This is currently my favorite channel on all of RUclips. I always look forward to your videos and the great insight that you bring along. It's like being able to spend time with my dad in the workshop. Very informative and always entertaining.
Ive officially lost count of the upgrades and jigs for my shop. My rearrangeritis kicked in when i decided to get a new table saw. Now i have new jigs to make for it. Thank you for your wisdom.
I've watched hundred if not thousands of videos produced by talented woodworkers. I thought I had seen it all, you have opened my eyes to new possibilities!
I could sit and watch this guy all day, in fact I very nearly have, I started watching 1 video, then another and another ... and another ... 4 hours later I'm still watching! Nick you were born to teach, I love the way you share your years of woodworking knowledge, with just the right amount of humour thrown in. Makes me wish I had paid more attention to my dad when he was alive, he was also a life long joiner, but sadly I didn't take up woodworking till after his death.
I just downloaded your plans; they’re excellent. And, it was generous of you to include all three for that increasingly low price. Your stuff really is much better thought out than others on RUclips…really.
Thanks. You should know I've been writing and publishing project plans for just 50 years. If our stuff is better, perhaps it's because I've had longer to get it right.
@@WorkshopCompanion Having rebuilt a ‘62 Goldie myself, I must admit, I have had a chance to notice your greying over the years, so I know you came by your expertise honestly.
@@NMranchhand What I'd like to know is how can someone come by expertise dishonestly? Is there an expertise bank I can rob? Do I get a ticket if I'm over the expertise limit? What if my neighbor leaves his expertise unlocked and I just borrow it for a while? ;-)
Thanks for these excellent jigs. Instead of making multiple jigs these two and a crosscut jig is enough for 99% i need. Thank for sharing your knowledge. 👍😋
Great video. Was trying to figure out a way to straighten out edges for joining wood panels. Saw some other videos on how to make a table saw sled and then came across your version which seem easier to use and build. A jointer jig that did not require another sled and rails! Already had a tall fence for my table saw, so I figured I’d try your table saw fence idea. I built a horizontal fence for my table saw that works great! Thank you for another great work shop tip.
Great set of jigs. The variable height talk fence would go great on a bandsaw. I have seen the L fence before but using the clear acrylic is a great idea that I haven't seen before.
Thank you for making this short film. I really like your style and humour. The simplicity and bonhomie with which you impart information is first rate.
Nail holes, nicks and blemishes can also be made to disappear using some water drops (let it soak in but leave some water proud) and then take a soldering iron to that spot, careful not to touch the wood. Works great!
Glad I came across this. I have only one use for this style of fence but it will allow me to produce a large quantity of a very complicated shape for one of the cutting boards I make!
Thanks much the informative video! For some reason your channel has never popped up in my RUclips woodworking feed (and I look at at a lot of these types of videos). Keep up the good work.
Something I can actually use. Something I've needed many times before. Something I needed just a day or two ago. Your vids are so excellent on so many levels. Subscribed!
Thank you so much for all the demonstrations, I have these thin, un-square hardwood strip cutoffs I’d love to repurpose but I don’t have a joiner, planer or disc sander nor do I have a decent hand plane yet because that was my first thought. Anyways as long as I use this and careful support the thin strips I can cut off the wonky edges and finally use them 👍🏽
Most welcome. Travis and I use this often to trim wonky edges. It also does a reasonable job at jointing, if you have a perfectly straight board attached to the board you're cutting. Be careful to keep the space between the blade and the fence free of scrap -- I keep a long pusher handy to clear the scrap after each cut. And stand to the left of the blade, opposite the horizontal fence, in case of a kickback.
Great video. Would you be able to do a video on the cabinet you built for you table saw? Something that explains construction method, joinery, dust collection, storage, etc
Thanks for the compliment, Scott. I've published this design in so many books and magazines that it's risen to "whole new level" all on its own. I've made it over so many times and got multiple chances to try those "coulda done" and "shoulda done" ideas that always occur five minutes after we complete a project.
I've been watching woodworking on RUclips since roughly March 2020. I'll give you one guess why. Anyway, this is by far the best I've seen! I am a bit peeved it took this long to find you. Your plan prices are also very nice! Keep up the excellent work, sir! 😉
Thanks. It is, for certain, an extremely handy jig. I just finishes a couple of corner cabinets and it made short work of all the pentagonal shelves I had to cut.
