10 Fantastic Shop Tips for Woodworkers (and Others)
Izzy Swam has a great round-up of some really useful shop tips. While they are directed at woodworkers, most of the apply to anyone doing gluing, clamping, or sanding.
Tips include several for adding rubber bands to pliers to turn them into clamps and bands to clamps to make them act like bendy clamps.
Izzy also shows how to create a simple tool for sanding in curved/round spaces, how to create your own sanding sticks from paint stirring sticks, and how to make glue spreaders using Bondo scrappers and pinking shears.
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