- [voiceover] the woodwhisperer is sponsored by powermatic, the gold standard since 1921, and by clear vue cyclones, clear the air and breathe easy. - welcome to another tww live.
routers woodworking forum, this is the third one,- yes. - and it's getting better every time, at least i think so andthat's all that counts right? of course, i'm marc.
this is my wife nicole.^- hi. - we run a little websitecalled the wood whisperer, at thewoodwhisperer.com where you can get a lot of free videos and tutorials, and articles, and plans,- plans and everything - and other things youprobably don't care about. - in july, we gave awaya powermatic drill press. - work it out, work it out. - it's early in the morning.
what do you do about it?- yeah, 10 am, it's very early. - so the big winner (drumming) is ryan i knew i was going to, watchet, - wachte, wah-chee-chee, - you have an email ryan.- ryan. - so make sure you respondto me in the next 48 hours. ryan, i'm going topronounce it wah-chee-chee 'cause that sounds more fun. - congratulations, ryan.- yes.
- you are now the proudowner of a drill press. - right, and because it's a new month, we're starting over.- yes. - new giveway. what is it? - it's a clear vue,- yeah, yeah -- - ^1800, is it 1800?- cv1800. - dust collect -- ican't talk this morning. what is wrong with me?
- (laughing) let me help you here. a clear vue cv1800 cyclone dust collector.- with filters. - with filters. and this is what i run inthe wood whisperer shop here. if it can work in this1800 square foot shop, you can see a little picture here, shows you my setup. if it can work in here, it can sure as heck work in just about
any other shop out there. it is really powerful. it will, as my step-dad would say, suck the balls of a brass monkey. if you're interested in this, go to thewoodwhisperer.com/giveaway. you can sign up for this. we also have a video up there that we did a number of months agocovering the installation
of one of these units 'cause it is a little bit of a diy thing. that's why you can save money when you purchase one of these units. it's one of the best bangs for the buck out there in dust collection, and that's why i've been using them since, well shoot, i got it soon after we moved to arizona.- yeah, you had it before --
- pre-wood whisperer days, and now we're lucky to have them as a sponsor of the show, and you're lucky to havethem as a sponsor of the show because stuff like this happens. first of all, i do want to mention a little bit of self-promotion here, the wood whisperer guild in september will be starting a new project.
we're going to be doingthe krenov cabinet. well, it's more of a krenov stand. it's sort of an open cabinet, a really beautiful piece, classic piece, and we'll be beginning thatlittle journey in september. so if you're interested in that, go to thewoodwhispererguild.com and you'll get all the details. if you sign up for aone-year subscription,
you'll get that as partof your subscription. we do have a new wood whisperer store now which is pretty cool. we moved to a whole different platform, much simpler, much prettier, much nicer to look at the items. we're not a real complex store. we don't need a big fancy system like we used to have before.
this is very simple,looks great on mobile. close this window, get outof this stupid live thing and go buy something. go buy a t-shirt, it's urgent. all right, so this was something that came across my plate in the forum i noticed someone mentionedthe new sketchup viewer. now, me personally, this is something i've been waiting for for a long time.
i do a lot of work with sketchup. i like to see my variousmodels in sktechup, and they came out with a viewerfor both ios and android. orbit, explore and present your 3d models, and browse the entire 3d warehouse with the sketchup mobile viewer tablet app available today for iosand android tablets.. i actually did download it. it's $9.99.
so you could see in this screen, i've got all basically the projects that i have access to. i even uploaded a couple of my own here. then when you go into the viewer, you can sort of orbit, and pan around your projects lookingat your different views. the better constructed your file is, with different views,
the better and more usefulit's going to be in the app. this is not necessarily, it might be a little disappointing for some folks like youand i who want to tinker with these models. you want to be able tolook at the measurements even if you have pre-dimensionedparts in your file, it strips those out for the viewer. the other drawback is you do have to have
these files in the 3d warehouse, but if you do upload your files, you can make them privatein the 3d warehouse, and then access them. so if you don't want toshare it with the world, that's one way around it. so check it out. we'll put the links, or course, to both the ios version and the android version
in the show notes. margie's great auk, a-u-k, auk, auk, ook, kayak, this thing was built by omar. here's his story. he says, "the projectbegan three years ago "at the 10th annual capefear community college "boat show. "materials were purchased in 2009, "and the first stripwas applied to the molds
"on june 19, 2010. "the fully-outfitted boathad her inaugural launch, "july 2, 2011, at wrightsville sound. "the boat was displayed at the 2011 "southport wooden boat show, "and won for best non-power row/paddle." that's pretty darn cool, huh? now if you want tosubmit your own project, you can do that.
