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13:10 Si!!! Yo tengo uno truco espectacular para corregir tablas o listones (ya cortados a la medida final), que por un motivo u otro se han curvado, girado, o ambas. Sirve para cualquier medida, pero en especial para los listones largos. Como ejemplo vamos a suponer un listón de 2 x 4 x 200 (cm): Método para listones ya cortados a su medida final: 1)Tomar el listón, y seleccionar una de sus caras de 4cm de ancho a criterio vuestro, y abrir un canal de por lo menos 3/4 partes del ancho de la cara, (para este caso 3cm), y de 1/3 de la profundidad del listón o cara adyacente, (para este caso 0,6 a 0,7 cm). El canal debe quedar centrado. 2) Cortar un listón (si es del mismo tipo de madera u otra más dura mejor), con un largo y espesor igual o mayor al listón a reparar (para este caso 200cm x 0,7cm), y un ancho exactamente igual al ancho del canal. 3)Encolar con adhesivo para maderas común, a menos que requiera mayor sofisticación, ambas partes (canal y listón pequeño), y embutir, como si se tratara de un inlay de ornamentado. 4) Prensar contra una superficie plana el tiempo indicado por el fabricante del adhesivo. Recomiendo mayor a 12hs. Método para listones cuyo espesor (medida más pequeña), no requiere una medida específica, o puede ser incrementado sin problemas: 1)Cortar un listón que mantenga las siguientes proporciones con el listón a reparar: Largo: 1:1 Ancho:1:1 Espesor: 1/3 2) Continuar desde el paso 3 del Método anterior.
@@danielholtxxl4936 I'd blame it on fat thumbs & a bad second grade teacher.... Sept I'm not sure I could spell my name if I didn't have to do it a100 X a day.... LoL 😜😂🤣
A good woodworker will also know how to avoid making mistakes by taking more time to adjust things to fit once so there are no mistakes, that is ultimately the goal 😅 But, hey... Mistakes happend. Might as well learn to fix them
I did my first ever saw cut for a project and cut a little extra. an ugly looking gap of about half an inch. your sawdust tip taught me how to fix it. I am so much relieved. Thank you so much.
A couple of years ago I found some small containers and kept the saw dust from my orbital sander from the different woods I use. Now I almost always have the correct color saw dust for those inevitable gaps. Great tips, thanks.
I love how you explain everyrhing. Are u a teacher? A preacher? Made me subscribe when u say. 'We All know the HORROR of this. Made me focusing on how u explain things more than the fixing. Greeting from beginner woodworker form Indonesia. Subscribed.
GREAT tips, well shown! A common go-to for me is the screwdriver/burnisher trick on miters that have a small gap. Sometimes with glue spread in the gap, sometimes without. Burnish each side towards the center and bye bye gap.
Many thanks Jonathan. When one watches folks cutting things like dovetails the work always appears perfect. To an old newbie like myself it can be daunting; thank you for sharing this video, it is a great encouragement!
Great tips, but mostly I appreciate the basic. Spirit of your approach: it's wood, you can always make it look good if not great... Just apply a bit of imagination and confidence!
I haven't watched your video yet I find woodworking with limited tools and finances..very rewarding. I kept on looking at a childs first desk I was building. I would look at it from 50 feet or so away. I could see uneven angled legs. I got my Swanson square out..90° on the money. Go a 1 foot square ..same perfect. I didn't have a a three foot square ..but A straight edge told the story (In 2 feet some of the legs were 3/4" off. The 2 by 2s were crooked. Planer is in my future. Time being I'll have them planed. I plan to invest in a 2 foot square. Sometimes a 3 foot ⬛ is Too big. Off to watch the video.
To fix your bends/bows a bit faster - Wet the concave side (curve inward) and put the convex side up toward the sun. Just keep an eye on it because it'll very well warp the other way. Just do it again the opposite way.. Weight helps
Great video... If you are woeking for hours and hours on one piece ofcourse you are make some little "mistakes" and only if you are looking for them you can find them... Take example look at some brand new piece of woodwork anything and you will find more mistakes then you think, and you will appreciate your works even more after that... Rucky fan here, great videos and camera work and also woodwork is brutal
Re: minor dents. If you're going to apply an oil finish, such as trinity tar (linseed oil - vinegar - turpentine), those dings will generally swell out when you slather on that first goopy coat. That goes double if the wood is at all soft. Thanks for this awesome video!
