Great tip, only a true craftsman can appreciate the value of using accurate self made shims. To everyone else this is boring, but to a tradesman it's brings a smile every time you use them.

That's the same saw I used for most of my career in the remodel business. I used it up. The plastic base gave up due to too much tossing into the truck. I like your jig. Thanks for the tip.

Great video, Herrick, and the demonstration! I'm so glad that you and others, in these trying times, are showing us how to do things!

Excellent. This is what You Tube should be about. Passing down the skills

Nice jig. I just made one and now have the shims I needed in a few minutes. Thanks!

Id give anything to see some snow right now haha 9 am in south alabama and its already 90

As a carpenter with over 40 years in the trade it brought back memories of that Makita saw. I had 2 of them now long gone but still have the Makita router that mounts to the bottom of the table to make a router table I thought this was handy feature to have at the jobsite

I've saved a lot of money making my own shims and yes they are much better than store bought with that paper thin end. I make mine 12 inches with a 1/4" thick end.

Great use of scrap wood!

In 1990 I had about 2 years of experience in. By 2009 I was on unemployment due to the collapse of the housing market. My tools are vintage too!

As a person who wood shingled many squares of roof I always had an endless supply of shingles too narrow for roofing. To me 1 1/2 wide shims are too narrow especially for doors so I never bought any bundles of shims. Excellent simple jig variations of which can also make thin strips and also wedge strips.

I have the same Makita table saw. Not a bad little saw I bought in new from HD around 1984ish. I am not a carpenter, so it doesn't get used that much so it's still in decent shape.

Good Job. Thanks for sharing. 👍

You should have specifically said that the 2x4 has to be turned over after each cut even though we could see it on the video, and it makes sense when you think about the cuts. A quick calculation shows you should get 11 shims from each piece of 2x4.

I don't have a table saw, but do have a mitre saw. I can now see how i can modify that method to make shims with my mitre saw. Just in time, as my big box store cant seem to put the shims in the same place, or else they've been out of them the last three times i was there.

Seems like we never had enough shims. I like this. My method was dangerous to digits.

I have a stack about a foot or so tall of that magazine. Starting with the first one. Not sure how many are there. They were in an auction lot. They are here somewhere.

What a clever idea! I loved watching you cut them. The saw handle was a nice touch, wasn’t it?

It looks like you have 2 different sizes of romex on that switch behind you. I assume it is on one circuit (?). Hmmmm.

Best way imo

Is Fine Homebuilding less today then it once was or is carpentry just different today then it once was? The magazine probably remains true to its tradition in the sense that it reflects the interests, rituals and practices of the subscribers. I question if the bulk of the subscribers are still carpenters and builders? I love your KZfaq channel and can still remember reading the story of the paratrooper jumping off the roof in Fine Homebuilding. It remains a great story. I am glad that KZfaq finally linked the face of the storyteller with his written words. Making wedges is cool (I do it myself) but I do wonder if the practical force that a wedge, lever, or screw can bring to bear is still appreciated by the bulk of our population.

Thanks very much.

That would also be a much safer way to cut thin strips of wood for bee hive frames if you didn't put the taper in there

Safety Police Checking in.. Ha..Ha.. Same as you.. Give me old school.. I can't stand the riving knife.. Just one more thing that messes up a lot of things I like to do without one. I never wear safety glasses and I'll be the LAST Person to get something in my eye.. I know I am not wearing them, so, I make sure I do things to keep sawdust, metal dust, etc, away from my face.. But, I have worked around others that pay zero attention to where things are going.. I can always turn my back to them,, as long as I am not near a wall or something that stuff reflects off of. I worked with a guy who would remind me daily about "Not wearing Safety Glasses". In 7 years, I dug all sorts of things out of his eyes and took him to Urgent care twice.. I kept reminding him, if he had ever seen me get anything in my eyes, to which he always Had to answer,, No... He never did get it.. Ha..ha..