Is there like a RU-vid hall of fame that we could get Steve inducted into? Hilarious intros, the best woodworking channel out there, and is the only person on the internet who makes me look forward to sponsorship portions of the video because I know i'm going to laugh. GREATEST CHANNEL EVER!!!!! Steve was the first woodworker I found on RU-vid, and I didn't even really know woodworking was a thing. I was only 16 at the time. Steve inspired me to take a woodworking votec class in highschool that ended up earning me a full tuition scholarship to college. I owe it all to you Steve.
Austin Long wow thats deep man. good for you man. steve got me all anxious to start my first wwproject just as soon as I get them tools out of layaway. 😂😆.
Absolutely agreed! Love the way steve shares his knowledge ....its like that rare time in high school, when you had that one special teacher.....that made learning something you didnt have to force yourself to do!!!
Best program of woodworking, carpentry, hardware, etc. in RU-vid. This program should be awarded as best in RU-vid. The beginning is unique when you get cut off lol! The first time and probably the second got me. I thought is was bad editing until I figured it out as the entrance and advertising. Thank you Steve for your teachings! God bless!
As somebody who just recently took up wood working as a hobby, you have been very helpful with your videos; whether it be about the tools, the cuts, or outfitting a workshop on a budget, this free knowledge from your channel has been invaluable. Thank you!!!!!
Hey Steve I am a retired helicopter mechanic and attended year long machine shop operations course in that course we were taught to lower the band saw guide post down close to the material that is being cut and also to adjust the upper bearings to keep the blade from wandering as much.with that said I watch your videos to learn wood working which is my new way to enjoy my retirement love the videos and have learned a lot, i am a beginner at this.
Hi Steve, I just wanted to say that I am starting to dabble at the most basic level in woodworking and greatly enjoy your videos. I'm starting to slowly build my arsenal of tools and really appreciate your guidance and videos on how to properly employ them. I love your enthusiasm and the detail you show in your videos, too! One thing that I probably enjoy the most, however, is your honesty and integrity with how you present information and guidance. My job requires absolute integrity and I appreciate the little moments in your videos where you could have said something misleading or calculated but instead chose to admit whatever conflict was occurring. Please keep that up! Thanks and keep them coming!
Take some time and tune your bandsaw. I've used a 12" Sears for years with great results. I've built cedar strip canoes and had to cut 70-80 1/4 x 3/4" strips 18' long with no problems other than what to do with a lot of sawdust. Work on yours, I'm sure you can get the full potential out of it.
Man, you've singlehandedly taught me more about WW than all other RU-vid channels and forums combined. Such a good format and great editing. Can't thank you enough!
@ 4:48 I only had a circular saw for a precise 1 meter rip cut (think the blade was dull too). It took me so long to set up a environment to cut along a straight line (do not have a work bench yet) only to instantly have the saw change direction cause it was nudged by the clamps holding my sketchy level setup. I charged the battery three times and almost started a fire trying to go through a knot... I had to redo the cut three times wasting a lot of wood and had to settle with an imperfect piece. Honestly think this ordeal took me 3 agonizing hours . That same evening I purchased my first table saw and here I am watching your how to playlist. Thx a lot for all the good advice 👍
Recently I inherited my father's table and miter saws. After watching this video i realized that am am incorrectly using them and need to get a hold of the guides and grippers if I wish to be able continue to be able to count to ten.
I’m a little late to this party but I gotta agree with most of the comments and say hands down the best videos on RU-vid. He’s like the bill nye the science guy but for wood. Engaging and thorough for my adult adhd he’s perfect !
Awesome video Steve! Growing up on our farm, we had two saws, a traditional hand held circular saw and a Craftsman Radial Arm saw. These seem difficult to find now-a-days. This was our goto saw for so many different cuts. My Dad cut miniature 1x10s, 2x4s, 2x6s and 2x10 for me to build a wooden to scale house. I still have some of the cuts where 1" = 1/16" and all the cuts are consistent!