Great video!! Here's a variation on the sawdust & glue trick for filling cracks: sawdust & shellac. This approach will sometimes take a finish better than the sawdust & glue, plus it dries quicker. If you're also finishing the work with shellac, the repair will completely disappear.
Tip for everyone, to tint wood filler, I use instant coffee, add some, mix, check tint, add more, repeat until darkness you're looking for, add more wood filler if you went too dark.
Great video and tips! When you were planing the two boards to get a better glue joint, do you have to make sure you take a full edge-edge shaving? What if the boards are wider than your plane? Thanks!
I do not recommend the angle planning trick for matching surfaces. The problem with it is when you sand it flatten the new surface. In the process you begin to expose the gap beneath it.
" it's not an error it's a feature. Now let me show you how to fix your errors." But they aren't errors, they are features ... So you want to fix my features? No, they are my features. Lol
Great video, I’m making a table out of red wood and when doing a bow tie on a test piece, I tried to do the sawdust trick to fill a gap and found the colour from the sawdust turns the glue purple. Any tips to stop this?
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ruclips.net/user/postUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
Just went and cut some by hand first ones that didn't get messed up terribly. 3 more joints to go at a minimum... Pretty sure this will end up as a parts box in the garage....
I do this all the time. Literally yesterday I decided that an electronics tray was getting big chamfers because the end-grain tear-out was so bad off my machine. Or the time that the end table suddenly got a contrast board in the middle because I duffed the matching board so badly.
Maybe the follow up video could include things like measuring the project, say a box, for square and how to get it square when it's not. Also worth mentioning when to use different types of CA glue, like thin to run deep into that split, or gel to avoid a run. Loved the tip about twisting the stuck finger. Hope I don't have to try it soon, but good to know. Great video as always. Now, get that shop dog his own safety glasses.
I cringe when I see young kids in the shop, but then I remember helping my dad when I was 7 cut plywood sheets on the table saw. He showed me how dangerous the machine was and told me how to use it, and not to play with it. I never did. When I got in middle school about 12-13 I took shop classes, and fell in love working with wood. When I was about 16-17 this older man had a workshop in his back yard. And I'd always wanted a wood working shop but did not have the room or money. I did however buy a skill type saw, and I built a bookcase for my kids room. I never put finish on it. The kids used pencils crayons and all kinds of stuff as they grew up. When the oldest wanted to move out he wanted to take it with him, I asked what was he going to do with it. Sand it down and paint it. I said no. We me him and his brother and mom will never see The art he put on it as a kid again if he did that. I still have not put finish on it one of these days I'll put clear coat on it. They can fight over who get it when we are gone. Maybe by then he can apreashate his childhood art. Its priceless.
@@bobbg9041 cool story, have to pass on the tradition. I think clear coat would be great maybe test out some finished so it doesn't make the crayon run or smear.
As a luthier, I often run into situations where I'll find chips missing on a rosewood or ebony fingerboard. I've have jars of collected rosewood and ebony sawdust that I've collected over the years and I'll just sprinkle some of the dust into the chip, just proud of the surface and wick some thin CA glue onto the dust. After a few minutes, scrape down with a modified razor blade scraper and voila!! Chip is invisible. Love ur videos!!
I'm just getting into woodworking, and it's nice to be reminded that even the pros don't do everything perfectly on the very first attempt. It gives me a lot more confidence to stop worrying about making mistakes and just get out there and build something.
I just found your channel-- and you were definitely meant for this platform - excellent, easy-to-follow, bright and crisp educational commentary . . I will ABsolutely tune in to everything you post from here on out. SOLID WORK SIR
Reminds me of my own mistake on a newel post in my house. I was routing flutes in all four sides and the stop on my jig was not in place and I routed one flute to long. I turned the post so the bad side was not on the showy sides. 25 yrs and not a soul has noticed it. Lol.
My favorite "fix it" hack is the one with the damp rag and hot iron! I've never seen that done before!Thanks a million, it'll come in handy! Love watching your channel!
In high school shop class we would place a small drop of water on the dent to make the wood swell a bit. Then would have to sand back down. The iron trick is Trick!
I bought a cart load of bad wood at Lowe’s. Plywood tacos, 2x12 yellow pine warped. Wet one side and laid in sun. It warped the OTHER way lol. Too much of a good thing. Ripped into shelves. 10 years later, still flat...
