You have really carved out a niche for yourself as the guy who finds the simplest and most efficient way to do things and then films and explains them brilliantly. Can’t wait to see your sub numbers grow dramatically as others discover you
You have NOWHERE NEAR (shouting intended!) the number of subscribers that your content deserves. Simple, clear, no BS and most importantly, really f*kn useful tips and tricks! Thanks again for yet another great video :)
That note on grain direction is a great one. Most people never cover that. Your "no measure" techniques are game changers. I mean that. Eliminating all the margins and opportunities for errors makes precise work, not just faster work.
Thank you for this info. At the risk of sounding stupid (never stopped me before), I think anyone who’s worked with a natural material knows that sometimes numbers or ruler marks can lie. It’s better to find a way to allow the material to do your calculations and that’s what you’re doing. Great job
No one will love every video, but we can always learn something if we’re open minded. I was just watching a video on riving knifes and splitters. And was immediately reminded of your video. This method would work great for making a splitter if you make your own zero clearance table saw plate or any plate. Thanks for the idea and inspiration. Truly the best part of UA-cam is learning tips from other craftsman. Thanks.
Again perfect timing👍 Making a frame for the Valentine's Day gift I got my wife. Now I know how to use the extremely red oak I have, to make a visible spline insert in the very white oak I have.
This and the last few videos are especially good. They teach not only specific techniques, but a way of thinking through the geometry of joints, and a way of achieving precision not possible with measuring and transferring measurements. Really great. Thanks.
As someone who consistently makes mistakes measuring and setting up cuts, I am so glad I've found your channel. The approach you take to thinking out the problem and finding a solution is excellent. Thank you!
This is quickly becoming my go to channel for tips on setup. Really appreciate the work you put in with simple, safe techniques that just work every single time. Thanks buddy.
Another great one. Eliminating the ruler, or as i say, not using the yard stick, is one of the best ways to cut out the middle man. Let your material dictate the dimensions. Good stuff.
An excellent example of how accuracy is increased by not measuring for tool set up, rather using the workpieces as set up gages! I've bookmarked this video for future reference. Thanks!!!
"Unbelievably CLEAR instructions" this man communicates effectively, concisely, to the point! Should be an instructor/ teacher for a living of anything, it's a gift! Understood perfectly 👏 👌 🙌 👍 THANK YOU! My favorite to go person for woodwork tutorials from now on 😊.
I just got set up to convert my daughters van into a camper. I have to make and install 2 overhead cabinets and this video was an absolute blessing. Thanks for sharing this, I love any info that helps me step up my techniques. Great video !
Your approach of always using the wood’s dimensions (instead of having to always measure), is brilliant! Significantly reduces error; thank you so much!
I love videos. The way you explain and demo your discoveries and/or simple tip sharing completely rings bells with me. Looking forward to all your future content.
This is brilliant! I have learned a lot of tricks from watching your videos, many of them showing how to get more accurate results because there’s no measuring involved. Most woodworkers know that measuring is one of the most common sources of errors. Thanks for sharing these tips and please continue to enlighten us.😊
I've been binging on your shop tips, and the way you use relative dimensions instead of traditional measuring tools is really creative and super accurate. I'm a pretty experienced wood working, but I'm learning a lot from you! Thanks!
I've watched a number of your UA-cam videos and I'm impressed by the completeness, professional presentation and consistent and scientifically based details of your designs.
Works perfectly. Among a ton of other type small boxes, I make inlayed dovetailed corner boxes. They are just edge to edge dovetails mitered. They are just like any other miter too--weak. I need to hide the spline in this case. I always struggle with the spline slot, as I don't want to hake a mistake since I spent the time to make dovetails. This method is fool-proof, and I am living proof. What you do is so simple, and so logical. Kinda embarrassing for me really... I should have thought of doing that myself.
Damn I love how to turn "hard to understand/make" stuff into easy to make and look professional. Your explanations are very straight forward and easy to understand! Keep them coming!!! Great Job!!!
This is a LOT more accurate than trying to measure to get this setups. I love the idea of not measuring but using the setup block idea. My old eyes miss don't see measurements as well as they used to. Thank you
I’m constructing a built in wardrobe in an old property - so have to build/glue in situ. Can’t use external splines as couldn’t stand it up after glueing - so this works great! Cheers
Once again, you have made the process so repeatable and easy to do. We are making small boxes and are using 45 deg miter joints on the boxes. But were having trouble getting consistence fitting spline cuts. Your video is our answer!! Thank you so much for sharing. You are wonderful.
