Hard days at work and sweaty commutes home ruining your white shirts? Well don't let it, as there is one thing you can try, just grab that aspirin and we'll show you how.
Is your toilet full of lime scale and other nasty stains that you just can't get rid of with conventional methods? Don't worry just reach for the fridge, and grab yourself a cola!
Watch this video to learn a few of the many ways you can cover the exposed edges of plywood. The Wood Whisperer demonstrates how to iron on veneer, thin solid wood, and thick solid wood.
Learn about different finishes. In this video, the Wood Whisperer puts the finish on a pencil holder. It's not just any finish. Since we are working with a beautiful curly maple, the finish deserves a little extra special attention. Learn how to pop the grain.
The Serissa (Serissa foetida syn. Serissa japonica), is a great little plant for Bonsai. It flowers for most of the year with tiny white and sometimes pink flowers. It is extremely easy to propagate through cuttings. Just take a cleanly cut branch and stick it in sphagnum moss and it should grow easily. It takes very well to pruning and can fill out quite nicely when pruned frequently. This particular specimen had a wild and unkempt look to it. Making, raising, and caring for bonsai is easy if...
This video covers the construction and assembly of a decorative pencil holder. These make great gifts and are excellent for utilizing scrap. This video is for the more experienced woodworker, knowledge of tools is required. To apply a beautiful finish on the pencil holder, see the Wood Whisperer's finishing video on popping the grain.
How do you spend your time between projects? It can be a great time to tune up equipment, wax the cast iron tables, touch up the chisels, and do some general cleanup. Learn the best methods to clean and maintain all your tools and machinery. Nothing is more inspiring than a nice clean workshop!
Make your own butcher block end-grain cutting board with this two part video series. Enjoy the "back to basics" simplicity of this useful project. A custom cutting board makes a great gift and many woodworkers make them in batches every holiday season. And if you are relatively new to woodworking, this is a great project to hone your milling, glue-up and tablesaw skills.
This video explains one of the most critical and fundamental aspects of woodworking: milling lumber. The Wood Whisperer reviews his 4-step milling process, which requires some big tools. Since many folks don't have a fully outfitted shop, he also presents numerous alternative methods for jointing edges and flattening faces. The jointer's jumpin'!!!
Learn some terminology and topics that will help you be better prepared for your next trip to the lumber yard. Just a few of the topics covered include identifying different types of cuts, estimating board feet, and finding a good hardwood supplier.
Useful methods of getting out grass stains from clothing using all household products and no fancy cleaners. Before you run off to the expensive cleaners, try these tricks.
Perfect for long vegetable patches, a bamboo ridge support structure will help your runner bean crops to grow healthy and strong. Tom Cole shows us how to construct a sturdy A-Frame based structure.
To get the best out of your vegetable harvest, you must pick them at the right time and in the right way for a flavorsome and bountiful crop. Tom Cole shows us how to harvest spinach.
Master craftsman George Berry, "The Woodguy" shows how to quickly and easily make a chess board. This video will provide you with the expertise to build a chess board, so all you have to worry about it playing!!
Dave talks with Tom Frost about what you need to do to get your man-made pond ready for spring: changing the water, hosing down the sides of the pond, and installing a pump and filtration media.
Dave and Lee Thomas talk about three houseplants that do well indoors in the cooler weather: christmas cactus, amaryllis, and cyclamen, and how to care for them.
Make the magic remover cloth shown in this how-to video which will remove all the scratches on your favorite CDs, your LCD display or just remove some scratches on plastic. You'll need egg whites of and a microfiber cloth. Don't throw away anymore CDs, DVDs, or lose important files. The trick in this video tutorial will rescue scratched CDs so you can still keep using them.
Propagation is a great way to get the most out of your house plants, by providing new plants for future use. Here we demonstrate leaf petiole cutting, for use on the likes of Pepperomia and African Violets.
An associated content producer Shawn Grover teaches you how to fold a t-shirt quick and easy. With practice, this method can save minutes off folding time, while still giving a neat result. Learn how to quickly fold a t-shirt by watching this video tutorial.
A rock garden, or rockery, complimented by a area of scree is a great feature for any garden. It allows you to recreate the world in miniature, enabling the use of interesting plants that form their own exciting mountainous landscape.
If you love vegetables, but don't think you have the right soil to grow them in, Dave has some great advice for you on how to grow root vegetables in containers.
Follow these simple steps and learn how you can save yourself some money, yard work and the environment. An educational video that explains how to prepare used cooking oil for biodiesel.
Learn how to seal a basin or bathtub using silicon or caulk. This process of silicon sealing stops water penetration into joints around wash basins, bathtubs or shower trays.