Contemporary stool with a woven Danish cord seat From joinery to parts shaping, soap finish to seat weaving, David Johnson builds a Danish-inspired stool from start to finish in a five-part series.

Question 1: 

From Brad:
I have come to the realization I may have a wood scrap hoarding problem. I have several boxes where I have separated out general construction lumber, cherry, and walnut scraps. I’ll keep some scraps with the rationalization that I can turn it into something on the lathe, so it seems that no scrap is too small. Granted, I have found myself on occasion digging through a box looking for something in particular but it’s not a great storage situation. What is your keep/trash threshold? Any good storage ideas?

A Smart Cart for Scraps JUNE 22, 2012 Cutoff container helps organize an important shop resource

Question 2:

From Rob:
I’m a huge fan of your podcast — it converted me into a FWW subscriber. 

I’m new to woodworking and I’m trying to build up my essential tools. I know a #5 bench plane is on most people’s list of the three essential hand planes. However, I see a lot of people praising low-angle, bevel-up jack planes as versatile, good for shooting and easy to use on gnarly wood. Should a new woodworker start with a low-angle plane or a #5? Am I missing some major difference in their capabilities? Is a #5 easier to tune up and maintain?

Mike mentioned Bill Ritner’s replacement knobs and totes for old Stanley planes. 

	Tool Test: The Jack of All Planes From flattening to smoothing, the No. 5 can do it all
	Ep 5.2 – The Jack Plane The last to fill out Mike’s essential plane kit is the jack plane. With its longer sole, it’s perfect for flattening stock quickly. You’ll find yourself reaching for it often.
	Bevel-Up Low Angle Jack Plane is a Workshop Workhorse Furniture-maker Garrett Hack demonstrates a variety of uses for a bevel-up jack plane

Segment: Potpourri!

Barry – Tailing the wrong end of his timber-frame style workbench stretcher.

Build a Hybrid Roubo Workbench Woodworker John Tetreault shows you how to build a Roubo workbench with a timber-frame soul, step-by-step, in this Video Workshop series.

Ben –

Tool – Stew Mac Tape Deck

Technique – Stealing Mike Korsak’s method for making flawless routing templates

Create Perfect Double Tenons with a Router Simple template offers accuracy and repeatability

Mike – His A/C in his shop, and a 3/16-in. spacer block for double tenons

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Question 3:

From Matt:
I have a large cross cut sled with a slot built into the fence which allows me to have an adjustable stop block.  But with long boards I often use the fence as a stop to get consistent lengths.  On a scale from 1 – begging for a trip to the ER, where does this land?  I have a 5-hp table saw and little woodworking experience.  My fence is as close to perfectly parallel to the blade as I can measure.   I try to ensure my board does not rock from the fence so as to not pinch the blade and cause kickback.  I have used this method about 75 times but I would love your input.

	So you just bought a tablesaw A collection of articles and videos that will teach you the important things to know before operating a tablesaw.
	Bob Van Dyke’s Essential Stop Blocks Stop blocks help you cut parts more accurately and more consistently. Bob shows you why you need to use stop blocks more often in your shop.

Question 4:  

From Stephen:
I need a sure fire approach to widening a long dado in sheet goods.  I’m in the process of making a small bookshelf from shop-sawn walnut veneer on Baltic birch.  I’m using dadoes to fit shelves.  In cutting the dadoes on the table saw, at some point the fence must have moved (idk, really, just I messed up) but some dadoes in the case sides are a fat 32nd of an inch too narrow to fit the BB 1/2 shelves.  Case is 14” deep.  What is the best way to widen these dadoes? 

I have some hand tools, but nothing obvious came to mind to leave a nice straight line where the shoulder of the dado meets the shelf. Afraid getting the table saw dialed in to remove the little material may lead me down a worse path. Thanks everyone for any help

Listener Comments:

From Aled Pough on IG:

I’ve just listened to the latest episode of STL around the European dado blade question. It’s getting a bit geeky, but technically dado blades are legal, but there are two bits of legislation that make it difficult. 

One regulation stipulates that a saw blade must stop within 10 seconds of being stopped. This is difficult for most (of our) saws to achieve with a loaded dado stack. Most saws come with a short arbour to prevent stacks being added. 

The other regulation is that the blade must be guarded at all times and in the uk blade guards are almost universally attached to the riving knife and so you would need a floating guard to replace it.

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