block Top

Most often we move into a new house and find a built in butcher block top. At first, it looks great but on closer inspection, it doesn’t look so good. Butcher blocks aren’t something new on the market or even old fashion like from the 70?s. They go back hundreds of years. At that time, the favored wood was maple or various other types of hardwood. In today?s building of the butcher blocks, they are quite often made from imported hardwoods, which gives a bit more of a variety. It must be remember that years ago there wasn?t the equipment for slicing meat that we have today. Back in the good old days, it was a lot of arm work and a good cleaver that was used to cut the meats. So needless to say why a butcher block was in order.

Jun 30th, 2009
by Ryan Henders

Building A Tool Collection For Your Workshop – Woodworking

Deciding to enter into the world of woodworking is not that hard of a decision to make. It’s the decisions required as to what equipment to buy that may be a bit more challenging. Not only do you have to decide on what tools to buy but also how much you want to budget for them as well as their quality.

Jun 29th, 2009
by Ryan Henders