I figured out, generally, how to modify this method for angles that are not 90 degrees. In my example, I am cutting two boards on edge at 70 degrees and combining them to create a 140 degree angle (some may call this a 40 degree). In any case, just like in the video, I cut the edge with the blade tilted down to 20 degrees from the fence. Then to make the cut for the spline, without changing the angle of the blade, I hold the board vertically with the cut angle such that when it passes the blade it will cut a slot for the spline. I clamped a piece of wood that will go against the fence to the work piece so that it slides easily. I did not work out all of the angles and depth of the spline cut, but rather used scrap and eyeballed it until I got the depth that looked about dead center perpendicular to the angle. I am sure professor Inspired could work out a way to take out the guesswork and trial and error, but the theory of a 45 degree miter was applied to a 20 degree miter.
I agree with Andrew below me here. This is a great idea Jody, just like all the other little trick video's you show on your channel here. Love watching these things. Keep em' coming buddy.
Excellent camera shots in this one. Made it easy to see exactly what you’re doing. I appreciate you making every effort to follow the #1 rule of filmmaking - show, don’t tell.
Love how your videos are super thorough without being too long or too boring. very tough to do! Pointing out things like which edge of which tooth to line up the point with is a huge help for me. definitely would have screwed that up otherwise! ... still will probably screw it up a couple times but not as badly now!
I love this whole series your doing on eliminating measuring devices and letting the lumber dictate the dimensions. I work with mostly reclaimed wood and and nothing is a uniform size. These techniques eliminate half of my struggles!! Keep it up!
I love the logic sense to woodworking your content brings! It makes intricate processes so much easier to comprehend for the non professionals...keep up the great work
I spent 3 hours in the shop working on this and could not figure it out. One issue I had is the blade drifts down a bit when I turn the saw on (Portable Dewalt). This is the best method so far I have seen and can not wait to get back in the shop and try it. Thank you so much.
The best material to use for internal splines for any type of wood is plywood. It's stronger and won't move through seasonal changes as much or at all like solid wood and you never have to worry about grain direction. You can buy 1/8" and 1/4" thick, etc in smaller sheets if you don't want or need full sheets hanging around. And all you have to do is rip to the desired width.
Oh man thanks so much for adding this. I meant to bring it up and completely forgot. Although I will add that grain direction still matters. 1/8 and 1/4 inch ply that I’ve seen still only has a one-ply core and is almost always some sort of softwood, capped in thin veneers on the outside. Not a whole lot of strength comparatively. 1/4 inch sometimes has two cores at least though. Although you couldn’t use it easily for a 1/2 inch box.
You make a great point about the inherent strength and dimensional stability of plywood. I do see one issue with ply when using his techniques for blade width splines, which seem to be the lynchpin of the whole system. Your 1/8" plywood is never blade thickness, so you have to rip for thickness AND width, or make two passes (or dado setup) with the blade to get wider width kerfs. I'm no expert on the dimensional shifts of hardwoods with moisture changes, but with a piece of walnut 1/8" thick x 1/2 " wide, how much movement are we talking about here? Maybe missing something, but it seems to me that Cherry, Walnut or Maple could work just fine here, if they are okay to build face frame cabinets. Just my $.02.
Another winner. Did you go through some apprentice program and pick these tips up. Either way you have a good way of explaining the process. I guess we are now all apprentice’s and you are the master. Thanks again for sharing your videos.
Thank you for sharing your technique I really appreciate cause I was just wondering how to strengthen the mitered corners low and and behold there was you video so thank you .
Jody, you are on a stinkin roll my friend! The last few videos you've done are some of the best woodworking content Ive seen a the 3 years i've been into the craft.
You certainly have some very well thought out, and genuinely useful, tips. This one is one is particularly useful, and I will absolutely be using it going forward. Probably today in fact. 😁 I only found this channel a few days ago, and have watched about six videos, but I think I am going to have to binge watch the entire channel content.
I watch a lot of UA-cam vids and YOU are good. Many thanks.
You have really carved out a niche for yourself as the guy who finds the simplest and most efficient way to do things and then films and explains them brilliantly. Can’t wait to see your sub numbers grow dramatically as others discover you
You have NOWHERE NEAR (shouting intended!) the number of subscribers that your content deserves. Simple, clear, no BS and most importantly, really f*kn useful tips and tricks! Thanks again for yet another great video :)
You could write a book with that much thinking into the details , awesome work , keep it up , we seriously appreciate you jodi 👍👏
His name isn't codi.
