WWGOA LIVE! February 2020

Hey, folks, how you doing? Sam has texted me and said that we're live. What's the weather doing in your part of the world? It was 15 below, air temperature, not wind chill, when I got up this morning. That's a little cooler.

But you know what, it's supposed to warm up for the weekend. 32 on Saturday, which I believe will be a downhill skiing sort of a day. I'm gonna jump right in. So, a couple things. As always, thanks to Titebond for sponsoring this and keeping this free for you.

And I can tell you, I just found out today, Titebond has agreed to underwrite this for another year. So, big thanks to Titebond. That's very cool. Here's another big announcement. WWGOA, Woodworkers Guild of America, is now a channel on a Roku device.

So, if you own a Roku, there's a search window on the Roku. And if you search woodworking, Woodworkers Guild, really any woodworker kind of a tag, search, you're gonna find the channel. And what this means is that videos that you maybe have already been watching on your phone or a tablet or a computer, you can watch on your Roku. That's pretty cool. So go and check that out.

That's big news as of yesterday. As always, with the YouTubes, if you're watching this on YouTube, I primarily concentrate on questions that are on WWGOA.com. If you're on YouTube and you post a question, I try to toggle back and forth. But, if I get really busy, YouTube kind of falls by the wayside. So, if you have a question that you're really earnest about getting answered, you're better off if you put it at wwgoa.com, click on the menu, WWGOA live, this is February.

Here we are. So, I do find that we have questions already queued up here. So let's jump in. And by let's, I mean me, I guess, right? So Mark says, I don't often ever see you wear a dust mask.

Yeah, I frequently wear a dust mask. When I'm doing teaching events or live streams, then, and I have to speak, then I don't, 'cause it really interferes with speaking. One of the things I do in this building is I have got a significant ventilation system. So if you see me, if you see me spraying shellac without a mask on, part of the reason is, and same with airborne dust, I'm pulling air through this building at an incredible rate, a lot of CFM of air. So I do that because I do so much video, I do so much teaching, I do so much live stuff, that, like I said, having a mask on, I can't talk with a mask on.

So by having that air flow, it costs me some heat this time of year, but it allows me to do that work without having to be masked. Harry says, I'm making a cabinet for a kitchen sink. The sink is an old cast iron sink. Any ideas to beef up the carcass to handle the weight? I'm thinking of doubling up 3/4 Baltic birch on the carcass for extra strength.

There's a good idea. The sink weighs about 100 pounds. I was going to make a cabinet just for the sink and then add left and right cabinets. Also gonna make the countertop out of walnut, with a live edge. Is this a wise choice for the countertop?

It's a good choice for countertop. It's more about sealer. Find yourself a good finish that, since you're putting a sink on this, it's probably gonna get wet every once in a while. So a good durable finish there. And as far as beefing up the carcass.

Honestly, 100 sink, I'm not sure you have to beef up the carcass. Here's the thing. Stay here. I'm coming right back, I really am, coming right back. We're gonna do an experiment.

I have in my hot little hands a cabinet. Let me pan you down a little. So 3/4 inch oak plywood. Don't have the back on it yet 'cause I didn't get that far. Face frame on the front.

Dado and rabbet construction on the side. I've built eleventy billion cabinets this way. So when I do this, your sink weighs 100 pounds. I weigh 180 pounds. So I, you know, the load is all vertical.

I don't think you have to go crazy beefing up the carcass because you're gonna put 100 pound sink on there. If you want to double up the sides to buy some insurance, that's not a bad idea, but I wouldn't go crazy with it. Corey says, when sanding a dry turned bowl using a two inch disc on my electric drill, I step up my grits, you know, I ate a lot of grits in Charleston last week. Probably not the same thing. I step up my grits from 80 to 320, but they'll have minuscule scratches running in the direction of the turn.

