Door-hanging supports
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Illustrations: Christopher Mills Tips & Tricks When hanging cabinet doors with European hinges, I first screw the cup halves to the door and then attach the mounting plates to the hinge arms. Next, I hold the door in open position against the cabinet box in order to mark the locations of the mounting plates on the cabinet side. However, it can be a little tricky to hold the door while doing this. To make the job a lot easier, I cobbled up these door supports—one for a right-hand door, and one for a leſt-hand door. To use one, clamp it to the cabinet bottom as shown, positioning the shoulder to hold the door laterally about where you want it. is allows you to easily mark the hinge plate locations. —Dan Martin, Galena, Ohio I have a small lamp with a magnetic base that I use at my drill press, bandsaw, and other metal machines. With its adjustable gooseneck, it’s a great task light for all sorts of chores. Unfortunately, I couldn’t put it to use on my wooden bench because the base isn’t heavy enough to prevent the lamp from toppling. I was getting ready to buy another work light when it occurred to me that all I needed was a portable metal base of some sort. I bought a 69-cent steel cover for an electric box, and screwed it to a scrap of plywood. Now I can use the light wherever I can clamp or hang that piece of plywood. —Ken Burton, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania Universal magnetic lamp mounting Right-hand support Lateral alignment shoulder Magnetic base Hanger hole Steel electric box cover screwed to plywood base Plywood base allows clamping lamp to benchtop. Because it’s free of chemicals, distilled water is oſten recommended for mixing dyes and for raising grain prior to one final finish-sanding before applying a water- based finish. If you own a dehumidifier, you have a free source of this water. Just note that it’s not safely drinkable. —Perry Walker, Salem, Massachusetts Free distilled water Left-hand support Door-hanging supports 16 © Copyright 2021 by Woodcraft Supply, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Illustrations: Christopher Mills
Tips & TricksTips & Tricks
When hanging cabinet doors with European hinges, I first screw the cup halves to the door and then attach the mounting plates to the hinge arms. Next, I hold the door in open position against the cabinet box in order to mark the locations of the mounting plates on the cabinet side. However, it can be a little tricky to hold the door while doing this. To make the job a lot easier, I cobbled up these door supports—one for a right-hand door, and one for a left-hand door. To use one, clamp it to the cabinet bottom as shown, positioning the shoulder to hold the door laterally about where you want it. This allows you to easily mark the hinge plate locations.—Dan Martin, Galena, Ohio
I have a small lamp with a magnetic base that I use at my drill press, bandsaw, and other metal machines. With its adjustable gooseneck, it’s a great task light for all sorts of chores. Unfortunately, I couldn’t put it to use on my wooden bench because the base isn’t heavy enough to prevent the lamp from toppling. I was getting ready to buy another work light when it occurred to me that all I needed was a portable metal base of some sort. I bought a 69-cent steel cover for an electric box, and screwed it to a scrap of plywood. Now I can use the light wherever I can clamp or hang that piece of plywood.—Ken Burton, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
Universal magnetic lamp mounting
Right-hand support
Lateral alignment shoulder
Magnetic base
Hanger hole
Steel electric box cover screwed to plywood base
Plywood base allows clamping lamp to benchtop.
Because it’s free of chemicals, distilled water is often recommended for mixing dyes and for raising grain prior to one final finish-sanding before applying a water-based finish. If you own a dehumidifier, you have a free source of this water. Just note that it’s not safely drinkable. —Perry Walker, Salem, Massachusetts
Free distilled water
Left-hand support
Door-hanging supports
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Tips & TricksTips & Tricks
As much as I love my parallel jaw clamps, I don’t have a lot of them, and often have to bring pipe clamps into play on a project as well. Pipe clamps work fine for many jobs, but their unevenly cast jaws have the unfortunate tendency to mar workpieces. I’ve found that the solution is to attach thick leather pads to the jaw faces using contact cement. In addition to preventing dents, the leather helps keep the jaws from sliding around while positioning the clamps for case glue-ups and other operations. ■ —Shelly DuBois, New Orleans, Louisiana
Leather-clad clamps
Corner clamping cauls
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Band clamp
Relief hole allows clearance for tip of joint.
Cut shallow dado in back of block to locate band clamp.
Attach thick leather pads to pipe clamp jaw faces using contact cement.
I’m an old Marine and—more often than I like—I make flag display boxes for the families of fallen comrades. The triangular boxes are finicky to clamp up, so I devised a brilliant (for me) but simple solution. Beginning with three 3" long pieces of scrap 4×4, I bandsawed a 90° notch into one and a 45° notch into each of the others. Then I drilled a small relief hole at the apex of the notches and cut a shallow dado on the back to locate a clamp strap. Voila! The cauls pull the box walls together tightly, spreading clamping pressure across the joint, which also eliminates the need for multiple band clamps.—J. M. “Mike” Jeffries, Millbrook, Alabama
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