Comments on: Frequent Woodworking Mistakes

By: Marjan Milankovski

Marjan Milankovski — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:44:12 +0000

When you burn yourself on the milk you end up blowing on the yogurt from then on.

My biggest vice is not using a marking scribe and rely on my pencil for marking.
Works awesome for the first few dozen lines and then instead of resharpening I go “she’ll be right” and carry on. So the line gets bigger and bigger as the project progresses.

More than once I had my tight tolerance cuts and fits be off by a pencil width.

By: Ed DeLauter

Ed DeLauter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:37:29 +0000

Making a cut on the wrong side of the line!

i now make little arrow marks on the side of the line to reference the cut from.

By: Eric Sweeney

Eric Sweeney — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:53 +0000

Changing a measurement on something for some reason midproject and then not completely accounting for that change in all of the other pieces. I need to get better at making plans that account for everything so that I don’t have to make a change halfway through and then stick with that plan.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:41:53 +0000

Browsing woodworking catalogs and buying stuff instead of getting into the workshop and USING the tools I already have to build something.

By: Mike T

Mike T — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:06:17 +0000

The one mistake I seem to make, is when I need help I ask the wrong person. Instead of help I get a lecture or they just feel the need to give their insight. When will I learn.

By: David Cecil

David Cecil — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:39:49 +0000

Letting someone talk me out of doing something that I know I really can do. The number of people who come out of the woodwork to say that something isn’t possible is truly amazing. Anything is possible if you’re determined.

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:02:01 +0000

Yeah and for the record, I also LOVE my Leigh Dovetail Jig. Pretty much any dovetail jig is confusing at first….. But that’s why I read the instruction manual EVERY time I use it, lol.

By: rgdaniel

rgdaniel — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:23:19 +0000

Great list… except for that last one… that guy sucks… hey, wait just a minute…

And actually, unlike KN_SSA-r I LOVE my Leigh dovetail jig… and the exact opposite of Matt Rakowski, I am more likely to build a jig to cut something on the table saw when just reaching for the hand saw would take 2 minutes. And probably work out better… B-)

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:30:19 +0000

I have to second this one. Especially on the router table.

By: Ed Liptrap

Ed Liptrap — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:36:55 +0000

Getting a little over confident and thinking I can get away with not using a test piece to check my setup because I’m dialed in today!!! lol