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"If you know how to use a measuring tape and a pencil in a skill saw, you can build the deck."
"That's enough nails for now, now we're gonna go work on the baseboard."
"Handy gives you weapon maintenance and an XP bonus in carpentry."
"The Hercules table saw cuts so smooth, it's amazing."
"When a carpenter is ill he asks the physician for a rough and ready remedy."
"This saw, a number four union, and a set of Harbor Freight chisels"
"You always want to be long because you can always cut. You can't add wood."
"Spline joints can also be used when you're building cabinets."
"Positive stop to the side... both these face frame stick outs."
"So all the hard stuff is done and now I just have to finish cutting the rest on the table before I can assemble it all."
"I'm looking forward to creating another workspace even around that woodshop."
"I've never proclaimed to be an expert Carpenter but when it comes to taking on projects like this even though you might have a plan in mind you've really got to think on your feet and adapt as you go to whatever makes the job a little bit easier."
"Measured twice, cut once. I think I might have measured about 30 times before actually cutting anything."
"...if you're new to DIY or you don't do a lot of carpentry your best bet is just to measure as many times as you can just to make sure you get it really really right because once you cut into that wood there is no going back."
"...sometimes it is just better to take that little bit extra turn to get things right to make sure you're going to be happy with your project in the long term."
"We're gonna start in here, but I need a straight line to go all the way across here to nail my first row to."
"Not only am I cutting all my carpet in a front-to-back direction, but I'm pretty much taking each panel out and I'm putting it on that roll of carpet and I'm cutting it based on how it's gonna go back in the boat so everything matches up perfectly."
"Whenever you're working with Buildings Construction and you're using um dimensional Lumber floor joist there's always a crown there's always bumps and weaves and rolls and you need this really badly."
"Hanging doors and fenders can always be a little nerve-wracking."
"Remember, follow the same amount of times that way you don't have a crooked nail."
"He was a master Carpenter oh he could do some beautiful things beautiful things."
"I used to be a carpenter. Most of my work in life is carpentry-based."
"I'm quite happy with the idea that Jesus was working as a carpenter in Nazareth, and studying His tradition, and praying, and coming to know Himself."
"Absolutely beautiful carp, abely made up."
"As with everything in carpentry realistically, you never stop learning."
"When you're doing your butt joints, you want to stretch it out."
"...as we set that six by six post in, we don't have anything jutting up."
"That's a day in the life of a carpenter. I know it's a little bit random, I've been everywhere today, but it's all in a day's work, guys."
"Now when I start my next run if you notice this one started this way I'm instead going to start this way and then Place one that way I'm able to shoot a brad nail this way so they're off center of each other a little bit."
"I think I have a knack for design that most other carpenters do not have."
"Gord's pergola is starting to shape up to be something definitely very modern."
"The reason I chose finish nails instead of brad nails is that finish nails have a larger head on them and they have better holding power while still being relatively small Fasteners."
"Now that the panel is in, before I nail it, I want to check for squareness one more time."
"That means the left and right side are 3 and 1/2 inches longer than the window itself measures out, and then the top board is 7 inches wider than the window's width because you take into account the window plus your right and your left trim board."
"This is fairly much bread and butter work of a carpenter, it's something that we're taught quite early on in our careers and it's quite satisfying when you make a nice job of it."
"...it's a very small molding, there's no reveal to set, like on a typical door casing, you have to set it a quarter inch off, you don't have to do that."
"We're using common boards you can buy at your local home store."
"Remember, measure twice, cut once, that's a saying in carpentry."
"Now we're at the tail end of our project here and the last big piece is the finished carpentry."
"This one will be geared toward like if you want to be a carpenter, that would tell you like the first couple videos will just be all like the perfect bolts to do some things with and then the perfect tools and then it would be a small project to build it."
"The most important thing of laying these panels out is to get the first one completely square."
"Professional Carpenters surely dream of having Freedom when working on wood projects but corded tools stop them from doing so... count on this sopow cordless circular saw to get the cord type performance with the most desired cordless convenience."
"If chestnut was abundant like it was in the past, all your decks would be made out of chestnut."
"Now we know the blade is square to the MIT gauge."
"...the combination of a plane replaces a pile of molding planes and puts them all in one."
