Mrs?!?! They need to get their facts straight. Also apologies, it’s a big scam going round on RUclips atm. Nothing I can do really except delete them (and then they keep making new accounts) but thanks so much for flagging it up.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery…😬 is what I’ve been told, but fuck that some people SUCK and need to get a life!!! It’s only because your literally a guys dream chick..or at least every dude who works in the trades. Some chicks are just kooks
I will agree with you all and add that i was tought to use brown paper, and for that matter the iron was a proper old fashioned non electric one. Also it's not good for the soldering iron , particularly the tip, to be constantly heated and the effectively quenched.
Regarding the (US vernacular) hole saw (the things that look like a saw blade wrapped into a circle) and precision... I'm a machinist, and build motorcycle frames, and hole saws do have the ability to be precise with "One Simple Hack" [tm]. Put the hole saw in your drill press, run it at a low speed, then use a belt sander to whittle down the diameter until it cuts on size.
Playing cards as spacers of infinite thickness (almost) and also protectors from glue, glue scrapers. Get the cheapest plastic coated ones. They don't stick to wood glue. I buy ten packs at a time, cheapest ones I can find. I don't mix cards from other makers in a deck, as there could be differences when you need to space out two ends evenly, but when you have 10 of the same decks at a time, you can just have a big stack and they last forever. Also, they're easy to cut.
Another tip if you might find useful. Use a drinking straw to scrape glue squeeze out from tight angles or hard to reach places. The straw's opening will deform into the shape of the angle and scoop up the glue squeeze out. If you are using a paper straw you will have to cut of the end as it goes soggy, but you will get a good run out of one if you are careful how much you cut off to find non-soggy straw.
Instead of a soldering iron, use a regular iron like the iron that you can iron your clothes with. It has a temperature setting on it and you can adjust it more finally and it won’t burn your wood, but still only get the dent wet with a paper towel. Works great. It also can be used over the hole project to pull different parts of the wood up to give it a unique look.
Regarding the non slip glue trick, I've used a little sprinkling of salt added after the glue is spread, it adds coarseness to keep the work piece from sliding and doesn't affect the joint in my experience, just dissolves away
Another anti-slip trick for glue-ups is to sprinkle a few grains of sand or salt into the glue before putting the two pieces together. It provides enough friction to stop the slippage but doesn't affect the joint.
This is a horrible thing to do to your tools. Either you are dulling them by scrapping them with the sand, or you are causing them to rust faster by applying salt.
I noticed in your ukulele build that you could use this tip: Use a straw to clean up glue squeeze out in tight corners. It forms into the space well, can continue to load up inside the straw as you go, and can be rinse out easily enough for future use.
Great video Daisy. A trick that was a game changer for me was the masking tape and super glue trick. Or known as the blue tape and super glue method. I find it way better than double sided tape. For anyone who doesn't know it's simple. Put masking tape on your work piece. Then put masking tape on the corresponding, let say template. Put a bit of super glue on the masking tape on the work piece. If you have and spray excelerator on the tape on the template. Then simply align both and press down. You can route the work piece to the same size as the template and the template isn't going anywhere. When done pull them apart because the only thing holding the pieces together in the tape. I use it all the time for a variety of different jobs, like a quick way to keep a cutting guide in place whilst using a circular saw. It will come in handy a lot and has saved me a few times.
Change just use to face tape that's what it was me for! Also you using two very expensive products to achieve the same thing and spending more time at it! More monkey see monkey do no logic required here is it
@@makenchips The logic is that blue tape consistently holds well _and_ isn't too thick _and_ removes cleanly without tearing, leaving residue, or ripping out wood fibers _and_ allows separate application to each surface which aids alignment without compromising bond (or, again, taking up too much space for an interfacing foam layer) _and_ serves double duty protecting against tearout _and_ is a readily available _cheap_ commodity product just about anywhere _and_ isn't easily confused with some other product which might end up ruining your project, whose raw materials cost way more than any roll of tape ever will. You're also going to already have it anyway, since it has so many other uses. And what are you smoking, blue tape expensive? 1" x 60 yards, $5. I've no idea what "to[sic] face tape" is supposed to be, but two sided tapes offer maybe 1/4 the coverage (accounting for the doubled use of blue tape) per roll if you're lucky, for about $20. Carpet tape will come in slightly cheaper than two-sided tape but fail to hold, ruin your surfaces, or both. Blue tape/painter's tape stands alone in being the only tape that's actually designed to be removable and maintain a firm but _delicate_ hold. You _can_ use something else, but every unique product will be a gamble. Congratulations on getting lucky with results, but I doubt you actually did the math on cost.
@@HonoredMule Yards, inches, knots... I'm waiting for people to finally understand that the metric system is just simple. I understand that when you're born in the US you think in fractions of inches, but it's like I'm using a lot of different measurements. One is x/16, the second is x/2, the third is x/48, the fourth is x/4, etc. Do you understand my point? Now imagine the same system as a monetary one. In the store you pay 12/34 of an inch with 3/14 of an ounce, and in the wholesaler you pay 3/4 of a bucket of cement, which must be enriched with 35.2739619 ounces of water. Instead of constantly jumping around, I just simplify the system.
I used to be anxious about sharpening. Once I was just alright with ruing my tools, a lot of practice, and a ton of youtube videos, I have to say that I enjoy sharpening now. so my tip would be to fall in love with sharpening.
It’s already been mentioned, but the table salt trick is one of my favorites for slippery glue-up solutions. With that said, i’ll definitely use the CA trick on smaller things! Thanks Daisy!
