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13) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to treat Rulers.

Treat rulers and other measuring and marking tools with respect or they will lose their accuracy. Never cut against a wooden or plastic ruler, rather use a metal ruler.
A steel ruler is primarily a metalworkers tool but you should have at least one for making very precise measurments.
It is also useful as a short straightedge

14) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to better use a marking Knife.

Use a pencil for the preliminary marking of joints, and a marking knife to cut the wood fibres to ensure a clean edge when you saw to the line.
Cut on the waste side of the line and the cut will be neat and clean.

15) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to check that a square is square.

To check that a square is accurate, first use it to draw a line at right angles to a surface. Turn the square over and align it with the marked line. The edge of the square and the line should match exactly.
A square with a plastic or cast iron stock will remain accurate because the materials are inert.
A wooden stock can react to humidity and the rivits holding the blade can work loose if the tool is dropped.

16) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to use a chalk line.

It is sometimes not possible to mark a straight line on a board that is warped or twisted.
You can however use a length of string.
The string in a purpose-made tool is wound into a case containing coloured chalk.
The string is coated each time it is withdrawn.
Stretch the string taught along the intended cut line, then pluck the string like a bow against the wood to deposit a chalked impression on the board’s surface.

17) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to look after chisels.

Its not good practise to store chisels loosely in your toolbox.Keep them wrapped in a canvas roll with individual pockets for each chisel or store them in a tool rack behind your bench.

There are magnetic tool racks for sale or with a bit of imagination you can make your own.
Another handy tool rack is one made with two strips of wood or plywood seperated by short spacer blocks.
Skrew the finished chisel rack to the wall and drop the chisels into the slots formed between the two strips of wood.

18) Easy Woodworking and craft tips and Ideas.

How to remove a damaged skrew.

Try tapping the end of the skrewdriver with a mallet.
This sometimes helps to budge a stubborn skrew. Another way is to heat the skrew head with a soldering iron.
Heat expands the metal and when it has cooled down again you may well find that the skrew has loosened.If all else fails use progressively larger drills to bore out the skrew.

A skrewdriver with a worn tip is useless and does more harm than good.
Either sharpen it with a file and oilstone or grind the tip on a bench grinder.

It is virtually impossible to regrind a phillips or cross-headed skrewdriver rather just replace an old one.

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