Weekend Handyman host Paul Ryan shares some woodworking tips:
- If you're working on a furniture-repair problem and you don't have any fluted dowels, you can make your own. Take a regular dowel and with a set of pliers, simply grab the dowel with the pliers, find a sturdy surface and hammer the pliers down the sides of the dowel (figure A). This will create the fluted sides. Repeat the process all the way around the dowel until you have an even flute.
- A safe way to store the blades to your circular saw is to take some utility tubing, cut a slit all the way around the tubing and wrap it around the blade edges (figure B).
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