Thank you Daisy. Similarly, we'll use a spot or two of hot melt glue when gluing items such as cabinet toe kick to eliminate brad nail holes where totally flat isn't an issue. Works on attaching stair rail rosettes on walls to anchor wood 'til adhesive sets.
If you are going to use that idea, I've had better results putting a scrap of painter's tape down, then the glue then remove the tape for a clean surface
To hopefully clarify, it stacks up this way. Scrap lumber as base. Layer of painter tape, super glue, more painter's tape, underside of the work piece. When desired easily pried apart and tape stripped away clean. @@AndreaCuchetto
I see your planed pencil and raise you a marking knife (proper one with a flat side, not just a pen knife). It's not only more precise, it'll also last basically forever. Inner tube clamp is brilliant.
That super glue anti slip tip is a brilliant one, I’ll be nicking that. I was messing around with tooth picks through the fret slots last time i glued a fretboard onto a neck
Only found your channel about 48hrs ago and have been binge watching whenever i get chance. I'm definitely not musically talented, believe me I've tried lol. I am a kitchen installer that has been wood working for 30 yrs, yes I'm getting old. love your skills and the witty underlying comments. Now a subscriber with all notifications turned on. look forward to the next one. Thank you for your hard work.
A caution about clamping a plane. Vice pressure can crack the cheeks. Cast iron is not flexible. Be sure to set the jaws as close to the sole as possible.
planed pencil improvement: lay the pencil planed side down and lengthwise on the middle of a piece of wide packing tape placed sticky side up on your worktop. fold the sides of the tape up around pencil and adhere them to each other. This protects the lead and your surface and gives you a tab to hold on to.
I love that trick for rough work but only recently discovered how easy it is to sprinkle too much and be left with a seam that wont' sufficiently close in an even slightly awkward clamping situation. I ended up having to scrape away the salted glue and start over.
5:14 The paper towel trick is good reminds me of one I found to bring out dents in laminate flooring, you wet a tea towel, place it flat over the dent and then run an iron over it with steam, checking often on your progress. Not sure if this would work on guitar wood but maybe worth an experiment!
Love your tips and tricks, here is one if you have a split in the surface of a guitar top, you make a thin long piece of 'spruce that is sharply triangular (in profile) and with a bit of clear glue place it in the split, after it dries sand it down, Bobs your uncle, one hidden split. Iv'e heard it said that a good luthier is one who knows how to hide his/her mistakes, (as it can be a challenging task to make it absolutely perfect all the time :). Oh a glue has to be hard or the vibrations don't travel through the instrument, plastics like pva are soft and stop the sound, this goes for all joints, hmm like a neck joint. Used the damp cloth tip when we move a piano across our lovely floor, no more wheel dents, I was 'reliefed ' :) just hot wet tea-towels, it worked. Oh dents in ebony fretboards, a bit of ebony saw dust and superglue works a treat, hard as nails, just like the old ebony which is very very hard like iron, one can cut the fret slots after.
Thx for the tips! Another: If you need some more flex, you can use elastic stretch bands, the kind you get from your fysiotherapist. I find for glueing tops, backs or fretboards, for me, this works also very good.
Love these thank you for legitimising me using my plane in a vice, although I'm always worried I'm going to plane off my fingertips... My top hacks Super glue + masking tape clamp - masking tape on both sides of whatever you need to clamp in place, superglue on masking tape, hold down. Done. I used this for so many tasks, met at first with incredulity by the tutors - either that will never hold, or that will never come off. It works every time, you can plane against it and if you really need it held down you can burnish the masking tape down for extra hold. Addendum to this: masking tape for everything. I use it to leave notes for myself, to transfer marks for mounting stuff to walls like extension cables, to bundle up toothpicks... hold bindings in place even. Depth gauge on a dril bit. I'm convinced there's nothing masking tape can't do. AND an extra hack. Cut up a whole roll into quarters or shorter and you've got perfect size bits for jobs like binding or masking off the fretboard. I love masking tape! Alex Bishop also showed me a great wood filler hack... use a scraper to get little curly bits off of end grain of whatever wood you need to fill, mash those curls into the gap, then drip some titebond on that. Then sprinkle more end grain curls. It dries so much quicker and shrinks so much less than sawdust and titebond as a filler, and it looks a lot more natural (e.g. less uniform, like sawdust which is all one blob). I keep a bit of towel in my apron to check grain direction if I can't feel or see it well, the towel or any cloth will feel roughness going against the grain Finally one I discovered myself was using those wing mirror blind spot mirrors - convex mini mirrors basically - as interior inspection aids. Dropped into a soundhole, they can be angled and show a lot of the inside of the instrument a lot better than a flat little mirror like a dental mirror. I'd love a good tip or hack on how to get plane blades angled square, I do it by sight and then use a scrap piece of wood to check and adjust but it would be good to have a reliable way to just make it good right from putting it in the body
An old woodworking guy writes: A pencil with the wood on one side planed away is sometimes called a "mouse" - draw a big sketch and you'll see why! Holding a plane upside down in the vise is a good trick - but when you do it with a bailey type plane make sure the plane is LOW in the vise jaws - otherwise you can snap the cheeks off as you tighten the vise.
The upside down plane trick is a good one. I clamp my No8 on it's side and run my tops and backs along it to create a joint, I find it much easier than a shooting board.
I work on metal for a living and I often use the "finger depth gauge" to get a parallel line to an edge for, say, a row of rivets when the actual distance does not matter a lot. The bicycle tube is great, another alternative is the so called surgical tubing, it's flexible latex tube that can be had in different sizes.
