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Welcome to Friday Workshop!
Discover the joy of making and building with Matt and Dom! At Friday Workshop, we transform ideas into reality with projects ranging from woodworking and metalworking to electronics and creative restorations.
Whether you're a DIY enthusiast, a woodworking pro, or just starting out, this is your go-to channel for tool reviews, creative crafts, and step-by-step build videos. We specialize in unique projects like custom pickleball paddles, sailboat restoration, and upcycled designs-all with a fun, positive twist.
Join our maker community as we share tips, tricks, and ideas to inspire your next project. Let’s build, restore, and create together while having an awesome time!
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Discover the joy of making and building with Matt and Dom! At Friday Workshop, we transform ideas into reality with projects ranging from woodworking and metalworking to electronics and creative restorations.
Whether you're a DIY enthusiast, a woodworking pro, or just starting out, this is your go-to channel for tool reviews, creative crafts, and step-by-step build videos. We specialize in unique projects like custom pickleball paddles, sailboat restoration, and upcycled designs-all with a fun, positive twist.
Join our maker community as we share tips, tricks, and ideas to inspire your next project. Let’s build, restore, and create together while having an awesome time!
Subscribe today and follow our journey of creativity, craftsmanship, and learning.
#DIYProjects #Woodworking #ToolReviews #MakerCommunity #WorkshopBuilds #SailboatRestoration #CreativeCrafts #HandmadeDesigns #RestorationProjects #FridayWorkshop
Want Quick DIY Gifts? Make Scrapwood Bookmarks Like a Pro!
Running out of time to find a meaningful gift? In this video, we’ll show you how to turn scrap maple into elegant bookmarks in just one hour! These DIY maple bookmarks are perfect for book lovers and make thoughtful, budget-friendly gifts for any occasion.
We’ll walk you through:
Selecting and prepping scrap wood.
Cutting, sanding, and finishing the bookmarks.
Adding a personal touch with leather cords or tassels.
Grab your tools, and let’s get started!
💡 Share your results in the comments below, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more DIY woodworking ideas!
We’ll walk you through:
Selecting and prepping scrap wood.
Cutting, sanding, and finishing the bookmarks.
Adding a personal touch with leather cords or tassels.
Grab your tools, and let’s get started!
💡 Share your results in the comments below, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more DIY woodworking ideas!
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DIY Pickleball Paddle: Craft, Play, and Connect!
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Discover how to make your own pickleball paddle with Friday Workshop! In this updated tutorial, we share our refined process, focusing on an improved handle design for a comfortable grip and enhanced gameplay. We guide you step-by-step through the process of using 1/2-inch plywood, a skill saw, a bandsaw, and a polyurethane finish. For a professional touch, finish it with a plastic end cap and ...
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"Welcome back to Friday Workshop! This week, we’re diving into the world of solvents to explore the key differences between acetone and mineral spirits. These two chemicals are staples in woodworking, fiberglass work, and surface cleaning, but they each have unique uses and safety requirements. In this video, I’ll cover: What acetone and mineral spirits are. How they’re used in woodworking and ...
STOP Buying Ugly Coasters! Make Your Own CUSTOM Wooden Masterpieces!
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I drink it everyday whats the point
Ha. This is not your grandpas white lightning. I wouldn’t recommend drinking this stuff.
We love our laser. Do you use a laser for your woodworking?
Always keep you hands off machines, unless you don't mind losing a finger or hand. Don't lean on them to rest on. Never.
@@rafaelmadrigal1999 thanks for the advice.
Mix them together, add a little oil and you have a great gun cleaner. That's the basic formula for Ed's Red, the most effective and aggressive bore cleaner I use: 1 part each acetone, mineral spirits, kerosene (which is similar to mineral spirits), automatic transmission fluid (light oil with detergents and other additives).
Interesting. Thanks for commenting that.
Super excited!!
Awesome. 👏
Sweet, I now have a new built project lol. A box for my chisels. Thanks
A box is an awesome project.
I would love to see a how to build please. Currently modifying an old dining table with: - Built in felt lined dice trays (just glued felt onto a thinner bit of wood for the "box". - TV (smaller that that one lol) on top with a border. Need to see if it's too tall next D&D night. - Expanded panels out sides so we can hold all of our snacks, maps (TV above now, hopefully) dice, mini's etc. It's a goal of mine to build a table from (relative) scratch which has the indented game table with screen and plastic too. Thank you.
We love our gaming table. We recently added cup holders to our table.
Congrats! keep grinding!
Thanks.
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Mineral Spirits have been outlawed in California by the air quality Nazis. Home Depot sells Kleen Strip (brand) "Paint Thinner" instead. Gotta look up the MSDS on that to see what it is! They haven't found a replacement for Acetone yet, but I'm sure they're trying...
Wow. I didn’t know they banned mineral spirits.
just annoying as all hell
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lol! 😂 thank you for this most helpful video. I didn’t think anybody could bring me so much joy and excitement about nailer guns
Thank you for the kind comment.
nice work guys.
Thanks for the positive message.
Love the bookmarks! They are beautiful.
