I’m 76 and been working with wood for 1year, thanks for woodworkers like you I’ve not been hurt and learned do such, thanks for your videos, everything I make I give away to friends and family, that way no one can complain, thanks again
As a newbie, I’m not ready to have my hands that close to the blade with unsecured (2) pieces of wood. But with a crosscut sled and some hold down clamps... I’m enjoying the real life measuring videos. Thx.
Awesome, another really great thing you have shown again. Your videos are always tight, well edited, clear voice, no silly music to distract, pure fun creative learning right there. Thank you again for excellence, Jim Tree
This is quite possibly one of the most useful woodworking tip vids I've ever seen. As I'm certain several people mention below, this is the perfect way to cut key strips for keyed/splined miter joints. I wish I'd have known this technique - it would have saved me literal hours (and a lot of nice walnut) trying to dial in the 'perfect' spline thickness.
Another elegant use of direct measurement. Kudos. richard -- Ah, those three little words so many people seem to have so much trouble saying: “I was wrong.”
Jody, you fixed it for me. I just made a jig to cut slots for splines for my first picture frame miter joints, and I was stuck trying and trying to cut some mahogany for splines. All bloody day. Too thick. Too thin. Then I saw how you did it -- I missed it at first because you called it a shim but I wanted a spline. The penny finally dropped -- we're talking about the same thing, and your method is brilliant!! I cut a bunch that actually fit my test frame. Thank you!!
Last night I watched your previous video on the half lap. I thought to myself... He needs to show how to make a kerf wide shim to match the blade thickness. Voila! You did it and kudos!!! Love it! Good on ya!
Fantastic!! Making the shim for a regular sized saw blade finger joint jig has always been the downside for me. Now I know!!! Thank you. Have a great Thanksgiving.
That’s the slickest trick yet. I’ve used a similar trick to make thin stock cuts but not as a blade width shim like you did here. Awesome If you turn the one block around the kerf cut will act as a push block to push the piece through.
Genius! I just got a new table saw and was just about to sit down and see if I figure this "secret recipe". I knew there _had_ to be a way to do this. Thank you for saving me probably a couple hours and whole lot of frustration. I plan on making one these for each blade I have and labelling each shim with the brand name and type of blade. One of the cool things about this is that it works even if your blade is somehow out-of-spec. I cut some slots for splines for a miter-cornered box and after some trial and error, found that my supposedly 0.125" (1/8") blade was cutting a kerf closer to 0.145". Maybe my blade has some wobble, or maybe some of the teeth are bent out. Doesn't matter - I can just make the perfect shims/splines for my wonky blade using this method.
DUDE!!! I have been trying to figure this out for the longest time! I would even adjust projects because I didn't want to go through the hassle of calculating and setting things up. Thank you so much for posting this.
Great idea, thanks. A cut is not the width of the blade. All blades (all rotating elements) have some degree of vibration/wobble in them [the better saws have less]. So the cut in the wood is the width of the blade PLUS any wobble. It's a small differential, but frustrating when trying to get a precise cut. This is a great correction method and a lot simpler than a Kerf Master.
That's a really clever technique. With RUclips having an abundance of woodworking channels, you have to find ways to differentiate yourself, and I think you've been doing that quite well. I've gotten a lot of helpful info from your videos and I have no doubt that will continue.
Wow, that's genius! I'm going to use this to redo some riving knives I made in zero clearance inserts (old saw doesn't have a riving knife). When I made them initially, I was using calipers, slowly sanding away, etc. This is much faster 🙌🙏
I always hated cutting splines for mitered corners on picture frames because i would spend an hour trying to get them to fit right. Thank you! I love the no measuring concept. Ive been trying to do that too.
This video deserves more recognition on how genius this method is. Thanks for sharing, I know this video is old (I came back to this to rewatch) but your tips/tricks are always the best, and are actually useful and usually haven't seen them before. Take care!
Man, I spent $64 on the Microjig “Matchfit dado stop pro” to do basically this same thing…except this is much easier to use and FREE! Love these videos!
Did this just yesterday with a dado stack. Works flawlessly!!! I’ve seen dozens of videos and no other maker has ever shown it. I made a box joint jig, it fit perfect the first time!
Absolutely genius, I will be using this next time I need splines for reinforcing miters. My current solution is to cut them slightly oversize and then hand plane to exact size but this will be a massive time saver. Thanks for the tip!