I learned the difference in color between TB2 and TB3 the hard way too. I used TB3 with sawdust and filled in divots, etc. on my light wood project. Thought I was so clever because I used the sawdust I had collected from the project. When I mixed with glue I noticed the darker color but just figured it would lighten up once dry. It did not. My project looked terrible. Had to sand it all back out. Total mess. Now I know the difference 🙂!
aminraleigh Thanks for the comment. I end up using TB 3 as I found myself making several cutting boards recently. I’ve tried the TB 3 with sawdust and, as you said, it is dark. Are you saying TB 2 doesn’t do that?
Great video. Sometimes you gotta make the mistake worse to make it better! If you have a couple dents in a project..just hit it with a hammer and call it rustic.
Now i cant wait to make some big ass mistakes so I can utilise these tips. No honestly, this wisdom will save many or us a lot of nerves. Hats off to you man!
Tip; don't use wood filler. You match the colour to the timber but when you apply a finish the colour of the wood changes but the filler doesn't! My advice is to do the finishing, mix furniture filler wax to match colour, melt colours together on a spoon to get the perfect match, apply, flatten then put a final coat of finish on!
This is actually situational. Some wood fillers do darken with finish, and it also depends on the finish. Certain finishes darken more than others and it can mess things up
I usually point out my mistakes because I feel like if people notice and think I don't notice than they'll think I'm inexperienced, but that's just me being a self conscious idiot.
For large gaps that can’t be filled easily, I like tapping in a wedge of same type of wood to fill the space. Once the glue dries and wedge is cut flush, you can barely tell.
I need a trick for when your kids decides they are gonna move your stuff around the shop when you arent looking. My son seems to like tape measures. Found 5 in his toy box.
If you don't have an iron, just splash a bit of warm water or even spit on it and let it sit for a while - it will usually do the trick. Especially on softer woods.
With the sawdust and glue trick: I saw a video where you blend in a lighter species of wood dust, or sapwood. This helps for color matching cause glue/dust usually dries darker.
@@PhilepZ amen that! Although it hasn't seen daylight in years, don't touch it! You'd have a better chance at surviving a 100' drop on concrete than using "her" iron guaranteed!!😅😅😅
"Don't tell anybody" Lol!! I'm new to both woodwoking and guitars and I built a kit guitar over the summer. Everytime friends and family got excited about how good it turned out I couldn't help but point out every little thing I screwed up. I even pulled out a flashlight once to make them REALLY see a tiny dent. You're right, people don't notice minor flaws as bad as we do as makers of the project. Anyway, great tips, thanks for the video!!
Andreea Dobre my kid is whiz on guitar, he can’t read sheet music, but he can listen to a song 1-2 times and in what seems a few hours practice bang out what he just heard, but he won’t play in front of family or anyone because “he sucks” and “it sounds awful” I’m like “Dude, no one is judging you as hard as you are, you hear a song and know what the notes are supposed to be and can tell if you’re off, We all just hear good music because we don’t know that this one note at this one point was supposed to be one bit different” it’s the same in any craft. As long as the final product works and has no noticeable flaws you did a better job than most people
Great Video! I keep old medicine bottles and put fine sanding dust from projects in them. Some times I mix them. Go ask a pharmacist for some small bottles.
i noticed in a comparison that sanding dust + glue leaves black results. Use sawdust and it will result in the color of the wood. do not use too much glue.
I've been a finish carpenter for years and have never seen the steam for removing a dent trick. I have used drops of hot water with mixed results. Hopefully I never have to try this (yea right, LOL). Thanks for putting this video out. Cheers, Dave.
Great tips. I've hears some. But my favorite is definitely the cupped board after reshaping. I've had that issue and didn't know how to fix it. There were a couple others I hadn't heard as well. Thanks for sharing. I
Often times it’s better if you introduce the cupped/crowned piece to high humidity for a couple of days it will correct itself and then allow it re- acclimate slowly. Sometimes the wet and clamp method results in internal tension in the wood that can react later when the project is complete.
A good one that I have used with dovetails is to split out a wedge from an off cut. Matching long grain may be tricky, but matching end grain is easy. I've closed some annoying gaps that way. Once you tap it in, pare it down with a chisel, and get some finish on there, no one will know. Also, for me it is hide glue, hide glue, and hide glue. Especially the liquid stuff. I've used it for a lot of the applications you've mentioned. It can wick into a crack easily when warm enough. It can be mixed with sawdust as a filler. It is invisible if you don't get every last bit cleaned up when finish is applied over it -- think of your porous woods such as oak. AND it is reversible. I've definitely had to reverse a couple joints with heat and steam when I've messed up. You probably wouldn't get a deep mortise & tenon to come loose, but it will work on a lot of joints. But I also know that you stick with what you feel comfortable with. If you don't have a feel for how something works, you might make life harder for yourself with a different system.