just go to thewoodwhisperer.com/submit. this one comes from stevejordan, and he says, "i just stumbled upon yourvideos about two weeks ago. "i want you to know that my father died "four years ago this week. "he and i had a woodshoptogether for personal use, "and i'd been by hisside since i could walk. "i have not had the desireto pick up a tool since. "i have though, halfheartedly.
"watching your videoshas helped me," sorry, "has helped to inspireme to get going again. "my wife and i arefinishing our new house, "and i've been given free rein to use our "three-car garage for the new shop. "thanks for doing what you do. "steve jordan." it's emails like this that just kind of make it a lot more funto get up in the morning
knowing that we might beable to positively impact someone's life like this. so, that's awesome to hear, steve. thank you for writing in. a couple of weeks ago, maybe a week ago, i posted a video about a vet who builds in his garage shop, and gives a lot of the things, the furniture he makes tothe air force base families
who are in need, and he's building these things for free and giving it to the families. he's been doing this for a long time, and now his hoa is telling him to stop. this really created alot of buzz on facebook. here's a video where you can check it out. - he's been buildingfurniture out of his garage for more than a decade,
and then donating it tomilitary families in need, but now his homeowners association is telling him to stop. -that i may not paint,sand, cut wood, or screw on the property. - the new mandate cuts deep. - [voiceover] denniskocher has been building cabinets and dressers for a decade, donating most of themto military families.
even as a non-profit, the vietnam veteran was told to get a business permit. he did in 2012, but this march, the lake of the pines homeowners association took it away. - now they've come back to me and said that i'm producingodors and noxious fumes. - such complaints typicallycome from neighbors, but 12 of them have written letters
supporting dennis and his work. dennis has stoppedbuilding furniture for now, but he vows it won'tstay that way for long. - i'm going to keep that fighting spirit. - hoas have a really bad reputation, and this kind of thing doesn't help. it seems like someone who's been, maybe it was against the rules of the hoa, and he's been getting awaywith it for years now,
and then suddenly they want to clamp down on something like this. it sounds like they keep upping the ante trying to dissuade himfrom doing his thing, and then suddenly he getshis business license. he does everything he's supposed to do, but they still want to shut him down. when i posted this, it was very clear that theworld really hates hoas.
they can really be brutal. the thing is, there are some hoas that aren't that bad. we live in an hoa community, and thankfully it's actuallya really reasonable hoa. like any hoa there's some issues sometimes that you're like what arewe talking about here? but ultimately they dokeep the home values up. they make sure everybody'sproperties look good,
but they're not as bad as some that want to dictatewhat's in your backyard, every little detail. so we're pretty lucky with ours, but clearly this one ison sort of a power trip with this guy so i really feel for him because you established this pattern. this is just, he's clearly retired, and this is what he's doing with his days,
and someone is going to come along and tell him not to do it. it's just tricky because the thing is a lot of the commentsthat came in on facebook were talking about ourfreedoms in this country, and that it's a shame that someone fights for our freedom and then can't exercise his own freedom, but the problem is here'sthe thing with freedom.
you're free to give awayyour freedom, right? and that's what happenswhen you sign into an hoa. you are agreeing to giveup certain freedoms. i don't want to play sortof a right and wrong game because i absolutely sidewith dennis in this case, but there is a part of this that says, "look, you signed a contract. "you gave up that freedom when you agreed "to live in an hoa neighborhood."
it's something i'm prepared to deal with if my hoa comes down on my butt for something that i'm doing. it's a tough situation. i really feel for the guy. if there's anything i coulddo to help him out i would. maybe publicizing thisis about the best thing i could do. hopefully, they will relax their hold.
steve carmichael atthe carmichael workshop built a whirligig for thewhirligig wars competition that's going on right now, and he built something called, so basically a game consistingof multiple whirligig called whack a woodworker, and yours truly is one ofthe featured woodworkers. so i got a real kick out of this. here's a clip.