Genius. Thanks for this. I've been dreading attempting to make a box joint jig, partly for this reason of getting a perfect fitting shim, partly because I don't want to waste my time and wood if I mess it up lol.
This is what I was thinking too! While I am keen on using this technique for making shims, being able to cut a precise "tooth" for a box joint jig is really exciting. I've wanted to try box joints but I knew I'd struggle to produce the shim. With this technique I could produce a handful of them at different sizes for lots of future box joints!
Several years ago I made a similar device ( GarageWoodwork design ) that saved me from spending $70 or $80 on a production model. It works perfectly although it did require some tweaking to get it dialed in but your method is much simpler to make and just as easy to use. Thanks for the tip.
I was wondering why you had two videos that has the same content based on the title: "perfect mitre splines" and "perfect kerf shims". Now it makes sense.
You are a genius. I’ve been racking my brain for ages trying to think of a simple way to do cut these shims. Thanks, truly brilliant. So sick I couldn’t think this through myself!
I've watched this and the 1/2 lap video. This beats the way I've been making these joints over the years. It's a very useful joint that can be a pain to set up and get to look right until now. Thanks a million.
Good tip! I'm needing kerf-width strips right now for a project I'm working on, and this is an elegantly simple way to do it. (Kicking myself for not having thought of it myself)
Hey man. Wish I knew that earlier. Took me a couple of hours to make some mitre splines back in August, in time to gift the frame to my father. This would have made it way less stressful, and accurate.
I make my splines the width of my blade and I now have a way to cut them to size without guessing and eliminating time consuming trial and error , TY !
Wow, OMG, as a pen turner I am always trying to get that right. I do a lot of segmenting, this solves a lot of problems. Thank you very much, this is the best thing I learned in a long time. . I am now a subscribe to your Chanel
I have to thank you for this video. I have watched it several times. For whatever reason I can’t seem to remember how to do it so I have to keep coming back. Please don’t remove this video ☺️
I join many others in commending you here for an ingenious procedure. In addition to the intended half-lap application and the box joint jig and miter spline applications called out here in the comments, your technique can also be used to create a splitter for those of us with table saws that don't have a riving knife.
As a professional educator ans engineer I feel confident in saying that you do a fantastic job in developing and sharing some really useful techniques. Keep it up. Much appreciated.
Over the years I have acquired many power and hand tools thinking they will help me improve my skill and results. To a certain degree they have, but when I see videos like this it is the tool between our ears that needs to improve. The simplest technique requiring zero $ and producing exacting results. Outstanding. Thank you for sharing.
This will come in handy when ripping a stick of wood in half so as to get booth pieces of wood to be the same width. That along with folding a piece of paper.
Great idea for getting the perfect fit, I will try this. Keep pondering this one, I'm thinking there are some variations to be discovered here. Once you have established your fence-resting setup block, of course, you can use ANY piece of wood to create your shims, perhaps some different color walnut, mahogany, cherry and Maple shims for splining picture frames or for box corner reinforcements.
After watching this for a 3rd time, and using the shim when cutting dado's every now and again, I've decided that I'll be making a shim for every blade I own, and keep it in storage to have available with the blade when in use. Just the other day, I was working on an intricate part and managed to make a cut without accounting for blade kerf "palm to forehead doooooooh!"... it is in an area that will be concealed and never seen, so I wanted to cut a shim to glue in instead of having to remake the entire part. I had to come back to this video just to remind me how it's done. Does anyone else actually feel "Inspire"d to go practice "Woodcraft" after watching Jody's vids?... I know I certainly do. Thank you for the effort you put out. Some of us truly appreciate it.
Nice, spent part of yesterday trying to figure out how to figure out how to do this, and your video on “How To Cut Splined Miters Without A Jig” just saved me from building another jig.
Nice! On a previous project, I struggled to make the exact right size pieces to use as miter joint splines. This method should be perfect that that application!
@@InspireWoodcraft The internet memory effect really shines the first time you search for how to do something, and the first result is your own work. I put up my first website in 1994. So I already had a few years of work online when the first search engines were starting up. It was much more likely when the Internet was much smaller. It hasn't happened in at least 15 years except when I knew I had written something and thus included my user name in the search.
OMG! I am watching this at 1;30 in the morning and can't wait to go and make my shim tomorrow. I have some half-laps to do for a frame and this just took all my usual feelings of half-lap dread away
Just had a mistake and forgot to stop my wood at the mark on the fence. Perfect time to cut a shim. Fit perfect all repaired as nothing happened. Thanks. I did have to switch to a zero clearance, lost the first one in the saw.
