On today’s show, we’re talking about… hand tool frustration, feeling guilty about shop time, chunks of crotch, shop dehumidification, and glamor shots
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What’s on the Bench
- Marc is a teacher again and now has lasers and CNC. Plus new Guild Table Saw Cabinet.
- Shannon is downsizing in his shop as he makes smaller projects.
- Matt cut his finger and made a leg vise doohickey
Kickback
- Allen asked ChatGPT who was the fairest podcast in the land and it told him WoodTalk.
- Scott shares his experience with SketchUp for the iPad.
- Brian got an old copy of SketchUp from Oldversion.com and it is running fine.
- Ashley calls in to share how Matt has made the same video again and again and let we all still watch them.
Listener Questions
- Jake shares his guilt about being in the shop instead of spending time with his family.
- Fernando wishes he could send his tools to someone to set them up properly.
- Steven cut down a White Oak tree and has a bunch of chunks that he is not sure what to do with them.
- Mark asks about dehumidification in his shop.
- Roberto asks about buying tools on Etsy.
- Jim needs advice on taking glamour shots of his finished pieces.
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3 replies on “Woodworking Blue Balls | WoodTalk 580”
Fellow basement dweller here in Upstate/Central New York (depends on which utility company you ask). My shop is in my basement, which is roughly 8-900 square feet in size. My foundation is natural stone, and most of my basement floor consists of poured concrete. I am running an Insignia 50 pint dehumidifier with an automatic condensation pump (Harbor Freight special) to drain the water outside of my basement. The unit is large enough to cover my basement, but its reach was limited. I set up a box fan with furnace filters and mounted it overhead about halfway of the overall length of my basement (including crawl spaces) to boost circulation. This has helped, but it didn’t fix everything. I then bought rechargeable silica-filled boxes and placed them with my tools that were still forming new rust, and that fixed enough of my issues to stop worrying. If your basement has windows, keep them shut as much as you can stand to avoid introducing outside air moisture levels. Also, if you have an HVAC system that is piped into the basement, set your thermostat to run the fan on circulate during the summer. If it has AC, then pump that into the basement to lower the air’s natural ability to retain moisture.
Hopefully you hear this before you are forced to buy a commercial grade dehumidifier for a basement… “Find out next quarter on Woodtalk Ball Z!”
It appears Matt needs to be somewhat choosier about where he gets stitches done. I was recently forced to seek ER care in Phoenix after being astoundingly stupid in the placement of my thigh, a carving knife and the piece I was working on. Well, it turned out the ER surgeon was a woodworker and we had a charming discussion about Hock blades … when examining my cut he complimented me on the very sharp and clean cut and averred that my knife must have been “very sharp”, I agreed that it was, that it was a Mora knife and his reply was that “the Swedes make great steel !!” – this is the kind of ER interaction one hopes for. BTW – 5 stitches.
Does anyone have a link to the chisels they were talking about on Etsy?