- hi, welcome to whack a woodworker, the interactive whirligig arcade game. today's panel consists offive famous woodworkers who inspired me to start making my own woodworking videos. so what better way to pay tribute than to whack them onthe head with a mallet. whack a woodworker has five propellers that turn independently.
our panel of woodworkers pop up as fast and as random as the wind blows. - awesome stuff. great job with that, steve, and thank you for beating me in the face with a mallet. steve strikes me as the kind of guy that i'd like to sharea rack of ribs with. nice guy.
the other thing aboutthis is laney shaughnessy i believe is the one who's kind of spearheading the campaign and the event whirligig wars. i'll put a link for his video explaining how you can enter the competition. there's a lot of tie-in tothe make-a-wish foundation so anytime you're doingsomething with charity let me know about it
because i like to spreadthe word when possible. we'll put the link there for that as well. so, hey, good luckeverybody who is entering and hopefully you raise alot of money for the charity. here's another thing thatcame across my plate. instructables. you guys probably have seen that website. well, someone put together a list of great woodworkingprojects for beginners.
right, instructables, i think it's kind of hit or miss depending onwho's writing the article the level of quality there, but either way a lot oftimes with this stuff you could just look at the pictures and figure out how to do it,but great inspiration here. if you're new to woodworking, and you're not reallysure where to go with it or what to build,
you can find some great ideas especially you could see here some great stuff for the house. when you're starting woodworking, there's no better way toget your spouse's approval and support on something like this than building thingsthat you can actually use in the home. what i want to show you
is what i consider to be a basic toolkit for a beginning woodworker, someone who is interested in power tools, but you're not necessarily ready to commit to the big power tools, the table saws, the band saws. so what do you need to get work done? it's really not that much, right? look across the board.
i've got a couple of hand tools here all hand power tools. of course, i am a big fan of festool. i love the quality. i do this for a living so for me festool is absolutelyworth the investment. it may not be for you. there are tons of brands out there that will give you quality results
and last a very long time that aren't green and black, or dark blue as the case may be. first of all, a router. a router is really oneof the best multitaskers in your shop. you can do jointing with a router. you could do flush trimming,or course, joinery. a lot of people just think of the router
they think of edge treatments, you know, ogees, and roundovers, but it can be so muchmore useful that that. if you build jigs to support the router, you're really going to exponentially increase the amount of thingsthat you can do with it. so a good quality router,preferably a plunge router. a fixed-base router is okay, but a plunge router is really going
to allow you to do a lot more in terms of mortisingand things like that. it makes it easier to use. it's more multi-functional that way. i do recommend a random-orbit sander. if you're going to getone, get a six inch. i think the extra realestate saves you time. you've got more sandpaper on the surface so it actually will bea timesaver for you,
but random-orbit sandersi like them better than quarter sheet sanders because they sort of sandin a random orbital pattern which isn't noticeable to the eye. you get a lot less of those little pigtail squiggly lines. so a random-orbit sanderi think is essential. a good drill. you don't necessarily need to get
all different types of drills just the standard drill driver like this for drilling holes and driving screws will do the trick. okay, a good quality circular saw. even if you don't have agood quality circular saw, even a medium quality is going to work, or if you have a low budget circular saw just put a better blade in there.
the blade will make all thedifference in the world. i'm going to show you a way to get better results out of this that are very similar to what i get from my festool setup with a track. you're going to like that. by the way, you'll be using this to cut sheet goods. you can use it to cut solid wood
if you have a wide enoughplatform to work with, but if you want to work with plywood, mdf, things like that, a circular saw is goingto be your best friend. now, you're also going to need to cut curves at some point. i do a lot of this with a band saw, but you can do most of thatcurve cutting with a jig saw. it doesn't really have tobe a high quality jig saw
because a lot of times those curves, you're going to sand them afterwards or maybe use a file orsomething to clean them up. all right, so this isit for the power tools, but if you get into woodworking you absolutely, i believe,you can't ignore handtools. they're essential to doing good work, and to really increase your versatility and what you can do aswell as your skills.