William Ng eat your heart out. You really do have a good brain for this sort of thing. This is another stellar tip that I doubt I would ever have worked out myself. So impressed!
The hardest part in crafting simple solutions like this one is pushing away from the traditional approach, clearing your mind and assessing your resources and as you did approach the problem from a completely different prospective. Well done AGAIN!!
This will be great for making dividers to use in boxes. The strips/splines will be the same thickness as the kerf so the slots cut by the blade allow the pieces to fit together perfectly!
This is genius. This is only the third video of yours I’ve watched (in a row) and I’m subscribing. All your videos bring something new to the table for me as a new woodworker and you’re very informative and instructive. Love it.
Simply amazing. I can believe this never occurred to me before. "The blade is the kerf" I have been looking at the solution the whole time. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I saw the other video on making splines where you used the method at the end of this video, and immediately subscribed to your channel. You have already made my life so much better, so I look forward to watching every video on your channel, whether I need them all (yet) or not. I'm also gonna give you a shout out on all the ww pages I belong to on Facebook.
I’ve been trying to make a shim all day. Surely someone needed to do this before. And you did! Thank you! I also agree, the less measuring needed the better.
Awesome video! One thing I would add… Drill a hole in the shim. You can hang it from the saw, or on a pegboard for when you use that particular blade. Make one for each blade and tape them to the blades when you take the blade off the saw. Then when you switch blades, swap the shim on your “shim hook” for each different blade you own.
If you use a dado set, you should be able to make thin strips of almost any size. Combining the 1/8" and 1/16" blades will get you whatever thickness you need.
yeah this is game changing for me. I use a lot of splines and am always frustrated getting them the perfect width of my sawblade. I've been using paint stirring sticks free from the big box, which ends up being the same width as my box joint sawblade. it's cheap light colored wood, which isn't alway the look I want for my joints, so I try this out on my next project.
Very clever and one I will be using for the rest of my woodworking years. This is also a great way to make splines for miter joints. As always, thanks for taking the time to share with us ... it truly is appreciated. Cheers Mate!!
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Miss this guy. One of the best presenters on the tubes.
Literally said "THAT IS FREAKING GENIUS!" as I saw you doing it. The simplest trick and yet I never would've thought of it, definitely using this one!
Me too! Brilliant!
I had watched the earlier video and thought “How the heck do you make that shim?” Brilliant!
LOL, I did the same thing!
I’m 76 and been working with wood for 1year, thanks for woodworkers like you I’ve not been hurt and learned do such, thanks for your videos, everything I make I give away to friends and family, that way no one can complain, thanks again
As a newbie, I’m not ready to have my hands that close to the blade with unsecured (2) pieces of wood. But with a crosscut sled and some hold down clamps...
I’m enjoying the real life measuring videos. Thx.
That's genius. Haven't seen that in over 40 yrs of woodworking. Nice job!
Awesome, another really great thing you have shown again. Your videos are always tight, well edited, clear voice, no silly music to distract, pure fun creative learning right there. Thank you again for excellence, Jim Tree
what he said! X10
These two videos are the best tips I've seen in months. Crazy how no one else has done them
Wow, when i saw you do it it was really a "how could i never have thought of this" moment. Genius sir!
This is quite possibly one of the most useful woodworking tip vids I've ever seen. As I'm certain several people mention below, this is the perfect way to cut key strips for keyed/splined miter joints. I wish I'd have known this technique - it would have saved me literal hours (and a lot of nice walnut) trying to dial in the 'perfect' spline thickness.
Another elegant use of direct measurement. Kudos.
richard
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Ah, those three little words so many people seem to have so much trouble saying: “I was wrong.”
That's probably the quickest and simplest way to cut shims. Love it.
Off to the shop to make a "shim" and practice a half lap! !! !!!
Jody, you fixed it for me. I just made a jig to cut slots for splines for my first picture frame miter joints, and I was stuck trying and trying to cut some mahogany for splines. All bloody day. Too thick. Too thin. Then I saw how you did it -- I missed it at first because you called it a shim but I wanted a spline. The penny finally dropped -- we're talking about the same thing, and your method is brilliant!! I cut a bunch that actually fit my test frame. Thank you!!
Last night I watched your previous video on the half lap. I thought to myself... He needs to show how to make a kerf wide shim to match the blade thickness. Voila! You did it and kudos!!! Love it! Good on ya!