Boatbuilders will take a piece of PVC pipe and cut off 1/2 wide "bracelets" to make instant clamps. You can cut out sections of the bracelet clamps to fit the width of the pieces you need to clamp. Need to clamp up some 1/2" ply, cut a 3/8" wide section out of the PVC bracelet then snap it in place. The cool thing about it is you can make 20 clamps in less than a minute or two. Need a bigger "clamp" cut it out of 4" diameter PVC etc. etc. Thanks Daisy. The bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrfffffffff at the end is classic. I took the time to share this tip with you because I care about others, more than even myself. My middle name believe it or knot is "others." Cheers!
the bike tube is a very old school thing when riving wood, but traditionally it was a thin strip of leather. the plane upside down is common for staves in coopering. when using nails and predrilling holes, you can use a nail as a bit, but then put a little plastic circle on the nail to keep from marking the wood with the drill chuck.
1:46 tip picked up some time ago from Paul Sellers: when clamping metal plane in a vice, wings(sides) can break off, but if plane is lowered so vice jaws grab sides of soul of plane, you an squeeze as much as you want. cheers
When gluing two pieces of wood that may slip, instead of super glue in the middle, sprinkle a little salt on the board. The salt will prevent the boards from sliding.
For very accurate holes, i use a Rotabroach or the Evolution Tools equivalent Not cheap, but very accurate (I use them in steel) and they are spot on and stay sharp for years of use in steel. They will also leave the centre portion in place. The only drawback for you is that the shaft is 20mm so you would need an adapter for a drill chuck. If you want to go down this route, i could make an adapter for you on my lathe so you can use with a normal 13mm drill chuck
That superglue on glue joints *Facepalm moment*, sometimes it's the simple things that elude our thought processes. I use Titebond and I've found that if you wring the joints together and just leave it for 30 seconds to initially 'grab' before clamping, most of the time things stay where they are supposed to, but this tip will just speed things up. Thanks for the tips :)
When messuring to the middle of something (say drawing a lie down the middle of a plank with a combination square, or your finger depth gauge) I would recomend draw the line from both sides. If you messured perfectly the second line will sit perfectly on top of the first line, In real life you end up with two parallel lines right next to each other and the exact mid point is between them. Accurate first time without agonising.
Also, to add to this (although, hopefully you'd know this before marking the lines), if those lines are parallel then both sides of your piece are flat and also parallel.
the very first tube i saved has been laying around for years. Ever since i thought of them as huge, bump resistant, quite waterproof condoms for flashlights, lighters, tools, the one crappy, 5 bit in a handle combo socket screwdriver, that failed to lock only 10 minutes after you paid for it the supermarket and plenty,plenty more I realised how great it is to have them salvaged, especially diferent sizes, as mostly you will use like a couple cm. Well... the rubber saves lives. Embrace it as you like
I use a Jay Roller. Its a 3 inch wide one. Its a Formica and Veneer roller by design. I use it alot for myriads of other uses, and anything with glue, adhesive, tape, etc... I use it to roll tape down really excellently before drilling holes, or cutting a line with no burrs, etc... the skys the limit. It also is great for rolling on decals to perfection. Here is a technical write up example from a store: "Specially designed for applying laminate as well as veneer, the J-Roller provides 20-25 PSI for positive bonding. The wide non-marking rubber roller is ideal for flush work."
I will also say about the drill-lathe tip, if you need to remove a lot of material very fast and dont wanna hold it to a sanding block all day, you can take the drill to a belt sander and make sure the spinning drill is going opposite to the direction of the belt, and just give it hell full speed, carefully hold it to the sander. Keeps it nice and round, takes a ton of material off quickly and you can do easy tapers like that for starting deeper dowels or making tuner or bridge pegs and so on. Love the channel, very nice to see young people getting into hand making guitars and especially women getting into a male-heavy field.
Great tips, ty for sharing 👍 Something I do to minimize the float or slide aspect of trying to glue boards together is to sprinkle a little sand or salt on the glue, then clamp....... works great.
Washer trick was good I like that.. and here's one back.. clear packing tape on anything you use to clamp, or your cauls.. that you don't want wood glue sticking on.
For the dent, I like to lay a glass slide on top of the damp paper towel, helps distribute the heat more evenly and you wont have to worry about accidentally scorching.
I have used the water soaked rag and hot iron (for clothes ironing) to create steam pressure. My father was taught to soak the dimpled area with alcohol and light it so the heat from the burning alcohol fumes create steam in the wood fibers. The wood doesn't burn since the fire disappears when the fumes are exhausted.
I really like the paul sellers tip for dents which is really similar, he does a damp rag and a normal iron for clothes to get dents out, it seems a little more forgiving than the soldering iron
That is brilliant! Thanx. I use 32mm and 40mm gray sewage pipe (with until now, duct tape) as coupling for extending my vacuum hose, they do fit in each other, but not that great. The inner tube trick will be a nice addition.
If you own a drill, you can make your own washers. Years ago I need a special washer. A washer with a 1/4-20 treads in the center hole. So I made my own.
though you may not want to use this glue trick on a guitar... you can get the same effect with a little salt or sand when you glue boards that you don't want to have slip... Also lightly doing the long clamp first can help keep them from slipping lengthwise... but again it depends on what you are clamping...
Thank you very much for the tips. A trick I use a lot is masking tape and super glue. I saw it on the Crimson Guitars channel (sorry to mention the competition, but it's very useful). Many times, when I want to glue pieces of wood in a certain position; I drill 2mm holes and use a toothpick as a guide. Another trick is to use the masking tape as a fan; a strip of tape is placed around a bit, so that a flap is formed with it; and turning that will blow the dust and wood shavings; improving vision.
