I was able to speak to Peter Bailey.  Peter’s in Western Australia and he’s had a career and still works consulting in agriculture and doing design engineering and things like that.  And he’s working towards setting up his woodwork business.  And it’s interesting in the way he’s approached it because whilst he’s had a lifelong more »

Here’s what I thought was interesting.  Titled “Old Epoxy Weird Behavior”.  It’s not actually a wood question but it’s about glues.  This is by REAL Old Nick. I want to stick some Velcro and webbing strap to corflute board.  My first attempt resulted in a complete failure.  The glue simply came away from the corflute.  more »

I was fortunate to speak with Anne-Maria and she is a long time experienced craftsperson and has done a lot with ceramics in the past but more recently turned her attention to wood products and creating things with woodturning, like she’s done some pepper grinders.  And increasingly she’s interested in doing woodturning and woodwork as more »

Who goes, why are they there, what did they see? The Brisbane wood show has something for everyone, young, old, beginners, experienced, male and female.

Straight from recording to podcast with this one, I was able to catch Michael before the opening of the show. If you are in Brisbane the details are here: http://www.eventfinder.com.au/2013/brisbane-timber-working-with-wood-show-2013/brisbane/bowen-hills Checkout the woodwork forums http://www.woodworkforums.com/f135/michael-mogy-brisbane-timber-working-wood-show-podcast-interview-170880/#post1649148

Based on some question and answer reading on the woodwork forums website. Ref: http://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/photographing-your-masterpiece-64791/ http://www.woodworkforums.com/f11/photographing-your-woodwork-pieces-doing-properly-164452/

So I made a real beginner’s mistake this morning.  I had a fantastic conversation with Rob from Damn Fine Furniture and so faffed up the recording.  So what I’m going to do is I’ll just talk through some of the things that we spoke about because I feel like I learned a lot from what more »

I’ve got Brendan Stemp with me and we’re talking about woodwork and how to get started.  So what kind of equipment you need to get into turning wood and the sort of cost involved in that, and also what it’s like to run a full-time woodworking business.  How people buy his products and where he more »

Richard Raffan is a remarkable man, he travels to the USA regularly to speak, teach and promote his books. He is highly regarded in the wood turning world and a sought after mentor. an excerpt from the podcast Jeremy:  Yeah.  Like it seems you’re pretty prolific in terms of your publishing and people looking to more »

If you have ever wondered what the process of going from working full time to becoming a full time wood worker is like then you may find the experience that Alex had interesting… An excerpt from the podcast… Jeremy:  …So in around 2000, you were starting to feel like maybe you didn’t want to be more »