so a good set of chisels is essential, quarter inch, half inch,three-quarters, and one inch. if you have those in your collection, you pretty much have your bases covered for the most part. but chisels are going to be, i don't know, i use them on every single project. something gets touched witha chisel at some point. and, a good multi-purpose saw.
a lot of people with all these other sort of cutting implements and things don't necessarily think that a hand saw is all that useful, but you'd be surprised how many binds this will get you out of. all right, and that iswhat i consider to be the basic tool kit. now you could step this up.
you could upgrade from a jig saw and get yourself a band saw. you could stop relying so much on your circular saw andget yourself a table saw. you could take the router,flip it upside down and put it in a table, and now you've got evenmore functionality. so there's upgrades up the wazoo, but for now if you're just getting started
and you want to do some of those things like in that instructableslink that i put in there, these are tools that aregoing to allow you to do that. if you shop carefully, and maybe look at the used market, you can get all thisfor a pretty low price. i'm going to show you a jig that i use. now here is a festool track. this to me revolutionized the concept
of what a circular saw can do because the saw travels along the track there's no slop. you basically put thisright down on the line. so you measure your lines,drop your guide on the line, and you cut right to it. this is the kind of thingthat a lot of people are trying to get nowthrough less expensive means. i'm going to show youexactly how you can do that.
this is a homemade track. now, it doesn't lock in in the same way that the festool might with those little, itbasically has two rows that lock it in so it really has no slop. with this you can move away from it if you're not careful. but all this is is apiece of particle board. you can use mdf.
you can use plywood, whatever you want. i've got this little mdf strip. it's about a quarter inch thick, and it was sold at home depot. don't know if this is in every region, but it was in mine. they call it bender board, but it's just this strip at this size too. it was just a little bitlonger sold as bender board,
and it's just a quarter inch mdf. this serves as the fence so our saw basically justsits on it like this, and our blade is cuttingright on this line so we're getting a lotof the same advantages that we get with that festool track. this is going to go rightalong this outside edge. we'll clip this piece off,make sure i'm not cutting into my workbench.
that would be disappointing wouldn't it? - [voicoever] or cord?- yeah, or the cord. and i'm just going tocut right through it. the key though is i'm keeping pressure up against this small,little bender board fence. (sawing) now a huge part of the quality issue that you get with a circular saw and whether or not cuts cleanly
comes from two things. it comes from the blade. so you want a blade with a lot of teeth, a nice, good quality blade, and also this track. the track's contact with this top edge is what gives us a nice clean cut. now, we went with the grain of the veneer. so we did stack thecards in our favor here.
a cross cut across the grain would have been a much better test, but we would have gottenpretty decent results. but i don't know if you can see that edge, you zoomed in on that? it's pretty darn clean. the base of this isactually just shelf material from home depot. it's got a bullnose on the other end.
so i just bought a six-footlength of shelving, and this bender board. the way that i attached it on there is just with glue anda couple of brad nails use a straight edge,or if you have a level, a four-foot level or somethingthat you know to be straight. all i did was put thelevel or the straight edge up against it. hold it nice and tight.
it's already pretty straight. we just want to make sureit doesn't skew at all. make it nice and straight, and then secure it to the base. you put it in a little bit further, and when you make your first cut, you establish your cutline on that straight edge so it's always dead on from then on. you can make these of all different sizes,
use some different materials to make it a little bit lighter for yourself, you might even by some maybe some grippy kind of material or something to simulate what the festool track has. it's got that little foam there plus this little strip. add those to it,
you're going to get a lotof that functionality. now, no, it's not as goodas the festool track, but we're talking aboutdoing things on a budget with limited tools, and this is something that's really going to up your game quite a bit. so keeping with our theme of simplicity, i have a book here. this is not necessarily new.
i think i've had this for a year or two, but it's a good opportunityto tell you about it. ridiculously simple furniture projects by spike carlsen. we'll put the link to amazon so you could purchase this. of course, if you buy through our link, that actually does help us out. we get a small kickback from amazon
so we always appreciateyou using our links. it's $15, and you can takea look at the cover there see some pretty nice projects, but the real magic here is the simplicity in which the way they weredesigned for construction, and the tools. the tool set that i just showed you is the lion's share ofwhat you're going to see in a book like this.