Fantastic!! Making the shim for a regular sized saw blade finger joint jig has always been the downside for me. Now I know!!! Thank you. Have a great Thanksgiving.
That’s the slickest trick yet. I’ve used a similar trick to make thin stock cuts but not as a blade width shim like you did here. Awesome
If you turn the one block around the kerf cut will act as a push block to push the piece through.
what a perfect solution to such a frustrating requirement....perfect kerf size shims....awesome idea...
Genius! I just got a new table saw and was just about to sit down and see if I figure this "secret recipe". I knew there _had_ to be a way to do this. Thank you for saving me probably a couple hours and whole lot of frustration. I plan on making one these for each blade I have and labelling each shim with the brand name and type of blade.
One of the cool things about this is that it works even if your blade is somehow out-of-spec. I cut some slots for splines for a miter-cornered box and after some trial and error, found that my supposedly 0.125" (1/8") blade was cutting a kerf closer to 0.145". Maybe my blade has some wobble, or maybe some of the teeth are bent out. Doesn't matter - I can just make the perfect shims/splines for my wonky blade using this method.
DUDE!!!
I have been trying to figure this out for the longest time!
I would even adjust projects because I didn't want to go through the hassle of calculating and setting things up. Thank you so much for posting this.
I came up with a less accurate and noticeably slower way to make a saw kerf width spline a few months ago. Your way is so much better.
Great idea, thanks. A cut is not the width of the blade. All blades (all rotating elements) have some degree of vibration/wobble in them [the better saws have less]. So the cut in the wood is the width of the blade PLUS any wobble. It's a small differential, but frustrating when trying to get a precise cut. This is a great correction method and a lot simpler than a Kerf Master.
That's a really clever technique. With RUclips having an abundance of woodworking channels, you have to find ways to differentiate yourself, and I think you've been doing that quite well. I've gotten a lot of helpful info from your videos and I have no doubt that will continue.
Wow, that's genius! I'm going to use this to redo some riving knives I made in zero clearance inserts (old saw doesn't have a riving knife). When I made them initially, I was using calipers, slowly sanding away, etc. This is much faster 🙌🙏
I always hated cutting splines for mitered corners on picture frames because i would spend an hour trying to get them to fit right. Thank you! I love the no measuring concept. Ive been trying to do that too.
Man, you always have the best “tricks”
I'm making shims for a box joint jig, you just answered my burning question, thank you! 👍
I think your mind works a little differently than others, and that's a good thing. A very clever solution.
Probalby the most accurate manner to do so, you cannot adjust it that closely - NICE
This video deserves more recognition on how genius this method is.
Thanks for sharing, I know this video is old (I came back to this to rewatch) but your tips/tricks are always the best, and are actually useful and usually haven't seen them before.
Take care!
Yesterday I asked how to cut a strip one blade width thick and you stepped right up! Thanks.
Man, I spent $64 on the Microjig “Matchfit dado stop pro” to do basically this same thing…except this is much easier to use and FREE! Love these videos!
I was just trying to solve this problem yesterday for thin kerfs. Thanks Jodie!
Did this just yesterday with a dado stack. Works flawlessly!!! I’ve seen dozens of videos and no other maker has ever shown it. I made a box joint jig, it fit perfect the first time!
Genius. I love the "perfect cut with no measuring" theme. Subscribed!
Many thanks - what a VERY neat trick - and not a metric or an imperial measurement in sight 🙊👍
Absolutely genius, I will be using this next time I need splines for reinforcing miters. My current solution is to cut them slightly oversize and then hand plane to exact size but this will be a massive time saver. Thanks for the tip!
Genius. Thanks for this. I've been dreading attempting to make a box joint jig, partly for this reason of getting a perfect fitting shim, partly because I don't want to waste my time and wood if I mess it up lol.
This is what I was thinking too! While I am keen on using this technique for making shims, being able to cut a precise "tooth" for a box joint jig is really exciting. I've wanted to try box joints but I knew I'd struggle to produce the shim. With this technique I could produce a handful of them at different sizes for lots of future box joints!
Soooooo…….. YOU DESERVE AN AWARD FOR THIS!!! Crazy simple/useful/inexpensive! I’m almost in tears! Thanks!
Several years ago I made a similar device ( GarageWoodwork design ) that saved me from spending $70 or $80 on a production model. It works perfectly although it did require some tweaking to get it dialed in but your method is much simpler to make and just as easy to use. Thanks for the tip.