"I'm hoping this video was beneficial in teaching you something and showing you what goes into a balustrade and stair job."
"This is the plane that can do the big end jointing and it can do the small end planing."
"She was the one getting all willy-nilly with the Willy Billy the carpenter."
"No tape measure or I is as accurate and trustworthy as an untouched fence."
"You can miter your corners, but that's once you've learned how to walk first you learn how to crawl."
"But how exactly do you make a square without a square and make sure that it is indeed square? Let's dive in."
"The wedged mortise and tenon is almost as strong and good-looking as I am."
"The double iron is an effective way to fight tear out and it's gonna make the results of your planing generally a lot better."
"So now you know the length for the two side panels, you know the length for your interior levels, and you know the length for the top and bottom level."
"We now have the loft done as far as all the main boards and it looks so good."
"Dowels are great tools for constructing Furniture but in a lot of cases they can be misleading in terms of repairing Furniture."
"Building drawers was super scary... and then I made some drawers and realized it's not so bad."
"I'm going to show you a few simple techniques that will have you with your miter saw in no time."
"The settings of thirty-three point nine on the bevel and thirty-one point six on the miter are stamped into the saw to eliminate the calculations."
"To make the process of cutting crown molding flat on the miter saw all but mistake-proof, I'm going to show you how to make a set of templates that make positioning really easy."
"What's up, everybody? This week, we're gonna walk you through how we make our cabinets."
"That's just a few tips and tricks about how we hang cabinets here at Studpack."
"The carpentry techniques haven't aged much at all, and that's why I'm making them available here for free."
"Ultimately, the glue joint by itself is all that you need for strength."
"It's always a good idea to use a round over bit or a chamfer bit on the bottom of your legs to prevent splintering."
"So I think the last major thing to do is to get this door hung on this case."
"This table's 40 in wide, and what I'd like to do is build the second table 40 in wide by 50 in long."
"The process also makes the wood more dimensionally stable, and all of these factors make thermally modified woods a great choice for outdoor projects."
"It's also important that the fence itself is square to the tabletop and not canted to the right or to the left."
"The cool part about this set is that it also cuts a quarter round glazing strip which holds the glass in place, resulting in a seamless and super custom looking glass door."
"The key to most things in carpentry, just like life, is having a good strategy."
"Hey, in just a few weeks, I'll go over how to attach the bottom to the face frame."
"And I like to use a track square because it's important for me to get at least one square corner for all of these cuts."
"The shoulder plane, most noticeable difference, it is a low angle plane."
"These were most definitely not joinery forming tools but joinery refinement tools."
"The shoulder of the tenon is really where the shoulder plane excels."
"Work on your sawing; that will improve things a lot faster."
"Everybody wants to do what this guy can do, so work on your chisel skills, and you'll end up being better off."
"The cope is so forgiving that it's going to work on any corner in the house."
"This space is going to be interesting... the nav's desk is what I'm planning to build right here."
"One of my dreams is to build a teardrop trailer but put a benchtop pro in the back of it."
"I built an outside frame using 1x4 common boards, then covered the outsides and one face of the frame with this burlap fabric."
"Framing nailers have come a long way."
"It's designed for residential framing, punch out work, setting trusses, fence building, deck building, sheathing, all kinds of fun stuff."
"Just a quick turn of the fastener will fine-tune the bar to a whisper smooth glide in your table saw or router table."
"Joinery requirements come in many sizes and many shapes, from the really small to the very tall."
"Furthermore, the maker can use thinner stock for the drawer sides, saving material, weight, and interior space, as well as lightening off the look of the drawer."
"As many of you know, I love to build my own furniture."
"He worked his hands in wood from the crib to the coffin."
"She liked to build things out of wood."
"The hinge in the frame and the door is just absolutely perfect, no pencil lines, masking tape, or anything like that needed."
"I know for sure with this method of making, if you're doing more than one door, it's going to be quicker by a long long stretch."
"Casper makes friends with the spirit of carpentry who enjoys building things, but he builds things that people can't use."
"Install a door hinge perfectly with the proper carpentry techniques so that you get a perfect finish every single time."
"This is about teaching you some proper carpentry techniques that you can take away and use on your jobs at home."
"These tracer pencils are really great for any carpentry or woodwork or any other DIY work around the house."
