WT288 – Matt’s Exodus
Furniture safety, cutting notches, and buying a first spokeshave. Oh yeah, Matt’s leaving the show too.
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Furniture safety, cutting notches, and buying a first spokeshave. Oh yeah, Matt’s leaving the show too.
Determining finish on old trim, fire resistant projects, and bandsaw cut quality featuring special guest Dave Piccuito.
A low toxicity walnut finish, making raised panels, and selecting proper drawer depth.
Bearings vs bushings, strengthening a miter joint, and PVA glue in a vacuum bag.
Dealing with a scratch while finishing, getting a distressed look, and concerns with thin wooden components.
Electrical outlets, dealing with swollen plywood dados, and evenly milling a board with knots.
Today we’re joined by Matt Cremona to talk about one work surfaces in the shop, bark on a live edge slab, & choosing the right plane for the job.
A kitchen table finish, sanding curves, sharpening a saw, and our shop gear that has nothing to do with woodworking.
Re-coating an old poly finish, bandsaw blades for curves, and correcting a rip hand saw cut.
Crook cane handle designs, defusing shop vac hose static electricity, and resawing with table saw and band saw.
Finish for a teak shower bench, curved vs hard angles in ductwork, and steamed vs unsteamed Walnut.
Laminated leg vise chops, managing scrap wood, loose tenon joinery, the Bosch Glide Miter Saw vs the Festool Kapex, and Veritas’ PM-V11 steel.
Recalling our favorite classes and most-loved luxury tools.
Finishing a project with nooks and crannies, using cut nails, and flattening a table base to accept the top
Construction and design advice to a listener on his bridal chest project.
Making curved sides on a small box, attaching paper-backed veneer to a van interior, and finishing half blind dovetails.
On today’s show, we’re talking about Storing Shellac, fixing a dado that’s too deep, and a “different way” to mill boards by hand.
Shannon tells us why he loves his hand tools so much!
Marc answers your burning questions about finishing!
We are breaking from our usual format while we’re on vacation but don’t worry, we’ll be back on Sept. 14th! Shawn submitted a question asking
Today’s show is sponsored by SawStop! On today’s show we’re talking about are chairs difficult to make, filling cracks in cutting boards, and wood movement
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re doing a little bragging and talking about our strengths. This show is inspired by an email from Chad:
Today’s show is sponsored by SawStop! On today’s show we’re talking about milling rough stock, attaching hardwood strips to cover the plywood edges, and designing
“Cheating” in woodworking. Specifically, using CNC machines in your shop.
Preventing cedar from graying, seeing grain direction in a board, and hinge recommendations for large dropdown drawer fronts.
Softwood for a workbench, establishing your design style, using a router as jointer, and choosing wood for a table top.
Miscellaneous topics from our email bag that are too short for a single topic show and not long enough for a regular show.
Bent lamination stability, jigsaw work with hand tools, and unsticking sticky drawers.
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re talking about our business models and lots of other unqualified business advice that you should take with a
On today’s show we’re talking about letting necessity be the mother of invention, anticipatory duct work for dust collection, breadboard end joinery. What’s on the
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re talking about the early days of our woodworking careers and how long it took before we were actually
Top-coating paint, zero clearance for dado blades, and buying lumber online.
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re talking about helical heads in planers and their advantages…or not. How about you? Have you upgraded to a
On today’s show, we’re talking about finishing oily woods, when to mill rough lumber, and when to re-flatten sharpening stones What’s on the Bench? Marc
Charging relatives for your work and dealing with too-narrow dados.
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re talking about aftermarket upgrades for our tools. This topic was inspired by a question from Peter. How about
Popping figured maple without warming it up, gluing face grain to edge grain, and traditional turning tools vs carbide insert tools.
Which woodworking magazines we “read” and a little about what makes each distinctive.
Today’s show is sponsored by Brusso Hardware – Brusso provides high quality American-made woodworking hardware for YOUR next project. As a special discount for new
Panel movement in a grill stand, concerns over basement humidity, and cutting compound angled tenons.
Where we would locate our woodworking businesses and why.
Workbench finishes, rust prevention in the tool cabinet, and whether to wipe away glue when it’s wet or dry.
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition” we’re talking about the one thing in woodworking we are worst at and how we are working to improve
Boiled linseed oil before a clear coat, tinting epoxy, and whether to pre-finish edge banding on a plywood box.
What tools have you bought with great expectations only to see them collect dust?
Curing finishes in the oven, small shop miter saws, and hardware for connecting cabinets
How much techniques, materials, and tools impact our choices in projects.
Respirators in the wood shop, tips for staining pine, spraying finish on deep cabinets.
