Skills and Techniques - Page 606 of 644

Rolling rocks
Whenever I have to move heavy rocks as I go about my business as a stonemason, I reach for my rollers. I used to put pipes or dowels under the…
Replacing Garage-Door Panels
My frame-and-panel garage door had a nasty gouge in one of the bottom panels. My job was to figure out a way to remove the 1/4-in. thick panel without ruining…
The A-Brace
I needed to lift a section of decking that had subsided a couple of inches, and I didn't have a jack handy to bear the considerable weight. Instead, I made…
Production-Line Jamb Setting and Door Hanging
Time-saving techniques from the tracts.
Drilling Foam-core Steel Doors
I had to drill holes for deadbolt locks in some steel doors that had foam cores, and I almost destroyed the first couple of doors using a standard hole saw…
Installing Crown Molding
Upside down and backwards is the secret.
Router-Made Moldings
I needed a special molding to complete a baseboard detail, but my router table was several hundred miles away on another job. Fortunately, the situation forced me to come up…
Building Barrel Vaults Using Trusses and Plywood Gussets
Trusses and Plywood Gussets.
Building Barrel Vaults Using Longitudinal Wood I-Beams
Longitudinal Wood I-Beams.
Two-way shims
I sometimes use shims in my rough carpentry work, and I make them out of scrap pieces of plywood in assorted thicknesses. I cut them on the table saw so…

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