Drilling pin holes for adjustable shelves with a shelf pin jig

This short video walks you through drilling the adjustable shelf pin holes with a shelf pin jig. We have a line boring drill that can drill 14 pin holes at once,. The cabinet does not have the height for 14 holes and it really looks wrong to run the holes right to the bottom of the cabinet. We instead use the line boring drill to make a jig to drill holes individually. Three is the best number for this little cabinet.

Our students are not going to have a line boring drill, but no worries, they have a choice to sign up as woodshop members, or ready made jigs for one hole at a time are available.

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Side Table Class: Assembling the base frame

The best approach to assemble a table base frame with fixed legs

Here we provide a blueprint including a video showing how you can assemble a table base frame. You will need a very flat table and dead blow mallets and wood glue. You do NOT need heavy and expensive standard wood clamps.

Our unique and very fast method of assembling a table base joined with dominos or mortise and tenon joints saves you the struggle of using heavy and bulky wood clamps. We deploy a very common and inexpensive packing and shipping material to apply the clamping pressure very quickly.

Many people who read this article may also want to learn our fast and simple way of gluing up an edge joined solid wood table top..

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Side Table Class: Gluing up the table top

This is IsGood Woodworks own method of quickly edge gluing solid wood to create table tops, door panels, or any other wide solid wood panel you might need. Our edge laminating method produces flat wood panels free of twist with little effort or practice..

To use this method you need:

  • A very flat table that is paste waxed to keep the glue from sticking

  • Curved clamping cauls

  • Glue in a roller bucket (optional)

  • Clamps.

Quick bullet point recap:

  • Lay the boards on the table as they will be glued, with the edges running left to right.

  • Stand all of them up on edge except the one farthest away from you.

  • Roll ample wood glue onto the up facing edges and drop them back down on the table

  • Push the edges together to prevent the glue from drying from exposure

  • Place the cauls on the boards (across the joints), about one every two feet, curved side down

  • Clamp the cauls down just until they are bent flat to the surface

  • Clamp across the joints with enough pressure to squeeze out a bead of glue.

  • Give them at least a half an hour (for yellow glue), then unclamp

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Volunteer Build: A Loft Bed to Help my Landlady

My landlady Roberta is on a fixed income and lost a big piece of it recently. She was not able to make her monthly mortgage payments. However she did have an office room that she could rent if we could find a place for her office. We decided to build a loft bed in her bedroom to make room for the office. There was no money, and I had almost no time, so we offered a free woodworking class.

From this we received: Education for the students, a cash flow for Roberta, a beautiful piece of work for me to show off, and everybody had a great time!That is my landlady in the blue, and some of the volunteers/students who made this happen.