I have used bungee chord to wrap the guitar bindings up with and fret boards, I also use super glue like you but on the outside edge or a 1/16” drill bit leaving it in while the glue sets up! Best to you.
Masking tape (decent quality stuff like Frog Tape or 3M)... used as clamps for awkward glue ups, put it into the internal corners of any box during a glue up and just whip the strips away along with any squeeze out, use as temporary or not so temporary labels... I used to be a nightmare for writing on my workpieces with pencil and even Sharpie I still do it but now on a bit of tape that I stick to the workpiece and finally Google masking tape dovetail joints.. revolutionised instantly my handcut dovetail joints.
In stead of super glue to avoid the wood from slipping, you could just sprinkle a bit of fine salt. The salt will be dissolved in the glue rather quicly but will remain formlomg enough to stop the two pieces of wood from sliding around in the wet glue😀
an older version of adding superglue in the middle of your woodglue is to sprinkle some coarse salt on the glued surface before clamping. The grit bites into the surface and reduces slipping, but ultimately dissolves into the glue.
Thanks for sharing some great tips! Ive gotten myself back into woodworking but there are so many little things I fear I've forgotten, its those little lessons/tips that add up big time! I really respect your knowledge/experience, wish I could just download a small percentage of that into my brain lol
used motorcycle inner tubes make great heavy duty rubber bands, you can usually get them out of the dumpster at your local motorcycle shop, they come in different diameters and thicknesses and you can additionally control the amount of retentions strength by the width of the bands you cut, also you can make rubber bands a large as you need by using super glue to glue pieces together, all you have to do is wash the rubber with dish soap and water then dry with towel first then super glue will attach pieces of rubber together instantly....
Late to the party here but hope Daisy reads comments. There is a proper iron for that sort of job. I've called them packing irons but I don't know what they go by in the UK. You need one for many jobs not least of which is heating areas when ungluing something. Perished tyres are all well and good but see a nurse next and ask about surgical tubing. Better product all round. If it is too thin to behave on the shooting board put painter's tape on the back and on a random board and super glue them together. Plane then peel. A little heat from the packing iron (see above) if it is really delicate. Sanding to dimension is much easier in a drill press. Put a screw through a scrap to serve as a dead centre and you can hold even decent size pieces still laterally while you sand. (0.001" is quite doable)
⚠️ It looks like you’ve an imposter (MrsDaisyTempest) who’s replied to several commenters.
Mrs?!?! They need to get their facts straight. Also apologies, it’s a big scam going round on RUclips atm. Nothing I can do really except delete them (and then they keep making new accounts) but thanks so much for flagging it up.
FWIW I reported it as soon as I saw it.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery…😬 is what I’ve been told, but fuck that some people SUCK and need to get a life!!! It’s only because your literally a guys dream chick..or at least every dude who works in the trades. Some chicks are just kooks
@@NWMcCabe11 why did you have to make it weird
@@lw8882 yeah, my thought exactly.
A damp cloth and a clothes iron also works for dents and less chance of a burn mark. Well done Daisy more content required.
Second that, and it is far easier to control the heat, take your time and let physics do the work.
Also good for blocking a sweater!
Third that. If putting a few drops on it doesn’t work, out comes a damp rag and my hand me down iron.
I will agree with you all and add that i was tought to use brown paper, and for that matter the iron was a proper old fashioned non electric one. Also it's not good for the soldering iron , particularly the tip, to be constantly heated and the effectively quenched.
Came here to say that.
Regarding the (US vernacular) hole saw (the things that look like a saw blade wrapped into a circle) and precision... I'm a machinist, and build motorcycle frames, and hole saws do have the ability to be precise with "One Simple Hack" [tm]. Put the hole saw in your drill press, run it at a low speed, then use a belt sander to whittle down the diameter until it cuts on size.
That's some top tier machinisting right there! You guys just see stuff differently, that's a brilliant idea.
Playing cards as spacers of infinite thickness (almost) and also protectors from glue, glue scrapers. Get the cheapest plastic coated ones. They don't stick to wood glue. I buy ten packs at a time, cheapest ones I can find. I don't mix cards from other makers in a deck, as there could be differences when you need to space out two ends evenly, but when you have 10 of the same decks at a time, you can just have a big stack and they last forever. Also, they're easy to cut.
Thanks for the tips! Looking forward to using the vice plane, that's really clever.
Another tip if you might find useful. Use a drinking straw to scrape glue squeeze out from tight angles or hard to reach places. The straw's opening will deform into the shape of the angle and scoop up the glue squeeze out. If you are using a paper straw you will have to cut of the end as it goes soggy, but you will get a good run out of one if you are careful how much you cut off to find non-soggy straw.
Cool!!! Thanks so much :)
This sounds like it’s worth trying. Thanks for the tip!
I put a hard crease at the end of the straw to help it get down into the corners easier. This trick works very well!
and you can suck the excess glue out while your at it
@@chuckgrumble5440
Or huff it........
Instead of a soldering iron, use a regular iron like the iron that you can iron your clothes with. It has a temperature setting on it and you can adjust it more finally and it won’t burn your wood, but still only get the dent wet with a paper towel. Works great. It also can be used over the hole project to pull different parts of the wood up to give it a unique look.
You got me with "scalpelly-walpelly". Subscribed!
That "re-cycling" pun was wheely good.