What lathe speed should I be using for sanding? Is a possible I'm running too high a speed, therefore causing the scratching? Speed is just a variable of the bowl diameter. So fast, but safe is where you want to be on speed. I learned that from Ashley Harwood last week, with the bowl turning class I took.

If you still have scratches you're not spending enough time at each grit. So, the job of the 80 grit is to take out tool marks. The job of the 120 grit is to take out 80 grit marks. 150 takes out 120. So if we get to 320 and you still have scratches, somewhere you went too fast and you didn't take out the scratches from the previous step.

So you just have to be, you gotta move a little slower, be a little bit more patient at each grit. So you-- You be quiet. I was just looking on the YouTube channel to see if there are questions there. Nothing. All right.

Thomas is in Tacoma, Washington. I've never been there. Gary says, stay warm. Yeah, I'm trying to. It's just a matter of putting more clothes on and running the furnace.

George Thomas is in Brookhaven, Mississippi. I've never been in the state of Mississippi. Michael says, do you have an easy way to measure the actual angle of a 90 degree V bit 1.25 diameter? I buy my bits from a well-known quality supplier, use them in my CNC, but they don't produce the result I'm looking for unless I change the angle just a degree or two in the program. I do this by trial and error until I get the correct result.

It'd be much easier if I knew the exact degree. So, maybe. I have, I gotta think about, here it is, right here. So this is a cool device. This is a Wixey digital, what are they calling it?

Digital angle gauge, digital protractor. So, if the battery is viable, it needs a new battery, but there's a digital readout. Open it up. Close it. So, in this position, you can turn it on, zero it, and then when you open it up, you can put your bit in there and very precisely, to tenths of a degree, measure what the angle is.

So that's a product that'll give you a lot of accuracy. 78 degrees in Del Ray Beach. Platinum membership, why can't I access platinum classes? I don't know, 'cause I didn't set all that program up. So all I know is that videos are available.

I don't know if, a question that specific, send an email to customer service, 'cause that's above my pay grade. How they did that, back at the main office, I don't know. Looking for advice on how to find rough hardwood lumber. Google searches have not been fruitful. I'm in Denver.

Wood Whisperer, Marc Spagnuolo's in Denver. And he routinely buys from, shoot, have a look at his channel, because just recently Matt Cremona was there, and they went to a lumberyard and they bought hardwoods. It was some beautiful stuff. They did a project together. So have a look at the Wood Whisperer channel and see where he says he's buying that stuff from.

Or call cabinet shops, call furniture makers. See if they'll share their sources with you. Peter asked, which air purifiers do I have in my shop. I've got two, one is the Powermatic electrostatic, and the other one is the Axiom Stratus. Lillian says, are router bits universal?

Which do you recommend for a DeWalt router? So universal, Lillian, do you mean that will all bits fit all routers? Yes, so the qualifier there is, let me grab two router bits. And with that, I have now turned this into a two-bit operation. Thank you.

Please tip your server. So the qualifier would be this bit has a 1/4 inch shank. This bit has a 1/2 inch shank. In order to use, like all routers are gonna take 1/4 inch shank bits. That's easy peasy.

1/2 inch shank, if you're gonna buy 1/2 inch shank bits, which you should whenever you can, if your router accepts 1/2 inch shank bits. So when you say you have a DeWalt router, it could be a DeWalt trim router or a DeWalt big router. If it's a trim router, it probably only takes 1/4 inch shanks. If it's a larger router, it probably takes 1/4 and 1/2. So, brand of router bits is not controlled by brand of router.

But do pay attention to, find out what size collet your router has, and then buy bits accordingly. What type of wax should you use on the bottom of a hand plane? I have no idea. Somebody can answer this for us. I'm not enough of a hand tool guy to know that.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm not even gonna say I think what they use, 'cause I'm not 100% sure. So if we had, if Paul Mayer's watching, he can fill us in there. He's more of a hand tool guy than me. Yeah, I don't know.