Hey Steve, Thank you for great videos! As a total beginner with only a circular saw and few clamps I started my first project making some rip cuts to glued pine wood boards, and I successfully made an accurate precise cuts, down to millimeters (0.04 inch) By clamping a cheap aluminium spirit level as fence guide. Yes it takes some time to set everything and 10 times to check before cuting, but ir works great. Maybe it will be helpful for other beginners that maybe not yet ready to comit to table saw.
Steve, I get the impression you really don't care for your band saw. Mine is one of the most used in my shop. I think you should watch Alex Snodgrass's RU-vid. He'll get your old band saw sawing straight. BTW, we are starting a woodworking guild in our retirement village. We have a lot of folks who want to start working with wood. We are using about 20 of your issues to get them started. We thank you for what you do. I have been working with wood for over 60 years and even I have learned a bunch! Thanks!
Immediately upvoted when you said "Get a table saw" - That's so honest and true, you seem to know exactly what my experience was with trying to rip cut with a circular saw. Table saw will arrive next week.
I disagree that you have to use a table saw to get good rip cuts. I would love to be able to afford a good table saw it don't have that much money yet, so I use my affordable circular saw. The important technique is to have a fence of some type. A temporary guide clamp, a straight board clamped or screwed to the cut board, or even a slide-in saw guide accessory can give the support necessary to make a decent straight cut. Go slow, keep the saw snug against the guide, and let the blade do its work. No, not fun, but it does an acceptable job.
I've just started watching your videos today and in the few hours I've been watching I've learned alot to where I could take on some of the projects I want to do in my house when I get back to the states and i just wanted to comment telling you how much I appreciate you sharing your wisdom on the subject.
Steve, I just wanted to tell you that your videos are by far the most entertaining than other's are (at least what I have watched). I've learned quite a bit about different aspects of wood working from your videos. Thanks.
As a beginner, I learned the hard way not to cut lumber on a table saw from the out take end, feeding it in the wrong direction. The wood rose up, kicked back and shot across the shop. Lesson learned. I also use a sacrificial board attached to the fence.
Ivan Freely I understand where you are coming from (or trying to) but I disagree with that advice. *Don't fear your tools, **_respect_** your tools.* There's a huge difference between those two outlooks. To use a tool, any tool, that you are afraid of means that you are never going to be able to fully focus on the task at hand and that's the one thing that is more likely to lead to injury than anything else. To be distracted by fear of the tool while using the tool is almost a self fulfilling prophesy. To fear your tool is to give over some amount of control to the tool itself and that's a problem. You always need to remember that you are the one fully in control of whatever tool you are using and that that tool can do nothing that you don't make it do _or allow it to do._ DON'T be scared of any tool. I know that can be difficult sometimes but, if you have a tool that scares you, it's usually because you don't fully understand the tool, what it's capable of, or how to use it properly. When you have all those bases covered, that fear will dissipate naturally. If Jesus Balls is scared of that saw, he needs to learn more about it, practice with it, watch others, etc. A tool you are scared of is automatically more dangerous to use.
I recently had to install crown molding for the first time throughout an old house, where i swear not one corner was an exact 90 degree angle, one sure fire way to get ptsd when it comes to miter cuts lol
Andrew DiMartino the old-school way to compensate for the off-90 corner was to straight cut the first piece into the corner, then scribe and use a coping saw to match the second piece's edge to the first molding. This, with practice, is way more accurate than butting two miter-cut pieces together.
Knew most of this, but kudos 4 the video. 1 for you: glue & screw a piece of masonite 4" or more to an 8" strip of plywood, place your circular saw against it and cut off the excess. This gives you about an 8" wide guide for the saw that is perfectly straight. Glue pieces of 100-grit sandpaper to the bottom, use a clamp on the far end, and you'll make perfectly straight cuts with your saw, by lining up the edge of the guide with your lines, as the sawcut is already determined by the cut edge of the ply. One warning on this trick though is that the masonite & ply suck moisture differently, so, dry environments only or you'll have warped masonite.
I love your videos. Your shop feels real (unlike some of the shop spaces that folks shoot in that feel like a set). My garage (aka: shop cave) is tiny and tools have to be pulled in and off shelves, things are stacked up, and it’s definitely not fancy, so your series resonates. Keep up the good work!
You're a very good teacher. I always recommend your videos to people who ask me about woodworking. I learn a lot from you. Thank you very much for sharing. Thanks to MicroJig and Casper for sponsoring the show.