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8:10 i usually use the sandblaster to spray the sawdust 😂
I am in it to win it
1 way to NEVER have 'woodworking mistakes'?..🔥
I would recommend you to find some thin CA glue, for the corner chip fix. You need way less glue, and it flow in much better.
13:10 Si!!! Yo tengo uno truco espectacular para corregir tablas o listones (ya cortados a la medida final), que por un motivo u otro se han curvado, girado, o ambas. Sirve para cualquier medida, pero en especial para los listones largos.
Como ejemplo vamos a suponer un listón de 2 x 4 x 200 (cm):
Método para listones ya cortados a su medida final:
1)Tomar el listón, y seleccionar una de sus caras de 4cm de ancho a criterio vuestro, y abrir un canal de por lo menos 3/4 partes del ancho de la cara, (para este caso 3cm), y de 1/3 de la profundidad del listón o cara adyacente, (para este caso 0,6 a 0,7 cm). El canal debe quedar centrado.
2) Cortar un listón (si es del mismo tipo de madera u otra más dura mejor), con un largo y espesor igual o mayor al listón a reparar (para este caso 200cm x 0,7cm), y un ancho exactamente igual al ancho del canal.
3)Encolar con adhesivo para maderas común, a menos que requiera mayor sofisticación, ambas partes (canal y listón pequeño), y embutir, como si se tratara de un inlay de ornamentado.
4) Prensar contra una superficie plana el tiempo indicado por el fabricante del adhesivo. Recomiendo mayor a 12hs.
Método para listones cuyo espesor (medida más pequeña), no requiere una medida específica, o puede ser incrementado sin problemas:
1)Cortar un listón que mantenga las siguientes proporciones con el listón a reparar:
Largo: 1:1
Ancho:1:1
Espesor: 1/3
2) Continuar desde el paso 3 del Método anterior.
One big mistake that I constantly make is I tell my wife I'm going into the wood shop and what ever I am making will only take about an hour...
3 days later lol
Yeah, havent found a quick fix for that one yet!
For real lol
That’s not a mistake, that’s a strategy.
It's a different kind of Narnia in there.
The difference between a good wood worker and a bad one, is the good ones knows how to fix the misstakes....🤣😂👍👍
Ironically, your mistake was misspelling “misstakes”.
Daniel Holt XXL thanks for the laugh!!
@@danielholtxxl4936
I'd blame it on fat thumbs & a bad second grade teacher.... Sept I'm not sure I could spell my name if I didn't have to do it a100 X a day.... LoL 😜😂🤣
A good woodworker will also know how to avoid making mistakes by taking more time to adjust things to fit once so there are no mistakes, that is ultimately the goal 😅
But, hey... Mistakes happend. Might as well learn to fix them
It's only a mistake if you don't fix it lol
I did my first ever saw cut for a project and cut a little extra. an ugly looking gap of about half an inch. your sawdust tip taught me how to fix it. I am so much relieved. Thank you so much.
I tend to tweak my mistakes and end up turning them into opportunities to take out my jigsaw. God how I love that power tool, so fun to use.
A couple of years ago I found some small containers and kept the saw dust from my orbital sander from the different woods I use. Now I almost always have the correct color saw dust for those inevitable gaps. Great tips, thanks.
We woodworkers don't make mistakes. I call them design changes. Great vid thanks for posting.
You are the only woodworker who has no cupped boards in his shop!!! Thanks for the tips.
I love how you explain everyrhing. Are u a teacher? A preacher? Made me subscribe when u say. 'We All know the HORROR of this. Made me focusing on how u explain things more than the fixing. Greeting from beginner woodworker form Indonesia. Subscribed.
I like a few small imperfections, provided they don't affect function. It gives character.
These are great. I didn't know most of these. Thanks!
Wonderful video, very practical, will save me some money.
GREAT tips, well shown! A common go-to for me is the screwdriver/burnisher trick on miters that have a small gap. Sometimes with glue spread in the gap, sometimes without. Burnish each side towards the center and bye bye gap.
Really appreciated your advice, thanks and keep em coming!
Excellent, nice presentation!
Thanks very much for this video
Great tips . Thank you for sharing them 😀
Many thanks Jonathan. When one watches folks cutting things like dovetails the work always appears perfect. To an old newbie like myself it can be daunting; thank you for sharing this video, it is a great encouragement!
many thanks!
Learning to fix mistakes is an awesome idea to show! Thanks.
Your videos are such a joy to watch! So much Information!