@@davemartin7167 haha , thats funny , my mistake , sorry jodi
@@davemartin7167 i’ll correct it , thanks 🙏
No worries.
That note on grain direction is a great one. Most people never cover that.
Your "no measure" techniques are game changers. I mean that. Eliminating all the margins and opportunities for errors makes precise work, not just faster work.
Thank you for this info. At the risk of sounding stupid (never stopped me before), I think anyone who’s worked with a natural material knows that sometimes numbers or ruler marks can lie. It’s better to find a way to allow the material to do your calculations and that’s what you’re doing. Great job
Absolutely agree.
I have probably watched thousands of woodworking videos over the many years, your videos and the explanation you provide is the best!
I agree fully!
Thank you very, very much for this comment.
Totally agree with your comment. Was going to write a comment but you said it all.
No one will love every video, but we can always learn something if we’re open minded. I was just watching a video on riving knifes and splitters. And was immediately reminded of your video. This method would work great for making a splitter if you make your own zero clearance table saw plate or any plate. Thanks for the idea and inspiration. Truly the best part of UA-cam is learning tips from other craftsman. Thanks.
You are my absolute favorite mentor! Very well explained and easy to understand 😊. Thank you thank you
Again perfect timing👍 Making a frame for the Valentine's Day gift I got my wife. Now I know how to use the extremely red oak I have, to make a visible spline insert in the very white oak I have.
This and the last few videos are especially good. They teach not only specific techniques, but a way of thinking through the geometry of joints, and a way of achieving precision not possible with measuring and transferring measurements. Really great. Thanks.
As someone who consistently makes mistakes measuring and setting up cuts, I am so glad I've found your channel. The approach you take to thinking out the problem and finding a solution is excellent. Thank you!
This is quickly becoming my go to channel for tips on setup. Really appreciate the work you put in with simple, safe techniques that just work every single time. Thanks buddy.
Another great one. Eliminating the ruler, or as i say, not using the yard stick, is one of the best ways to cut out the middle man. Let your material dictate the dimensions. Good stuff.
An excellent example of how accuracy is increased by not measuring for tool set up, rather using the workpieces as set up gages! I've bookmarked this video for future reference. Thanks!!!
Brilliant. One of the best woodworking channels on UA-cam
"Unbelievably CLEAR instructions" this man communicates effectively, concisely, to the point! Should be an instructor/ teacher for a living of anything, it's a gift! Understood perfectly 👏 👌 🙌 👍 THANK YOU!
My favorite to go person for woodwork tutorials from now on 😊.
I just got set up to convert my daughters van into a camper. I have to make and install 2 overhead cabinets and this video was an absolute blessing. Thanks for sharing this, I love any info that helps me step up my techniques. Great video !
one of the things I admire is that you DON'T do a lot of Uh, Um, Er fillers. YOU wrote and practiced this presentation and it SHOWS! very well done!
Your approach of always using the wood’s dimensions (instead of having to always measure), is brilliant! Significantly reduces error; thank you so much!
I love videos. The way you explain and demo your discoveries and/or simple tip sharing completely rings bells with me. Looking forward to all your future content.
This is brilliant! I have learned a lot of tricks from watching your videos, many of them showing how to get more accurate results because there’s no measuring involved. Most woodworkers know that measuring is one of the most common sources of errors. Thanks for sharing these tips and please continue to enlighten us.😊
Accurate, repeatable, practical. There is a certain economy of motion in the best work that makes the workmanship elegant. Well done, sir.
Excellent and Simple once you understand the principle. Enjoy all of your videos. Thanks.
I've been binging on your shop tips, and the way you use relative dimensions instead of traditional measuring tools is really creative and super accurate. I'm a pretty experienced wood working, but I'm learning a lot from you! Thanks!
I tried it and I was very pleased with my 1st internal spline. Thanx for your great videos. Very helpful.
I really enjoy your videos especially the ones where explain how to do things without measuring.
Great teacher! The simplicity of the word (no wood specific terminology) used is a big plus for beginners like me.
I've watched a number of your UA-cam videos and I'm impressed by the completeness, professional presentation and consistent and scientifically based details of your designs.
Works perfectly. Among a ton of other type small boxes, I make inlayed dovetailed corner boxes. They are just edge to edge dovetails mitered. They are just like any other miter too--weak. I need to hide the spline in this case. I always struggle with the spline slot, as I don't want to hake a mistake since I spent the time to make dovetails. This method is fool-proof, and I am living proof. What you do is so simple, and so logical. Kinda embarrassing for me really... I should have thought of doing that myself.
