Upper Cut Woodworks

About this original series

Matt Gradwohl of Upper of Cut Woodworks presents a new video series designed to help woodworkers of all levels develop the skills necessary to design, build and finish furniture using power and hand tools. More information including pictures, links to other woodworking resources, furniture plans, tool lists, is available on The Upper Cut Woodworks Blog at uppercutwoodworks.com. And it's all free! ©2011 Upper Cut Woodworks, LLC

  • Category

    How To
  • # Episodes

    10 episodes
  • Rating

    TV-G

Episodes of Upper Cut Woodworks

    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 10: Get Woodworking ...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a video building a Bug Barn from a red-toolbox.com kit from Woodcraft Seattle. The kit is built with his almost five-year old daughter. This project build is part of Get Woodworking Week from tomsworkbench.com. The kit is easy to build, and perfect for kids!

      • Release date
        Feb 6, 2012
      • Runtime
        17:28
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 9: Weekend Treeworking

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a short video of a tree he uprighted after a storm.

      • Release date
        Jan 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:18
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 8: My Shop Buddies

      Matt Gradwohl from Upper Cut Woodworks introduces you to his shop buddies. Both Hayden Ruth and Nina (aka Mr. Bananas) make a visit, proving that Upper Cut Woodworks also has a Shop Monkey.

      • Release date
        Feb 26, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:40
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 7: Woodworker's $140...

      Upper Cut Woodworks shows the final results of the Woodworker's Portable Spray Booth build. First a model is shown, then the final booth is highlighted including the large turntable, fan, and storage.

      • Release date
        Feb 24, 2011
      • Runtime
        09:45
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 6: USFA Trophy Bases...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks demonstrates clean, tight grain-wrapped miter joints on eight walnut boxes designed as trophy bases for the United States Fencing Association.

      • Release date
        Dec 30, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:59
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 5: Squaring Your Tab...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks uses a Magswitch featherboard to square a table saw miter gauge to the blade for perfect crosscuts.

      • Release date
        Dec 28, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:26
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 4: Repairing Voids i...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks repairs a split at the end of a walnut board with tinted epoxy. Thanks to Marc Spagnuolo of woodwhisperer.com for this technique.

      • Release date
        Dec 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:48
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 3: Short Jointer Tour

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a high tolerance tune-up of a new jointer. If flattening handplanes to high tolerances is important to you and giving you great results, why not tune your power tools to high tolerances as well? Here's a short tour of my new jointer, tuned to within one thousandth of an inch.

      • Release date
        Dec 1, 2010
      • Runtime
        00:41
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 1: Frank Klausz on D...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents Frank Klausz on Dovetail Design at Woodworking in America 2010. Frank discusses the history and design of dovetails, including their unique mechanical strength.

      • Release date
        Nov 28, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:14
    • Upper Cut Woodworks Episode 2: Fixing a Zero Cle...

      Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks shows you why you shouldn't throw away old table saw zero clearance inserts. Fix them and reuse them. The inserts you used for your blade long ago can now be used for dadoes.

      • Release date
        Nov 28, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:00
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