Best woodworking tip videos on the internet. No bs, no rambling, just info.
Wow! That technique for establishing shims that match the saw blade kerf precisely is genius!! Thanks for sharing this! Pure gold I tell you!
Some people were born to teach - you are clearly one of them. Very gifted instructor. Thank you!
I was wondering why you had two videos that has the same content based on the title: "perfect mitre splines" and "perfect kerf shims". Now it makes sense.
You are a genius. I’ve been racking my brain for ages trying to think of a simple way to do cut these shims. Thanks, truly brilliant. So sick I couldn’t think this through myself!
Useful technique for creating a box joint jig's key, as well.
I've watched this and the 1/2 lap video. This beats the way I've been making these joints over the years. It's a very useful joint that can be a pain to set up and get to look right until now. Thanks a million.
Good tip! I'm needing kerf-width strips right now for a project I'm working on, and this is an elegantly simple way to do it. (Kicking myself for not having thought of it myself)
Absoutely brilliant! How on earth did you figure that out?? You a woodworking Einstein!! Keep up the awesome content.
It only took half a day and a few new gray hairs! Well I mean, if I had hair there would be new gray ones.
This is perfect to cut Kumiko strips, thanks for sharing!
Brilliant! I heartily agree: don’t measure if you don’t have to. Numbers don’t matter; fit matters.
Hey man. Wish I knew that earlier. Took me a couple of hours to make some mitre splines back in August, in time to gift the frame to my father. This would have made it way less stressful, and accurate.
Thank you so much for sharing! Will make life lot easier now!
I make my splines the width of my blade and I now have a way to cut them to size without guessing and eliminating time consuming trial and error , TY !
Used it today and it worked perfectly! Thank you!
Wow, OMG, as a pen turner I am always trying to get that right. I do a lot of segmenting, this solves a lot of problems. Thank you very much, this is the best thing I learned in a long time. . I am now a subscribe to your Chanel
No measuring a good thing less errors big plus less to think about thanks keep up the good content
I have to thank you for this video. I have watched it several times. For whatever reason I can’t seem to remember how to do it so I have to keep coming back. Please don’t remove this video ☺️
I join many others in commending you here for an ingenious procedure. In addition to the intended half-lap application and the box joint jig and miter spline applications called out here in the comments, your technique can also be used to create a splitter for those of us with table saws that don't have a riving knife.
As a professional educator ans engineer I feel confident in saying that you do a fantastic job in developing and sharing some really useful techniques. Keep it up. Much appreciated.
Brilliant! Now all i have to do is remember this when I get out to the shop :)
I’m headed out to the shop right now, and bringing the video with me!
I have saved this video to my list. I hope he never removes it...
I don't even work with wood or even have a workshop but thought this was genius!! I love watching craftsmen.
Over the years I have acquired many power and hand tools thinking they will help me improve my skill and results. To a certain degree they have, but when I see videos like this it is the tool between our ears that needs to improve. The simplest technique requiring zero $ and producing exacting results. Outstanding. Thank you for sharing.
This will come in handy when ripping a stick of wood in half so as to get booth pieces of wood to be the same width. That along with folding a piece of paper.
Great idea for getting the perfect fit, I will try this. Keep pondering this one, I'm thinking there are some variations to be discovered here.
Once you have established your fence-resting setup block, of course, you can use ANY piece of wood to create your shims, perhaps some different color walnut, mahogany, cherry and Maple shims for splining picture frames or for box corner reinforcements.
Thanks for the great idea. I've always struggled making saw blade shims.
Those half half laps actually look pretty cool.
After watching this for a 3rd time, and using the shim when cutting dado's every now and again, I've decided that I'll be making a shim for every blade I own, and keep it in storage to have available with the blade when in use.
Just the other day, I was working on an intricate part and managed to make a cut without accounting for blade kerf "palm to forehead doooooooh!"... it is in an area that will be concealed and never seen, so I wanted to cut a shim to glue in instead of having to remake the entire part. I had to come back to this video just to remind me how it's done.
Does anyone else actually feel "Inspire"d to go practice "Woodcraft" after watching Jody's vids?... I know I certainly do.
Thank you for the effort you put out. Some of us truly appreciate it.
Thank you for the kind words!
Nice, spent part of yesterday trying to figure out how to figure out how to do this, and your video on “How To Cut Splined Miters Without A Jig” just saved me from building another jig.