Thank you Steve. I’m not proud and watching a review of basic cuts was very beneficial. You are in a small group of professionals who can describe what they are going to do and then show how to do it without rambling on. If someone asks ‘What time is it?”, there is no need to tell them how watches are made. Your interesting flow of words keeps the highest percentage of us tuned in ‘till the end. Regards, ...Joe
BY far the best video I have seen of an craftsman teaching how-to-do-it to the average Joe [that's ME ha ha]. A joy to watch. Keep up the great work and keep plugging your sponsors, cuz you are a PRO for sure and deserve to get paid
I recently bought the plastic aluminum one Kreg makes, I think it's called the Rip-Cut Circular Saw Jig. It was a great $30 solution to get me started.
Great video for beginners. I was always confused about the different "cut" terminologies but you have very clearly explained everything. I admire you're style, content, and patience. Thank you.
Steve, Could you do a basics video on squaring boards on a table saw. This was One of my biggest issues when starting out and I am curious to see how you approach and problem solve squaring boards. I have seen you use your router table and explain how to square boards in a past video. As you have stated in several videos we as wood workers are limited and we value our scrap material to use in projects that may have curves or no straight edges to begin with. I seem to struggle at times getting a perfect straight edge only using my rip fence. This will probably seem as common knowledge to most wood worker but for beginners I could see this being useful and hopefully save people time and frustration. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Use a table saw sled that lets you clamp your board for giving the board a straight edge, then just align the straight edge on the back fence for the next cut :)
I've had a Delta from Lowes, got it on clearance. Medium duty. Sold it to my dad because I moved and couldn't take it. Some one gave me a hand me down Skilsaw portable. replaced the blade. Works fantastic
I kinda get what you're saying, but i think a scroll saw is kind of falling out of service. Most people have jigsaws and band saws, with one or the other filling the role a scroll saw would in older shops. That's not to say someone opting for a scroll saw is "doing it wrong" but that doesn't change the large overlap between it and other tools.
@@walterbunn280 a scroll saw is meant for finer projects. I've cut out chess pieces and elegant wall pieces Etc. The other tools just don't meet that need because of their size and bulk and lack of accuracy at that fine level. You should try one out I sure love mine.
Recently got a relatively cheap table saw, (going by reviews), don't use it an awful lot but extremely useful tool when needed. Got fed up trying to rip saw with hand or jigsaw - bloody hard work!! Helpful vid clip, thanx, Barry.
Steve, I have watched tons of videos lately and subscribed to a lot of skilled wood workers exhibiting their work. Your stuff is full of learning and entertaining at the same time. I think Blake Long below says it all. I wish you lots of success.
Nice job Steve. I appreciate how you meet us at our level. I also like the fact you are working out of your garage. So many of us can relate. Thanks again.
Hi Steve, I like almost all your videos. I am a software engineer but I am impressed with wood working these days with the videos you upload. I would be thankful if you can provide a small video for Carr-om board. Mainly the center board with finishing of the board.
Hi, need to admit that yours videos are not only extremely helpful in the way- full of constructive information but also is just very nice to watch it. All the best😊
I've only recently got into woodwork and bought a table saw. I started trying to do small cross cuts (maybe 8mm width) and wondered why they kept falling through........... you're video has just explained it. Oh and I've also just bought a Mitre saw ;-) great video again.
+1 on the Mitre Sled idea. I built one based on a previous Ramsay Recommendation and it saves me soooooo much hassle, particularly because my mitre guage has play in it.
Hi Steve. I watch all your videos and throughly enjoy them. I never tire of your basic videos though and you're never too smart to learn, even though I have been woodworking for quite some time. Thankyou once again pal.
This has to be one of the best videos I have ever watched on YT. So much extremely useful and beneficial information. Thank you, Steve, for sharing this information! New sub!
I have been resawing on my table saw for 20 years and the important thing for me USE A SAWSTOP table saw, if you don't have one buy one because $2000 is nothing compared to keeping your fingers. Set all square boards to the side and raise the blade an inch at a time. Set the fence to the amount to resaw and run them through on edge. flip the board end to end so the same side of the board is against the fence. cut this edge of the board. then put the board to the side and repeat for all boards. Now raise the blade another inch and repeat until you saw the board into 2 pieces, I like the last cut to just hit the center and the board just comes apart.
