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April, I am in awe of you! I have been a 30 plus year hospital builder and a union trained carpenter. It has been many years since I have actually worked with my hands, given the fact that I have been managing multi million dollar hospitals all over the US. So for me getting back into shop work and following you has been so extremely helpful! I have built your workbench, and wood cart and they are PERFECT for my shop. Your tips are very down to earth and easy to follow! How about some videos on using different types of tools? Plunge routers, different types of router bits and their uses, different types of joining, biscuits, dovetail, dowels? Which types are easiest to figure out and use. Please keep the videos coming lady!
Instead of driving a brad in to keep the joints from slipping around, try sprinkling a few grains of table salt. (Literally use your fingers to sprinkle on a tiny amount.) The crystals are sharp enough to dig into the wood (sugar is not), yet dissolve after being in the glue for a few minutes. This provides more than enough time to get clamps on. Works great for miters, edge gluing, etc. It's extremely fast & there's no metal to find a blade in the future. =)
Good tip. I have never used salt but seen other makers do that.
Brilliant! ❤️🇨🇦❤️
Tastes great too!
Definitely a keeper, I have in the past used a strap to hold a frame together can be fiddly but when ratched tight makes a solid joint
My tip, hire April to do all your woodworking needs!
Lol!
@AprilWilkerson thanks for the tips! I especially liked the cut off nail inside and now I know what to do with my broken squeeze clamp!
I love these quick, concise videos with tons of helpful tips. Thanks, April!
Thanks for the tips April Iv just started to do odd job for people so iv started a KZhead channel called odd job bill to share my learning journey . Thanks bill
Thank you for sharing these tips. Wishing you and your family continued peace, health and happiness. Greetings from NE Ohio. Peace April.
Problem solver of the day -- and just in time for this evening's festivities!!
1:45 looks like that second notched clamp pushed your mitre apart.
I noticed that too. Notching clamps should be approx midline of the mitre, no need to double up, the ²nd clamp position was outside of the mitre area and pulled if apart
Just squeeze the first clamp more
Oh wow, thank you April. I needed to see these tips.
April-been watching you for awhile and really like these “tip” videos you’ve been putting out. Thanks! And congrats on making your dreams come true!
Lots of good mitering tips. Having spent far too many hours trying to adjust miters and eliminate gaps, I found the best way to cut accurate miters is to build a miter sled for your table saw. If it's accurately built, when you cut mating piece on opposite sides, you'll get a perfect miter. It's saved me many hours of adjusting and sanding.
Awesome video, April! Your channel is on 🔥 lately with good, useful tips and tricks. Keep ‘em coming! 👍🏼
I'm never going to tire of April's cute wave goodbye! Please don't ever think you're too mature of sophisticated for it.
Really appreciate these tips and tricks videos. Thank you!
Thanks April those are helpful tips, keep up the great work.
It's great to see you putting out these tips.
Best way to get a tighter miter, get someone other than me to cut it.
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Made me chuckle. Thanks. Oh and by the way me four.
Great tips. Perfect timing for me to put to use. Thanks!
Fantastic tips, April! Thanks a lot! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I have two more you can add to your list that works great. First is a "C" spring clamp put on with a special pliers. Second is using pinch dogs on the backside to pull miters in. These come in many sizes and look like steel staples which are hammered in to drive the miter together.
Thanks April! Great tips, I have to try the notched boards.
Thanks April! Happy Friday!
Vermont fan! Syrup is the best!
A lot of useful tips! Thanks April!
All excellent tips by a great hard working Lady..
You have very interesting tools. Like that one whick you used to made those 4 holes for the coin shaped parts in the corners.
Great tips.. thanks from South Wales 🏴
Thanks for the tips April! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks for watching Fred!
1:17 I turned around and looked for the rooster, and I'm in a 2nd floor office building.
Good tips - the test dummy one is a keeper for me
Found a number of useful tips.... thanks.
Great tips I love your shop and the projects and tips you share.
Thanks April! I did find a few useful tips. The playing card tip is genius!
Nice tips. Love getting useful new tips
those clamp tricks are gold!
