Workshop practice
Ten shop tips
for smarter
building.
The accumulated small stuff. None of it is complicated, and every one of them saves time, money or a ruined piece of wood.
Watch on YouTube·Subscribe to the channel
Chapter markers coming — paste the timestamps from the video description into the chapters field in videos.py and they become clickable here.
What this covers
Ten workshop habits and shortcuts, each small enough to adopt immediately.
The theme running through them
Most shop tips are really about removing chances to make a mistake — a jig instead of a steady hand, a reference surface instead of a measurement, a check that catches an error while it is still cheap to fix. Individually minor, collectively the difference between building slowly and building well.
Written companion in progress.
Watch the builds on YouTube
Full build videos, start to finish, including the parts that went wrong.
Build series · New video most months