Very simple and well explained way to get the spines centered. Thanks for sharing
Been following for a while now. Just want to say I really like the content, as well as your presentation (simple and to the point).
Thank you very much for the kind comment.
Wish I had known about this several projects ago. Now I'm looking forward to trying it on future projects.
Damn I love how to turn "hard to understand/make" stuff into easy to make and look professional.
Your explanations are very straight forward and easy to understand!
Keep them coming!!!
Great Job!!!
Just stumbled across you. Awesome. You will keep me off of Netflix for a while.
This is a LOT more accurate than trying to measure to get this setups. I love the idea of not measuring but using the setup block idea. My old eyes miss don't see measurements as well as they used to.
Thank you
I’m constructing a built in wardrobe in an old property - so have to build/glue in situ. Can’t use external splines as couldn’t stand it up after glueing - so this works great! Cheers
Once again, you have made the process so repeatable and easy to do. We are making small boxes and are using 45 deg miter joints on the boxes. But were having trouble getting consistence fitting spline cuts. Your video is our answer!! Thank you so much for sharing. You are wonderful.
Neat way to find center and make a setup block.
Good video.
Barry
I figured out, generally, how to modify this method for angles that are not 90 degrees. In my example, I am cutting two boards on edge at 70 degrees and combining them to create a 140 degree angle (some may call this a 40 degree). In any case, just like in the video, I cut the edge with the blade tilted down to 20 degrees from the fence. Then to make the cut for the spline, without changing the angle of the blade, I hold the board vertically with the cut angle such that when it passes the blade it will cut a slot for the spline. I clamped a piece of wood that will go against the fence to the work piece so that it slides easily. I did not work out all of the angles and depth of the spline cut, but rather used scrap and eyeballed it until I got the depth that looked about dead center perpendicular to the angle. I am sure professor Inspired could work out a way to take out the guesswork and trial and error, but the theory of a 45 degree miter was applied to a 20 degree miter.
Very well illustrated. Anytime something is simplified as you have done here is always a plus. Thanks
I agree with Andrew below me here. This is a great idea Jody, just like all the other little trick video's you show on your channel here. Love watching these things. Keep em' coming buddy.
Excellent camera shots in this one. Made it easy to see exactly what you’re doing.
I appreciate you making every effort to follow the #1 rule of filmmaking - show, don’t tell.
I've been breaking my head on how to do a quick and simple setup for this. THANKS;
Right on you have a very intuitive and easy to incorporate for most stuff in the shop greatly appreciated
Hi I just want to say I just started using a table saw and other power tools and I learn so much from your videos. Thank you!
More great content and explained perfectly, as well. Makes me think “yeah, I can do that”.
I need these spline videos running on loop in my shop for the next few months. crazy simple and accurate.
Really nice technique and good explanation of the theory behind it.
Followed step by step to make my first "big" box (toy box for my 4 yr old daughters stuff) staggered how well it all went together, all thanks to you!
Another ‘why didn’t I think of that’ episode. Thanks for making a complex issue simple and easy. Keep up the good work.
Love how your videos are super thorough without being too long or too boring. very tough to do! Pointing out things like which edge of which tooth to line up the point with is a huge help for me. definitely would have screwed that up otherwise! ... still will probably screw it up a couple times but not as badly now!
Loving these recent videos with no measurements! Really helpful.
Great tip. A joint technique that no need dado blade and works with any measurement systems, so it's Europe friendly 😉👏👏
This was great to watch, others show you and talk through but the blade location both vertical and horizontal closed a gap in my thinking well done!
I love this whole series your doing on eliminating measuring devices and letting the lumber dictate the dimensions. I work with mostly reclaimed wood and and nothing is a uniform size. These techniques eliminate half of my struggles!! Keep it up!
Really glad I re-watched this video. Great information!
Very timely. I am about to make a box shape in some walnut I don’t want to mess up. Thanks.
Love these and how you are avoiding the need to measure. Brilliant 🤩
I feel sorry for myself!! for not knowing your channel sooner. Great tip. Thanks!!!
You have A LOT of great tricks. Thank you!
ABSOLUTELY THE PINNACLE OF MITERS JOINTS VID.
Love this series of videos about ditching the measuring ... making me rethink a few things in my own shop.