Good tips... helps with the emotional struggle that damaging your workpiece is
Great Comment....I have Definitely have felt the Hurt..lol
Looks like tips from Next Level Carpentry, great vid! Love the tips/trics!
This is going to help me out a lot!!!!!
Great tips, but mostly I appreciate the basic. Spirit of your approach: it's wood, you can always make it look good if not great... Just apply a bit of imagination and confidence!
I haven't watched your video yet
I find woodworking with limited tools and finances..very rewarding.
I kept on looking at a childs first desk I was building. I would look at it from 50 feet or so away. I could see uneven angled legs. I got my Swanson square out..90° on the money. Go a 1 foot square ..same perfect. I didn't have a a three foot square ..but A straight edge told the story (In 2 feet some of the legs were 3/4" off. The 2 by 2s were crooked. Planer is in my future. Time being I'll have them
planed. I plan to invest in a 2 foot square. Sometimes a 3 foot ⬛ is
Too big. Off to watch the video.
“Pretty big gap, the kerf of the blade” hahahaha *nervous laugh. I’m in trouble
Fantastic refresher! Thanks. Id like to see more.
Great project savers thank you.
My pleasure Martin!
To fix your bends/bows a bit faster - Wet the concave side (curve inward) and put the convex side up toward the sun. Just keep an eye on it because it'll very well warp the other way. Just do it again the opposite way.. Weight helps
Great video... If you are woeking for hours and hours on one piece ofcourse you are make some little "mistakes" and only if you are looking for them you can find them... Take example look at some brand new piece of woodwork anything and you will find more mistakes then you think, and you will appreciate your works even more after that... Rucky fan here, great videos and camera work and also woodwork is brutal
Absolutely bud
Re: minor dents. If you're going to apply an oil finish, such as trinity tar (linseed oil - vinegar - turpentine), those dings will generally swell out when you slather on that first goopy coat. That goes double if the wood is at all soft. Thanks for this awesome video!
Its like watching magic, thanks
I'm a entry level woodworker, I've made a few carving knives, I've got a lathe and a few hand planes, but I still suck haha
I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready!
Great video!! Here's a variation on the sawdust & glue trick for filling cracks: sawdust & shellac. This approach will sometimes take a finish better than the sawdust & glue, plus it dries quicker. If you're also finishing the work with shellac, the repair will completely disappear.
I'm going to try that
I loved it
Tip for everyone, to tint wood filler, I use instant coffee, add some, mix, check tint, add more, repeat until darkness you're looking for, add more wood filler if you went too dark.
omg i wish i knew the iron trick wow
Colored pencils are great for creating fake grain lines to better blend patches or repairs
I forgot to add that one. Great advice
interesting but the 2p 10 adhesive and the activator cost over £70 in UK and similar in US that is VERY expensive
Not even close. $15-20 on Amazon.
Great video and tips! When you were planing the two boards to get a better glue joint, do you have to make sure you take a full edge-edge shaving? What if the boards are wider than your plane? Thanks!
I do not recommend the angle planning trick for matching surfaces. The problem with it is when you sand it flatten the new surface. In the process you begin to expose the gap beneath it.
Not if you plane it straight.
An old Brazilian trick is to mix the saw dust to fill gap with some lime juice. This way it wont get dark when fully dry.
I'll have to try that
Sir, if you please provide me that how to make a bench vice, will be very thankful to you.
I have 2 videos on it. Look up Moxon Vise on my channel
Where do you get a nice hand planer like this guys?
I like your combo square holster. Do you catch your arm on it from time to time?
Not unless it's set to less than an inch
9:10 would it work on a pre varnished hard floor ?
Not sure
You’re a young Nick Offerman.
Does the CA glue that's seeped into the wood affect application of stain or other finishes?
Good question. I've never noticed it having a negative effect
" it's not an error it's a feature. Now let me show you how to fix your errors." But they aren't errors, they are features ... So you want to fix my features? No, they are my features. Lol
Massive angle??? I beat that every day and twice on Sundays!
Great video, I’m making a table out of red wood and when doing a bow tie on a test piece, I tried to do the sawdust trick to fill a gap and found the colour from the sawdust turns the glue purple. Any tips to stop this?
Make your bowtie slightly bigger and be extra careful this time sp you don't need it.
What does sp mean? Sorry
What’s the best way to send you a photo of the finished product?
Thank you
You totally forgot about the tool that all woodworkers should have... the board stretcher...
Lol. We have a paint condenser as well
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There are no mistakes in wood working only design changes
Lol I call it research and development
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"Now that's an extreme example; usually your gaps are smaller than that..."
