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The 10 Rules For Successful Woodworking

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So if you don’t have the patience to watch this whole post through that, I’m afraid you haven’t got what it takes to be a successful woodworker. So I try and make this as quick as possible, but please take time digesting it Pattern Flush Trim Router Bit Set B0CKYCZMKH.

1 Prepare the Timber Accurately

So my first rule is to prepare the timber accurately. I mean dressing the timber either by hand with a plain and marking age or machining it with a plain thickness. It gets all the surfaces flat, adjacent surfaces, 90 degrees or square, all opposite surfaces parallel.

There are those 3 requirements for getting timber accurate because you can’t do anything in woodwork unless your timber is accurate. You can buy, as I often do, ready, prepared, or machined timber from one of the DIY sheds. I mean, that is wonderful because you don’t pay an awful lot more for it. So that’s the first one is to prepare the timber or the material you’re using accurately. If you’re using plywood, then it’s already preprepared.

2 Use Good Quality Materials

The second rule is to use good quality materials. I don’t mean you have to use the most expensive rosewood or ebony. Pine, of course, is not an expensive material, you shouldn’t think that it’s an inferior material. I use an awful lot of pine and it’s important to use the best grade and make sure that it is not free as possible and that it’s straight and it does not bode or twisted. The same goes for plywood, you know, checked before you buy the sheet that it’s not badly twisted. You’ll get a certain amount of twist on a plywood sheet.

3 Mark Out Accurately and Check Twice

Three is to mark out precisely and check twice that marking out is an absolutely essential prerequisite for the majority of work. If you’re a good turnout obviously, you don’t mark it out. You just turn it. But for the majority of woodworking work, you have to mark it out.

I use a biro as my preferred marking and it gives a consistent, fine, and clear point with a pencil because it’s graphite. It blunts as it draws. When you’ve gone all the way around a piece of wood, it’s thicker when it joins up with the original line.