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Here’s a throwback Thursday mixed in with a tool tip Tuesday. Is that even legal in all states? 🤷‍♂️ Anyways, here is a little (not so) pro tip or shop hack when installing these brass threaded inserts and not buying the proper specialty tool you’re supposed to use that makes this a breeze. 😳 I tried using a screw driver but it broke the first one with very limited pressure. I then tried a bolt to drive it in, which worked, but my problem was when I tried taking the bolt out the insert was coming with it. The solution was putting a nut on the end of the bolt first and then putting it in the insert. This gave me something to hold on to when removing the bolt and keeping the insert from coming with it. Not the ideal way to do this but definitely worked in a pinch. Hopefully this little diy hack may help someone reading this somewhere down the line. Moral of the story? Use the right damn tool! 😳 . . . . . #tooltips #shophack #protips #diyhack (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjWDLWD0_w/?igshid=unyc0exm8qmz

The first part of this video is from another recent post I made and was asked a lot of questions about. It’s a little pro tip or shop hack that I learned somewhere down the line and thought it would be worth sharing here. We are trying to find the center of this board and while anyone can find the middle of a board that is say 6” across it gets a little complicated when you need the middle of say 5 7/32” or worse yet you need to find 4 equal parts of a board that’s 5 7/32” across. Here’s a super easy measuring hack that takes this calculation out of the equation. No pun intended! If you need two equal parts, just make a diagonal across your workpiece at a measurement easily divisible by 2. Here I chose 8” so lined up my measuring tool with 10” on one side and 18” on the other and simply marked where 14” was and made my line. When I flipped the board over I did the same thing with the 8” but marked the board every 2” across to give me 4 equal parts. Note: 8” is a random number I chose here as it reached across the whole board. Any number divisible by 4 would have worked and the angle of the diagonal is not important. If you needed your board in three equal parts you would obviously use a number divisible by 3. Hopefully this might help someone out who didn’t already know this trick. It also works on just about anything including what I have discovered to be my asymmetrical face. 😳 . . . . . #shophack #measuring #workpiece #measuringtools (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAf4moBjzIM/?igshid=18ul8lu7kp33v

Drying editions on the flat file. #shophack #letterpress #bellingham

By sandwiching all the veneers between two pieces of bamboo-ply off-fall, he was able to cut them all at the same time with a perfect, jointed edge.