WWGOA LIVE is a blast to do! I can’t believe how quickly an hour goes by. Thanks, in large part, to the excellent questions you folks provide. Keeps me on my toes, and keeps the show moving fast. If you missed our June show, no problem. You can watch the archive below to watch at your leisure.
Watch for our next session in the near future. I can’t wait for another chance to help you out in your shop.
I have an 18×36″ top for a hope chest am trying to find the best way to inset a 12″x18″ engraved piece in to the center of it.
A good way to do this is to use a handheld router and a template to frame the outside of your inlay area. Use a 3/8″ or 1/2″ straight bit to remove the material. Guide bushings installed on your router are useful for this process as well. You will need to size your template appropriately to include the additional thickness of the bushing itself. Also, you will need to square up the corners which can be done using a chisel. Use the widest chisel that you have when squaring up the corners so that you can reference against the straight surface and establish a good clean edge.
For additional help, template routing with guide bushings is covered in this wwgoa article: http://www.wwgoa.com/article/creative-designs-with-router-templates/.
Thank you very much for the help it is greatly appreciated.
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Thank you very much George for your answer to my planer question, it was very useful information.
It was a great question. Lots of people wonder about snipe, so I’m glad we could get an answer for you.
There is a router bit that will shave the bottom of the dado, making it smooth. The bit has a bearing that will guide it along the sides.
loving the show I am a 61 year old from Ireland and have not done any wood working since I was in my youth. Now I am recovering from heart surgery and I have taken up wood working again your show has given the enthusiasm to get more involved and I am loving it.Great show.
Mr Michael Morgan
That was really great. Gary Childress in Fayetteville, GA
Great show, tks!
I am in Australia and have been a member of WWGOA for a while now. I appreciate the technical and machine instructional videos. I am just a hobby woodworker but I find some of the information invaluable as we are still learning every day. Thanks so much for the good work in making these videos.
Thanks, Dwayne.
ok have a nice night
DITTOS to the guy thanking for videos!
Thank You for the great information.
Would love to get plans for those scrap item storage bins … they on the site somewhere?
Is there a place in Houston or very close that teaches woodworking, most all schools are in the north part of the united states. I dont have the money to travel to those far away schools
Great Plains Area Vo-Tech here in Lawton, OK has several woodworking classes, and I know there are other Vo-Tech schools around the south-western USA. I know for certain that they still have cabinetmaking courses.
Up near Waco is a great woodworking school. Just Google Waco and woodworking.
I have not been able to go but Woodcraft does teach some woodworking classes, the store on Beltway 8 east of 59 has a class room with tools.
I made a large 10 tongue tongue drum head with 3/4 inch thick Padauk – before I could even finish cutting all the tongues, each tongue started TWISTING! So the top was no longer level… Sounds AWESOME, but I had to trim high edges… Is this a quality of that wood normally? or was this just a flukey thing I had the luck to discover?
Hi George! Will you be shooting any more videos on cabinetmaking?
Occasionally my Dewalt 13 inch planer depth control wheel will move during operation. Is there an adjustment to stop this movement
Its OK – I can read backwards 🙂
loving the show all the way from england
That’s great to hear. Sorry about the tech problems.
yup, it’s flipped correctly now 🙂
I was wondering more about missing section in the veneer and trying to fill it in to be level with the rest.
You could pick up a piece of matching veneer and cut it to size to fit the missing section, or alternatively you could cut it to a square or rectangle (some regular shape with flat edges) and make a matching sized hole in the veneer where the missing section is and pull the rest of it out of the hole to make room for your “plug”. Finish sand around the area after you repair it, to remove surface glue that will show up when you finish the piece.
Take some wood dust (of the same species and color of the veneer) and mix with some wood glue to patch very small holes. Just remember that the wood glue “putty” wont take stains and finishes quite as well as the rest of the veneer. Patching in areas that are not easily visible may be a viable alternative.
I don’t think he means a forstner bit. I think he means a “paddle bit”.
Do you feel retrofitting a jointer with helix cutters is a good idea? I’ve watched a video showing the process of changing out the cutterhead and it seems pretty complex. Wayne M
What is the best way to repair damaged veneer?
Thank you George You are a fantastic instructor. I have built some of your projects and had a great deal of fun doing so
Thanks, Dan. I really like teaching. Glad you’re able to make use of it.
Is this where questions are typed in? I ask because I don’t see a place to enter questions for the live session other than a “Leave a Reply” box.
Hello, Steven, yes this is where you can ask questions and leave comments.
looks like my timing is good
i have a craftsman 10 in table saw the slides have the tabs in them i cut them of and now i find out the slides are 5/8 . i can never win what can i do. its a new saw. and i need to make sleds
What’s the best way to resize a Forster bit?
Wish I had known about this sooner 🙁 gotta run
What’s the best way to re-size a Forster bit to a custom size?
Thinking we could use a power drill held in a vice or use a drill press, in addition to the lathe, is that right?
Yep, I think a drill would work.