Thank you. 😊
Wow, you guys are optimistic, who reads a real book anymore? Obviously, you're making these for us grandparents.
Ha. We still read real books. 📕. Maybe we’ll have to make a kindle stand next though. Ha.
@@FridayWorkshop There you go and, hey, there are more young folks than us geezers. Merry Christmas!
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I always enjoy yall's videos
@ awesome. So glad you like our videos.
Im cheap. Holds a dewalt.
It’s no festool but it’ll do. Ha.
Great!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Haha enjoy them tacos boys 😊
Ha. Thanks.
Odorless mineral spirits is low sulfur kerosene which is low sulfur diesel which is jet fuel
Jack black?
@@RobinVRGTAG ha. We’ll take it.
Taking a break from the workshop to enjoy some Tacos!!! Happy Tuesday!!!!
I don’t know if I’ve ever played pickleball, but I’ll have to try it sometime!
You should. It’s super fun and easy.
is your last name Candy
Ha.
Nice video guys.. Glad to see you both still making awesome videos. Pickle ball is fun!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment @onestopshopreviews. We just subscribed to you. Good luck with the content.
Awesome video. I love pickleball. ❤
Pickleball is awesome 😎
Don't you need some holes drilled into the paddle so that when all the senior citizens get out there they would be aerodynamic and have greater thrust.
The ball has holes to slow it down and reduce that. No need to speed it up. The courts are actually pretty small.
@@FridayWorkshop Obviously, I don't know anything about the game. No wonder all of us geezers are playing it. Thanks for the info. Have a great weekend.
Ha. No worries. It’s actually really fun. I hope you try it out. Also thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
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@FridayWorkshop already did 😀. It's you're old pal Brad from Parents and Projects. Working on a new channel and your video popped up on my browse features 😀
Ha. Long time no see. Good luck with the new channel.
You could also mention that mineral spirits and paint thinner are the same thing.
They aren’t though. We did a video on this. Paint thinner can include mineral spirits but not all are mineral spirits based. Also the mineral spirits paint thinners are typically less refined and less pure than mineral spirits which makes them a little less expensive but also a little harsher.
😂 why do y’all keep screaming at me jus talk wtf!
Or just use a tack cloth 😮
Sadly Mineral Spirits is not what is not what it used to be. They changed the formula. Car makers used to recommend it to clean bugs and road tar off the paint. If you use it now it will take the paint right off!!
Interesting. What brands are you talking about?
@@FridayWorkshop Every brand that I've used. I 'm in California so that may have something to do with it.
@@victorseastrom3455 ah. Maybe or maybe not. Thanks for the heads up though. Much appreciated.
Mixed with denatured alcohol acetone often will act as a varnish remover. No residue problem like with paint remover.
Paint remover is definitely less pure than mineral spirits. A good reason why it’s typically much cheaper. Mixing denatured alcohol with acetone is a great idea. We’ll have to try that and see how it works.
Acetone eats plastic. Will destroy the plastic lenses and frames of eye glasses.
For sure. Thanks for the info. Yeah some plastics are more resistant than others though. Not all plastics are equal.
Your audio needs a lot of work.... guy with the hat is at 10 and the other is at 4.
Thanks for that. We actually have some new mics that once we figure out can be leveled against each other for volume balance. Hopefully this will be awesome soon. Please subscribe and watch our videos.
Acetone can absorb water also can dry so fast can cause condensation to form on certain substraits during humid conditions
Thanks for that comment. Great point.
I use paint thinner to wipe down and my automotive tools! Lacquer thinner for almost everything else!
Why paint thinner on your tools? ⚒️
Excellent shop information……..👍
Thank you for the kind comment.
In the coatings industry, solvents are key to everything. The two that you have shown here are very common, and speaking loosely from the stand point of chemistry they are kind of at each end of the spectrum from the standpoint of "speed". Meaning that acetone is the VERY fastest to evaporate (therefore most flammable) yet it is fingernail polish remover and mineral spirits is pretty slow. I worked on coatings in the food can business for more than 20 years so sliding up and down the scale of solvent speed was a daily activity, depending on the application. To a large extent, every food can on the market shelf is customized to the product. Therefore the coating characteristics vary and so does the solvent requirement. Getting to my point (actually two points), there are other solvents on the shelf that are just as useful but represent slower speeds relative to Acetone. While there are many on this scale, generally I would offer this scale. #1 - Acetone, #2 - MEK (Methyl Ethyl Ketone), #3 - MIBK (Methyl Isobutyl Ketone, #4 - Xylol, #5 - Xylene, #6 - Mineral Spirits. At the beginning of the progression, they are plane solvents and when you get to mineral spirits, you can think of part solvent and part light oil. The most important thing to remember is that these are all very flammable. Note: There is a cousin to Acetone often sold in aerosol form as carburetor cleaner - DAA (DiAcetone Alcohol). It's similar to Acetone but SLOWER, and lower on the list of flammability. Now to my second point, there is another class of solvents that are great around the house (from the point of flammability) that DO NOT BURN. While all of these solvents can be very unhealthy to be around, it is really unwise to use flammable solvents if it is not necessary. What is different about this group is that they are Chlorinated Solvents. In no particular order: Chloroethane - 1,1,1 Trichloroethane) often sold in aerosol form as some cleaner like brake cleaner. It has a very similar cousin called TriChlor - 1,1,2 TriChloroethylene. In my lab days, we got these in 55 gallon Drums for cleaning up coater machines. One more of note is Ethylene Chloride - 1,2 - DiChloroethane. Again, all of these are suitable for cleanup, but in the case of coatings and plastics, IT IS NECESSARY TO TEST FOR ATTACK, as some may dissolve. All of these are available in the box / hardware stores, ether around paints and coating or in the automotive / aerosol department. I strongly urge the use of respirators that are intended for use with organics (employ Activated Carbon) as part of the filter media. When used and fitted correctly, YOU WILL NOT SMELL THESE SOLVENTS OR COATINGS THAT THEY ARE IN! THE USE OF NITRILE GLOVES IS ALSO A GREAT IDEA, AND KEEP THEM AWAY FROM CHILDREN, CLOSE THE CONTAINERS TIGHTLY, AND STORY IN A SAFE COOL PLACE !!!!!