Regarding the non slip glue trick, I've used a little sprinkling of salt added after the glue is spread, it adds coarseness to keep the work piece from sliding and doesn't affect the joint in my experience, just dissolves away
Dammit, now we need to start adding a "pinch of salt" to our woodworking recipes?!! You must work for the salt industry!
That washer trick is an absolute gamechanger
Another anti-slip trick for glue-ups is to sprinkle a few grains of sand or salt into the glue before putting the two pieces together. It provides enough friction to stop the slippage but doesn't affect the joint.
This is a horrible thing to do to your tools. Either you are dulling them by scrapping them with the sand, or you are causing them to rust faster by applying salt.
I noticed in your ukulele build that you could use this tip: Use a straw to clean up glue squeeze out in tight corners. It forms into the space well, can continue to load up inside the straw as you go, and can be rinse out easily enough for future use.
Great tips. For your glue card, use a set of pinking shears, they will pink a zigzag on the edge of the card.
Great video Daisy. A trick that was a game changer for me was the masking tape and super glue trick. Or known as the blue tape and super glue method. I find it way better than double sided tape. For anyone who doesn't know it's simple. Put masking tape on your work piece. Then put masking tape on the corresponding, let say template. Put a bit of super glue on the masking tape on the work piece. If you have and spray excelerator on the tape on the template. Then simply align both and press down. You can route the work piece to the same size as the template and the template isn't going anywhere. When done pull them apart because the only thing holding the pieces together in the tape. I use it all the time for a variety of different jobs, like a quick way to keep a cutting guide in place whilst using a circular saw. It will come in handy a lot and has saved me a few times.
Change just use to face tape that's what it was me for! Also you using two very expensive products to achieve the same thing and spending more time at it! More monkey see monkey do no logic required here is it
@@makenchips The logic is that blue tape consistently holds well _and_ isn't too thick _and_ removes cleanly without tearing, leaving residue, or ripping out wood fibers _and_ allows separate application to each surface which aids alignment without compromising bond (or, again, taking up too much space for an interfacing foam layer) _and_ serves double duty protecting against tearout _and_ is a readily available _cheap_ commodity product just about anywhere _and_ isn't easily confused with some other product which might end up ruining your project, whose raw materials cost way more than any roll of tape ever will. You're also going to already have it anyway, since it has so many other uses.
And what are you smoking, blue tape expensive? 1" x 60 yards, $5. I've no idea what "to[sic] face tape" is supposed to be, but two sided tapes offer maybe 1/4 the coverage (accounting for the doubled use of blue tape) per roll if you're lucky, for about $20. Carpet tape will come in slightly cheaper than two-sided tape but fail to hold, ruin your surfaces, or both.
Blue tape/painter's tape stands alone in being the only tape that's actually designed to be removable and maintain a firm but _delicate_ hold. You _can_ use something else, but every unique product will be a gamble. Congratulations on getting lucky with results, but I doubt you actually did the math on cost.
I've tried the CA glue and blue tape. It was a pain. I'm sticking with my double sided tape 🙂
@@HonoredMule Yards, inches, knots... I'm waiting for people to finally understand that the metric system is just simple.
I understand that when you're born in the US you think in fractions of inches, but it's like I'm using a lot of different measurements. One is x/16, the second is x/2, the third is x/48, the fourth is x/4, etc.
Do you understand my point?
Now imagine the same system as a monetary one. In the store you pay 12/34 of an inch with 3/14 of an ounce, and in the wholesaler you pay 3/4 of a bucket of cement, which must be enriched with 35.2739619 ounces of water.
Instead of constantly jumping around, I just simplify the system.
I used to be anxious about sharpening. Once I was just alright with ruing my tools, a lot of practice, and a ton of youtube videos, I have to say that I enjoy sharpening now. so my tip would be to fall in love with sharpening.
It’s already been mentioned, but the table salt trick is one of my favorites for slippery glue-up solutions. With that said, i’ll definitely use the CA trick on smaller things! Thanks Daisy!
Thank you Daisy. Similarly, we'll use a spot or two of hot melt glue when gluing items such as cabinet toe kick to eliminate brad nail holes where totally flat isn't an issue. Works on attaching stair rail rosettes on walls to anchor wood 'til adhesive sets.
If you are going to use that idea, I've had better results putting a scrap of painter's tape down, then the glue then remove the tape for a clean surface
@@markbernier8434- Is the tape holding the pieces together while gluing (i.e., it is not *in between* the two pieces)?
To hopefully clarify, it stacks up this way. Scrap lumber as base. Layer of painter tape, super glue, more painter's tape, underside of the work piece. When desired easily pried apart and tape stripped away clean. @@AndreaCuchetto
I see your planed pencil and raise you a marking knife (proper one with a flat side, not just a pen knife). It's not only more precise, it'll also last basically forever.
Inner tube clamp is brilliant.
Agreed. My life changed when I swapped a pencil for a marking knife. (Well, slight exageration, but...)
That super glue anti slip tip is a brilliant one, I’ll be nicking that. I was messing around with tooth picks through the fret slots last time i glued a fretboard onto a neck
Only found your channel about 48hrs ago and have been binge watching whenever i get chance. I'm definitely not musically talented, believe me I've tried lol. I am a kitchen installer that has been wood working for 30 yrs, yes I'm getting old. love your skills and the witty underlying comments. Now a subscriber with all notifications turned on. look forward to the next one.
Thank you for your hard work.
In my cabinet work I use a clothes iron for ironing out a dent. It tends to not burn the wood unless you hold it there for a long time.
A caution about clamping a plane. Vice pressure can crack the cheeks. Cast iron is not flexible. Be sure to set the jaws as close to the sole as possible.
