Hardwax occupies a unique niche among wood finishes. While most finishes build up a hard, protective coating, hardwax penetrates the wood and protects and beautifies from the inside out. They are a blend of wax, resins and oils that are exceptionally easy to apply, and allow you to handle -- even use! -- your wooden projects before the finish is fully cured. But it’s not all good news; they have their limitations. Nick fully explains the advantages and disadvantages of hardwax, how it differs from other finish types, compares several popular brands, and shares some professional hacks for making these finishes shine.

During the video, Nick describes some of the subtle differences between finishes and brands of finishes. These are difficult to see, even in a 4K video. So Nick has put together an ancillary 17-page booklet of high resolution photos that better show reflectivity and other finish properties you may want to compare. This booklet also incudes an eye-opening cost comparison of hardwax brands and other types of finishes, as well as tested hardwax recipes that he and Travis have devised. The booklet can be downloaded for FREE from our store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/comparing-hardwax-finishes

And there is further information on hardwax finishes and how to make tham on our website at https://www.workshopcompanion.com/know-how/materials/finish/hard-wax-finish.html

Additionally, we offer many of the hardwax finishes that we compared in this video, plus the ingredients  for making your own. You can find them in our  affiliate store at https://www.workshopcompanion.com/affiliate.html#hardwax.
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Hardwax Finishes  Overexplained

Some of you good folks asked us to design a band sawn Santa to go with our band sawn reindeer and band sawn sleigh. We’ve been thinking about it for the better part of a year, and here’s what Travis and I came up with – not just a Santa, but a whole workshop full of elves! These little guys are created using the same band saw magic I’ve shown in earlier videos. Just cut two patterns in a single scrap of wood,  each from different directions. Additionally, you can give each elf his own special look and personality simply by swapping body shapes, caps, beards, pipes, and wood species.

And if any of you are wondering if you can do this project on a scroll saw instead of a band saw, the answer is yes! Just reduce the patterns by 50% so you sawing 3/4” (19 mm) square blocks instead of 1-1/2” (38 mm). And if all you have is a hand-held jigsaw or saber saw, watch our "Halloween Lantern" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8KVBQxFsM&t=599s) At 07:58, I show a jig that turns that mounts a jigsaw to a small table and turns it into a stationary tool. This too will work, but you'll have to be very careful not to exert any sideways force on the blade when cutting the curves -- this will cause the blade to lean and you'll get angled cuts.

You can find the instructions and FULL-SIZE patterns for Santa and his elves online at the Workshop Companion General Store -- https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/band-sawn-elves-and-santa.

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As for the 3/16” (5 mm) skip-tooth saw blades I recommend, you can find them at Timber Wolf. They will weld up any length your need -- https://timberwolfblades.com/proddetail.php?prod=31604PC .(Note – We just noticed that Timber Wolf has these skip-tooth blades on back order. You can also use the 3/16” x 10 tpi blades from Timber Wolf (https://timberwolfblades.com/proddetail.php?prod=31610RK). They just cut a little slower because they don't clear the sawdust as quickly.)

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Band Sawn Elves (and Santa!)

Intro

How Glue Works

Cohesion & Adhesion

Considering Grain Direction

Floating Tenon Strength Test

End Grain VS Long Grain

Wood Movement

Gluing Wide Boards

Buy My Book Please

There's a lot to consider when you glue pieces of wood together -- gluing surface, grain direction, and wood movement, to name a few.  Nick gives a brief overview of how a glue joint works, and then offers some tips for making it work better. Along the way, he tests several types of glue joints and gluing techniques to show how the decisions you make will affect the overall strength of a glued-up assembly.

If you'd like to know more about designing and making strong glue joints, we recommend Nick's book, "Woodworking Wisdom." The book contains the core information you need to be a competent craftsman, and the chapters on "Making Wood Joints" and "Gluing and Clamping" covers the information in this video in much greater detail. "Woodworking Wisdom" is available from the Workshop Companion General Store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/woodworking-wisdom .

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0:26 How Glue Works
2:09 Cohesion & Adhesion
4:24 Considering Grain Direction
6:45 Floating Tenon Strength Test
9:03 End Grain VS Long Grain
12:09 Wood Movement
14:42 Gluing Wide Boards
16:27 Buy My Book Please

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Why Glue Alone Won’t Make Strong Joints

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Not long ago Jorgensen Pony introduced  two hand planes, touting them as evolved versions of the  iconic Stanley No. 4 smoothing plane and the Stanley No. 60-1/2 low-angle block plane. These are two of the most popular planes that Stanley ever made -- and the two most useful planes in my shop. I have often told novices that these are the two essential planes they should have. But what made these new tools most interesting was their price -- the new Jorgensens aren't any more expensive than some old Stanleys in need of restoration! 

So I thought to do a straight-up comparison. Can the Jorgensen planes become the workhorses  that the old Stanley's have always been? Do they work as well? Will they work straight out of the box, or do they require an extensive tune-up? The answers may surprise you -- pleasantly.

Full disclosure --- Workshop Companion is an Amazon affiliate and we will earn a small commission  if you purchase a Jorgensen plane through us. This helps us make more videos, and we appreciate your support. If one or both of the Jorgensen planes interests you, see the offer in our affiliate store at https://www.workshopcompanion.com/affiliate.html .

If you want to tune-up and sharpen your Jorgensen plane as I recommend, watch our video "Fine Tuning a Bench Plane" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szan5pP4drQ . For more on the sharpening process I use, see "Sandpaper Sharpening Jig -- Sharpening Tools on a Budget" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYy-U2_ylAA 

Plans for the sharpening jig that I use in both videos is on pages 28-30 in my ebook on "Sharpening." This is available in PDF format from our bookstore at  https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/sharpening .

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A Review & Comparison of Jorgensen Planes

Need more wall space to store and organize your tools? Nick shows how to build and install a unique storage cabinet that features pegboard panels inside and out. This enables you to hang twice as many tools in the same vertical space.  The design is easily adjustable to fit your shop, and it will accommodate many types and sizes of tools. It attaches directly to a wall frame at both the top and bottom, and an ingenious "lip" on both the doors keeps them from sagging under the weight of the tools.

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Double Pegboard Cabinets -- 2x the storage

Into

Choosing a Bandsaw Blade

Tensioning the Blade

Positioning Fence on Bandsaw

Making Nesting Boxes - Preparing the Stock

Resawing and Assembling Parts

Finished Boxes

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Introduction

Mortises Tenons

The History

Specific Gravity

Species

Cutting Square Stock

Cutting Pegs

Making Grooves

Cutting the Head

Conclusion

If you’re still laboring under the childhood delusion that you can’t put square pegs in round holes, this may convince you otherwise. For millennia, craftsmen have secured joints with wooden pegs called trenails or trunnels. In the last century, makers of Craftsman or Mission-style furniture have used them as both fasteners and decoration. They pegged mortise-and-tenon joints together by driving square pegs into round holes, leaving the heads visible for all to see. Nick shows how it’s done.

If you’d like to build the Craftsman bookcase that Nick shows in this video, the plans are included in his book, “Wood and Woodworking Materials,” part of the Workshop Companion woodworking encyclopedia. You can purchase this book (and plans) in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General Store at: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/wood-and-woodworking-materials

Should you want to know more about the Craftsman style and the furniture it produced, one of the best books we have found is “In the Arts and Crafts Style” by Barbara Meyer (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA  USA). She not only shows stunning photos (by Rob Gray) of Craftsman furniture and furnishings, she explains its origins and philosophy simply and succinctly. And to see some of the Craftsman pieces that are being produced by today’s woodworkers, visit the Crafters & Weavers Guild web site at https://craftersandweavers.com/ .

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Pegged Mortises & Tenons -- Square Pegs in Round Holes

You can easily make tight, permanent bends in thin pieces of wood simply by heating one side! Nick walks you through the technique as he demonstrates an ingenious fixture that serves as both a heat source and a bending form. This shopmade jig holds propane torch as it heats a short section of plumbing pipe. This, in turn, heats the board as you bend it.

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Bending Wood With Heat

<Untitled Chapter 1>

Spruce

Cherry

Maple

Imagine a bench plane with a disposable knife. You never need worry about the iron getting dull, chipping the cutting edge, or setting the plane on a hard surface. If the plane won’t cut, just pop in a new knife. Great idea, but can this wonder cut as well as a conventional bench plane with a traditional iron? Nick does a thorough comparison, pitting the Rali Evolution and its disposable knives against an expertly tuned 70-year-old Stanley smoothing plane.

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Is This the Future of Hand Planes?

Tenoning

Slot Mortise

Spline Mortise

Every now and then, you need to cut or rout the end of a board, with the board held vertically instead of horizontally. For this you need a tenoning jig. It needn’t be anything complex; this particular jig has just three parts! But simplicity doesn't mean it's imprecise -- Nick has added a micro-adjustable stop that works in concert with the jig to produce amazing accuracy. Furthermore, this jig can be used with table saws, router tables, almost any tool that has a miter gauge slot.

The plans for this tenoning jig and micro-adjustable stop are available from the Workshop Companion General Store athttps://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/tenoning-jig-plan .

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Precision Tenoning Jig

Overview

Build

Features

Ever seen a crosscut sled that will cut tenons and splines? That is unaffected by the sawdust that piles up between the fences? With adjustable guides and fences that can be made perfectly true and square? That enables you to  dial in repetitive cuts to the nearest 1/128" or 0.125 mm? This double-sided crosscut sled will do all that and more. Nick reviews some unique designs that you will certainly want to incorporate into your next sled.

The plans for this brilliant sled, its guards, stop and tenoning jig that Nick explains are available from the Workshop Companion General Store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/double-sided-sled-project-plan .

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Crosscut Sled Plus

Steel Conduit

Wood Bar

Spiral Cam

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Choosing the right hinges

Making a template to position the hinges or the doors and cabinet

Marking and drilling the doors and cabinet

Attaching the doors to the cabinet

Adjusting the concealed hinges after installation.

The first step in successfully installing concealed cup hinges is to choose the right one! Nick shows three basic types of doors – inset, overlay, and partial overlay – and demonstrates how to fit them to cabinets, explaining how to select exactly the hinge you need based on how the door fits the cabinet. He then walks you step by step through a typical installation, choosing, marking, drilling, attaching, and adjusting traditional lipped doors on a framed cabinet.

1:40  Choosing the right hinges
6:55  Making a template to position the hinges or the doors and cabinet
9:27  Marking and drilling the doors and cabinet
13:21  Attaching the doors to the cabinet
14:28  Adjusting the concealed hinges after installation.

For more information on cabinetmaking, see Nick's book on MAKING BUILT-IN CABINETS. It covers planning, building, and installing all types of built-ins. Nick provides standard dimensions for different types of cabinets, explains how to choose plywood and sheet materials, and discusses special considerations in designing a kitchen. He walks you through the construction of the cases, doors, and drawers, then show how to position and attach your finished units The book is available in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/making-built-in-cabinets .

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Concealed Hinges 101

English

Nick presents fifteen of his most useful drilling tips to help make your drill press and hand drill operations easier, more accurate, and -- most important -- safer.

For more information, see Nick's book on USING THE DRILL PRESS. It covers operations, alignment, selecting drill bits, and keeping them sharp. It also includes well over a dozen drilling and drill press jigs that you can make yourself. The book is available in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/using-the-drill-press .

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15 Expert Drilling Tips

Types of clamps

C Clamps

Bar Pipe Clamps

Hand Screws

Band clamps

Onehanded clamps

Accessories

You don’t need a lot of clamps to assemble most woodworking projects. You need an intelligent MIX of clamps. Nick explains how to achieve a capable and versatile mix without going overboard. (Like he has. Just look at that clamp caddy!)

Fair warning; this clamping information was requested by and is aimed at viewers who are new to woodworking. Those of you with experience may find it fairly basic. But nonetheless there are are some good clamping tips and jigs, if you feel like taking a peek.

Nick's book on GLUING AND CLAMPING  also has a good deal more information on this pressing subject (sorry, couldn't resist). And it offers over a dozen plans for clamps and clamping accessories that you can make yourself. We've bundled it with Nick's newest design for his ASSEMBLY TABLE and  CLAMP CADDY -- you get all three for the cost of the book alone! The book and plans are available in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/gluing-and-clamping .

And if you'd like to have the plan for the ASSEMBLY TABLE alone, you can find it at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/assembly-table-project-plans .

The CLAMP CADDY plans are available at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/clamp-caddy .

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Clamping 101 -- Getting a Good Mix

Moisture Content

Kiln Drying

Air Drying

Mule Chest

Planning

Miter

Base

Cupping

Lid Expansion

Lid Trim

Hinge

Joinery

Drawer joinery

Wipe it down

Stain

patina

old photos

the reveal

If you prepare your own lumber, will it work just as well as wood bought from a commercial source? The answer is a qualified yes. If you have properly dried and stabilized the wood, it will work just the same. But there will be some differences that require you to “read the grain” more closely. The wood will be a mix of grades – selects, firsts, seconds, and commons – with more sapwood and less heartwood than is usual, especially if you have lumbered small-diameter logs and limbs.

In this video, Nick unstacks the walnut lumber he cut from firewood just over a year ago, and then builds a miniature mule chest using only that wood. He explains what parts of the building process are affected by using air-dried wood cut from small bolts, walks you step by step through the building process, and shows how to deal with the challenges. You arrive at a product that is very definitely a piece of fine woodworking even though the materials were salvaged from firewood.

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Band Saw Lumber Part 2 -- Reading the Grain

Sitka Spruce

Red Oak

Maple & Cherry

Bird's-eye Maple Mahogany

Like our Band Sawn Reindeer, this miniature wooden sleigh is designed to be cut out quickly and simply on a band saw. Make eight (or nine) reindeer, add this sleigh, and you have Santa's entire team! And it's small enough to use up some of those special wood scraps you just couldn't bear to throw away.

The BAND SAW SLEIGH PROJECT PLAN, along with FULL-SIZE PATTERNS ,  is available in PDF format from the Workshop Companion General store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/santas-band-sawn-sleigh .
And if you'd like to have the BAND SAW REINDEER plan as well, find it at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/band-saw-reindeer . You can also get the plans for the NESTING CHRISTMAS TREE seen in this video at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/nesting-christmas-tree-plan 

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In this video we used skip tooth bandsaw blades, these blades generally come with 4-6 tpi and you will want to make sure its the right size for you bandsaw. If you have a smaller bandsaw you will most likely need to use a 1/2" blade for resawing. 

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Scrapwood Sleigh - Band Saw Compound Cutting Project: How to

Why a caddy?

Clamp caddy design

Building the box

Making the rack

Shelf and drawers

Adding an assembly table

Making it all mobile

Nick's easy-to-build "clamp caddy" stores and organizes hundreds of clamps in a small space, makes them easy to find and retrieve, and allows you to bring the clamps to your work. Plans available at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/clamp-caddy .

00:00 Introduction
01:02 Why a caddy?
02:40 Clamp caddy design
04:11 Building the box
06:22 Making the rack
08:31 Shelf and drawers
10:00 Adding an assembly table
10:54 Making it all mobile

It's nothing more than a plywood box on casters with a grid to organize long clamps, a rack to hold medium-sized clamps, drawer to hold little clamps, and a shelf to mount anything that doesn't fit in a grid, a rack, or a drawer. It's a small fixture with a footprint of less than three square feet (0.27 square meters), but it holds hundreds of clamps of all varieties. And it makes them mobile! You can roll your clamp collection to wherever you're working; no need to cross the shop floor half a dozen times to find the right mix of clamps for whatever it is you're assembling.

The caddy can be built from a single sheet of 3/4" (19 mm) plywood, a scrap of 1/4" (6 mm) plywood, and a stick of construction lumber. The plans include plywood cutting diagrams and both Imperial and metric measurements.

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Woodworking Clamp Storage - Mobile

Cutting Grid Design

Making the Legs

Making the Spacers and Cleats

Cutting the Tapers

Rounding the Rails and Loading Arms

Making the Gussets

Cutting the Slots in the Rails

Assembling the Assemblies

Our “Cutting and Handling Plywood” video has stirred up a massive amount of interest, thanks to you good folks. That video concentrates on how to USE our cutting grid, and a good many people asked how to MAKE it – specifically our unique knock-down sawhorses. Furthermore, many requests came from DIY people who don't necessarily have a well-equipped woodworking shop. So Nick came up with a way to build the cutting grid with nothing more than a circular saw, a hand-held drill, and a few hand tools! Here’s how, step by step.

Additionally, we’ve revised our plans for the cutting grid to show these new techniques, along with detailed drawings for the simple jigs Nick has invented to accomplish them.  You can find these improved plans and drawings in the Workshop Companion General Store at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/handling-and-cutting-plywood-plan . Those of you who have already purchased these plans will be sent the updated version free.

0:00  Intro
0:54 Cutting Grid Design
3:17 Making the Legs
6:48 Making the Spacers and Cleats
8:17 Cutting the Tapers
9:28 Rounding the Rails and Loading Arms
11:33 Making the Gussets
13:51 Cutting the Slots in the Rails
14:57 Assembling the Assemblies

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How to Make the Plywood Cutting Grid

Paring Chisel

Mortising Chisel

Making a Mortise

Ever need to do some precision cutting with a hand chisel? This ingenious jig mounts a hand chisel to your drill press and lets you use the quill to advance the chisel in perfectly straight path, and then stop it at a precise point. This can be extremely useful for both joinery and inlay. Nick shows how to use the "drill press chisel mount" to clean out a square mortise and create a groove for wire inlay.

We offer the plans for the Drill Press Chisel Mount at https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/drill-press-chisel-mount . 
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Drill Press Chisel Mount

Terminology

Screw Holes

Pocket Holes

Nick does a thorough job of explaining pocket hole joinery, telling you everything you need to know, things you didn’t know you needed to know, and possibly one or two things you probably don’t need to know, but it’s fun to know anyway. All of this helps you to make intelligent decisions when  making pocket holes, including when to opt for another type of joint. Nick also offers some valuable information on screws in general and how to use them effectively. He insists that when you have completed this video, you will qualify for an advanced degree in screwology (which you can hang in your shop right next to your certificate in nailosophy).

We offer the plans for the Drill Press Table shown in this video at: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/drill-press-table-plans

For a limited time, we will include the plans for the Drill Press Fence Extension FREE with the plans for the table. Or, you can purchase them here: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/drill-press-fence-extension 

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Pocket Holes Overexplained

Domino Joint

Self-Centering Doweling Jig

Drill the Holes

Round the Corners

Nick demonstrates how “domino” joints were made in days gone by, when they were known as “loose tenon” joints and all you needed was a hand-held drill and a doweling jig. This method isn’t as fast as a dedicated domino joiner, perhaps; but it’s effective and economical.

Nick uses a “self-centering” doweling jig, a type that is available at many hardware stores, home centers, and online in a wide ranges of brands and prices from $30 US and up. For a high-quality jig, consider the “Premium” doweling jig from Task USA: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K9PL14/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . (We have no sales or commission arrangement with Task USA or Telco Tools, which makes this brand. We are simply impressed with its design and accuracy.)

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Making Domino Joints for $30

Leveling the Saw Stand

Adjusting The Height of the Stand

Saw Stand Heads

Leg Weights

A saw stand is one of the most useful tools in a woodshop. This is the shop assistant you never have to pay, the family member you never have to bother to hold up the other end of the board. And despite its name, it’s not just for use with table saws. It’s an invaluable accessory for you jointer, planer, router table, band saw, sander – virtually any stand alone power tool.

Nick shows you not just how to build a saw stand, but how to customize it for your specific woodworking needs. He shows how to figure the height range you need, adjust the height with precision, level the base, tilt the head, make interchangeable transfer devices, incorporate an auxiliary worksurface, even add weights to keep the saw stand where you want it.

And in case you're wondering, that torn rag the Bella drags around this video is the remains of a much-chewed "soft" Frisbee -- it's not Nick's hat, as one viewer quipped. If you folks will kindly buy enough books and plans, Nick can afford to buy Bella a new Frisbee. And a hat.

Speaking of which, the plans and drawings for this Custom Saw Stand are available from: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/customized-saw-stand .

If you would like know more about the Assembly Table we used to help put it together, watch the video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujUF5skCzI&t=692s . The plans for this fixture are at: https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/assembly-table-project-plans .

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Custom Saw Stand