Woodworking Tips and Tricks Using 1 2 3 Set Up Blocks!

123 set-up blocks are the most versatile woodworking tools you can buy for your shop. I'll show you 25 (or more) ways to use these amazing tools. Amazon and other affiliate links are used in this description and help support this channel.

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[jasonrye]

As a machinist, I am only slightly offended that you said "machine shop" and then showed a welder. I understand! They say nobody but a machinist knows what a machinist does (and not all of us, either!). Good info! I enjoyed the video.

[chapbix]

I have five of those blocks. This video has been very helpful! I can see a use for them at the miter saw as stop blocks in a jig to attach to the fence. They could easily be setup on a small parts jig on a miter saw such as what I saw you build for your miter saw. I will be building one for my new Hercules 12" sliding miter saw.

[vanden]

"I need to hammer something. I know! I will use a precision calibration tool."

[charitiekbyrd]

I'm from Oklahoma and I have to say, I love that you dubbed it the Oklahoma block! It's awesome and now I have to have one 😂😂 stay safe and Happy Building 💯😁

[scrapperstacker]

I love my 123 blocks I use them both wood and metal working. Great for set ups. I also have a pair a 468 blocks. Many people don’t know about them either. Both are great and useful.

[donschweitzer]

Another machinist……very well done, have these thanks for some inspiration on how to use 1 2 3 blocks in the wood shop. Also appreciate your outstanding witness. Don from Bella Vista

[Bobbyg]

I bought that kit a few weeks ago. I really like it. One thing you left out...they are just plain fun to use. Something about the heft and the precision and you know nothing is going to change from use to use.

[carlmclelland]

Funny Matt... I've got a couple dozen 123, 246, V-blocks, you name it, sitting over there on the milling machine. This video just gave me a thousand ideas of new ways to use tools I already have!! Thank

[FredD]

I have two sets of them that I use very often they are very handy to have around

[billdiehl]

Love my 1-2-3 blocks. Thanks for showing the different uses for them!

[csemeniu]

This was great work Matt, I've owned this block for about 20 years and I still learned something!

[davelove]

I work in a tool and die shop and have been using 1-2-3 blocks for decades. The Taylor Toolworks connection kit makes them so much more versatile.

[egbluesuede]

Agree these are a must have for any shop no matter what you build. I also have the connection kit from TT and it's worth buying as well.

[metalflameful]

Just heat treated my first 27 hole set along with some parallels I made, just need to grind them to the final dimensions and hopefully they turn out well.

[CharlesGallo]

Better than paste wax for setup blocks is lanolin.
BTW, there are different grades, and most GOOD ones are always slightly oversized, so they can be lapped in

[cindykiefnerthecoppertorch]

Excellent video! I hope the manufacturer is throwing some appreciation your way!

[CrapE_DM]

I feel like if you did half the things on that list with them, they'd end up as (nearly) dedicated things for that job, and then they wouldn't be available for the other uses.

[brianalexander]

I am a production supervisor in a shop that makes tools and electrodes out of synthetic graphite, 123 blocks are a critical tool in our shop. You can’t have too many sets. But this video showed me things I hadn’t even thought of. Thanks!

[Cecil_X]

I have 25X50X75 blocks, plus a set of MM setup bars. This has improved my repeatability like nothing else. I also often use them as a square, since they stand on their own, leaving both hands available for other work.

One task I did not see mentioned is using them as elevators, to keep work up off a surface. For example, if I have a board with a feature mounted to it, so that it will no longer lay flat, I can use multiple blocks to properly elevate the work perfectly the same height across the distance. With a little Pythagorean math, I can also put a block under one end, at the proper distance, creating an angle I need for drilling, etc.