Steaming the nail hole makes the fibres expand and the hole shrink, but does the hole come back as the wood dries out again? Would a drop of CA glue hold the swelled fibres in position better?
Yep -- her name is Bella. She's a "red" border collie -- traditional border collie "tuxedo" markings, but she's reddish-brown where other border collies are black. She absolutely loves Liberty, but all her energy drives Libby nuts. I'm thinking of teaching Bella to spin a hammer...;-)
@@WorkshopCompanion beautiful dogs! Love the Boarder Collie and yes they have an enormous amount of energy. I knew a guy who had a Boarder, he walked him, five miles, every day sometimes two or three times a day. I found that really hard to believe since the guy was in his nineties. Come to find out the Boarder Collie was named "Five Miles"! I love your work. Bought my used SS Mark V a few years ago and have been trying to learn as much as I can about them. Thanks again for being so kind to share your knowledge of the SS and woodworking. Curt.
May I ask... How do you keep your adjustable tall fence from flexing, or Deflecting, when in use? Does it bend a way from the blade with moderate pressure when pushing a board through for a raised panel? Please let me know. Thank you so much for this idea.
It will bend if you put too much pressure against it. In the work I do, I don't find that to be a problem. If your work requires a great deal of pressure, the first design I showed would suit you better.
Love your videos. I’ve been all over the US working in construction and I’ve never once seen anyone use a metric tape measure. Why must you give the metric measurement every single time you give the imperial measurement?
If I was cutting circles to actually use for a project, I'd make them with either a router compass or on a router table with a pivot. The demonstration in the video was just to show the horizontal fence's capabilities.
@@WorkshopCompanion - I know, I was talking more to others who may have come across your video to learn more about wood working and adding a little more. Thank you for your reply though, I appreciate it when creators are active in responding to their viewers.
I would be concerned with the possibility of the little cut offs trapped under the horizontal fence becoming missiles. This is not for me cause I hate the sight of blood. As a matter of fact, I just watched the video again and you can clearly see a kick back occur while cutting the circle. One of the little triangular cut offs is launched at warp speed back toward the operator at 5:26 and again at 5:33
They do kick back if you let them build up -- that's why I showed how to keep the space clear under the fence with a long pusher ( 6:19 ). However, you're right -- there were a few kickbacks when making the circle. I should have stopped and cleared the space after each cut, but we were trying to make the circle in one take.
A lot of RUclipsrs could learn to do better videos by paying attention to how you make yours to the point, super useful, and have a sense of humor... but no matter how much they try, they'll still fall short without the hair and 'stache.
The circle cuts seems super dangerous to me. If there's any friction between the horizontal fence and the template circle, it seems like it would be very hard to keep from twisting the entire thing enough to get kick back. I can very easily see the blade spinning that circle around and dragging your fingers right into the blade. Not to mention the lack of a riving knife / splitter? Yikes!
@@skylord8625 Trouble is, only a third of our audience is from the US. We seem to have a fairly global appeal. And the "World's Shop Teacher" is a boast I'm not prepared to make. Yet. But thank you for your kind words.
@@WorkshopCompanion While true, there are many things the rest of the English speaking world can learn from us.... and us from them. :) I know one thing for sure, you've got my boys and myself captivated.
This man must have graduated college with a masters in “Jiganometry”.
bro, who ever you are, just know I died laughing at reading your comment lmao
@@moeali9741 haha, thanks man, for making feel justified with how proud I was of myself when I came up with that.
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7 seconds in and I'm reminded how awesome this guy is. A true gem
This is currently my favorite channel on all of RUclips. I always look forward to your videos and the great insight that you bring along. It's like being able to spend time with my dad in the workshop. Very informative and always entertaining.
Thanks.
Once again Nick shows an amazing jig. cant wait to try to build it. Thanks
I really enjoy this dude and his sense of humour xD
Ive officially lost count of the upgrades and jigs for my shop. My rearrangeritis kicked in when i decided to get a new table saw. Now i have new jigs to make for it. Thank you for your wisdom.
Most welcome.
I've watched hundred if not thousands of videos produced by talented woodworkers. I thought I had seen it all, you have opened my eyes to new possibilities!