even though simple is the key, we're not looking atlow-quality furniture here. we're looking at veryhigh quality furniture just built in a simple way. you know what? i'm thinking i may write a new book. i'm going to call it ridiculously difficult furniture projects just as a fair counterpoint.
what i do a lot of times between projects is i photograph the previous one. i have since added some really cool backdrop stuff to my shop. i get a lot of questions about how i photograph my work. i've got a couple examples to show you. i'm going to actually showyou my setup over here so you can see what i actually do.
this is new to me. this is the first timei was able to do this. i just added that to the shop about six months ago. what i've done is i installedsome photographic backdrops. these are paper backdrops. you can see we have three rolls up there which i have to be honest is overkill, but having never really done this before
i wasn't sure what background would work the best for me. so i got a white. i got a dark gray, and then i got a beige. it's actually a really cool system. if you look over here, i've got these chain-driventhingamabobbers. that's actually what they're called.- [voiceover] pulleys.
- yeah, sort of, pulley thingys, and this will actually allow me to retract and pull down the paper. the great thing about this is you put the backdrop down. doesn't matter what's behind it, it covers pretty much everything. you put your project, obviously, the bigger it is theharder it is to do this,
but most of the stuff i build will fit within the confines of this size. put your subject here, and, of course, you need lighting. like, this is good, but you do need supplemental lighting to make this work, just those little compactfluorescent deals. i shine those -- now, here's the thing.
if you want to get intophotographic lighting there's a lot of greatresources out there, and you can find out about your basic three-point lighting techniques. if i had the skill and ability and time, i probably would lookinto that type of thing. i know about it. i just don't practice it. i find that two decent lights
will give me good results 'cause the key is i just want results that look professional enough. i'm not trying to compete with a professional photographer here. i just want it to look decent. i have my two lights castinglight in both directions, creates some nice shadows and we get really good results with this.
i also have larger box lights, light boxes that will cast a hugeamount of light on a scene. sometimes it's overkill for this. sometimes it's just right. you can dial them down a little, but they're big and bulky so i don't keep them in the shop. this setup works really well for me. now, the camera i use is a canon 60d.
it's a really good camera especially for someone like me who isn't really allthat into photography, but i bought this when i wrote the book. i needed quality photos at a level that i didn't currentlyhave the ability to take so this was a good compromise and has turned out to be areally good camera for me. that's what i take my shots with,
but i'm going to show you some pictures that i took with my iphone. because of this setup, they're really darn good. it's kind of showing you that you don't necessarily have toinvest a thousand dollars into a camera if you've already got one on your phone and your lightingsituation is just right. each one of those chain drives is $38
so if you can find a wayeven if you buy the brackets, the brackets themselves are $30. you don't have to have allthree of them populated, or you could just go look at them online and maybe make something of your own. it probably isn't too difficult, but 30 bucks for the hooks, $38 for one of the drives, and then your paper rolldepending on what you get.
mine was about $65. it's not that bad of an investment. if it's something you'regoing to use on every project, it makes your work look like it's been professionally photographed. this is the recent garyrogowski jewelry box project. all that was done isthe setup you just saw. i laid the jewelry box onthe ground toward the back and took a picture with my canon camera.
i don't even know a wholelot about custom settings. i mean a little bit of knowledge about using customsettings for your camera will go a long way so youcan get your focus right, you can stop using theflash and things like that, and you can get really good results. but this is an undoctored photo right off the camera using that setup. this is the morris chair project
just recently completed. that one is doctored, and this is really the secret to a lot of my pictures when i can't get perfect lighting likeright off the camera, i have help. my good buddy, funk, john funk, does some great photoshop work. his wife does as well.
one of them, i don't knowwho actually does it, but they do a lot ofpost-work on these pictures. here is the same shot pre-photoshop. all he did was removesome of the shadow lines, brighten things up, and also you notice i've got a little bit ofbackground on that shot. look to the left and to the right where you could see tothe outside extremities of the paper.
