The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour

The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour episodes:

• 09.25.2020

  030: Favorite and Least Favorite Woods

  Last pod of the summer. Matt & Joe Discuss their favorite and least favorite woods, some dumb and some great things done in the shop. 3 Things to know about making end grain veneers. Matt’s Joke & Stat of the podcast. Matt’s teaching an...

  
• 07.10.2020

  026: All About Hand Planes

  what to get, stay away from, and an essential set.

  
• 06.26.2020

  025: Interview with Kelly Dunton

  Matt & Joe enjoy some beer and a conversation with Matt’s long-time friend and former Fine Woodworking Art Editor and professional furniture maker, Kelly Dunton.

  
• 06.12.2020

  024: Rout-er or Rout-ah?

  This one is all about routers. Big ones, small ones, bits and dust collection.

  
• 05.29.2020

  023: Top Things That Have Changed Our Woodworking

  Matt and Joe discuss their top moments or things that have made significant or pivotal changes in their furniture making.

  
• 05.15.2020

  022: Mistakes Were Made

  Matt had a bad week. He made some small mistakes and a really big one on his credenza. Its not how you make it but how you recover.

  
• 05.01.2020

  021: Door construction

  Sounds simple but maybe its not. Matt & Joe are both building doors for their current projects. Joe had questions about building doors. Small doors, frame and panel doors, laminated, lumber core veneered doors and more.

  
• 04.11.2020

  020: Pandemic Episode 2

  Second episode from quarantine. Matt and Joe answer more listener questions.

  
• 03.25.2020

  019: The Socially Distanced Episode

  This week Matt and Joe mistakenly call this our 18th episode. Its 19! Anyway, we hope everyone is staying safe and isolated and enjoy the show. We catch up on what we’ve been doing with our home time and...

  
• 02.28.2020

  018: Packing Wood (tools)

  In this episode Matt and Joe discuss the essential tools to pack for woodworking classes. They go into a little about how to pack them and making sure not to take them with you on a cruise.

  
• 02.14.2020

  017: Matt Writes a Book About Kumiko

  In this week’s episode Matt and Joe discuss Matt wrapping up his book about kumiko. Joe asks some questions about kumiko. We answer a listener question from John about a reliability of a table saw miter sled vs. a miter...

  
• 01.31.2020

  016: Matt Works Big and Tries to Motivate Joe

  In this episode Matt and Joe discuss goals and accomplishments to look forward to in 2020. Matt explains tips and tricks to working and holding larger scale pieces with jigs and fixtures. Matt’s Joke of the podcast....

  
• 01.17.2020

  015: Matt's Table Saw Accident

  Matt and Joe are back. The past few months have been super busy for the fellas (mostly Joe’s fault). While we were away Matt had some serious kickback on the table saw and took a trip to the ER. ...

  
• 10.04.2019

  014: Joe needs a desk

  This episode went a little off the rails but we still got some good stuff for you. Matt's headed to Indiana to teach at the Marc Adam's School of Woodworking. Menial progress was made on Joe's tea cabinet. Joe...

  
• 09.20.2019

  013: 5 Essential Woodworking Skills

  Holy Moly. We're back! What have we been up to. We Talk about where we are with our Tea Cabinets, Matt's new wall cabinet and Matt's 5 Essential Woodworking Skills. 1. Vision 2. Sharpening 3. Milling 4. Layout 5. Order of operations 3 things to...

  
• 08.09.2019

  012: Pricing your work

  Matt taught some end grain veneers and explains his process. We also go into pricing work.

  
• 07.05.2019

  011: Matt Flies Solo

  Matt and Joe couldn’t make it work this week so Matt flies solo. Matt answers random questions and talks about Slim McGinty.

  
• 06.21.2019

  010: Dovetails and Mistakes

  In this episode Matt & Joe go over what goes into cutting dovetails - Matt’s method, how Joe wasn’t ready with sharp tools to cut his. We also touch on making mistakes and how to recover from them. ...

  
• 06.07.2019

  009: Rip n' Flip

  We discuss Matt and Joe’s cabinets and where they are in the build process. We go a little further into detail on the Rip n’ Flip method we used for Joe’s panels.

  
• 05.23.2019

  A Quick Announcement

  Matt and Joe will be live streaming on Friday May, 24.

  
• 05.10.2019

  008: Order of operations

  Matt and Joe discuss the order of operations (sort of) and best practices for moving along with our tea boxes. - Listener questions we missed (sorry) - A fine review of Matt’s book - Stat of the podcast - 3 things to know...

  
• 04.26.2019

  007: Finally, Milling

  Matt and Joe finally do the episode about milling. Joe and listeners ask Matt questions about milling lumber.

  
• 04.12.2019

  006: Where do Pieces Come From

  We lied. No milling this week. Instead Joe and Matt discuss three of Matt’s pieces. Matt’s design choices, why he chose to make them in the first place and where they are now.

  
• 03.29.2019

  005: Getting Wood (at the lumber yard)

  This episode Matt & Joe discuss lumber selection and how to prep to go to the yard. Matt explains buying what you need, don’t buy board feet. - Dumb things we’ve done getting lumber - Best deal we snagged while buying...

  
• 03.15.2019

  004: Design with Phil Morley

  We continue our conversation about design… this time with Phil Morley. Design process, proportions, grain selection plus some things about Phil you might not know.

  
• 03.01.2019

  003: Design

  Matt answers Joe's questions about design, where to start, influences.

  
• 02.15.2019

  002: Sharpening

  Matt talks about how to get sharp. We answer listener questions. Get your design questions ready.

  
• 02.01.2019

  001: Woodworking Fun Hour

  Who are Matt and Joe. How did this start? Questions for listeners.