Thanks for saying.
my dude that iron and paper towel trick was insanity
You Sir are the King of all woodworking channels. Perfect mix of humor, education and wit. This channel is a dream.
Thanks 👍
Thank you, every single clip has a ton of lessons.
Most welcome.
I could sit and watch this guy all day, in fact I very nearly have, I started watching 1 video, then another and another ... and another ... 4 hours later I'm still watching! Nick you were born to teach, I love the way you share your years of woodworking knowledge, with just the right amount of humour thrown in. Makes me wish I had paid more attention to my dad when he was alive, he was also a life long joiner, but sadly I didn't take up woodworking till after his death.
Thanks for your kind words.
I just downloaded your plans; they’re excellent. And, it was generous of you to include all three for that increasingly low price. Your stuff really is much better thought out than others on RUclips…really.
Thanks. You should know I've been writing and publishing project plans for just 50 years. If our stuff is better, perhaps it's because I've had longer to get it right.
@@WorkshopCompanion Having rebuilt a ‘62 Goldie myself, I must admit, I have had a chance to notice your greying over the years, so I know you came by your expertise honestly.
@@NMranchhand What I'd like to know is how can someone come by expertise dishonestly? Is there an expertise bank I can rob? Do I get a ticket if I'm over the expertise limit? What if my neighbor leaves his expertise unlocked and I just borrow it for a while? ;-)
@@WorkshopCompanion 😂Stock Analyst? Car Salesman? Psychiatrist? Congressman?
Cutting a circle using a template and free hand was impressive. Plus I love your dog.
Thanks for saying.
Thanks for these excellent jigs. Instead of making multiple jigs these two and a crosscut jig is enough for 99% i need.
Thank for sharing your knowledge. 👍😋
Most welcome.
Dagnabbit, what a great channel! This almost turns your tablesaw into a router table.
I love his attitude. Good teacher too.
Thanks for the kind words.
This is such a useful fence! I can’t wait to build and use it! Thank you for this excellent video.
cMost welsome.
Great video. Was trying to figure out a way to straighten out edges for joining wood panels. Saw some other videos on how to make a table saw sled and then came across your version which seem easier to use and build. A jointer jig that did not require another sled and rails! Already had a tall fence for my table saw, so I figured I’d try your table saw fence idea. I built a horizontal fence for my table saw that works great! Thank you for another great work shop tip.
Most welcome.
Ur an excellent teacher
Cool
Your videos are always a good use of my time. Looking forward to more
Great set of jigs. The variable height talk fence would go great on a bandsaw. I have seen the L fence before but using the clear acrylic is a great idea that I haven't seen before.
Thanks.
You are a wealth of knowledge
Seriously useful stuff here.
I'm a FAN! You are a master craftsman!!
Yup, you are really good.
Thank you
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I just love your utube
I’ve learned so much
I’m retired and doing what I want to do
Learn woodworking
Thanks for saying. Good luck.
Nick! You never cease to amaze! Cheers
I wish Nick had been my shop teacher in middle school.
This just blew my mind.
Just outstanding 👏 👌
Good information. 👍🙂Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.
Wishing the same for you.
That's a very useful fence. I'll need to make one for myself. It is when you come across unique situations that this fence will come in handy.
True that. It's one of those tools that you may not use for months at a time, but when you need it, it's the only tool for the job.
Thanks a lot! It's what I looking for!
Tremendously enjoyable!
Nick I got all 3! Thanks for a clear presentation!
Most welcome.
Beautiful and ridiculously clever, beautiful work!
Thanks ridiculously much.
Thank you for making this short film. I really like your style and humour. The simplicity and bonhomie with which you impart information is first rate.
Thanks for saying.
Very clever.
Nail holes, nicks and blemishes can also be made to disappear using some water drops (let it soak in but leave some water proud) and then take a soldering iron to that spot, careful not to touch the wood. Works great!
Glad I came across this. I have only one use for this style of fence but it will allow me to produce a large quantity of a very complicated shape for one of the cutting boards I make!
Love this idea. Going to make one for sure. Great job, thanks for sharing.
Most welcome.
Thanks much the informative video! For some reason your channel has never popped up in my RUclips woodworking feed (and I look at at a lot of these types of videos). Keep up the good work.