You can cut inside cuts with a band saw if you have the right kind. First you drill a hole large enough for the band saw blade to pass through. Then you shear the blade, pass it through the hole, weld it back together, grind off the weld, run the blade back on the drive wheels, make the cut and then shear the blade again to free the piece. Of course most wood workers have no idea such band saws exist, but they are quite common in tool and die makers shops where the inside cut maybe a on 3” thick plate of tool steel. The shear, welder and grinder are built into the saw.
Great video! I've made rip cuts with a circular saw with a guide rail and a lot of patience because that's all I had at the time. Wasn't easy or the prettiest, but it got the job done.
I "resaw" 2x6's in half the long way all the time on my 7 in table saw all the time no sweat. Obviously I have to flip it. No sanding. Looks like its straight from the mill. A really good blade is the key. I actually just resawed a 1x6 piece of walnut in half the long way. Was making a doorbell box and it needed to be lighter. But hes right, you gotta know what your doing. I thought he was gonna mention compound cuts. I think many people are intimidated by those. I love em and their easy.
One. I love your video. Just a couple, oh well three items. The 3/4" is .7500 and 19 mm is closer at .74803 than the 18mm .7087 that you mentioned. Also when using a band saw the blade fence should be lowered closer to the material than in the up position. At our age I use bi-focal safety glasses. I use them all the time, even when I am not cutting in the shop it is so easy to forget to put them on. Very good show.
THANKS 4 this informative video- I am actually thinking of buying something 2 cut some wood pieces 4 my crafting signs and had NO clue what saw 2 buy and now I do 👍🏼
I saw a saw in Warsaw. A saw I saw in Warsaw. I've never seen a saw like the saw I saw in Warsaw. The finest saw I ever saw was the saw I saw in Warsaw.
Ripping with a track saw is a alternative to a table saw. You don't have to lay out a huge amount of cash, you can make a decent guide for a circular saw for cheap. A good topic for another video Steve.
Hi. On jobsites I use my jigsaw very often, but me and my collegues use it upsite down. The machine is than under the wood or the sheet with the sawblade sticking out on top. We make pretty accurate cuts like that with a clear view on the cut and supporting the wood from under works fast once you get used to it.
It is possoble to get all kind of perfect straight cuts with circular saw by using a guide rail. You can get them with the saw, buy separately if the saw is compatible or make your own.
ripcuts with circularsaw or jigsaw can be done, it's not fun but with some practice you can do straight cuts, similar guides needed though like when cutting across the grain to make sure your ripcut is as straight as possible.
Love your table saw. I have the very same one. I'd love to see how you made your zero clearance throat plate. I know they can purchased but, they are pretty expensive. I discovered it to be very simple to take the top off my router table and mount it to the table saw as well. On the right side. Extends the table space of BOTH and frees up floor space. Keep up the good work.
I have actually never even tried to resaw on my bandsaw. I never had to resaw anything more then 6 inches wide and the table saw just makes it nice clean and almost to final dimension with not a lot of work. Like anything with power tools. Pay attention, be methodical and its no different then any other operation. Though if I do at some point need something wider then 6in then I guess I'll have to try it out on the bandsaw. Great video Steve!
I think a track saw would be worth mentioning here, I think for a lot of folks that aren't ready to buy a table saw, a track saw would offer you a lot of the same potential while remaining highly portable and much more affordable
I notice you say you can't rip with a bandsaw. You need a fence that can be adjusted for blade runout. Laguna Tools makes a WONDERFUL bandsaw fence and, using one of them, you can make precision straight cuts on a bandsaw. But, you need to adjust the bandsaw support bearing MUCH closer to your work. Check out Laguna Tool bandsaw accessories.
got a circular saw and a dream. thats all ya need ;) but really, i just did a bunch of both rip and crosscuts with a circular saw. worked fine for the 7 foot rips i did as well as countless crosscuts. but its only for a deck so it doesnt have to be dead to rights perfect
