Thanks! Another tip about the lipstick... if the day is really going to be hot, don't leave it on the dashboard of your truck! Don't ask how I know that is a bad idea. Ha ha! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Great question, Dalton, and I've got a short answer and a sort of "longish" answer. First, the short answer... I tend to use very few mechanical fasteners because of a dumb bias foist upon me by a furniture maker when I was very young. He said, "Fasteners are for amateurs." Of course, that is absolutely not true, and I do use fasteners sometimes. I use pocket hole screws often when building cabinets, particularly around the base portions when and where they will be well hidden. I also use 23 gauge pin nails to help position things during glue-ups, again, if the tiny holes left behind will be hidden or can be easily obscured. Fact is, assembling the "Ls" inside the legs on this project would have been much easier if I had used some pin nails to hold the parts in perfect alignment while the glue set up. The long part of the answer has to do with what I try to accomplish through these various video projects... I hope to give tips and tricks along the way that will get people's creative juices flowing and hopefully help them out when they encounter something unusual or difficult in the projects they tackle. That's why I showed making a simple 90-degree jig for gluing up those "Ls" rather than pinning them together. Then I was able to take that 90-degree jig and use it to make a sort of "homemade miter box" for sawing the aluminum square tubing. There are usually a whole bunch of routes one can take to get to the same destination, and the choice is up to each woodworker... It's one of the things that makes this hobby so great! Thanks for watching!

downtoearthwoodworks Well you're definitely creative when it comes to building these projects and your objective is definitely coming across. Because I am a new woodworker, well I wouldn't call myself a woodworker but I'm new to building stuff. Right now I am working on and entertainment center and because of watching your videos this one and the saw stop outfeed table. I'm trying to use very minimal amount of mechanical fasteners. I was very hesitant that the glue wouldn't be strong enough to hold it together, but it seems to be holding up for you. Thanks again for the video series very detail-oriented I've learned a lot.

Hi Jim, Many of my videos are published one week earlier on Highland Woodworking's KZfaq channel, then on my own channel. You likely saw it on Highland's channel first, then here. Thanks for watching!

oh! That's right! Thanks Steve. And please keep 'em coming.

The screwdrivers are from Grace. They were pretty hard to find before, but now you can get them at Lee Valley... here's the link: www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,43411,43417&p=70923 Thanks for watching!

Thanks, Steve I appreciate the info and please keep up the great videos.

Thank you!