You're most welcome. Hope to hear from you again.
I like your video 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Very fine and practical idea! Subscribed! Greetings from Germany
Welcome, and Hey! from Ohio.
Hi! Veey nice! Tks for sharing! Interesting jig! I from Brazil...
Thanks for say so.
ok - today, and some other days, this is my favorite channel -
Thanks -- but just for today...;-)
I love dogs!!! And woodwork of course!... Thanks for sharing and please give your best friend a hug on my behalf! 👍👍👍🖐️
Will do. She thanks you for saying.
Just found your channel. Love your style! Subscribed.
Nick you are awesome! Thanks for all you do!
Amazing!
I alway love your work
Thanks.
That’s so cool 😎. Thanks!!!
No problem!
Something I can actually use.
Something I've needed many times before.
Something I needed just a day or two ago.
Your vids are so excellent on so many levels.
Subscribed!
Welcome!
Wow really enjoyed watching something I can do and use. U dun Good!
Thanx.
Awesome
Leave it to Nick to come up with the coolest ideas. 😎 Thanks
Thank you so much for all the demonstrations, I have these thin, un-square hardwood strip cutoffs I’d love to repurpose but I don’t have a joiner, planer or disc sander nor do I have a decent hand plane yet because that was my first thought. Anyways as long as I use this and careful support the thin strips I can cut off the wonky edges and finally use them 👍🏽
Most welcome. Travis and I use this often to trim wonky edges. It also does a reasonable job at jointing, if you have a perfectly straight board attached to the board you're cutting. Be careful to keep the space between the blade and the fence free of scrap -- I keep a long pusher handy to clear the scrap after each cut. And stand to the left of the blade, opposite the horizontal fence, in case of a kickback.
Great video. Would you be able to do a video on the cabinet you built for you table saw? Something that explains construction method, joinery, dust collection, storage, etc
Nick, I use a similar fence to your template cutting fence, but as usual your design takes it to a whole new level! Well done! Scott
Thanks for the compliment, Scott. I've published this design in so many books and magazines that it's risen to "whole new level" all on its own. I've made it over so many times and got multiple chances to try those "coulda done" and "shoulda done" ideas that always occur five minutes after we complete a project.
@@WorkshopCompanion Ain't that the truth?! Still, it's nice to revisit and hone an old skill or design.
Fun and informative
Thanks for saying.
I've been watching woodworking on RUclips since roughly March 2020. I'll give you one guess why. Anyway, this is by far the best I've seen! I am a bit peeved it took this long to find you. Your plan prices are also very nice! Keep up the excellent work, sir! 😉
I will try, and thank you for the kind words.
Awsome
This is fantastic! What great ideas! I just found your channel and it is awesome!
Thanks.
Замечательное приспособление) спасибо!!
Пожалуйста.
Anyone else a bit surprised to find out that he DOESN’T wear glasses, that those have just been safety glasses all this time?
Excelente propuesta
First: that’s bloody awesome!
Second: can you show it again using ShopSmith?
It is simply attached to the fence of any saw, Shopsmith included.
Nick, you're as entertaining as you are knowledgeable.
Mind if I forward that comment to my wife?
thats awesome
Thanks. It is, for certain, an extremely handy jig. I just finishes a couple of corner cabinets and it made short work of all the pentagonal shelves I had to cut.
Всё гениальное просто. Спасибо. 😊👍
В инженерии есть пословица, что лучший дизайн имеет «элегантную простоту». Спасибо за ваши мысли.
Your videos are just the greatest about woodworking. Always something new to learn. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world!
Most welcome.
hmm I might make another fence with transparent top... that is great idea, thanks
Most welcome.
@1:12 "both of these offences" 😜
Steaming the nail hole makes the fibres expand and the hole shrink, but does the hole come back as the wood dries out again?
Would a drop of CA glue hold the swelled fibres in position better?
This is my new favorite woodworking channel. Great content and style.
Thanks for those kind words.
Just the first 18 seconds wou.d have been a great video 😅😅
New woodworker here. Interesting fence, but I'm understandably curious - wouldn't you be better served using a taper jig instead of these fences?
Plans come with a bullet proof vest ?
Can I use this to join pallet wood which is usually not flat on any side?