Nice! On a previous project, I struggled to make the exact right size pieces to use as miter joint splines. This method should be perfect that that application!
You keep reminding me of stuff I have forgotten, thanks a lot. NOW to compensate for getting so old and forgetful , I write this is a notebook.....
I recently decided that I am making these videos simply to remind myself how to do some of this stuff when I forget too. Which is a lot.
@@InspireWoodcraft The internet memory effect really shines the first time you search for how to do something, and the first result is your own work.
I put up my first website in 1994. So I already had a few years of work online when the first search engines were starting up. It was much more likely when the Internet was much smaller.
It hasn't happened in at least 15 years except when I knew I had
written something and thus included my user name in the search.
OMG!
I am watching this at 1;30 in the morning and can't wait to go and make my shim tomorrow. I have some half-laps to do for a frame and this just took all my usual feelings of half-lap dread away
Will come in handy for splined miters!
Your videos are the most practical woodworking videos for us new guys. I appreciate them more than you know!!!!
Hi Jody ! Thanks for the video ! Could you please make a video on how to make sliding dovetails under a table top ? 🙏
I will add it too the list! Great suggestion!
This helped me so much when I was making Kumiko strips. Super intelligent video!!! Thank you for that technique it's amazing!
Just had a mistake and forgot to stop my wood at the mark on the fence. Perfect time to cut a shim. Fit perfect all repaired as nothing happened. Thanks. I did have to switch to a zero clearance, lost the first one in the saw.
William Ng eat your heart out. You really do have a good brain for this sort of thing. This is another stellar tip that I doubt I would ever have worked out myself. So impressed!
The hardest part in crafting simple solutions like this one is pushing away from the traditional approach, clearing your mind and assessing your resources and as you did approach the problem from a completely different prospective. Well done AGAIN!!
the simplest tricks are the best ones. Great thanks for this video!!!
This will be great for making dividers to use in boxes. The strips/splines will be the same thickness as the kerf so the slots cut by the blade allow the pieces to fit together perfectly!
Thanks for this great tip. Cut my shim today and went half-lap crazy on a Japanese inspired side table.
"Pretty cool," No, that's brilliant! 😀
Thanks, loving your channel.
This is genius. This is only the third video of yours I’ve watched (in a row) and I’m subscribing. All your videos bring something new to the table for me as a new woodworker and you’re very informative and instructive. Love it.
Simple yet brilliant! I'm gonna do this even if I have no use for it.
Simply amazing. I can believe this never occurred to me before. "The blade is the kerf" I have been looking at the solution the whole time. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I saw the other video on making splines where you used the method at the end of this video, and immediately subscribed to your channel. You have already made my life so much better, so I look forward to watching every video on your channel, whether I need them all (yet) or not.
I'm also gonna give you a shout out on all the ww pages I belong to on Facebook.
Genius! What I REALLY like though is that DeWalt round arm in the background! Stud! :)
I’ve been trying to make a shim all day. Surely someone needed to do this before. And you did! Thank you!
I also agree, the less measuring needed the better.
Once again you've proved why I subscribe to this channel. Brilliant and simple, doesn't get any better than that.
awesome technique / idea, I'm going to try that next time I need to make a shim and make a half lap
Awesome video! One thing I would add…
Drill a hole in the shim. You can hang it from the saw, or on a pegboard for when you use that particular blade. Make one for each blade and tape them to the blades when you take the blade off the saw. Then when you switch blades, swap the shim on your “shim hook” for each different blade you own.
I wish I had your creative mind but at least we have your videos. Keep em coming please.
If you use a dado set, you should be able to make thin strips of almost any size. Combining the 1/8" and 1/16" blades will get you whatever thickness you need.
yeah this is game changing for me. I use a lot of splines and am always frustrated getting them the perfect width of my sawblade. I've been using paint stirring sticks free from the big box, which ends up being the same width as my box joint sawblade. it's cheap light colored wood, which isn't alway the look I want for my joints, so I try this out on my next project.
Genius! Nothing left to say. Regards.
I’m not sure if I commented already but this is genius! Thanks for sharing
One word: Genius!
Very clever and one I will be using for the rest of my woodworking years. This is also a great way to make splines for miter joints.
As always, thanks for taking the time to share with us ... it truly is appreciated. Cheers Mate!!
Now that is a clever way of making the shim 😀
Great tip! I am going to try this technique for spline joints with saw blade thickness!