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Building a wooden enclosure for a simple micro controller project. The project just changes the color of the built in light as a subtle reminder of time for counseling sessions for my brother in law. This is inspired by https://timeqube.com (no affiliation). My other YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_AWXcf2K3l9ILVuQe-XwQ

More testing on Marius's edge clamps vs. the expensive Bessey edge clamps. Testing force applied with a jig and a load cell, friction limits of the cams, and practicality of edge clamps for some applications.

Marius's live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_mj94wz2F8

I bought one of those expensive Bessey edge clamps. A very solidly built clamp, but just as awkward to use as my f-clamp and wedge type hack. But in a pull off test in my strength testing machine, it held on impressively well.

Investigating how separately motorized standing desk legs stay in sync even with very uneven loads, then dissecting a 3-segment standing desk leg to figure out how it actually works. E7Pro standing desk: https://woodgears.ca/dr/E7Pro More economic standing desks (desks or frame only) for smaller desks: https://woodgears.ca/dr/FlexiSpot Or buy on Amazon. (E7Pro is not currently on Amazon) USA: https://amzn.to/3zfBHoR Canada: https://amzn.to/3lNGvyL

Joining pieces of wood that aren't quite straight, using bamboo skewers to reinforce and force alignment. This to build the top for a standing desk frame. Ordering the frame without the top is usually about $70 USD less. Standing desk frame (affiliate link USA only) https://bit.ly/3zv7ceQ Same frame, with desk top https://amzn.to/3MeADJG More standing desks from Flexispot: USA: https://amzn.to/3zfBHoR Canada: https://amzn.to/3lNGvyL You can also go to flexispot.com if the affiliate links show out of stock.

Fixing broken legs on a pedestal table. This style of table is kind of a faulty design and often breaks, where the legs meet the column, and the curved legs themselves often split apart along the wood grain

I bought an inexpensive motorized standing desk frame and built a standing desk from it.

Making some drawers for a small desk. I figured having keyboard in one of the drawers would be very useful, but I wanted the drawer to also be usable as a drawer, so its a drawer with a keyboard in it.

A contraption Mac Sheldon asked me to come up with to help assemble dust collector hoses for pahtorouters. With thousands of hoses to do, simplifying one step is worth the trouble. This is for the metal pantorouters that Mac Sheldon sells at: https://pantorouter.com

Using some terrible old desk drawers and recycled material to make a rough cabinet for storing miscellaneous junk

Building a contraption to blow air into mittens so they dry faster without having to turn them inside out. The kids get a lot of mittens wet!

Talking about woodworking videos and screwing up. Yes, I screw up more than I used to. But more than that, I show more screw-ups than I used to because I think they make the videos more entertaining. Going over the dresser I built and showing stuff I screwed up. This relating to the dresser I finished recently: https://youtu.be/OE4JhvynKzw

Building a dresser for the 5 drawers that I built in a previous video. Previous dresser build from 2014: http://woodgears.ca/dresser/7-drawer.html

Building a contraption to hook onto the end of a regular F-style bar clamp to give it more reach.

making the drawers for a dresser. I often like to build the drawers first, I find it easier to size the cabinet to the drawers than the drawers to the cabinet.

Building a small desk for our 7-year old, and a worktable for me for electronics, both nearly the same design. But lots of little screw-ups during the build. and a cameo appearance by a real camera man from CBC!

A really quick table build on a Saturday, for my brother in law. I didn't even take the time to set up a camera, so I just used images from timelapses I captured with my imgcomp program. This worked surprisingly well. https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/imgcomp

A simple jig that's easy to make so it lines up miter joints properly with dowels. Another picture frame build: http://woodgears.ca/frame/picture_frame.html More about doweling: http://woodgears.ca/frame/dowel.html

Video sponsored by PCBWay.com. $5 off your 1st order with this link: https://www.pcbway.com/setinvite.aspx?inviteid=599997 PCBWay.com does 3d printing, CNC machining and PCBs and PCB assemblies. Iterating through a design for a segmented Knapp-joint template for the pantorouter. This is work I was doing for Mac Sheldon (pantorouter.com). He plans on offering knapp joint templates for sale in a few months time. Getting production tooling made for injection molding these takes time. Previous knapp joint template work: https://woodgears.ca/box/knapp.html

Testing some samples of plywood, Baltic birch (Russian birch), MDF, particle board and OSB. Also testing these against pine and birch. More about my wood strength testing machine at: http://woodgears.ca/wood_strength/

A tray with a flip up handle that has a wooden latch to keep it up. http://woodgears.ca/kitchen/ramekin_tray.html I built this in 2014, uploaded the video, but realized too late it was a low res test render, and re-uploading right away jinxes the algorithm. Re-uploaded a full res version in 2016, but some time in late 2021, YoTube managed to screw up the audio sync on it. So this was an opportunity to re-edit it, 8 minutes down to 5, and publish it again.

Looking into using 5 mm thick bamboo shish kabob skewers as dowels, testing strength and how well they hold glued into a hole. These don't cost very much so are a good alternative to using dowels. More about using dowels at: http://woodgears.ca/dowel

Adapting a loft bed to go over another bed at a right angle. This way the lower bed still has room to sit up even if the upper bed is not that high.

Fixing the floor and railing of a kid's wagon. I also made a "trailer hitch" for it so another wagon can be hooked to the back of it to make a train. Previous repair of such a wagon: http://woodgears.ca/toys/wagon.html