I've had to watch this video many times because that pendulum in the background keeps making me blackout. Turns out it's a good video.
Thanks.
AAH LAV U!!!!
LAV U2.
I could see that Circle cutting operation being sped up by using a dado stack to enlarge the "blade width" Maybe not a full stack but just a few.
"I'm glad I asked!" Me too!
Fantastic as always. Did you get a new puppy? Thanks for sharing.
Yep -- her name is Bella. She's a "red" border collie -- traditional border collie "tuxedo" markings, but she's reddish-brown where other border collies are black. She absolutely loves Liberty, but all her energy drives Libby nuts. I'm thinking of teaching Bella to spin a hammer...;-)
@@WorkshopCompanion beautiful dogs! Love the Boarder Collie and yes they have an enormous amount of energy. I knew a guy who had a Boarder, he walked him, five miles, every day sometimes two or three times a day. I found that really hard to believe since the guy was in his nineties. Come to find out the Boarder Collie was named "Five Miles"! I love your work. Bought my used SS Mark V a few years ago and have been trying to learn as much as I can about them. Thanks again for being so kind to share your knowledge of the SS and woodworking. Curt.
Fantistic !
doc. from Chip and Dale?🤯
May I ask... How do you keep your adjustable tall fence from flexing, or Deflecting, when in use? Does it bend a way from the blade with moderate pressure when pushing a board through for a raised panel? Please let me know. Thank you so much for this idea.
It will bend if you put too much pressure against it. In the work I do, I don't find that to be a problem. If your work requires a great deal of pressure, the first design I showed would suit you better.
Would this be practical for a job site saw, such as a Dewalt 7485?
Absolutely!! once you've done it a few times its really easy to set up and dismantle.
@@WorkshopCompanion Thank you for your quick reply!
You looks like Einstein brilliant.
Thanks.
Ok, and now i'm going to build another shop to storage all my jigs 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Love your videos. I’ve been all over the US working in construction and I’ve never once seen anyone use a metric tape measure.
Why must you give the metric measurement every single time you give the imperial measurement?
Because 2/3 of my viewesr do use metric tape measures.
🤯
You can just finish off the circle with the router table too if you are not confident with turning the workpiece on the table saw.
If I was cutting circles to actually use for a project, I'd make them with either a router compass or on a router table with a pivot. The demonstration in the video was just to show the horizontal fence's capabilities.
@@WorkshopCompanion - I know, I was talking more to others who may have come across your video to learn more about wood working and adding a little more.
Thank you for your reply though, I appreciate it when creators are active in responding to their viewers.
Thanks....rr
You're welcome!
I would be concerned with the possibility of the little cut offs trapped under the horizontal fence becoming missiles. This is not for me cause I hate the sight of blood. As a matter of fact, I just watched the video again and you can clearly see a kick back occur while cutting the circle. One of the little triangular cut offs is launched at warp speed back toward the operator at 5:26 and again at 5:33
They do kick back if you let them build up -- that's why I showed how to keep the space clear under the fence with a long pusher ( 6:19 ). However, you're right -- there were a few kickbacks when making the circle. I should have stopped and cleared the space after each cut, but we were trying to make the circle in one take.
A lot of RUclipsrs could learn to do better videos by paying attention to how you make yours to the point, super useful, and have a sense of humor... but no matter how much they try, they'll still fall short without the hair and 'stache.
The circle cuts seems super dangerous to me. If there's any friction between the horizontal fence and the template circle, it seems like it would be very hard to keep from twisting the entire thing enough to get kick back. I can very easily see the blade spinning that circle around and dragging your fingers right into the blade. Not to mention the lack of a riving knife / splitter? Yikes!
"America's Shop Teacher"
We just might use that.
@@WorkshopCompanion absolutely do it. You bring so much to the craft in such a great way that it’d be a crime to not.
@@skylord8625 Trouble is, only a third of our audience is from the US. We seem to have a fairly global appeal. And the "World's Shop Teacher" is a boast I'm not prepared to make. Yet. But thank you for your kind words.
@@WorkshopCompanion While true, there are many things the rest of the English speaking world can learn from us.... and us from them. :) I know one thing for sure, you've got my boys and myself captivated.
Homerun dude
Thanks.