this actually, let me go backto the photoshop version. boom. cleans it up real nice, and like i said, good enough. i'm not looking for absolute, you know, this is going to stand up to the best photographers out there. i don't need that. this is good enough forme to post on facebook,
and for you people to go, "oh, ah," which is actually myultimate goal in life. here's a shot, same setupwith my morris chair using my iphone. that doesn't look too bad does it? that's undoctored by the way. that was just for test purposes. i wanted to take apicture to prove a point specifically for this to show you
what it looks like using, and not that the iphone has a bad camera, the iphone has a very good camera, but it's somethingthat's along for the ride with my smartphone asopposed to $800-$900 camera that i invested in for the purposes of taking pictures for a book. you don't necessarily haveto go through all this stuff, but if you want to
there's a great resource for lighting and i use it for all of my lighting needs because it's incredibly budget-friendly, steve kaeser lighting. i believe the guy's locatedin southern california, and i will put the linkdirectly to his site great lighting kits, great prices on big soft boxes, light boxes, and littlephotographic kits like this,
you can even get those little tents that sort of open up and it's a light box that you can shine the light in and take pictures ofsmaller items like that. he says, "once the learning curve is over, "are hand-cut dovetails justas easy and fast as a jig? "i use a porter cable jigand it's easy and fast." - hmm, that's a great question. here's how i see it.
jigs are fantastic whenyou're doing multiples. so the more drawers you have to do, the more useful that jig becomes. now even, i have leigh jig, and i know the porter cable is similar in a sense that you need to consult the manual when you're setting it up. if you do it more frequently, you'll be able to do the setup
without having to consult the manual each and every time. the time investment ittakes you to master the jig could very well be equivalent to the time investment it takes you to get fairly proficient at cutting dovetails by hand. i think it probably takes a little longer to get good at hand cutting,
but you have to look at thetwo different investments and which one's more valuable to you. the skills you learn whenyou're cutting by hand are actually skills thatwill be used elsewhere. once you master how toput your jig together, that's a skill that can only be used to put that jig together. it's not a transferable skill so you do have to weigh these things
a little bit differently, but lets say you've got both down. you're pretty quick atcutting them by hand, and you know how to assembleyour jig in a jiffy. then you're just downto cutting the drawers. i would say that ifyou're doing one drawer, i think a hand-cut dovetail person who's not the best, we're not talking about a rob cosman here.
we're talking about just a regular person who's fairly proficient. i think at one drawer, the person doing it by handcould probably win out. there's definitely a fighting chance. once you get beyond that, once you start doing twodrawers, three drawers, a chest of drawers, i think the jig wins justbecause it's repeatable.
that's what machines do. they're meant to do repeatable settings in great numbers, and that's what makesthe jig more proficient. bottom line is i don't care what you use. use whatever you want to use. just keep in mind that if you're really getting into the art of dovetail cutting, you're going to probably want to gravitate
toward hand cut because youcan really get those pins nice and thin in a way that just isn't actually possible with a dovetail jig. matty38: quick question, how do you deal with insects in your shop especially when finishing? i'm pretty fortunate. in arizona, we actually don't have a lot of flying pests for the most part.
there are certain seasons where the flies pick up a little bit, but we don't have reallya big mosquito issue. there's just not asmuch water and moisture so a lot of times those flying bugs aren't nearly the problem that they are in other parts of the country. try to work with your lacquers, with your shellacs,things that dry faster.
the faster they dry,the less chance there is that something's going to fly down and sit on top of your finish. oil-based finishes take longer to dry. better chance that you'regoing to get a bug in there. the bugs may be inevitable so if that's the case make sure you know howto finish the finish. after your finish is dry,
if you know how to prep that surface to get an absolutely smooth surface even if a little bug flies in there, a gnat or something like that, you'll be able to abrade the surface and bring it up to whatever sheen you want using that sort of finish, the finish methodology, and it won't really matter that much
'cause you're going to do a little bit of abrasion after the fact. that may actually be one of the things that saves your bacon most of the time because sometimes you just can't control what the heck these bugs do. coffee break. all right, matthew s says, "i just bought my tablesaw based on your advice
"from the last episode," that's awesome. "and have been making sawdust. "i am wanting to get into some hardwood. "can i handle roughlumber without a planer "or jointer?" matthew, i'm not going to say you can't. i'm just going to sayit's going to be tricky. when you're dealing with rough lumber,
you've got to prep your faces, your edges. you've got quite a bit of work to do, and your jointer and your planer excel at those tasks. everything else you dooutside of those tools is going to be some sort of a compromise. you can use your router to flatten a face using router rails. i've got a video thatshows you how to do that.