Great advice, thanks! I was gonna try that when I get home and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have thought of that!
planed pencil improvement: lay the pencil planed side down and lengthwise on the middle of a piece of wide packing tape placed sticky side up on your worktop. fold the sides of the tape up around pencil and adhere them to each other. This protects the lead and your surface and gives you a tab to hold on to.
A sprinkle of table salt on glue will keep joints from slipping too. Great video Daisy :)
That I've used a bunch, and it's great, but the superglue one was new to me. I could see a couple cases where that is likely gonna be super handy.
can you use fresh cracked pepper also?
I love that trick for rough work but only recently discovered how easy it is to sprinkle too much and be left with a seam that wont' sufficiently close in an even slightly awkward clamping situation. I ended up having to scrape away the salted glue and start over.
@@chuckgrumble5440 no it messes up the taste man, try balancing it out with some sugar maybe
5:14 The paper towel trick is good reminds me of one I found to bring out dents in laminate flooring, you wet a tea towel, place it flat over the dent and then run an iron over it with steam, checking often on your progress. Not sure if this would work on guitar wood but maybe worth an experiment!
Good tips. Yes, I use bike tubes for lots of things. Cut them crossways, any custom width, for strong rubber bands.
Hello from Missouri in the US. Just came across your video. Never too old to learn. Looks like I have some binge watching to do. Thank You.
Love your tips and tricks, here is one if you have a split in the surface of a guitar top, you make a thin long piece of 'spruce that is sharply triangular (in profile) and with a bit of clear glue place it in the split, after it dries sand it down, Bobs your uncle, one hidden split. Iv'e heard it said that a good luthier is one who knows how to hide his/her mistakes, (as it can be a challenging task to make it absolutely perfect all the time :). Oh a glue has to be hard or the vibrations don't travel through the instrument, plastics like pva are soft and stop the sound, this goes for all joints, hmm like a neck joint. Used the damp cloth tip when we move a piano across our lovely floor, no more wheel dents,
I was 'reliefed ' :) just hot wet tea-towels, it worked. Oh dents in ebony fretboards, a bit of ebony saw dust and superglue works a treat, hard as nails, just like the old ebony which is very very hard like iron, one can cut the fret slots after.
I tried the plane in the vise with a small part its a good method & easier to find out if your blade is dull, i will be sharpening
A few of these tips are totally new to me. Thanks.
All great tips!
Thx for the tips! Another: If you need some more flex, you can use elastic stretch bands, the kind you get from your fysiotherapist. I find for glueing tops, backs or fretboards, for me, this works also very good.
Impressive craftwork imo, very cool, thank you RUclips algorithm.
And if you clamp a knife in a vise, you can pull the inner tube past the blade in very thin strips. Great for binding up wood pieces for storage.
What do you clean the inner tube with before use? Just soap and water?
Yes. But regardless the black rubber does wear off and can mark quality wood.@@AndreaCuchetto
Love these thank you for legitimising me using my plane in a vice, although I'm always worried I'm going to plane off my fingertips...
My top hacks
Super glue + masking tape clamp - masking tape on both sides of whatever you need to clamp in place, superglue on masking tape, hold down. Done. I used this for so many tasks, met at first with incredulity by the tutors - either that will never hold, or that will never come off. It works every time, you can plane against it and if you really need it held down you can burnish the masking tape down for extra hold.
Addendum to this: masking tape for everything. I use it to leave notes for myself, to transfer marks for mounting stuff to walls like extension cables, to bundle up toothpicks... hold bindings in place even. Depth gauge on a dril bit. I'm convinced there's nothing masking tape can't do. AND an extra hack. Cut up a whole roll into quarters or shorter and you've got perfect size bits for jobs like binding or masking off the fretboard. I love masking tape!
Alex Bishop also showed me a great wood filler hack... use a scraper to get little curly bits off of end grain of whatever wood you need to fill, mash those curls into the gap, then drip some titebond on that. Then sprinkle more end grain curls. It dries so much quicker and shrinks so much less than sawdust and titebond as a filler, and it looks a lot more natural (e.g. less uniform, like sawdust which is all one blob).
I keep a bit of towel in my apron to check grain direction if I can't feel or see it well, the towel or any cloth will feel roughness going against the grain
Finally one I discovered myself was using those wing mirror blind spot mirrors - convex mini mirrors basically - as interior inspection aids. Dropped into a soundhole, they can be angled and show a lot of the inside of the instrument a lot better than a flat little mirror like a dental mirror.
I'd love a good tip or hack on how to get plane blades angled square, I do it by sight and then use a scrap piece of wood to check and adjust but it would be good to have a reliable way to just make it good right from putting it in the body
An old woodworking guy writes:
A pencil with the wood on one side planed away is sometimes called a "mouse" - draw a big sketch and you'll see why!
Holding a plane upside down in the vise is a good trick - but when you do it with a bailey type plane make sure the plane is LOW in the vise jaws - otherwise you can snap the cheeks off as you tighten the vise.
LOVE your enthusiasm!
Great tips. One note, the one with a soldering iron, use a clothing iron. Works great.
I am amazed by your passion and knowledge about woodwork. Love your video. I wish you lots of success. Jose from Melbourne Australia
The upside down plane trick is a good one. I clamp my No8 on it's side and run my tops and backs along it to create a joint, I find it much easier than a shooting board.
You've changed my life thank you... EXPECIALLY PLANING A PENCIL!