Somebody will probably weigh in. Scott says, my shop is far from weatherproof. Do you know any practical ways to keep my tools from rusting? I spray all of my stuff with GlideCote. It's a Bostik product, B-O-S-T-I-K.

And then the specific product is GlideCote. You can get it at woodworking stores. You can get it on Amazon. And that works great here. Ideal size for a router table?

Depends on what you want to do. I think mine is about 20 by 30, 20 by 32. But if you're doing a lot of small stuff, I have a benchtop router table, full size router table over there, bench top over there. The bench top is smaller. If you're doing smaller scale work, that's fine.

A great approach would be go to a woodworking store. Measure what they have and kind of scale that against the work that you want to do. John is in St. Louis, meet me in St. Louis, Louis.

If I use hot glue, I think he means, if I use hot glue as a temporary hold after I separate the pieces, will it affect the finish? Yeah, you gotta get all the residue off. Hot glue is like plastic. If you leave any on there, it won't take finish. So you gotta very thoroughly clean that up.

Michael says, can you tell me the best set for handsaws and dovetail saws? No sir, 'cause I know, my hand tools are in a cabinet with a glass door, and it says, in case of emergency break glass, that's how much of a hand to a person I am. So 25 years ago when I was teaching hand tool stuff for Peace Corps in Africa, I might have known the answer to that question 'cause I read it in a book. But I do not. I don't do enough, anywhere near enough hand tool stuff to answer that I made my own vinegar and steel wool stain, but when brushed it on pine it comes out rusty colored.

I want it to gray. How do I achieve this gray? Hey, I'll show you a cool product. Let me see if I still have some here. I'm not leaving you.

I'm still here. I'm just in a different part of the shop because I no longer have an assistant. So I have to run and get this stuff on my own. So I'm looking for a very specific product. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

If I can't find it, I'll just come back without it. Yeah, I can't find it. There's a product. There's a product in the market called, it's something like weathered wood finish. Give me a sec.

I bet Google knows. Varathane is the company. Just Google weathered wood finish. And oddly enough, it's called Weathered Wood Accelerator. Varathane Weathered Wood Accelerator.

I've used it on a couple things. That'll probably give you the look that you want. As always, experiment on scrap first. Dick says, he's in Vermont where it's snowing and minus 20 tonight, so colder than here. Gary, my Brazilian rosewood table came with some special oil I'm out of.

Can you think of a special oil for this table? Nope. Yeah, I don't know. I'd get ahold of the manufacturer and see if they can fill you in on what they provided you. Can you talk about your different bench clamps, especially T-tracks and bench dog clamps.

So, in this work bench that we're at, I have T-tracks here, 3/4 inch holes here. I've also got a Kreg keyhole laid in over there. So, I can do a bunch of stuff. This is a Kreg hold down and it's got a little bolt on it that's designed to go in there. And if we're doing face frames in a class, that's what we commonly use to secure them to get screws in them.

However, that bolt also does fit into the T-track. So that's a double dip. I also have, this is a Rockler product, so it's not a hold down, but it also goes into the T-track. And that'll act as a backer. Where are we?

Right there. That'll act as a backer. So if I have a board up against that and you're running a belt sander, that holds it in place. I've got Armor's hold downs, that's a 3/4 inch rod that will go, if the vice is not in the way, lovely out of frame. There.

That'll go in that 3/4 inch hole and act as a hold down. I've also got these BESSEY products. I really like these a lot because they have a metric ton of hold down pressure. That goes in the 3/4 inch hole. And then for a dog, because every dog must have its day.

I have, this is a Veritas product. I can't remember what it's called. Maybe it says. It doesn't. Well, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, it doesn't have the product name. But it's from Veritas. That goes in the 3/4 inch hole. And then I can also turn that. So I can tighten against the bench dog and the vice.

Or I can tighten the vice against that. So it's pretty versatile. Any tips for finishing 300 year old old growth heart pine? Experiment with different finishes. A Danish oil or something might be good on that.

