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What Is The Best Wood For cutting Boards?
In restaurant kitchens, you are likely to see plastic cutting boards used. They are color-coded and used for a specific cutting purpose: vegetables on one, raw chicken on another, cooked chicken on a third, then
FREE PROJECT PLAN: How to Build a Benchtop Dust Pickup
Sometimes, you need to sand by hand, or you may have a power sander that doesn’t have dust collection built-in. For those times, make yourself this handy dust pickup. Just clamp it in place on your work surface—or hold it in place with bench dogs if your work center has them—and connect your vacuum hose. As you work, dust will get sucked in to keep it under control. You can build this dust pick-up from a few scrap pieces of lumber, a piece of hardboard or plywood, and a Kreg® Pocket-Hole Jig.
Wood Butter
Wood Butter - A Recipe for Your Utensils! is not a food post but one sharing how to care and condition the utensils you use. It restores a luster to your wooden cutting boards, wooden bowls and utensils, and protects them during continued use.
SketchUp for Woodworkers Guide - SketchUp Tutorial
SketchUp was a natural choice for me because A) there is a robust version available for free, B) I have seen many example drawings that represented exactly the type of projects that I wanted to design with the tool so I knew that it was capable of performing my intended tasks, and C) because it is so widely adopted, there is an abundance of free and inexpensive self-guided training materials available.