| This blog is written by WoodshopTherapy | 79 entries so far |
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New Woodturning Experience - the Good and Bad
I’ve put together a video of my first woodturning commission. This was a challenging proje...
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How to Repair and Restore a Broken Antique Chair
Here’s a special in-depth video about how to restore a broken antique chair. I show this p...
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Woodworking skills are very useful for furniture repairs. See how easy it is.
In my latest video, I show how easy it is to repair this broken piecrust table. From broken wood...
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Wisdom from The Wood Doctor about Why Woodworking Projects Break
I had the pleasure to collaborate with Gene Wengert, aka The Wood Doctor, on a video where we tal...
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Woodturning can be fun, but it's also a profitable skill when repairing furniture
I started learning woodturning a few years ago out of pure need. I had a customer who wanted a t...
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What is Epoxy Putty?
When accidents happen, epoxy putty is good for large fill areas. I show how to prepare, use, and...
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Video: How to Heat a Garage Workshop for Winter
The winter has brought a lot of snow, but my garage workshop is still warm. It can be a challeng...
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How do you judge if broken wood can be repaired?
I share my experience in this video about repairing different breaks in wood. How do you judge i...
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How to Organize a Workshop with Storage Cabinets and Organizer Boxes
My organization in my workshop wasn’t working very well. Watch this video to see the cabin...
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10 Books to Learn Woodworking
I’m sharing the top 10 woodworking books from the library I’ve built up over the past...
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How to Replace Trim on a Pre Hung Door
See how I built this custom door trim and learn how to replace trim on a pre hung door. There ar...
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Making and Installing Custom Door Trim
Here’s a detailed video with lots of tips on installing custom door trim. It covers plinth...
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Personalized Pet Bowl Holder - Maple & CA Glue
Pets are fun to have around, but they can also be messy. This is a project I made to stop my dau...
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Wood moves. Ignore it and the wood will split! Learn why and how to avoid it
This cabinet was repaired by someone who didn’t understand that wood moves. Yes, it moves....
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Lighting for Wood Cabinets in My Jack Daniel's Bar
Cabinet lighting for wood cabinets can be challenging, especially when there are wood shelves. S...
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How to Make Wood Wedges and Shims Safely with Power Tools or Hand Tools
Here’s an instructional video on how to make wood wedges and shims. It also covers some un...
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Build a Keyboard Tray, Office Organization Solutions, Zoom Video Conference Setup Tips
I packed a lot into the video I just published today about office organization. I made a keyboar...
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Tool Cabinet Video
What do you think? This is how I setup my saw, mallet and file storage. Here’s the video ...
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Tools I Made and Bought This Year
Video Link—> https://youtu.be/ujdA446Jy08 I’ve done a rundown of the tools I made ...
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Learn from the Failure of Others - a Powerful Learning Tool
For regular viewers, you understand how I share woodworking tips and trick in our videos. This i...
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3 Ways to Build Desks
Desks are hard to buy in many areas due to supply shortages and higher demand. Here are three wa...
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Upholsterer's Need Woodworkers
For upholsterers, woodworkers are trades people they depend on. As woodworkers, we might also ne...
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Why do chairs break?
If you stop to think about it, there likely isn’t a more abused piece of furniture than a c...
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Quick Halloween Project - Candy Slide for Safe Trick-or-Treating This Year
Here’s a quick Halloween project you can make for friends or family this year – It mi...
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What power tools should beginner woodworkers use?
This is an interesting question that may have different responses from experienced woodworkers. ...
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Tool Cabinet Organization
I’ve organized about half my tools in this tool cabinet now. It was challenging to figure ...
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How to Build Maple Drawer Organizer
Here’s a video showing how to build kitchen drawer organizers. This is made out of Maple t...
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Know someone who needs a desk?
If you, or someone you know, are looking to buy a desk, you’re likely out of luck. The com...
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Hide Glue, PVA, or Epoxy? See where the pros use these and why
I talk with another business owner as we compare the glues we use in our workshops. We break som...
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Real time glue up of a chair
If you’re curious how long it takes to properly glue up a chair, this video shows the proce...
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Sharpening with CBN Grinding Wheel
Have you discovered CBN grinding wheels yet? They’re more expensive than bonded grinding w...
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How to Repair an Antique Wooden Chair with Upholstery Seat
Here’s how to take apart an chair with an integrated upholstered seat, clean up the joints,...
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Building Closet Doors, Appliques, HVLP Spraying, Installing...
There’s a lot of work packed into this 21 minute video I just published. This was a custom...
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Easy Drawer Rebuild to Fix Ikea Style Drawer
A customer brought me a broken drawer. It was made of particle board – not good for repair...
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How to Buy a Wood Lathe & Related Tools
I recently met with Mike Waldt, a Woodturner from the UK and we made a video together to provide ...
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Don't Do This - Bad Woodworking Repair!
I’ve heard it many times… what separates a bad woodworker from a good woodworker is h...
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Broken Spindles - how to repair them
I thought I’d share some lessons on how to repair chair spindles on the back for a Windsor ...
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Building a Benchtop Shave Horse
Last weekend I shared a video on making a spokeshave holder. This weekend, you can see my new be...