I love the logic sense to woodworking your content brings! It makes intricate processes so much easier to comprehend for the non professionals...keep up the great work
Like these videos. You always explain your process very well. Thanks for sharing.
A really excellent exposition of a tricky technique. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Very nice video. Great tips and technique. Thank you.
i absolutely love the way you kept it simple
Very instructional and precise, great job
Such a pleasure to see a well articulated, thorough explanation. Thank you for sharing.
Very clever. Good job explaining the fine details.
I recently built a box with mitered joints and external 1/4" splines. The next one will have internal 1/8" splines....thanks to you!
I spent 3 hours in the shop working on this and could not figure it out. One issue I had is the blade drifts down a bit when I turn the saw on (Portable Dewalt). This is the best method so far I have seen and can not wait to get back in the shop and try it. Thank you so much.
You are truly a master. Good creative information. Thank you
Excellent explanation! great detail shots and what a simple solution. Thanks so much for this.
I am amazed at just how good your techniques and presentation are. WTG.
The best material to use for internal splines for any type of wood is plywood. It's stronger and won't move through seasonal changes as much or at all like solid wood and you never have to worry about grain direction. You can buy 1/8" and 1/4" thick, etc in smaller sheets if you don't want or need full sheets hanging around. And all you have to do is rip to the desired width.
Oh man thanks so much for adding this. I meant to bring it up and completely forgot. Although I will add that grain direction still matters. 1/8 and 1/4 inch ply that I’ve seen still only has a one-ply core and is almost always some sort of softwood, capped in thin veneers on the outside. Not a whole lot of strength comparatively. 1/4 inch sometimes has two cores at least though. Although you couldn’t use it easily for a 1/2 inch box.
You make a great point about the inherent strength and dimensional stability of plywood. I do see one issue with ply when using his techniques for blade width splines, which seem to be the lynchpin of the whole system. Your 1/8" plywood is never blade thickness, so you have to rip for thickness AND width, or make two passes (or dado setup) with the blade to get wider width kerfs.
I'm no expert on the dimensional shifts of hardwoods with moisture changes, but with a piece of walnut 1/8" thick x 1/2 " wide, how much movement are we talking about here? Maybe missing something, but it seems to me that Cherry, Walnut or Maple could work just fine here, if they are okay to build face frame cabinets. Just my $.02.
@@InspireWoodcraft Cody, maybe you could do a vid on making cross-grain splines.
I greatly appreciate these videos. So much knowledge and easy. You Rock 👊🏼
Jodie and family have a Great Christmas, and thanks for sharing your knowledge keep up the great work. ✌🎄🕛
Videos like this are why I subscribe. Great job and explanation. Thanks!
Freaking badass man! It's my first time doing a project like this and you explained it perfectly.
Excellent use of geometry! Great tips!
You are so awesome in how you explain things!
Great explanations of splined joints. Will try sometime.
Another winner. Did you go through some apprentice program and pick these tips up. Either way you have a good way of explaining the process. I guess we are now all apprentice’s and you are the master. Thanks again for sharing your videos.
I just have a knack for figuring things out, is all. And I like sharing my findings with others! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your technique I really appreciate cause I was just wondering how to strengthen the mitered corners low and and behold there was you video so thank you .
This is a very good video, well done on the photography and demo, great explanation, 👍
Thank you man a 1000 times... you make my job easier every time I watch one of your new videos I’m so grateful 🥇🏅
Your setup block technique looks easy and precise.
I'll give it a try next time.
Thanks for sharing!
Easy to understand instructions on this nice looking tip. I've often wondered how to strengthen mitred joints, tvm.
You made my day trying to figure out how to do this easily, thank you!
Jody, you are on a stinkin roll my friend! The last few videos you've done are some of the best woodworking content Ive seen a the 3 years i've been into the craft.
Thank you.
Perception is essential and it's nice to have the benefit of yours. Plus your camera and sound work are first rate.
For me this was the top tip in 2020! Thank you.
Thank you very much for the lesson. Very detailed and informative ,this really helps a noob like me
Great explanation, very concise and practical.
Thoroughly enjoyed the class. Thank you.
Another awesome suggestion. It is a pleasure to watch you work and I look forward to trying it out.
You certainly have some very well thought out, and genuinely useful, tips. This one is one is particularly useful, and I will absolutely be using it going forward. Probably today in fact. 😁 I only found this channel a few days ago, and have watched about six videos, but I think I am going to have to binge watch the entire channel content.
Excellent, a huge help for my own work, thank you.