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An efficient way to paint doors
The setup shown in the drawing shows how we use a couple of sawhorses, some long screws, and a few pieces of plywood to make a spinner for supporting a…
Kitchen base-cabinet floor fix
I am working on a low-budget kitchen remodel. The cabinet frames and doors are in good shape, but the carcases are made of flimsy particleboard. The bottoms of the base…
Fitting coped crown molding
Before I made this jig, I checked the fit of my coped crown molding the conventional way by climbing the ladder and holding the coped piece in place against the…
Beveled Caulk-Tip Tip
Before caulking in a corner, I cut the end of the nozzle at a 45° angle, then draw a solid line with a felt-tip pen on top of the 45°cut…
Fishing wire with PEX tubing
Running new wires through existing walls is a routine task for electricians who work on remodeling projects. But as I point out in my article about electricians' tools, I don't…
Custom Taping Knife for Curved Drywall Corners
My new living room sports a cathedral ceiling with a flat center section and a sloped section on each side. This design left me with two long joints to tape…
Shop-sawdust control
I use my compound-miter saw all the time, so I generate lots of sawdust. By taking advantage of a bench located against an outside wall of my shop, I built…
A Simple Jig to Draw an Ellipse
Arched openings add a nice touch to a doorway, an alcove, or even a piece of built-in furniture. Architects and builders typically choose the easy-to-draw, equal-rise- and-run section of a…
Protecting finished woodwork in an unfinished house
In an ideal world, all the trades involved in building a house would be finished by the time the really delicate, vulnerable woodwork begins. But it doesn’t always work out…
Minimize Circular-Saw Tearout
As a one-man trim-carpentry crew, I often use a circular saw to cut full sheets of cabinet-grade plywood to manageable sizes before making final cuts with my tablesaw. To minimize…

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