Uh, nope. They're usually at least that big.
When I try dove tails, gaps that big are usually a minimum lol
Yeah my gaps are usually about the size of a finger joint or dove tail after I accidentally cut one off
Just went and cut some by hand first ones that didn't get messed up terribly. 3 more joints to go at a minimum... Pretty sure this will end up as a parts box in the garage....
I usually cut my dovetails with an axe, so yeah, my gaps are huge.
Wood filler is way better, in my experience, than glue and sawdust because glue doesn't stain. At least for me.
Most importantly, remain open minded.
Measure twice, cut once - adjust plan to fit new dimension.
The second half of your tip is most important!! LOL!
I do this all the time. Literally yesterday I decided that an electronics tray was getting big chamfers because the end-grain tear-out was so bad off my machine. Or the time that the end table suddenly got a contrast board in the middle because I duffed the matching board so badly.
You can always cut off, you cannot cut on. 🤣
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I cut the damn thing 4 times and it's still too short!
Your gaps are going to be smaller then that...
Me who accidentally cut a table in half
He sounds so much like Jimmy Kimmel. Or is it just me? 😅
Dexter could be his brother 😂
Or maybe like Patton Oswalt
I’d watch him over Jimmy Kimmel any day..
He definitely sounds like you.
Wow... Exactly Jimmy Kimmel
Maybe the follow up video could include things like measuring the project, say a box, for square and how to get it square when it's not.
Also worth mentioning when to use different types of CA glue, like thin to run deep into that split, or gel to avoid a run. Loved the tip about twisting the stuck finger. Hope I don't have to try it soon, but good to know. Great video as always. Now, get that shop dog his own safety glasses.
I cringe when I see young kids in the shop, but then I remember helping my dad when I was 7 cut plywood sheets on the table saw.
He showed me how dangerous the machine was and told me how to use it, and not to play with it. I never did. When I got in middle school about 12-13 I took shop classes, and fell in love working with wood.
When I was about 16-17 this older man had a workshop in his back yard. And I'd always wanted a wood working shop but did not have the room or money. I did however buy a skill type saw, and I built a bookcase for my kids room.
I never put finish on it.
The kids used pencils crayons and all kinds of stuff as they grew up. When the oldest wanted to move out he wanted to take it with him, I asked what was he going to do with it.
Sand it down and paint it.
I said no. We me him and his brother and mom will never see
The art he put on it as a kid again if he did that.
I still have not put finish on it one of these days I'll put clear coat on it. They can fight over who get it when we are gone.
Maybe by then he can apreashate his childhood art.
Its priceless.
@@bobbg9041 cool story, have to pass on the tradition. I think clear coat would be great maybe test out some finished so it doesn't make the crayon run or smear.
Measure diagonally both ways until the measurements are the same, if they’re not just push either side out until it is.. and fix.
I gotta say as a newbie, watching the tip where you shave off the corner and glue the offcut to it was like magic.
Dude IKR!?!
Same
Blow my mind the first time i chipped the wood and boss said Hold My Beer
💯
Never saw that trick before. Wow!
Couldn’t even see the scratch before you fixed it
As a luthier, I often run into situations where I'll find chips missing on a rosewood or ebony fingerboard. I've have jars of collected rosewood and ebony sawdust that I've collected over the years and I'll just sprinkle some of the dust into the chip, just proud of the surface and wick some thin CA glue onto the dust. After a few minutes, scrape down with a modified razor blade scraper and voila!! Chip is invisible.
Love ur videos!!
Great tip bud!
Sawdust a.k.a. man glitter😂
That works well on ebony which does not have any grain to it, but rosewood can be a harder problem.
I'm working on becoming a guitar luthier as a hobby
*viola
I'm just getting into woodworking, and it's nice to be reminded that even the pros don't do everything perfectly on the very first attempt. It gives me a lot more confidence to stop worrying about making mistakes and just get out there and build something.
What makes them pros is how they fix their mistakes. They use glue, sawdust, fillers as opposed to a hammer . . .
I just found your channel-- and you were definitely meant for this platform - excellent, easy-to-follow, bright and crisp educational commentary . . I will ABsolutely tune in to everything you post from here on out. SOLID WORK SIR
Reminds me of my own mistake on a newel post in my house. I was routing flutes in all four sides and the stop on my jig was not in place and I routed one flute to long. I turned the post so the bad side was not on the showy sides. 25 yrs and not a soul has noticed it. Lol.
