I recently wrote a few articles on cleaning dust in your workshop and recommended having a dust collection system in your apartment workshop. Most reader feedback from those posts is about cleaning the dust bags, and more importantly, can you wash dust collector bags? In general, dust collector bags should NOT be washed as washing…
After being a cabinetmaker for 26 years, one common problem for us was joining 2 pieces of melamine where you couldn’t access one side to screw through. Pocket holes seemed like a good option at the time or were they? I thought I should share my experience from this time and tell you what I…
I own a slightly larger than double garage-sized woodworking shop where I spend every weekend doing random projects. I recently bought a dual drum sander and needed to know how big a dust collector I would need. I’m sure we all have this question – what is the best dust collector for drum sanders? On…
Over the last several years I have seen a huge increase in the number of woodworkers using pocket holes to join wood together rather than traditional jointing methods. I even noticed my local woodwork supplies store has a whole shelf just for Kreg and pocket holes. I have seen many traditional woodworkers so bad things…
If you’ve recently acquired a CNC routing device, you might notice two things; that its routing bits are detachable and it comes with a few bits. It is reasonable to think of when you might have to replace the bits since not every bit serves the same function, and you might need to replace a…
A CNC router is a convenient contraption to finish, sand, round, or drill aspects of your project with no room for error. A computer-driven machine is much better at handling the standard repetitive motions in wood carving and engraving. But what do you do if your CNC router is missing its routing head? Can you…