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Spokeshave and Draw Knife Holder for Tool Cabinet
I’m starting to make the tool holders in my new tool cabinet. I made a video showing how I...
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Wood Plug Tips
I recently repaired a hutch with dozens of wood plugs to remove. I put a video together all abou...
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Making Wood Replacement Parts
I recently had a customer bring me a chair to repair. It had a missing stretcher, but I didnR...
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Woodworking show highlights - tool companies, presenters, demos, etc.
I had a really good time at the Toronto Woodworking Show last weekend. I bought some new tools, ...
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Finishing and Hanging the Hand Tool Storage Cabinet
Well, it’s really coming along. In this video, I show applying a linseed oil finish, insta...
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Tool Cabinet Door Build using Lock Miter Joints
My tool cabinet build is coming along. I started it over a year ago and had to put it aside whil...
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Building Curved Drawers
Have you ever build drawers with curved fronts? I made a video of how I build drawers like this ...
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Wish List for Woodworking Gifts?
I reached out to some YouTube subscribers and asked if they are interested in a gift guide. 4 of...
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What type of glue to you use?
I use 6 different types of glue in my workshop. Not one glue works for every purpose. Check out...
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Dust Collection & Health Risks from Wood Dust
I recently had a health scare about my lungs – everything is ok now, but it reminded me aga...
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Fixing loose chair joints
I thought I’d share some knowledge on how to repair chairs properly. I’ve seen so ma...
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Kerf-Mounted Corner Brackets for Legs - A Repair Story
I was familiar with leg brackets or kerf-mounted corner brackets or leg braces… they go by ...
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Proper way to glue furniture parts
I’ve seen a lot of failed furniture joints in my furniture repair shop. I’m surprise...
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How to replace a broken chair leg?
I had a customer bring me back a broken chair that I had already repaired. At first my heart sto...
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Matching Wood Stain & Finish (using a new generation of stains)
I learned a lot from a professional finisher recently when he taught me how to match stains and f...
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Outdoor Wood Furniture & Wood Rot
I recently repaired a picnic table that was suffering from a bad case of wood rot. The table had...
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Repair damage to lacquer finish?
In this video, I show how to repair a damaged area of a lacquer finish. There’s also a lin...
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Through Tenon Repair on Windsor Chair
I tackled a more challenging chair – a continuous back arm windsor chair. This had 6 throu...
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See how to patch broken wood
Over the years I’ve learned some techniques to repair areas where wood is missing… wi...
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Woodworking tips from repairing a broken chair leg
I’ve improved my woodworking skills and knowledge from repairing furniture over the years. ...
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Chair Repair with Epoxy Glue & Vector Clamping
I recently repaired these unique chairs that don’t have stretchers. The construction deman...
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How to Pull Brad Nails and Finishing Nails
I thought I’d share some trade secrets about how to remove brad nails and finishing nails. ...
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Have you heard of "vector clamping"?
Vector Clamping is a new term I recently learned. When I clamp odd shapes, such as a pedestal ta...
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How to Repair Broken Wood
In my furniture repair business, people frequently ask if broken wood can be fixed. In many case...
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How to Replace Broken Chair Stretchers
I documented how I go about replacing broken or missing chair stretchers. This may seem challeng...
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How to Properly Repair a Wobbly Chair
I do a lot of chair repairs, so I thought I would share some knowledge from my experience on how ...
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Pedestal Table Leg Repair with Vector Clamping
Have you ever used “vector clamping”? In a recent table leg repair, I didn’t h...
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How to Remove Broken Dowels
In the past I’ve struggled to remove dowels, but in time, I’ve developed a few techni...
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Surprised people don't know about miter saws
I recently demonstrated woodworking at a Toronto home show and I was surprised by how many people...
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On Stage at Toronto Home Show! Woodworking Advice
I spoke at the Greater Toronto Area Home and Reno Show this week. My son recorded the presentati...
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Beginner Wood Finish Recommendations
When I was a young builder I really struggled with finishing. I decided to help others who might...
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Wall Shelf Build with Lap Joints for Garage Organization
This week I finished installing wall shelves for recycling bins and a storage tote. They’r...
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Drawer Organization
I recently finished some drawer organization work using 1/2” maple. I wanted to divide up ...
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How to Price Your Work?
For those of you who sell pieces, how do you price your work? I struggled with this when I start...
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Finish Identification - is it oil, shellac, lacquer, or poly/varnish?
I recently repaired a piano bench that had a large flaw in the finish. I wanted to repair it ins...
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New Use for Old Water Skis
I had a customer bring me 3 water skis and asked me to build a corner shelf for them. It sounded...
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How to Layout & Cut Curves
It’s taken years of experience to learn different ways to layout and cut curves in wood. I...
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Ever seen a stopped miter joint?
I’m in the process of building my woodworking tool cabinet and I had to cut a stopped miter...
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What is Wood Movement? See what happens when wood can't move
This video shows a table that was destroyed by wood movement. The repairs that were done over th...
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Best Miter Saw Dust Collection?
Here’s a dust collection solution for a miter saw. I’ve used this for about 15 years...
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Ways to Prevent Saw Burn Marks
I’ve documented ways to prevent saw burn marks in this video, and show the before and after...