I work on metal for a living and I often use the "finger depth gauge" to get a parallel line to an edge for, say, a row of rivets when the actual distance does not matter a lot. The bicycle tube is great, another alternative is the so called surgical tubing, it's flexible latex tube that can be had in different sizes.
Boatbuilders will take a piece of PVC pipe and cut off 1/2 wide "bracelets" to make instant clamps. You can cut out sections of the bracelet clamps to fit the width of the pieces you need to clamp. Need to clamp up some 1/2" ply, cut a 3/8" wide section out of the PVC bracelet then snap it in place. The cool thing about it is you can make 20 clamps in less than a minute or two. Need a bigger "clamp" cut it out of 4" diameter PVC etc. etc. Thanks Daisy. The bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrfffffffff at the end is classic.
I took the time to share this tip with you because I care about others, more than even myself. My middle name believe it or knot is "others." Cheers!
For dents what I do is put the piece of wood over a steaming kettle! Works great and you're always keeping an eye at what you're doing.
Thanks for the video Daisy - you just proved that you're never to old to learn something - Cheers from Canada
Haven't worked wood much in years, but wow, what great tips!
the bike tube is a very old school thing when riving wood, but traditionally it was a thin strip of leather.
the plane upside down is common for staves in coopering.
when using nails and predrilling holes, you can use a nail as a bit, but then put a little plastic circle on the nail to keep from marking the wood with the drill chuck.
I use a steam iron and cloth for raising dents. Super idea for "taking" wood for gluing.
1:46 tip picked up some time ago from Paul Sellers: when clamping metal plane in a vice, wings(sides) can break off, but if plane is lowered so vice jaws grab sides of soul of plane, you an squeeze as much as you want. cheers
When gluing two pieces of wood that may slip, instead of super glue in the middle, sprinkle a little salt on the board. The salt will prevent the boards from sliding.
I'll just add you sprinkle the salt onto the glue. You don't need to wipe it away. But not too much glue. If the wood is soft you can use sand.
For very accurate holes, i use a Rotabroach or the Evolution Tools equivalent Not cheap, but very accurate (I use them in steel) and they are spot on and stay sharp for years of use in steel. They will also leave the centre portion in place. The only drawback for you is that the shaft is 20mm so you would need an adapter for a drill chuck. If you want to go down this route, i could make an adapter for you on my lathe so you can use with a normal 13mm drill chuck
Very cool, I like the 'steaming the dent' part of your tips video. And it's nice to see more women who do this sort of work. Keep it up.... :)
These were some seriously great tips! My favorites were the washer tip and super glue tip!
Great tips, and I'm going to be using them. Never ever considered how to use the inner tubes or gift cards before. Thank you!
If you find you have collected a bunch of business cards from people you'll never contact, folded in half they make a good glue spreader in a pinch.
I always keep some used bike tube around the shop. It's usefully for so many things!
That superglue on glue joints *Facepalm moment*, sometimes it's the simple things that elude our thought processes. I use Titebond and I've found that if you wring the joints together and just leave it for 30 seconds to initially 'grab' before clamping, most of the time things stay where they are supposed to, but this tip will just speed things up. Thanks for the tips :)
Ooo I learned the inner tube one in my undergrad art class :), also sanding blocks can be put in a vice as well.
When messuring to the middle of something (say drawing a lie down the middle of a plank with a combination square, or your finger depth gauge) I would recomend draw the line from both sides. If you messured perfectly the second line will sit perfectly on top of the first line, In real life you end up with two parallel lines right next to each other and the exact mid point is between them. Accurate first time without agonising.
Also, to add to this (although, hopefully you'd know this before marking the lines), if those lines are parallel then both sides of your piece are flat and also parallel.
Superb Daisy. A couple there that I will certainly be using! Thank you!
Enjoying your channel. Lovely job! So much talent!
I used to travel a lot for work and saved lots and lots of hotel room keycards. I find a myriad of uses for them in the workshop.
Great tips! Another helpful video, thanks for putting the time into these Daisy!
One for the algorithm. Thanks for great tips!
the very first tube i saved has been laying around for years. Ever since i thought of them as huge, bump resistant, quite waterproof condoms for flashlights, lighters, tools, the one crappy, 5 bit in a handle combo socket screwdriver, that failed to lock only 10 minutes after you paid for it the supermarket and plenty,plenty more I realised how great it is to have them salvaged, especially diferent sizes, as mostly you will use like a couple cm. Well... the rubber saves lives. Embrace it as you like
I use a Jay Roller. Its a 3 inch wide one. Its a Formica and Veneer roller by design. I use it alot for myriads of other uses, and anything with glue, adhesive, tape, etc... I use it to roll tape down really excellently before drilling holes, or cutting a line with no burrs, etc... the skys the limit. It also is great for rolling on decals to perfection. Here is a technical write up example from a store: "Specially designed for applying laminate as well as veneer, the J-Roller provides 20-25 PSI for positive bonding. The wide non-marking rubber roller is ideal for flush work."
LOL... the ending! Great info. I'm going to get some innertubes!
Loved your video! If your drill is making oversized holes, chances are you have a wobbling chuck and arbor. You can check it with a dial indicator.
Great hacks-love your style!
I will also say about the drill-lathe tip, if you need to remove a lot of material very fast and dont wanna hold it to a sanding block all day, you can take the drill to a belt sander and make sure the spinning drill is going opposite to the direction of the belt, and just give it hell full speed, carefully hold it to the sander. Keeps it nice and round, takes a ton of material off quickly and you can do easy tapers like that for starting deeper dowels or making tuner or bridge pegs and so on. Love the channel, very nice to see young people getting into hand making guitars and especially women getting into a male-heavy field.
