When you want to hide a screw in woodworking, you need to either use a series of drill bits to make first the plug hole, then the clearance hole for the screw to go easily through the first piece of wood, then the pilot hole for the threads to grip in the second piece of wood. Or you can use...
For my TV show we took the cameras to Vince Way-Nee's shop where he told us his story about the demanding but satisfying hobby of turning burled wood.Take note of his dust protection system. He has a full face mask with a cotton skirt around it and a filtered air pump on his back. This feeds coo...
As wood dries out, it tends to twist and turn in all kinds of directions.
Generally furniture grade lumber arrives in a shop with a bit of a bow along its length, a bit of a cup across its width and maybe a twist to boot. How do you get this rough cut twisted lumber into perfectly straight and f...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: Polyurethane carpenter's glue (i.e. Gorilla Glue)
Temperature Limitations: Surface and glue must be above +20 C (+68 F) and below +45 C (+113 F)
Rain Limitations: Must remain...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: Polyurethane Construction Adhesive
Temperature Limitations: Above +5 C (+40 F) and below +30 C (+86 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 1 hour
Wind Limitations: n/a
Humidity ...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Finishes Product: Stains -- Latex & Oil based
Temperature Limitations: Use above +10 C (+50 F) and below +32 C (+90 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 24 hours
Wind Limitations: High winds ...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Finishes Product: Water Repellents for wood and masonry
Temperature Limitations: Use above +10 C (+50 F) and below + 35 C (+95 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 48 hours
Wind Limitations: n/a...
Holly in Wasi Lake, Ontario wants to know why her 1x10 pine tongue-and-groove floors are shrinking and leaving such large cracks.
If you look at traditional hardwood floors you will notice that each board is rather narrow. In fact it is difficult to locate hardwood floors that are wider than 4 i...
Concrete will allow water or water vapour to move through it quite easily, so any wood in contact with concrete must either be pressure treated wood, or you should have a plastic separator between the wood and the concrete. A simple slip of polyethylene plastic is all it takes to prevent rot at t...
Ken Farr from Natural Resources Canada joined me to talk about identifying wood, something you may want to do to match some old molding, or just to figure out which wood would be best for a given project.
The bottom line is that the books we showed on TV were named:
Trees in Canada
Identifying...
