Comments on: 21- Pare Essentials

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:49:38 +0000

“Just a quick video”. 22 minutes later. . .

By: Glenn Miller

Glenn Miller — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:09 +0000

Marc.

I just discovered your site. It is very enjoyable.You’re a darn good teacher!
Thanks

By: Shannon in Maryland

Shannon in Maryland — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:35:11 +0000

Marc,
Great podcast! Since you are so busy, how do you continue to work when you have a finishing drying. Your shop is bigger than mine, but still how do you contain the dust from other projects so as not to ruin the drying finish? If you are waiting 12-16 hours I can’t imagine with your schedule that you just shut off the lights and come back later.

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:40:18 +0000

Hey John. To tell you the truth, Im not a big fan of wax. It doesn’t offer much in the way of protection and it signs you up for a lifetime of maintenance and wax buildup. In my opinion, the varnish is durable and beautiful enough on its own. I just cant find any good reason to use wax. Again, this is just my opinion and I know many folks who love using wax. To each his own I suppose. :)

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:07:34 +0000

Would you wax the Seal-a-cell finish? I routinely put a final top coat of wax on the wipe on poly finishes that I use.

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:58:42 +0000

Hey Marc,

Thanks for another awesome video. Looking forward to trying this finishing technique on my next project.

Do you wash and reuse the t-shirt after a project, or is this a “use one and dispose properly” kinda thing? If you wash, how do you do it? And if you dispose, is there anything special or does it just go in the trash?

-John

By: Byron

Byron — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:20 +0000

If you drive a few roofing nails through your little wood strips (pointy side up) you would minimize damage to the finish on the underside of the peice you are finishing..just something I do when Im in a hurry wich I always am afterall time is money….

By: Mike in St. Paul

Mike in St. Paul — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:20:28 +0000

PLEASE keep the bloopers coming… I don’t want you to mess up (much), but man, those get me rolling. Love it!

By: Northern Wood

Northern Wood — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:52:04 +0000

Great episode, Marc… You are definitely a pro’s pro, but it is still nice for us novices to hear you say “so you don’t screw it up, like I just did…” I laughed out loud at that!

And thanks for showing us some cool hand tool techniques. Nice to see that mixed it with the power stuff from time to time.

The podcasts ROCK — please keep ‘em coming!

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:34:06 +0000

Well Mr. Bob. When you glue that trim piece at a 65 degree angle, it causes the front of the step to have a ridge. This ridge prevents the piece from sitting nice and flat since it props the front up when its upside down. And when you flip it over, the ridge would cause a problem for the Festool MFT guide. The guide needs to sit on a flat workpiece in order to work properly and safely. Now of course that bevel cut could be made on either the tablesaw, or the miter saw, but my mission was to make this project completely with Festool tools. And if I couldn’t do it with Festool stuff, then I needed to find another option. So thats what you saw in the video. I am sure if I had the luxury of time to ponder the situation, I could have come up with a “Festool” solution, but I had to get er done. So with the oversized trim glued on, I figured I would take a few minutes to pare it down. And in addition, I saw it as a great opportunity to display a hand tool technique (something I rarely have the opportunity to do).