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   Sillmon | May 28, 2016 02:09pm | #1

   To clean saw blades, I use "Purple Power" cleaner/de-greaser (you can get it at Advance Auto stores). I use a 50:50 solution in warm water in a 16" flower pot tray. The ridge in the tray holds the blade up a little. I let it soak 10-15 min., then a quick soft brush over the teeth, rinse in water, dry. The blade is completely clean. The cleaner is bio-degradable and no fumes.

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   fiftyohm | May 28, 2016 07:11pm | #2

   Hey Mike - Instead of buying that right-handed tool bomb for the sole purpose of drilling a few pilot holes, why didn't you consider getting one of those cheapo throwdown right-handed drill adapters? They cost less than ten bucks! Heck - they're cheap enough to use once and toss them.

   Best,

   David Tigwell

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   fiftyohm | May 28, 2016 07:13pm | #3

   Autocorrect strikes again! I meant to say "right-angle"!

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   Onewhistlinfool | May 29, 2016 12:27am | #4

   I've found my mini router useful for a number of things from hinge recesses to repairing marquetry. And you can always grind a spare chisel down to any size you need. Well... as long as that size is smaller than the chisel being ground.

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   WoodyHg | May 31, 2016 11:14am | #5

   I love how Matt's jokes just kill the flow of the podcast every time.

   Speaking of the router plane, what are your opinions on repurposing a chisel into a shop made router? For those of us who are economically challenged to buy a router plane but have a few spare (but sharp) chisels laying around. Paul Sellers has a simple block of wood with a chisel inserted into it, but I could imagine the chisel being pushed out during use.

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   BenStrano | May 31, 2016 12:39pm | #6

   WoodyHG, Sometimes the silence after Matt's jokes is just everyone catching up.

   I've done the chisel in a block of wood trick in a bind. It worked well enough, but it made me look for and find a used router plane for $50 shortly after. Keep in mind the tasks you're doing with a router plane aren't heavy operations. Most of the time finessing. I wouldn't worry about pushing the chisel out. But then again, what have you got to lose?

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   MKenney | May 31, 2016 02:13pm | #7

   I thought that it was always a case of letting you guys catch up.

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   Tumblewoodworks | Jun 03, 2016 02:13pm | #8

   I clean my blades almost identically to Sillmon's procedure, except I use Simple Green. I'm on a septic system, therefore I avoid chemicals as much as possible. I would even on a city system.

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   Bustersci | Jun 03, 2016 09:11pm | #9

   Did I just get a lecture on using "spelch" by a woodworking podcast that regularly uses the word "precious" like a hipster? That was...precious.

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    myersbr2 | Jun 16, 2016 10:55am | #10

    As always, thanks for a great show. A couple of thoughts on this episode's topics:
    1) Most of us have acetone already in our shops and it works great to get rid of most pitch and other junk that collects on saw blades. I take mine outside and use a shop rag. Within a couple of minutes I'm back to my project with a clean blade.
    2) I have come to love super glue with accelerator for all my trim parts. Just about anytime I do a miter, I'll use wood glue + super glue on those joints so they hold tight over time. I also recently was in a time crunch so I built a pretty large picture frame using thick CA glue and accelerator to assemble the corners ("look ma, no clamps!"). Within 20 minutes after cutting my miters, I was gluing in miter splines (wood glue only) on the corners for reinforcement. It basically saved me a day of waiting for glue to dry and skipped the frustration of getting miters to align just perfectly in clamps.