I am a big fan of, my number one finish these days is a water-based top coat. But what I would do is just buy small samples of a lot of different products. Try them on there and see what you like to look up. And then you also have to marry that against what you're using the thing for. So if you need a highly durable finish, Danish oil isn't gonna be a good answer.

So you have to work through that matrix of what the project is gonna be used for and the look that you want to get from the finish. So Scott says, he's a hobby woodworker interested in taking client work. Any suggestions on how to begin? I'm nervous about mistakes. Well, you're gonna make mistakes.

I screw stuff up all the time. Yeah, you just gotta, not just gotta, I don't mean to oversimplify it. Find somebody willing to pay you to do some work. Take your time, do a good job. Learn your lessons.

Do another one. Keep building from there. And don't bite off more than you can chew. Paul, is in 160 square foot shop. Any suggestions for maximizing space?

Casters. You gotta castorate everything. Castor-ate, get it? You got to put casters on everything you own. That's my best advice.

Jess is watching from scenic Anchorage, Alaska. Have you seen Jess Crow's videos on WWGOA about resin? Very cool stuff. She's gonna do some more work with us too. You missed my question earlier.

I saw your bow tie presentation. How do you determine the size for the bow tie? Yes, somebody asked this yesterday and I just, what I do when I'm putting a bow tie into a piece of work is I sketch on the work what I think are appropriate sized bow ties. So I'm literally just looking at the piece, sketching out a bow tie. And then if I don't like it, I can sand that off and go again.

When I get to where I do like it, then that's the dimensions upon which I base the bow tie that I'm gonna make. Matt wants to replicate cabinets we have in our house, they're made of alder. I want to make them solid wood cabinets. As you know, alder generally comes in smaller widths. Is there another species of wood you recommend that would stain similar to alder but come in larger widths?

Alder is pretty, Alder's got a pretty distinct color and knot pattern. I might have to switch computers here. This battery's kind of running out. Pine would be close. But honestly, if you're doing a glue up, my general rule of thumb is when you're gluing up a panel you use pieces four to six inches wide.

So if you're getting five inch wide pieces of alder, you're pretty much in the sweet spot there. And I wouldn't go too much wider than that anyway. So in the world of locales, Owatonna, Minnesota, Burnet, Texas. Houston, I've been in Houston. Steam bending air-dried wood versus steam bending fresh-cut wood for hoops or chair backs.

I haven't done any steam bending. So I'm the wrong guy for that. I'm going to attend my first dovetails this spring I have a table saw and a router. What advice do you have concerning, yeah, sorry. The computer just quit.

Hang on. Isn't that funny? Hold please. This is a very high-tech shop. So there's more than one laptop.

It'll take a second to come up. So while that is coming up, we're almost halfway through. So again, a couple of things. As always thanks to Titebond for sponsoring. And as I mentioned earlier, I just found out today they just signed on for another year.

And then two, the other news I announced at the top of this whole thing is that WWGOA is now streaming through Roku devices. If you have a Roku and you go in the search window and you search woodworking or Woodworkers Guild, you're gonna find the channel. All right. It'll just take me a second to get where I'm going. All right.

We're in. Let me get back to that dovetail question. Where did it go? Okay, gonna attend my first dovetails this spring. Sorry about that.

I have a table saw and a router. What advice do you have for concerning the best way forward? Do you want to hand cut dovetails? Do you want a power cut? There's a lot of variables there.

Advice going forward. If you're gonna hand cut, watch videos, take a class, practice, practice, practice. A lot of mechanical, a lot of body mechanics there to get that right. If you're gonna power cut them, there are a number of router based jigs in the marketplace. Why does my Performax burn on 36 grit even though I'm making very slow adjustments going through belts too fast.

It could be the material. What are you sanding? Some materials, if they're real resiny, I sanded southern yellow pine yesterday. It clogs belts up in a heartbeat. So if it's a real resiny material, it could just be the material you're using.