Great tips, ty for sharing 👍 Something I do to minimize the float or slide aspect of trying to glue boards together is to sprinkle a little sand or salt on the glue, then clamp....... works great.
Washer trick was good I like that.. and here's one back.. clear packing tape on anything you use to clamp, or your cauls.. that you don't want wood glue sticking on.
Nice tips! I use an iron and a wet cloth and an iron to get out dents, it probably spreads the heat a little better than a soldering iron.
For the dent, I like to lay a glass slide on top of the damp paper towel, helps distribute the heat more evenly and you wont have to worry about accidentally scorching.
That washer trick blew my mind. I feel very dumb that that's never occurred to me
I have used the water soaked rag and hot iron (for clothes ironing) to create steam pressure. My father was taught to soak the dimpled area with alcohol and light it so the heat from the burning alcohol fumes create steam in the wood fibers. The wood doesn't burn since the fire disappears when the fumes are exhausted.
Never occurred to me to light it on fire. Hmm, better clean up all your sawdust first.
I feel like this doesn’t need any mentions but Jimmy Diresta has a series on tips that are so good like this one.
Just awesome, thank you
Thanks, Daisy. 🍻
I really like the paul sellers tip for dents which is really similar, he does a damp rag and a normal iron for clothes to get dents out, it seems a little more forgiving than the soldering iron
Swap the soldering iron for a laundry Iron or smaller travel Iron and you'll thank me. Steam function too :D
Inner tubes are also great for making vacuum hoses fit tools where the fit is loose otherwise
That is brilliant! Thanx. I use 32mm and 40mm gray sewage pipe (with until now, duct tape) as coupling for extending my vacuum hose, they do fit in each other, but not that great. The inner tube trick will be a nice addition.
My top tip: when you've superglued your fingers together, nail varnish remover will undo them. Don't ask me how I know.
Very good. I liked your channel, congratulations, another subscriber from Brazil.
If you own a drill, you can make your own washers. Years ago I need a special washer. A washer with a 1/4-20 treads in the center hole. So I made my own.
though you may not want to use this glue trick on a guitar... you can get the same effect with a little salt or sand when you glue boards that you don't want to have slip...
Also lightly doing the long clamp first can help keep them from slipping lengthwise... but again it depends on what you are clamping...
Thank you very much for the tips.
A trick I use a lot is masking tape and super glue. I saw it on the Crimson Guitars channel (sorry to mention the competition, but it's very useful).
Many times, when I want to glue pieces of wood in a certain position; I drill 2mm holes and use a toothpick as a guide.
Another trick is to use the masking tape as a fan; a strip of tape is placed around a bit, so that a flap is formed with it; and turning that will blow the dust and wood shavings; improving vision.
Tape around the drill bit is also a handy depth stop
I have used bungee chord to wrap the guitar bindings up with and fret boards, I also use super glue like you but on the outside edge or a 1/16” drill bit leaving it in while the glue sets up!
Best to you.
Thanks for the tips
Masking tape (decent quality stuff like Frog Tape or 3M)... used as clamps for awkward glue ups, put it into the internal corners of any box during a glue up and just whip the strips away along with any squeeze out, use as temporary or not so temporary labels... I used to be a nightmare for writing on my workpieces with pencil and even Sharpie I still do it but now on a bit of tape that I stick to the workpiece and finally Google masking tape dovetail joints.. revolutionised instantly my handcut dovetail joints.
In stead of super glue to avoid the wood from slipping, you could just sprinkle a bit of fine salt. The salt will be dissolved in the glue rather quicly but will remain formlomg enough to stop the two pieces of wood from sliding around in the wet glue😀
How did you read my mind, like 20 hours ago... ;-)
That hold pencil, even line hack is one my dad used
I could never do it.
Tips are always useful.
Just stumbled across your channel, now I’m a subscriber! Thanks for sharing. I’m looking forward to more videos …..
Always enjoy your videos! Picked up a few neat tricks!
an older version of adding superglue in the middle of your woodglue is to sprinkle some coarse salt on the glued surface before clamping. The grit bites into the surface and reduces slipping, but ultimately dissolves into the glue.
Thanks for sharing some great tips! Ive gotten myself back into woodworking but there are so many little things I fear I've forgotten, its those little lessons/tips that add up big time! I really respect your knowledge/experience, wish I could just download a small percentage of that into my brain lol
used motorcycle inner tubes make great heavy duty rubber bands, you can usually get them out of the dumpster at your local motorcycle shop, they come in different diameters and thicknesses and you can additionally control the amount of retentions strength by the width of the bands you cut, also you can make rubber bands a large as you need by using super glue to glue pieces together, all you have to do is wash the rubber with dish soap and water then dry with towel first then super glue will attach pieces of rubber together instantly....
Late to the party here but hope Daisy reads comments. There is a proper iron for that sort of job. I've called them packing irons but I don't know what they go by in the UK. You need one for many jobs not least of which is heating areas when ungluing something. Perished tyres are all well and good but see a nurse next and ask about surgical tubing. Better product all round. If it is too thin to behave on the shooting board put painter's tape on the back and on a random board and super glue them together. Plane then peel. A little heat from the packing iron (see above) if it is really delicate. Sanding to dimension is much easier in a drill press. Put a screw through a scrap to serve as a dead centre and you can hold even decent size pieces still laterally while you sand. (0.001" is quite doable)
A lot of useful hints. Thank you.
Hey I find a plain old clothing iron instead of a soldering iron to work great for steaming out dents. Same technique, just lower heat.