Jointing away from the fence, choosing a router for a router table, and using floats.
Close calls and injuries and how we get past them and back into the shop.
Should you leave the marking gauge line or get rid of it, how flat does a jointing plane need to be and sharpening a fine toothed saw.
On today’s Wood Talk “Weekend Edition”, we are talking about how we glue up panels and how we have changed our technique over the years.
On today’s show, we’re talking about Anti-fatigue mats, Pore-filling, Build or buy the first workbench?, wood movement in an Adirondack chair, and shop vac vs
On today’s WoodTalk “Weekend Edition”, Marc was out sick so Matt and Shannon talked about small shops whether they be garage or basement and the
Today’s show is sponsored by Brusso Hardware. New customers get 10% OFF any order at Brusso.com using code WT2015. On today’s show, we’re talking about
Do hand tools can improve your power tool skills?
An emergency safety alert for your shop, how long should that table stretcher be, and SketchUp cut lists.
On today’s WoodTalk “Weekend Edition”, we’re talking about shop furniture projects. How nice do you make them? Email Dustin is wondering about shop projects. Do
Today’s show is sponsored by Brusso Hardware. New customers get 10% OFF any order at Brusso.com using code WT2015. On today’s show, we’re talking about
Should you take a woodworking class or buy a tool?
Attaching a sitting bench top to the base, is the router plane fence necessary, and dealing with mystery goo after finishing.
On today’s WoodTalk “Weekend Edition”, we’re talking about measuring and marking tools: which ones we love and how we use them. We also talk about
Filling pores, do you need to use a lot of different glues, and starter carving chisels.
On today’s WoodTalk Weekend Edition, we’re talking about how we store our lumber.
Filling pores, using different glues, and and starter carving chisels.
On today’s show, we’re chatting with Brandon Gore, a talented furniture-maker who works primarily with concrete and who serves as a judge on the new
Today’s show we’re talking about using twin tenons vs one big tenon, cutting curve part mortises, how to know when you saw is dull, and our thoughts on two new furniture-building shows (Framework and Ellen’s Design Show).
Matching solid wood and plywood, grain orientation in a panel, and keeping finish and glue from freezing.
Project creep and how projects can get out of control.
Tips for working with reclaimed lumber, buying workbench lumber, and are dovetail saddle markers lazy woodworking?
Paring with Japanese Chisels, dealing with overwhelming fear of sawdust piles, lumber checking, and wood plugs for stretched ears.
Hiding table end grain, what makes something fine furniture, is CNC real woodworking, and how we come up with original designs.
Did we meet or exceed our goals? Or did we fall miserably short. Listen to find out!
Today we’re talking about fine-tuning tapered plugs, avoiding slippery surfaces on step stools, and attaching a table top to its base
Spraying dye, drawers or carcass first, and picking the good stuff at the lumber yard.
Lie-Nielsen vs Veritas, loose tenons and bed rails, refurbish or buy new, and what we’re thankful for!
Sealing with shellac, selecting a solvent for an unknown finish, and skipping the jointer and going with a planer.
Online etiquette, fixes for cheap plywood, and batch cutting dovetails by hand.
Wood warping after a resaw, trouble with a smoothing plane, and octagonal frame joinery.
Solvent confusion, box joints and short ceilings, workbenches and T tracks, and selecting wood for your projects.
Safe finishes for comic book storage, drawer guide positioning, and restoring an antique workbench.
We celebrate 200 episodes of Wood Talk by doing another episode of Wood Talk!
Finishes for kitchen cabinets, dealing with glue squeezeout, and should you get a really small hand plane?
Steam bending vs bent lamination, choosing your tools based on sharpening methods, and replacing your dust collector’s filtration bags.
Design rules for grain orientation, filling cracks with finish, and making really long panels.
Avoiding rounding over with a random orbit sander, splines or biscuits as a glue-up aide, a bit of marquetry on a box, and a WIA wrap-up with a discussion of Lee Valley’s new custom planes.
Preventing cupped panels, respirators for the permanently bearded, box hinges, Spraying outdoors, acclimating lumber before a project, and avoiding tearout while turning.
Tortured outdoor finishes, string inlay resources, and leap frogging planes.
Mixing profiles and breadboard ends, using a chisel plane, and making dadoes and grooves with hand tools.
Easy durable finishes, automation distancing us from our craft, and how to perform a ritual bloodletting with your chisels
Ammonia fuming, pre-finishing rituals, plywood in the hand tool shop, and how flat is flat enough.
A discussion and review of various workbench vises.
Oil finish inhalation hazards, long miters with hand tools, and woodworking when your job moves you around the country.