Yeah, other than that, light passes and keep the paper fresh. Run an abrasive cleaner over the belt. I've been a woodworker for many years. It occurs to me that maybe when I use a random orbit sander I'm pushing down too hard. What are your thoughts on pressure when sanding with a random orbit?

No pressure. Like your hand is holding it in place, but don't lean on it at all. So here, the dynamic of it is, a random orbit sander spins at X RPM. Brrrrrrr. If you lean on it, you slow it down.

And then by slowing it down, it can't do the work and take out the scratches that it's supposed to do. So you should literally just be, all you're doing really is holding the top of the sander and letting the weight of the sander do the thing. So don't lean on it. Don't tip it. It gets tempting if you've got an isolated spot that needs a lot of sanding, it's tempting to tip it and rock into that.

Don't do it. That'll help. I have a walnut butcher block countertop on an island. We don't use it for food prep and oiling it is getting old. Please state in the form of a question.

On the gold class last night you mentioned a company where you can buy wood keys. Yeah, I cited that in the comments. Slab Stitcher is the name of the company. Looking for a solid recommendation on my first something. I don't know what, whoever wrote that, if you want to rewrite the question, I'll try to get to it.

Is rabbeting the only way to get rabbets on a router table? Can I use a straight bit? Yeah, you can do a straight bit and a fence. You don't have to use a rabbeting bit. If you're on a router table or you're using a handheld router with a fence, you can just use a straight bit.

Good bet to drill holes in kitchen cupboards for shelving, I think is what we're after there. The Rockler jigs are great. Hang on, I'm coming back. So this is Rockler's shelf jig. And the way it works is a self-centering drill bit.

Find focus. That nose goes in the plastic, and then you drill a hole. These hole centers are based on 32 millimeter hardware. So yeah, that thing works great. And there's a stop on this.

You can't drill through 3/4 stock. You cannot do ventilation holes. So that's a good one. And there are other similar products in the marketplace. Dust collection system, would you recommend building one?

I have no idea. I've never heard of anybody building a dust collector, but it's probably been done. Harbor Freight, there's a review on WWGOA about the Harbor Freight dust collector. It's a few years old. So I don't know if it's still up to date with current Harbor Freight models, but the review was positive.

What's the white piece of equipment behind you? I'm looking at the shop in the monitor. I don't know what you're seeing. The backdrop here is the same. I think it's always been.

I don't know. Best CNC for someone on a fixed budget. So here's the CNC deal. Figure out how thick your checkbook is, what you want to spend, what your budget is. Then you gotta think about what you want to make and that will start to talk to how big a bed you need.

So there are CNCs as small as nine by 13. Then of course there are CNCs as big as five feet by 12 feet and a lot of stuff in between. 18 by 24, 24 by 36, 24 by 48. So it really starts with knowing, it's like any tool, it really starts with knowing what you want to do with it and what your budget is. And from there, once you know bed size, that'll really go a long way toward nailing down models available for your budget in the size that you want to work with.

Michael says, can you explain the difference between a climb and conventional cut in a CNC machine? How do you decide which to use? A climb cut can, let me think a second. So, with a climb cut, there can be some propensity for the bit to move away from the work. So generally for me, I'm doing most of my cuts as a conventional cut.

And then my last pass, I'm doing a very light, about ten-thousandths of an inch, climb cut around the perimeter. And I think in my Toolpaths that's maybe the only time I ever do a climb cut, is on that last pass to get stuff to final size. Jay says, I have a butcher block bar top. I'd like to add depth with multiple coats of finish. What finish would you recommend?

I gotta say I'm such a bad finishing guy. I spray water-based lacquer. And I'm sure there are eleventy billion wonderful finishing products in the marketplace. This would be a good question for store people at a Woodcraft store or a Rockler store or Hirshfield's or Sherwin-Williams or just basically anybody that knows more about finish than me. I get what you're trying to do, but, it's just, yeah, I don't have a great answer for you.