These were good! Thanks for the tips.
You're the best. I want to take a woodwork class and ideally just have your life. Lol you are freaking awesome. Wish I had a best friend like u
Good advise here, BUT in tip #1, you put in the video, the playing cards are in the wrong spot to close up the inside of the miter, it should of been out at the end of the fence, so the cut will cut a smidge off of the long point of the miter! That is the way to do it. But, none the less, good info!!!!
David - wow, really a great observation! Good adviCe indeed.
Great set of tips April, keep the tips coming.😁
If only I had your workshop...or even half of it! 🥰
Thanks for the tips April!
Thanks. You are a smart cookie and appreciate the information.
Nice tips that work! Thanks!
Good video. Very helpful. Thanks April!!!
Loving these tips videos!
Outstanding video. Some new ideas. Thank you
Great tips!Thank you.
I find a old fashioned miter box with hand saw works better but when it's a job that I have to get done quick Electric one works really good
I find your tips very helpful
Awesome tips thank you. I replaced all my doors, jams, casing, etc. I cut a bunch of 3/4”x3/4”x1” nubs used 18g brads nailing them at the miters and used the smaller clamps. Then I could just twist them off and fill the holes. Of course I came up with that about 5 windows into the job 🤦🏼♂️.
As always, great tips & information from one of the best!!! 🙏🏽🍻
Some great stuff April. Thanks.
This is great. The playing card tip is a life saver.
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tips! I enjoy these type of videos also!
I'm bookmarking this video. Thanks!
I have the same compound miter saw and it's also barely out the same amount as yours. I love milwaukee tools so it's unfortunate to see they haven't fixed the problem yet after so many years
Very handy tips. Thanks 😊
Good tips clearly explained. Great video! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I dug the diy clamp block! TY!
Thanks April some great tips.
Playing card trick was really cool. The saws at work are always a little off so thats going to be super helpful!
Those are good tables to have. Thk u for some of these tip I didn't know of
Glad you like them!
Wow tip number four, the biscuits in the corner never seen that and I like that idea. Thank you April. PS my nephew is hyped with the lion an roster rocker I made with your template thanks 😉
That's awesome! Thanks for letting me know. I'm glad he's enjoying them. :)
Fantastic work
Great tips, thank you so much!!!
Great tips. Thank you.
That orange router is as big as you!
Great help...as always thanks !
Muy buenos trucos o tips gracias por compartir.
Great tips April!
Great tips! and in true Spinal Tap fashion hers goes to 11!
Thank you! Great tips!!
Love these tip videos
Cool!
I had not seen the notched block technique. I will definitely use those going forward.
Only use a notched block to clamp roughly in the mid point of the joint itself ie the first position shown on the video. The 2nd clamp is too far away from the joint - you can see it actually pulls the mitre open in the video when tightened.
Good catch thanks for the input
Love your work 😊
Great video agan thanks 👍
Good information for technician
Great suggestions
Sweet! Thank you!
Love the rooster crow in the background, ha ha. As a chicken owner / video editor recently working from home, I feel your pain.
Good tips! Thanks!
Yea all of them are good tips!
Awesome, thank you
Brilliant! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
All great tips!
I really look forward to all of your videos, April! You select relevant subject matter and you are so articulate! It's very easy to understand your instructions!! I appreciate your work and thank you for sharing with us!!
Great tips!
Thank you April
great tips
New subscriber. Love your down to earth steps. Keep up the great work, you are inspiring me to do more. 8)
Thank you thank you! I make picture frames and fight tiny miter gaps. I've tried squaring the saw, but never fixed the problem. I assume it was just because it was a cheap Delta saw... this will save me a lot of heartache!
Nice tips, Thanks April!
That’s what I was going to say - exactly! Thanks again April❣️ Marcus from Chesapeake VA.
Perfect
@@marcuswhite3628 Super random, but I thought your post said “Marcus from Cheapskate VA” and I thought “I wonder what kind of business that is?” 😂
Damn, that's a huge router, you got there! lol
Buen video :) muchas gracias!
Number 5, very cool
Thank you