"The proper carpentry technique to placing a hinge on a new door is to place your top hinge six inches from the top."
"Your bottom hinge would be nine inches from the bottom of the door."
"The reason you would place that bottom hinge higher up is actually because of an optical illusion called foreshortening."
"This job is all about attention to detail, and if you get it wrong, the hinge will look sloppy."
"We're going to fit the hinge with the open leaf on the door and the fixed leaf on the frame."
"Create a stop cut along our line... just deep enough to run our nail in, that is the perfect depth with no bruising on the edge of the wood."
"Using some simple carpentry techniques, you can see how perfectly you can actually get that hinge installed on the door."
"Let me know what you think about this folding workbench idea, and remember, be kind, be awesome."
"Above that is this great shelf that my husband made for me."
"Next up in the series, I will be building the custom kitchen cabinetry, which I am super excited about."
"It's pretty incredible, so using a miter saw... it's an awesome investment."
"It just brings me so much joy to see this kind of finished carpentry work go in."
"I'm going to become a carpenter or tradesman and build my own house for a fraction of the cost."
"That's a good way to create a very permanent and very secure connection between two separate pieces of plywood."
"Those are some nice scraps, aren't they? I think those are the edges of the floating coffee table."
"You need to make sure that you're measuring your wood."
"Makes them much more stable table than the earlier tables I've made."
"Once you start getting into this, you can get into a flow state and really run a lot of planking."
"Pin nailer uses 23 gauge headless pins and these are really, really thin and they pretty much disappear into your project."
"Did you know that the perfect amount of glue squeeze out is the mark of a good carpenter? Just kidding."
"Once your customer approves your design, a couple of mouse clicks is all that's needed to optimize the parts for the cabinets and lay them out with minimal waste, ready for your CNC to cut."
"It's also really aesthetically pleasing."
"I custom made this cabinet right here, so all these drawer boxes would fit perfectly."
"It's going good. Those are going to be drawers in the bottom, two are shelves."
"We're going to cut the fascia board and trim straight so that the home will look a little more modern."
"Like any good carpenter with a raw piece of wood, Jesus could see past the knots and blemishes to the potential within."
"A workbench should be big and strong and heavy; if you're sawing or chopping on something, you don't want your bench moving around or worse yet racking on you."
"For a group of black people, illiterate black people, a carpenter named George Bell and two others... came off of a plantation because that's how this country got built."
"We're going to build a very unique little storage cabinet that'll go anywhere in anybody's home."
"Now it is time to design and build the furniture for this space."
"It's time today to put our wood feature wall in."
"This little gadget is going to change the way carpenters work."
"This is a good way to repair wood: cutting on such a steep angle gives you a lot of gluing surface and can make a very strong joint."
"That laser line will put a line on each side of the blade curve; that's handy, handy, handy."
"Carpenter for 40 years, so look what a safe fellow."
"The biggest thing about this particular setup is that I can make repetitive quality miter saw quality cuts on-site without anything but this."
"It's no longer what we call a push cut; it's a very accurate cross cut."
"I like the fit and feel of this saw."
"This isn't just a circular saw, this was absolutely built to be a track saw."
"It's a really good saw if you're looking to make good square cuts."
"Measure twice, cut once, as they always say, especially when it's your roof."
"Now what ties this whole bench together are the cleats and the beams, and these seats when screwed to those pull that whole bench together, making a rock-solid connection."
"Smart carpentry is safe carpentry."
"Coping is a lot easier, faster, and much more accurate, plus it's more enjoyable."
"Pre-assembling crown molding makes the job a lot easier."
"I've never had a piece move, not even on jobs I've visited 10 or 15 years after I install the trim."
"If you want to build a bench like this in your garage, I built this one out of two by fours and MDF."
"That is a terrific, really tight joint, and there isn't even any glue or pressure on this thing yet."
"Smart carpentry is also safe carpentry."
"I'm just going to remove everything that's loose, sand it roughly, fill all the low spots with wood filler."
"Once you understand and see miters as long points and short points, you'll never have to visualize the direction of a miter again and you'll be able to rely a hundred percent on a cut list rather than your memory."
"They made a novena to St. Joseph, the patron of carpenters, so it's understandable that they would believe St. Joseph did it."