What an interesting post!!! Thank you so much for this. I felt I really nerded out while reading this. 🤓
I used to paint new homes 20 years ago and looking at your list I don’t see Toluene, Lacquer thinner, & paint thinner. Are these 3 already included under the solvents you named? I know Toluene was “hotter” than Xylene because I have used both for cutting fast dry oils in the winter time and xylene made me wait 60-90 minutes longer before it was dry on the door and I could rehang them. Just curious, thanks
Found this informative. The mineral spirits guy should be offered as a bobblehead in your merch...... he was non stop !
Ha. That might need to happen. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Comgrats to your sobriety. ❤ I can see your hands shaking. My brother used to shake atter he quit drinkiy
Ha. I wish it was that. It’s just a tremor.
@@FridayWorkshoplol that’s crazy dude automatically assumes you’re a recovering alcoholic.
@@Nicksta177 Ha. Yeah. It's a pretty obvious tremor that I've had since birth. It's all good. I genuinely think he meant it with a good heart and a good meaning. We've had way worse comments. Ha.
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@@FridayWorkshop I did
@Nicksta177 thanks so very much.
Acetone: used it to clean black exhaust residue off lawnmower decks, UNTIL I was getting chest pains. Acetone was absorbed through the skin as well as breathing the vapors while using it outdoors. NOW I use Acetone sparingly.
Thanks for that info. Wow that sucks.
Proper protective equipment prevents health problems!
@oneskydog6768 it mitigates the problem for sure but at the end of the day working with harmful chemicals stuff isn’t the best thing for a human body. There’s always a risk for sure.
About 60 years ago I was taking a university level organic chemistry class with lab. Acetone was the cleaning solvent that we used for our glass cleaner. Turns out that acetone is a known contact skin irritant-that wasn’t known to me at the time. I woke up one morning the day after a lab with blisters running from my finger tips to my elbows. The blisters were extremely itchy, painful and debilitating. I was unable to write and barely able to use either hand. I dropped out of class and lab(the class and lab were only offered together). I retook the class a year later. This time I put a compound called Kerodex on my hands, followed by cotton liner gloves and finally surgeons gloves. Even after 60 years I am uber paranoid around acetone.
I have to say, both products have gone so high in price now that their prices are ridiculous, with Acetone the higher priced of the two. You used to be able to buy either one within reason. Not anymore. You would think they are made from gold!
Both are about $20 a gallon now. Yeah it’s rough for sure.
Good to know! Thank you for sharing guys! I used acetone to clean something up one time but was nervous to put the rag into the trash for fear of spontaneous combustion, so I purposefully lit it on fire in my fire pit… that rag burned really bright and hot, and for much longer than I expected!
FYI: Doing hardcore Keto dieting or low-carb, otherwise a very healthy practice, can turn the body into a ketone/acetone torch. I think that explains the mystery of human spontaneous combustion. If you do hard keto, avoid open flame!
Ha. I’m not sure how accurate that one is.
Mix the two and you get a good penetrating oil for nuts and bolts and such.
Mix acetone with automatic gearbox oil? Used in the uk to free up nuts and bolts!
It’s all i ever use since discovering that machinists forum posting long ago. The ATF is what really does the work though. It’s great for keeping rust at bay as well though it does wash off eventually. I just save the old ATF when I change out the tranny juice in my car . It works as well as new ATF👍🏻
Interesting. I may have to try this.
@ you’ll never go back. It’s not really so flammable either.
While I don't recommend drinking it, Acetone is basically *NON-TOXIC.*
We don’t recommend drinking it either. 🤮
@@FridayWorkshop 😆
@@FridayWorkshop Actually, it does make a great mix, along with some ATF, for use as a penetrating oil to free up things that have rusted solid over decades. I used this formula for years! Even on the "reality" show, Guild Garage, where I was a cast member. Stay well!! Merry Christmas!
@@kbjerke Better than WD-40?
I love how you guys somehow combine being complete idiots with being super knowledgeable. Haha. 😂 We might just be related!