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George Vondriska shows you some tricks on how to get a great fit between the tails and pins and sockets of your dovetail joint. Using a router based dovetail jig, George shows you a setup for cutting dovetails that will help prevent chipping and tear out resulting in a beautiful dovetail joint with an accurate fit.

Woodworking Tips: For some woodworking projects you will need to cut pieces that are tapered. George Vondriska shows you a great woodworking technique for cutting tapered pieces using a table saw, a piece of hard board as a straight edge and some screws. It's quick, easy and a safe way to make tapered cuts on a table saw.

George Vondriska teaches you how to properly lubricate your dovetail jigs to get a smoother glide with your handheld router. When applying a lubricant to an aluminum template and a power tool with sensitive parts and small cracks, he recommends that you use a woodworking-specific product like GlideCote (not a silicone-based spray) that will allow both surfaces to glide effortlessly without the worry of jamming or sticking.

Woodworking Tips: Home Projects - Remove the clutter from your kitchen counter with this easy-to-make mail and key organizer that has space for envelopes, keys, phones and other small accessories. In this week's project demonstration, master woodworker George Vondriska teaches you how to use some basic and intermediate woodworking techniques to build the shelf, including rabbet joinery for the sides, top and bottom, resawing for book-matched edge-to-edge joinery, headless pinning for base assembly, laying out and drilling holes for the key hooks, and chamfering the front pieces for a smoother, more finished look.

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Woodworking Instruction: Router Techniques - The most versatile power tool in your shop, a router is a must have tool for woodwork. George starts with buying advice, covering the various types and sizes of routers--from tiny trim routers, to 3 plus horsepower behemoths, to battery powered routers. You'll know what these routers are used for and how to pick the right one for your woodworking needs. Features such as variable speed, soft start, and fixed and plunge base designs, are covered. You'll also learn about router bits, including insert tooling, bearings, and shank sizes. George also introduces the basics of using a router; mounting bits properly, setting depth of cut, securing work on the bench, starting your cut, feed direction and stopping your cut. The video describes more advanced techniques, such as inlay work, routing dados, flush trimming plugs, edge joining large boards, climb cuts, and cross cutting long panels. Finally, George covers router and bit maintenance, including sharpening a router bit. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

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Woodworking Instruction: Tools - Woodworking requires you to be exact, and the first step to making perfect measurements and cuts is to have properly maintained equipment. Naturally, tools loosen, wear down and lose their effectiveness, so it is extremely important to take regularly check and take care of your woodworking machinery so it stays in top form. In this video, George Vondriska discusses and demonstrates some of the ways to set up and maintain a few of the standard tools in your workshop, including the table saw, band saw, joiner and planer. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

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Woodworking Instruction: Finishing - It seems like most woodworkers are apprehensive about finishing. Who can blame them? It’s easy to wreck, in a few minutes, something that took days or weeks to build. This video will take the edge off of finishing fear. It takes you through the “usual suspects” of stains and top coats, and provides advice on proper sanding of your projects so they’re ready for a great finish. You’ll learn about pigment stains, shellac, polyurethane, furniture oil, lacquer, and water based polyurethane. The positive and negative aspects of each top coat, including when to use them and when to avoid them. What kind of brush is best for each finish, and when you shouldn’t use a brush. How to set up lights so you can see defects before the finish goes on. You’ll recognize all the products we use in the video. There’s nothing exotic. Most of these items are available at home centers. If you plan on ever applying finish to a project again, you really can’t be without this video. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

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Woodworking Instruction: Joinery - Join George Vondriska for over an hour of helpful gluing and clamping tips and techniques. You'll learn valuable information about what types of glues are on the market and which glues work best for your woodworking projects. George also takes you step by step through a number of clamping techniques to ensure your next glue joint is strong and holds up against the test of time. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

Traditional knife based jointers have been used for many years, while spiral cutterheads are the "new kid on the block". Paul Mayer discusses the tradeoffs, and previews and article that he has written on this subject. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

Good joinery starts with surfaces that mate perfectly without use of clamp pressure. If excessive clamping pressure is used to pull the joint together, it will create stress within project that can cause distortion or even splitting to occur. Here George explains how to incorporate a "dry run" into your process to achieve more solid, stress free joinery, and how to assess whether your joint is ready for glue. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

It's time to drop your standard woodworking clamps and check out these clamping biscuits. George Vondriska teaches you how they work and how they can be an easy solution in your woodworking shop for some of those more difficult-to-clamp joints. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/

Screw plugs are a great solution for hiding the heads of any screws that you use on a woodworking project, but most of the time they stand proud from the surface even after you tap them in. George Vondriska has an easy fix for this problem. You can use a flexible pull saw – rested on top of an old hotel room key or credit card to avoid scratching your project – to trim any excess material from the screw plug. Then, if you want to smooth just the area where the plug is sticking out, use a piece of hard wood covered in sandpaper. If you are interested in project plans or cuts please contact us at http://www.wwgoa.com/about-us/contact-us/