Recommendation on dust collector for a planer. Big one. It doesn't have to be huge, but planers, I think want about 400 CFM minimum to get good dust collection. So you gotta remember, you have a dust collector, you have pipe. So if the dust collector is already 400 CFM, you're not gonna have 400 CFM at the machine anymore.

So there's a lot of variables depending on are you looking to have a stationary collector that's hard-piped in? Are you gonna have flex pipe? Are you gonna have solid pipe? How are you doing the piping? And just basically that's the big thing.

is matching up cubic feet per minute, CFM, requirements of the planer to the dust collector. And I would Google that. I'm not 100% sure it's 400 CFM for a planer, but I think I'm close. I watched your bow tie presentation. You mentioned you were using an up cut bit.

Wondering the difference between up cut and down cut? About the only time I'm using a down cut bit is if I have a material that's got a real fragile surface. If I have veneered, birdseye maple veneer over a backer. and I'm concerned that as I route it it's gonna chip because I'm lifting through it with an up cut bit, that'd be a good application for a down cut. I own a lot of spiral cutters and probably 98% of them are up cut and a couple of them are down cut.

So, up cut gets used way, way more in my shop than down cut does. But that's the biggest thing is, in a CNC application, down cut is helping kind of hold your work down to the table, 'cause it's a down cut. But also it's really more about protecting the upper surface, protecting the top surface. So it looks like a same question. Attempting my first dovetails, table saw and router.

What advice do you have concerning best way forward? Is there a template you prefer? You mean a dovetail jig? The Porter Cable 4212 jig is really good. Rockler's dovetail jig is really good.

If you want to go to something with variable spacing, the Leigh jig is really good. How do you deal with warped plywood? Well, you can't unwarp it. So part of it is, I hate to say don't get it, but that's kind of the answer is, if I'm getting plywood at a home center, it's not unlikely that I set a lot of sheets aside before I take the piece I want. But if you get it in your shop and it warps, then it warps.

And there's no I'm not sure what the question is. Like, how do you deal with it? You can't flatten it back out. It becomes really difficult to do joinery in because it's got bows in it. Cindy says, I'm in the market for a quality work bench.

Leaning toward the Sjoberg, didn't say that right, Elite. Is there a bench you recommend? I don't own any commercial benches, so I'm not a good source for you. Everything, I'm looking at work benches, everything in this building is something I've made. So I just don't know enough to answer your question.

How frequently do you change band saw tires? Like almost never. I had a Delta band saw with rubber tires I bought in 1993. We used it, I used it in my shop. I used it for classes.

I used it for video work. And I finally changed the tires, that was still in my old shop, so seven years ago. So say, what is it, so somewhere maybe around 2011, 2012, I finally changed the tires. And I only changed them because I needed to do it for, I needed to show how to change band saw tires for a video. So honestly there was nothing wrong with the rubber tires on there.

It's like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a, what is it, Tootsie Pop thing. And I dunno. I don't know how frequently you change tires 'cause I've never had to do it. So I don't know. Oh, Mark is very clever.

He's trying to get me to say, how many clamps do you have? Asking for a friend. Good try, Mark. If you're not aware, there is a contest on WWGOA, I'm sure you can find it on the Facebook page. There's a picture of my clamp wall, and it says how many clamps are in this picture?

I do know the number and I am not gonna tell you. I don't know when that contest ends. But I'm not gonna say. Good try though. Gary says you give classes, how do we get a list of classes available?

So go to my site, VondriskaWoodworks.com. And if you go to the classes page, there's a schedule there. If you want to get an update, then click on, oh, there's a link in there somewhere for information about classes and just send me an email. Give me your email address. And when I update my calendar or I know I'm gonna be in some city someplace, then I send an email out and say, new classes offered here, our, here in Hammond, Wisconsin, or I'm going to be teaching in, like my current schedule is Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Chicago, I've got a lot of stuff on the books right now.

So I send that out in a little email newsletter. Have you ever tried Tried & True finish? Nope. James says, a good finish for cherrywood doors? It depends, like exterior doors, cabinet doors?

