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How To: Prevent insect damage when drying lumber

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to prevent insect damage when drying lumber. Preventing insect damage and infestation is essential to producing quality lumber. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. Watch this video for great guidelines to ensure the best dry lumber. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Stabilize your table saw

Shopsmith Academy shows you stabilize your table saw. Some projects may require precision down to a few thousandths of an inch. This video shows you how to accomplish very exact measurements. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Wax your jigs

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to use paste wax to wax your jigs. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project and maintain your tools. Watch this video for useful woodworking tips. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Use upcut-downcut router bits

Shopsmith Academy explains the differences between three different types of router bits, and shows you how to use them, when to use them, and why. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. Watch this video for useful woodworking tips. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Clean planer posts

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to quickly clean the sawdust from the threaded planer posts when it sticks as you are raising or lowering the table. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. For more on woodworking projects, search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Make and use compost

Interested in making and using your own compost? Fortunately, as this home gardening guide from the British National Trust demonstrates, it's quite easy to do. So easy, in fact, that this gardener's guide can present a complete overview of the process in just under four minutes' time. For details, and to get started making your own rich, fertile soil from your own garden and food scraps, take a look.

How To: Origami a paper crane or tsuru

Here is a demonstration on how to fold an origami crane. Tsuru is the Japanese word for crane. The crane is considered a national treasure, appearing in art, literature, and folklore. The origami crane is also a symbol of good fortune and longevity. Fold several of these origami paper cranes to give to friends and family.

How To: Style a scarf for men

Hey guys! Need some lessons on how to fold a scarf? Emmi Sorokin, national men's image consultant and founder of It's a Man's World Image Consulting shows how to wear four different men's scarves in this free instructional video. Step out in style with a scarf folded the right way!

How To: Make a Caipirinha

Learn how to mix Brazil's national cocktail, the Caipirinha, with help from this video! Consisting of cachaça, sugar and lime, wow your party guests with this delicious treat. To make this version of the Caipirinha, you will need the following ingredients and tools:

How To: Become a flight medic

Are you interested in flight medicine? Taking care and transporting critical care patients to and from the sight of their injury to the hospital? In this video, learn from the President of the National Flight Medic Association, Jason Hums MPH what it takes to become a flight medic: what to do after schooling to prep, how to compiete for the job in this highly competitive field, and what wesbites to ceck out for more information.

How To: Origami a traditional Japanese crane or tsuru

Watch this instructional origami video to fold a traditional Japanese origami crane. Tsuru is the Japanese word for crane. In Japan cranes are considered a national treasure and regarded as symbols of good luck and longevity. Fold a few origami cranes and give them to your friends as gifts or good luck charms.

How To: Origami a nice paper crane

Watch this instructional origami video to fold an origami paper crane. Tsuru is the Japanese word for crane. The Japanese crane is considered a national treasure and regarded as a symbol of good fortune and longevity. With a little patience, the origami crane is not difficult to fold. Fold a few origami cranes and give them to your friends as gifts and good luck charms.

How To: Fine tune a tenon

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to shave a precise amount of stock from the width or thickness of a tenon to fit it in its mortise. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Precision plane

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to make use of a little-know characteristic of wood to remove just a few thousandths of an inch from the thickness of a board. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. Watch this video for useful woodworking tips. Search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Perform a standard non-precision approach and landing procedure in an aircraft

A pilot that earns an instrument rating is a pilot that's mastered his or her flight skills to a level or precision and accuracy needed to safely fly an airplane through clouds, fog, and other adverse weather conditions. While flying in these weather conditions, known as IMC, or instrument meteorological conditions, a pilot is tasked with flying an airplane solely by reference to flight instruments. The pilot needs to be able to go from takeoff to landing, without having any outside visual re...