"I'm kind of calling this top box my carpentry box. If I'm doing some carpentry work, in here is all of my carpentry tools."
"We constructed our upper cabinets from one by two pine frame and then 12 and 18 mil poplar ply."
"This is really lightweight and gives a nice clean finish."
"We cut and prepared the hinges on our cupboard doors and made sure everything was exactly how we wanted it."
"I'm really looking forward to building that cupboard; I think it'll be fairly easy to build."
"The best carpenter can't fix you until you let Him in."
"They're non-committal pieces of wood, there's no big commitment there."
"Shingles and strips of wood are going to be your best friend when it comes to trying to get everything to line up."
"Each drawer is exactly identical, which makes this project a lot easier."
"Rounding the edges of drawer sides is a great detail."
"We were able to recreate every piece of wood with fresh new wood and fit the old metal over it to make it a bit more secure."
"As you can see, the process worked out pretty great, and we got nice clean cuts ready for the risers and wood flooring."
"We made sure to shoot the nails only at the very top and bottom of the riser so that the holes could be covered by the wood flooring later."
"We ended up filling the nail holes with wood putty, and then they became almost unnoticeable."
"It's finding that balance between nice square flat wood and preserving some of the character so that the hallmarks of a barnwood door are present."
"Okay, so now all this crooked dirty barn wood is all straight and uniform and square, and we can move on to the next step."
"Okay, now with these barn doors, there's a slot, there's a little floor guide that goes on the floor that stops your door from swinging out."
"Because he was a carpenter, God gave him a name that's above every name."
"Enables precise 90° angle assembly with its robust spring-loaded mechanism for easy one-handed use."
"That's the beauty of a miter box, it helps keep things squared."
"Woodpecker's new VAR angle clamping fixtures take the great features of their famous clamping squares and add the flexibility to clamp angles other than 90°."
"Woodpecker's knuckle clamps are virtually indestructible, ensuring long-lasting durability."
"It works fantastic, I've never seen anybody else do it, you know, I can't understand why, but it's the answer to curved lumber."
"I love being a carpenter. You get to be outside all day, which is where I'm happiest. You build things that are standing there when you drive away, and every day is different and it's rewarding."
"A good carpenter is always busy, no matter what the economy is."
"The number five is generally called the jack plane because it's the jack of all planes."
"The framers actually knocked out the stairs right there and they look really good."
"So just to keep everything nice and straight and square, I always will use a square."
"Using an MFT and the track saw is definitely a great solution for making cuts to large sheet materials."
"Let's get back to some roof framing."
"Quite often you need a perfect result from your spindle molding because the way you set the joints up in the door or the frame will depend on the depth of that cut from the molding."
"It's amazing what glue and a few small wedges can do."
"It was really easy to build these face frames; it only took me about 20 minutes per cabinet to do."
"It really does give you the ability to make the most superb fence, and it's really accurate."
"These provide a continuous straight line with the fence, and so you can do your cuts and get them absolutely spot on."
"Now there's a trick to cutting off these four by fours perfectly square at the top."
"Now I've got the top board across the front near the road done, and you can see it looks really nice; it is solid."
"Now because the fence posts are gradually going downhill, the two by fours aren't going to be level either."
"Moldings in practice was a real eye opener to me when it comes to making built up moldings."
"If you're going to pick one, I would say go with an 18 gauge brad nailer."
"We're making big progress and we've made it all the way around the room with all of the baseboard trim."
"That's one of the most satisfying pieces of timber work one can do in carpentry."
"When you're building a drawer box, and I always like to teach people, a drawer box is basically a cabinet."
"These drawer handles are really cool; it gives a really nice flush look to your build."
"I never said I was a carpenter, but that's good enough for me; that'll do the job."
"We did some custom spindles down here that look absolutely incredible."
"We have created a table, isn't that fantastic? A very simple but effective table."
"I got tired of looking at just the plywood, and I wanted to try some new techniques."
"This is going to make cutting these rips so much easier, and imagine cutting 12-foot lengths or eight-foot; you could run that tool down through there so fast, I really think it's going to save you a lot of time."
"I'm actually planning to rebuild my bench and I'm gonna have a whole new setup."
"I am convinced that a solid wood dado with a solid wood shelf going into it is all that you need to hold a shelf in place."
"You can cut a full sheet of wood with no problem."