few other situations where these same concepts can be really useful hey just wanted to quickly mention that in addition to making woodworking tips videos we also build a lot of woodworking projects honestly that's mostly what we do on this channel we recently built this coffee table and this lounge chair and this desk all of these videos are pretty jam-packed with woodworking tips too so if you're interested go give them a look and either way let's get back to the tips all right so we'll start with what brandon was showing us and the idea was you want to find the center of a board without doing any of that pesky math stuff so here we've got a board of unknown width and we're using our speed square to mark a line perpendicular to one of our edges then it's just a matter of marking two diagonals using the square and making sure that the tips of those diagonals hit your perpendicular mark at the edge then wherever those two lines meet is the center of your board from there if you wanted to strike a line along the entire width of your board just make another of these x's and draw a line that goes through the two points and you've got a perfect halfway mark easy peasy another area where a very similar concept can be useful is finding the halfway point between two specific spots for example let's say we're building a cabinet like this with two dadoes for some vertical partitions and we want to find the halfway point between them to add something so here i'm getting the same board that we were using before and i'm going to randomly cut two kerfs to represent my dados and i don't know how far apart these are well a really easy way to find the halfway point is to get a ruler and angle it so that the inside of your dados or kerfs in this case are hitting two points on your ruler that are easily divisible so here i've got one at the NUMBER_TOKEN inch mark and another at the NUMBER_TOKEN inch mark so if i make a mark at NUMBER_TOKEN inches on my ruler that'll perfectly divide the area between my dados in half and actually there might be a situation where you want to divide something like this into say five equal parts you could mark at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN and you'll have five equal parts okay one last trick and that is that similar concepts can help you find the center of things that aren't square or rectangular say for example you've got a circular top and you need to find the center of the circle what you could do is draw any two random lines that go across your circle like this by the way for all my geometry heads out there i believe these are called chords anyway then find the center of your line and draw a right angle line that goes towards the center of your circle and wherever these perpendicular bisector lines meet is the center of the circle all right if you hate math good news that was the worst of it and really what we were doing there was eliminating math if you think about trying to find the center of an x versus trying to divide NUMBER_TOKEN in NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN seconds by three i think you'll agree that it's simple as a scone sean
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN useful hey just wanted to quickly mention that in addition to making woodworking tips videos we also build a lot of woodworking projects honestly that's mostly what we do on this channel we recently built this coffee table and this lounge chair and this desk all of these videos are pretty jam-packed with woodworking tips too so if you're interested go give them a look and either way let's get back to the tips all right so we'll END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN