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Woodworking Tip to Prevent Splits
If you have a piece of wood that tends to split when nailing. Try dipping the end of the nail in paste wax or turn the nail over and tap the point with a hammer to dull it a bit.
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Christmas Candles #129
With the pattern in hand (downloadable PDF available to purchase in our online store), its easy to make changes to a woodworking plan. In this case we took a 15 inch tall candle and made it 36 inches tall. Why? Why not! 🙂
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Toy Soldier #128
The elves are progressing on their next Christmas project, the Toy Solider. The downloadable pattern is now available to purchase in our online store.
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Woodworking Tip for Aprons
If you wear an Apron in the shop, cut off the string-like waist ties and replace them with 1″ nylon strap and a buckle or velcro. You can find them at any fabric store or crafters section in a department store like Wal-Mart. It’s easier to put on and you don’t have those dangerous loose straps hanging from your waist to catch in machinery, dip in finishes, etc. I wish I had seen this tip before my lathe grabbed my apron strings. Luckily the apron was so flimsy that it tore right off without injury, except a minor rope burn to my neck from the neck strap!
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Woodworking Tip for Small Parts
Ice cube trays are a great way to sort small pieces or keep screws, washers, bolts, nuts, etc. separate while doing assembly work.
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Woodworking Tip for Small Nails
Working with brads or small wire nails? It can be difficult to pick up these small fasteners, so I wrap a piece of magnetic weather striping around my left wrist (secure the ends with tape) and then drop some brads on the weather striping. This keeps them handy and ready to go!
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Smitten Kitten – All 6 patterns included
6 kitty designs to celebrate the seasons! Christmas, Easter, St Patricks Day, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving and Pilgrim.
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Woodworking Tip Money Maker
Money Making Tip: Don’t overlook supplying other crafters with unfinished or partially assembled pieces as a steady source of income. (About 30% of our custom business was along these lines.) Many crafters would be thrilled with a reliable source for base projects for their tole, decopage, woodburning, country and folk art and other specialties.
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Christmas Wreath Layered Door Ornament
This Christmas wreath scrollsaw project is available as a PDF download in our online store. Makes perfect use of small scrap wood pieces.
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Christmas Holly and Bells 3D Scrollsaw Downloadable PDF Pattern
Here we have another 3D layered project we retrieved from our archives. The pattern has been updated to todays PDF standards with clean, crisp line to follow with your scrollsaw blade. Or make it as a flat one piece project. Purchase in our online store, download the plan and you can be cutting in minutes.