My favorite "fix it" hack is the one with the damp rag and hot iron! I've never seen that done before!Thanks a million, it'll come in handy! Love watching your channel!
In high school shop class we would place a small drop of water on the dent to make the wood swell a bit. Then would have to sand back down. The iron trick is Trick!
I bought a cart load of bad wood at Lowe’s. Plywood tacos, 2x12 yellow pine warped.
Wet one side and laid in sun. It warped the OTHER way lol. Too much of a good thing. Ripped into shelves. 10 years later, still flat...
Another variant is to use a bandaid, the waterproof ones work the best. Put some water on the gauze part, then stick it over the dent.
A damp rag and an iron will also pull crayon off the wall when your kids color on them LOL
Richard Florence nice tip, I need to remember that one 👍🏼
will this work with flat paint? My walls are covered with crayon.
Do you know how to pull kids out of the wall after they color the walls?
Sawdust & Glue / titebond 2 and not 3. TB3 glue dries to dark for the trick.
Big Mo he WAS using titebond 2, also depending on the wood the darkness of titebond 3 might be appropriate.
Jeremy Specce : didn’t mean to imply he was. Just intended to add an additional detail. Believe me, with his skillset i wouldn’t challenge his advice
Good to know. Thank you for the additional little detail
I learned the difference in color between TB2 and TB3 the hard way too. I used TB3 with sawdust and filled in divots, etc. on my light wood project. Thought I was so clever because I used the sawdust I had collected from the project. When I mixed with glue I noticed the darker color but just figured it would lighten up once dry. It did not. My project looked terrible. Had to sand it all back out. Total mess. Now I know the difference 🙂!
aminraleigh Thanks for the comment. I end up using TB 3 as I found myself making several cutting boards recently. I’ve tried the TB 3 with sawdust and, as you said, it is dark. Are you saying TB 2 doesn’t do that?
"I could not find a board in my shop that is cupped."
Me: grrrrrrrr
Add the word "not" after the word "is" and that would be an accurate statement for me more times than not!
@@lockedloaded4942 Try resawing lowe's 2x 8 10 or 12s.... Minor twist with a cup and a bow?? My planer won't even feed the stuff
I have difficulty finding one in my shop that is NOT cupped lol :)
I literally thought you were Jimmy Kimmel for a good 3 seconds until the video quality increased. Trippy.
Great video. Sometimes you gotta make the mistake worse to make it better! If you have a couple dents in a project..just hit it with a hammer and call it rustic.
Bennett Ibey “distressed”
All my projects turn out to be rustic.
Me, who hasn’t ever worked wood: interesting, interesting
Now i cant wait to make some big ass mistakes so I can utilise these tips.
No honestly, this wisdom will save many or us a lot of nerves. Hats off to you man!
My biggest mistake at the moment is not making enough time to make things out of wood
This is too philosophical. 😁👍🏻 because, time is money.
i thought i clicked on a jimmy kemmel spoof by accident lol
18magicMARKer thank god you didn’t!!!! That would’ve been horrible!
SOB i cant unhear jimmy now that i read your comment lol.
I looked down the comments to see if anyone commented that...lol
Tip; don't use wood filler. You match the colour to the timber but when you apply a finish the colour of the wood changes but the filler doesn't!
My advice is to do the finishing, mix furniture filler wax to match colour, melt colours together on a spoon to get the perfect match, apply, flatten then put a final coat of finish on!
Great comment. Wood glue does not take stain well, either. This would fix that problem, too. Thx.
This is actually situational. Some wood fillers do darken with finish, and it also depends on the finish. Certain finishes darken more than others and it can mess things up
I usually point out my mistakes because I feel like if people notice and think I don't notice than they'll think I'm inexperienced, but that's just me being a self conscious idiot.
For large gaps that can’t be filled easily, I like tapping in a wedge of same type of wood to fill the space. Once the glue dries and wedge is cut flush, you can barely tell.
Great advice
I need a trick for when your kids decides they are gonna move your stuff around the shop when you arent looking. My son seems to like tape measures. Found 5 in his toy box.
Have you tried Military school? Very effective for toddlers.
@@katzmosestools military kindergarten! Start them early lol
Have you given him his own starter tool box? Sounds like he’s interested
@@BiggMo hes got his starter toy tools. That's where we find most of mine.
Joey Merrell: little man is telling you he wants the real thing. Maybe a bench in the garage along papa’s to keep them
“There are no mistakes-just happy accidents.” -Bob Ross
Tip; don't use the sawdust and glue trick on oak. Chances are it will turn black with the tannin in the oak!
