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let s talk wood april 2008 let s talk wood a forum for discussing woodworking specifically furniture making feel free to post comments and questions about your current projects tools studio set up or whatever is on your mind this blog is moderated by jamie yocono owner of wood it is custom cabinetry in las vegas nv her website is wooditis com if you need to speak to an actual human call 702 672 8981 now let s talk wood friday april 25 2008 cutting dowels with a v block ok i ve been threatening to do this for a while but this is my first attempt at posting a woodworking video here on this blog i ve been practicing making videos it s not at easy as it looks just know this splashing watco on the lens of a digital camera isn t a good thing i received a question from someone inquiring about cutting dowels if you ve ever attempted this you know that it s easy to get a lot of chipping and splintering so here s a quick and easy way to cut dowels first you need something to hold the dowel steady in the video i use two small blocks of wood with a v groove cut into them i realize that there are some people that don t have v blocks laying around so as an alternative you could use a book a well worn book that stays open on it s own would work just fine even your local phone book would work lay the dowel into the v groove overhanging it the dimension of the piece you want to create so if you want a 3 dowel overhang it by 3 inches then using a fine toothed handsaw hold it on the dowel and rotate the dowel you want to score the wood fibers all the way around the dowel to reduce the chance for chipping and splintering you ll want to score it fairly deeply not just on the very surface once it s scored you can saw through it a fine tooth saw is best here not an old rusty saw left over from world war ii the better the saw the nicer the cut hope this helps any other suggestions for the next video posted by wood it is at 10 36 am 5 comments labels need to cut a dowel wednesday april 09 2008 a goof proof finish exactly what i need for my work i m lucky that someone that i met early in my woodworking studies told me about watco danish oil it was roughly 1978 and i was in the woodshop of ohio university taking a class with sculptor mike cunningham his specialty was bronze casting but while we worked together he was teaching advanced wood techniques when it came time to apply a finish on something i d built he suggested using watco and named off a few things about it that seemed useful the first was that watco didn t need a completely dust free environment to be applied since the woodshop where i worked was about as dusty and dirty as any place i d ever used this was a huge advantage another very nice feature of watco was that it was quite forgiving to the average woodworker if you missed sanding a spot on your wood or overlooked a smear of glue on your piece not to worry these problems were easily solved while applying watco every woodworker i know has missed a drip of glue from time to time or as some woodbutchers like to say glue happens and finally another reason that watco was quite interesting was that it allowed woodworkers to do something that previously took a couple of additional steps and required some additional finishing supplies see if you wet sand watco into your wood you create a slurry or fine paste of oil and sawdust should there be a small worm hole or a joint in your piece that is less that tight this slurry acts as a wood filler of sorts sweet a finish that actually makes finishing easier i ll take it plus wet sanding the oil into the wood gives you an ultra smooth feel and sheen to the wood that makes most customers swoon when they touch your work it s like buttah in short you ve got a product that makes you a better woodworker if you ve missed a small area while you were sanding you can touch it up glue line no problemo a quick scrape with a sharp chisel and it s gone worm holes filled so back in that dusty dirty woodshop in the late 70 s i started using watco danish oil and i ve never stopped in fact it s the only wood finish i use and if my customers request something different i try to either show them the merits of watco or ask them to possibly find someone else to finish their piece that i ve built of course i discount my price accordingly so if someone it really set on a lacquer finish they can get it elsewhere besides being a really goof proof finish watco also allows you to do a few things at once most of all staining your wood at the same time as protecting it see watco comes in colors or tints the clear version of watco is called natural and it obviously doesn t tint the wood much but some of their other colors especially the walnut colors medium walnut dark walnut and black walnut all darken your wood considerably so instead of first applying a separate stain to color your wood and then applying a clear top coat you can do both steps at the same time using a tinted watco product personally i don t like stain if i want something a darker color my tendency is to simply use a darker wood or if i m looking for a more reddish wood i ll use a cherry or mahogany for this reason my watco product of choice is the natural version which allows the woods natural colors to shine through now that s not to say i never stain anything i recently make a piece and there was no way to avoid a streak of sapwood in a gorgeous board i simply wiped on some tinted watco on the sapwood area thus blending it in with the rest of the piece in this case it was a walnut chest so i used both natural watco for most of the chest and small amounts of dark walnut to stain the sapwood to match in the next few weeks i m going to attempt to make a short video on watco application i ll show you how i apply it how much wet sanding i do how long i leave it on the wood and i ll also give some important information about disposing of your oil soaked rags back in 1988 my house under construction nearly burnt to the ground because some of the workers didn t dispose of the rags properly when applyong watco to my wood floors i ll save that story for another time until then remember those rags can spontaneously combust so dispose of them properly posted by wood it is at 3 06 pm 2 comments labels watco danish oil newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom wanna send me an email wooditis aol com wood it is view my complete profile blog archive 2026 5 april 1 march 1 february 2 january 1 2025 11 november 2 august 1 july 1 june 2 april 3 march 1 january 1 2024 30 december 1 november 3 october 1 september 2 august 2 july 2 june 3 may 4 april 4 march 2 february 2 january 4 2023 28 december 1 november 1 october 2 september 2 august 6 july 2 june 4 may 3 april 5 january 2 2022 20 december 1 november 2 october 1 september 1 august 2 july 2 june 1 may 1 april 3 march 2 february 2 january 2 2021 29 december 1 november 1 october 2 september 4 august 3 july 3 june 4 may 2 april 3 march 2 february 3 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