Many speed squares or rafter squares have a notch by their corner. Simply drive a nail where you want the center of the circle, place your pencil in a slot or on the edge of the square, place the nail in the corner notch and rotate!
Water Bottle Bag Storage
Cut the top off a plastic water bottle, feed the top of a bag you’re storing something in up through the top. Fold the bag over the threads of the top and then screw the cap back on to store.
Gordon Ramsay Teaches You How to Chop an Onion
We’ve covered how to chop an onion before, but never with quite the flair that Gordon Ramsay brings to the lesson. Check out Gordon’s great tips for how to chop an onion into fine pieces and with minimal or no tears.
Straighten a Crooked Door with A Cardboard Shim for the Hinge
If your door sits crooked in its frame and rubs at the top or bottom you can easily straighten it back up by adding a cardboard shim behind the door hinge opposite of where it rubs in the frame. If it rubs on the upper half of the frame, shim the bottom hinge and vice-versa.
Using a Washer as an Improvised Scribing Tool
Insert a pencil tip through the hole in a flat washer keeping the tip on the part of the hole closest to whatever you’re looking to scribe. Then simply run the pencil along the piece you want to mark. The washer will follow the contours as long as the angles are not too tight.
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