Great advice
Ironing the dent... MIND BLOWN O.O *insert brain explode gif*
dude same
If you don't have an iron, just splash a bit of warm water or even spit on it and let it sit for a while - it will usually do the trick. Especially on softer woods.
With the sawdust and glue trick: I saw a video where you blend in a lighter species of wood dust, or sapwood. This helps for color matching cause glue/dust usually dries darker.
The Iron trick blew me away, man! Thanks for sharing!!!
another pro tip is: dont use your wife's iron , buy a cheap one for the shop.
@@PhilepZ amen that! Although it hasn't seen daylight in years, don't touch it! You'd have a better chance at surviving a 100' drop on concrete than using "her" iron guaranteed!!😅😅😅
is it just me but on the first one. I couldn't even see the scratch he was fixing before he fixed it....
mxracing6 - i was thinking the same thing...
"Don't tell anybody" Lol!! I'm new to both woodwoking and guitars and I built a kit guitar over the summer. Everytime friends and family got excited about how good it turned out I couldn't help but point out every little thing I screwed up. I even pulled out a flashlight once to make them REALLY see a tiny dent. You're right, people don't notice minor flaws as bad as we do as makers of the project. Anyway, great tips, thanks for the video!!
Andreea Dobre my kid is whiz on guitar, he can’t read sheet music, but he can listen to a song 1-2 times and in what seems a few hours practice bang out what he just heard, but he won’t play in front of family or anyone because “he sucks” and “it sounds awful” I’m like “Dude, no one is judging you as hard as you are, you hear a song and know what the notes are supposed to be and can tell if you’re off, We all just hear good music because we don’t know that this one note at this one point was supposed to be one bit different” it’s the same in any craft. As long as the final product works and has no noticeable flaws you did a better job than most people
Franklin Smith Kudos to you for encouraging your kid!!
I'm totally NOT gay but..I love you. Seriously though, you've hit so many of my issues. You are temporarily my new hero.
Great Video! I keep old medicine bottles and put fine sanding dust from projects in them. Some times I mix them. Go ask a pharmacist for some small bottles.
i noticed in a comparison that sanding dust + glue leaves black results. Use sawdust and it will result in the color of the wood. do not use too much glue.
I have old whipped cream cheese containers with fine sawdust from walnut, red oak, and hard maple just waiting to fill little gaps this way...
Education on fixing mistakes == great. Showing us your mistakes & fixes… PRICELESS
I've been a finish carpenter for years and have never seen the steam for removing a dent trick. I have used drops of hot water with mixed results. Hopefully I never have to try this (yea right, LOL). Thanks for putting this video out. Cheers, Dave.
I've used this trick for 20 years or so. I keep an iron in the work truck for this. It's a great one to know.
"Your gaps are gonna be smaller than that" oh no....
You should do a vid on how to help prevent some of those mistakes from happening
He pointed out that mistakes WILL happen even to the most experienced. Shat seperates goid and bad is how the mistake is asserted
Twisting your finger is freakin genius 🤯 thanks for sharing!
Great tips. I've hears some. But my favorite is definitely the cupped board after reshaping. I've had that issue and didn't know how to fix it. There were a couple others I hadn't heard as well. Thanks for sharing. I
Often times it’s better if you introduce the cupped/crowned piece to high humidity for a couple of days it will correct itself and then allow it re- acclimate slowly. Sometimes the wet and clamp method results in internal tension in the wood that can react later when the project is complete.
A good one that I have used with dovetails is to split out a wedge from an off cut. Matching long grain may be tricky, but matching end grain is easy. I've closed some annoying gaps that way. Once you tap it in, pare it down with a chisel, and get some finish on there, no one will know.
Also, for me it is hide glue, hide glue, and hide glue. Especially the liquid stuff. I've used it for a lot of the applications you've mentioned. It can wick into a crack easily when warm enough. It can be mixed with sawdust as a filler. It is invisible if you don't get every last bit cleaned up when finish is applied over it -- think of your porous woods such as oak. AND it is reversible. I've definitely had to reverse a couple joints with heat and steam when I've messed up. You probably wouldn't get a deep mortise & tenon to come loose, but it will work on a lot of joints.
But I also know that you stick with what you feel comfortable with. If you don't have a feel for how something works, you might make life harder for yourself with a different system.
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Uh... Be careful with instant activator. Some of those create exothermic reactions (they get hot as hell).
You *will* burn straight through calluses
I don’t even woodwork, I still watched though