Gotta match the finish to the way it's gonna get used. And as I have said, I am a big, I'm not a great finishing guy. I spray water-based lacquer. And I don't have a lot of experience with other products. Clint asked, what router fence do you use?

I've got the Porter Cable's router fence because it fits my Porter Cable router, and it's got good micro adjustment on it. Boy, a lot of finishing questions tonight. And I'm just a bad guy for this. What do you think about using Waterlox finish for a cherry desk? I don't know.

I've never used it. Can't help you, sorry. Applying finish in an unventilated basement shop, how should I do this? Yeah, I wouldn't. There's so many concerns there.

Basement shop, is there a pilot light on a water heater or a furnace? Is your house gonna stink? Either find a way to get some ventilation or yeah, wait. All right, where are we at? Yeah, so there's questions here I've already answered.

It looks like maybe some stuff got re-posted. A question about router bits I already answered. A question about CNC I already answered. How reliable are undersized router bits, plywood bits, for making dados? Do they make a good fit?

It's a big it depends. So, the deal with undersized router bits, I'm trying to think if they're right there. Let me look and see if they're here in my router table. They might be in a different spot. Yeah, they're in a different spot.

So the deal with undersized router bits is that plywood tends to be about 23/32 thick. So instead of a 3/4 inch bit it's a 23/32 bit. If the plywood happens to be a perfect 23/32, you're good to go. If it's a little bigger or a little smaller, then you don't have a good dado. So they work if the thickness of the plywood jives with your bits.

There are a lot of jigs out there shop made for handheld routers that let you customize the dado to the work you're doing, regardless of its thickness. Most of my dado work gets done on the table saw, not a handheld router. But, if I have to do one handheld, it's probably gonna be with one of those shop made jigs as opposed to the plywood bits. What do you use to clean sandpaper? An abrasive cleaning stick.

So these things are cool. Let's do, we'll even do a, I'm gonna come back and grab the camera. This is the thing. And I'm gonna point you toward that six by 48 sander. It's got a pretty good zoom on it, huh?

Whoops. All right. So abrasive cleaning stick. Ready? Sorry if I'm making you seasick.

There. Did I just sell a thousand abrasive cleaning sticks? These are not expensive. They're way less expensive than constantly replacing that sandpaper. What was I gonna say?

Woodworking specialty stores or of course Amazon has 'em. So Maria is asking about, I dunno what. A camper? A mobile sleeping unit. I'll interpret that as some kind of camper.

Yeah. I just, I have no experience with that kind of thing. I'm not a good source for that. Piece of rolling equipment between the office door. Oh yes, it's the Festool vacuum, it's always parked there.

Yeah, Ajay called it out, the Festool. Steven says, I want to laser names on pens. What do you recommend? I recently got the Next Wave Moray laser. It's not a very expensive laser.

It's seven watts. So not uber powerful, but, I'm trying to think if I have anything sitting here. I've lasered a lot of stuff on it. It's pretty cool. So that would be, that'd be, I dunno, if that's what you're looking for, a specific product recommendation.

That Next Wave Moray has been good for me. If you were to have an all-in-one handyman mobile unit... I don't know much about being a handyman, so I don't know. More of a woodworking thing here. George, what is your work bench made of?

The top is Baltic birch and it's two layers of one inch Baltic birch, so net net two inches thick. I bought that in four by eight sheets. And the base of it is 3/4 inch AC plywood. Do you like the AKEDA jig for dovetails? Boy, it's a really long time since I used one, like a decade, maybe more.

In my memory it seemed to work okay. But it's probably changed. I gotta believe it's a different product at this point. So I don't, yeah, I don't know. It's probably not fair for me to comment on it.

What's a good chisel set for the money? Marples are good. I'm looking to see if I have one laying here. I think they're all tucked away. Blue plastic handle.