you could prep the edgesusing a router table. you could even build asled for your table saw and get a nice clean edge on there. so those initial starting surfaces can be done using thetools you currently have. it's just a lot more work. i'm not going to say you can't do it. i'm just going to say be prepared to put a lot more sweat equity into it.
one of the things i recommend early on especially with a tool kitlike i recommended earlier, is that you buy your stuff pre-milled. eventually if you're looking to add those milling tools to your collection, you'll get there. but in the meantime, buy some s4s stock, get it into the shop as soon as possible. better yet, if you couldbuy your stuff rough
and have the shop, or the lumber place you're buying it from have them mill it up right then and there, you'll be able to get itto your shop fast enough to incorporate it into a project before things start to move on you. yeah, it is possible. it's just somethingthat's going to require quite a bit more work.
okay, aaron's got a question about hvlp. he says, "i'm thinking about buying "a turbine sprayer, theearlex you reviewed. "i'm wondering if i shouldpay a little bit more "for the extra air pressure option "like your higher-end modelsprayer that you have." personally, aaron, earlex i do believe is one of the bestbargains in turbine hvlps, but i do think if youspend a little bit more,
you can not only get a more powerful unit, but you also get one thathas a higher quality hose that won't necessarilybreak if you step on it. crap, it won't even break ifyou run it over with your car. the parts on it are just alittle bit higher quality, and will probably lasta little bit longer, and that is going into the fuji line. i'm a big fan of fuji's turbine sprayers. i've got the q4.
prior to that i owned the q3. well, since then they actually came out with a number ofmid-range and lower-range, more budget-friendly models. i believe they call it the hobby-pro. we gave one away coupleof months ago didn't we? these are great units, and they're reallycompetitive pricing-wise with the earlex.
so in my opinion, and this is not a knock against earlex. i love them. the people at earlex are great, and you should definitely consider them, but for my money, i reallylike what fuji is doing. so take a look at the hobby-pro unit. take a look at some of theother things they offer, and do a side-by-side comparison.
i don't think you'regoing to be disappointed with either if you go for earlex or fuji, but i think if you canspend a few more bucks and get a little higher quality hose, a little more powerful unit, you're overall going to behappier with the results. you also may get a gun that has more fine-tuning settings on it which can be helpful.
do you put finish over a painted project? if so, what type of finish? i don't usually paint my projects. that said, if you do have a paint, you can certainly usea compatible topcoat. if you're using a latex, you'll want to go with an acrylic poly, or something to put ona couple extra coats of a clear coat that willhelp protect the paint.
in a lot of cases though, paint, especially if youuse a good quality paint, paint is pretty darn protective in and of itself so you may not need to do something like that, but keep like with like. if you're using water-based materials, then keep your topcoatwater-based as well. the other thing to consider is,
i don't know if you have a spray setup, but if you do a great way for woodworkers to paint is by using pigmented lacquer. you could buy this or have a paint store make it up for you, or you can make it yourself. i've got cans of utc pigments that i use. i'll put those in my canof lacquer and spray that.
now you're actually getting a painted look with lacquer built in. so as you start to getthe color that you want after three or four coats starts to build. then you can actuallyswitch to a clear finish with the same lacquer. take the pigment out of there, and it gives you such an amazing depth and beautiful look
that is really hard to achieve with traditional paint. i've done that on a number of projects for clients in the past, and man am i always, always happy with the results because it brings paint into the realm of whata lot of woodworkers are more comfortable with which is clear finishes.
you don't have to think too much about the paint aspect because it's coming along for theride with the lacquer. so, the next show isgoing to be september 5th. - it's the first friday. - i believe it is, yeah. first friday of every month we will try as long as the time frame cooperates. - we did pretty good.
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