Starting with this first clip of 2009, I am starting little video shorts called QUICK TIPS. The first QUICK TIP: Joining Edges. Don’t you just hate when you can’t get two pieces of wood to lay nice and flat next to each other?? Well-elll-elll, I have the QUICK TIP for you!
Enjoy!
And… keep those shiney shoes tappin’ til dawn!
-- Chad Stanton, Big Chopperoo www.woodchoppintime.com






















10 comments so far
Todd Thomas
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posted 302 days ago
thanks for the tips…I’ll have to try that…
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drgoodwood
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posted 302 days ago
Good advice.
Great tip.
Plane truth.
Fandango fun.
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dustygirl
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posted 302 days ago
Thanks for another great lesson Chad.
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SCOTSMAN
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posted 302 days ago
well it’s differentLOL Alistair
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mtnwild
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posted 302 days ago
Good tip, now what?
-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.
motthunter
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posted 302 days ago
i will refer people to this clip when they ask this question. thanks
-- making sawdust....
sIKE
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posted 302 days ago
Manicly Good tip!
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MsDebbieP
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posted 301 days ago
well isn’t that a smarty-pants idea! Does part II talk about the springy thingy??
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Craftsman on the lake
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posted 301 days ago
When I plane the edges of bookmatched guitar tops/backs to glue together I put them together like you did but put them flat on the bench with two boards near the edge. One to elevate it and the other over the top to clamp them together. I take my largest bed steel plane and put it on the side. A few swipes and I have two right angle edges. If the plane has a side that’s perpendicular to the bed then the edges are very nice.
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Beginningwoodworker
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posted 294 days ago
Nice tip.
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