My daily use chisels are these. HMGs or GMH, am I getting it right? Wooden handled chisels. So both of those brands are good. I've seen you wear different hearing protection over the years.

What have you decided are the best? ISOtunes are in my ears, many, many, many, many, many, many hours per day. And whether, honestly, whether I'm in here running tools and woodworking or I'm on my bicycle biking or I'm running or whatever, working out, they're my earbuds of choice and they provide hearing protection. Do you use the GRR Ripper? Yep.

Sean is asking, how do you make those letters? I don't know what letters, so I don't know. I need a more specific thing there. Best way to make a 36 inch interior door? Lots of router bit sets out there now.

CMT makes one, Freud makes a set that lets you make passage doors. Make sure the wood is really, really stable. You can imagine across, once you make a door, 33.0 by 6'8", if it twists or cups or warps just a little bit you're gonna be in a world of hurt. So you really gotta make sure the lumber is stable. And then, like I said, those router bit sets are a really effective way to do doors.

I have a 40 by 60 shed. My woodworking tools take up about 20 by 20. They want to put a hole through the roof for ventilation. Do you have a recommendation for a heater? Nah, I would, another thing I'm not a good guy for.

I would find a local HVAC somebody and see what they recommend. It's gonna depend on where you live. Do you want to use electric, propane, natural gas? Can you run, this whole mini-split thing is new to me. I know, I think, I know four woodworkers now that have put mini splits in their shop, I don't even know what it is.

So yeah, there's probably way too much technology out there for me to recommend. Is a three horse power saw stop overkill for a home woodworker when compared with a basic one and a half? Well, it depends on what you're gonna do. You have more power. You have a heavier machine.

I have used, I've used the one and a half horse at many, many woodworking shows. So the deal with that is my saw here is a 220 volt. At events, like a woodworking show, it's unlikely I'm gonna have 220 volt power. So I've used 110, one and a half horse there. I've never had a problem.

Cut dados, ripped wood. So they're fine saws. Michael says, please pass on our many thanks to Titebond. I will. Todd says, I have significant difficulty routing an edge when going uphill on fir.

The wood splinters. Is there a way to handle routing uphill often needed on curved parts? Light passes, light passes, sharp bits. Fir especially is gonna be prone to fuzzing, chipping. So yeah, very, very light swipes.

All right, what time are we sneaking up on Just about done, just about eight o'clock here. So a couple things again, thanks to Titebond. I've hit on that a couple of times. The other big announcement was that WWGOA Woodworkers Guild of America is now a channel on Roku devices. So if you go to the search window and you search Woodworkers Guild or woodworking, you'll find the Woodworkers Guild WWGOA channel.

In the world of teaching events, where are we, February? End of this month I'll be in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at Stan Houston Equipment. And then we're in March. I think I don't have any teaching gigs in March. April, I'm at the Mark Adams School doing a cabinet making class, a week long cabinet class.

That'll be a blast. Just prior to that, around April 22nd, I'll be at the two Rockler stores in Chicago. April 26th, I'll be at the Rockler store in Indianapolis, Indiana. And then May 23rd, I'll be at the Rockler store in Pittsburgh. So maybe I will see you on the road.

Last question Is birch a good turning wood? Yep. It can be a chippy. A little splintery, not splintery, chippy. But sharp tools.

It's pretty close grained. It cuts well. Gary says, will GOA ever be available for Apple TV? Yeah, I think they're, I think Apple TV is on the heels of this Roku thing. I think it's next.

And keep in mind there's a whole office of people that does that stuff, I'm just a woodworker. So there are a lot of decisions get made behind the scenes I'm not aware of. But, I think that, I think when they talked about the Roku they said Apple TV was close behind. All right. That's it folks.

And a big thank you to Sam who is always behind the scenes, running this, making sure that everything goes okey and dokey. And I'm trying to think, what are we in February, March. So yeah, next one of these will be second Thursday in March, seven o'clock. And we will see you then and there. Thanks for watching, folks.