Amanda and Vic chat with Erik Curtis about furniture design, teaching, and creating content.

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Megan Shannon joins Ben to talk about all of the ways that her school A Tiny Bit Of Wood brings joy to her community.

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Recorded live at Woodworking in America 2025, this episode has Alexis Dolese and Shea Alexander joining Vic and Ben to discuss the triumphs and trials of woodworking.

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Mike Pekovich and Phil Huber join Ben to debrief their week-long woodworking tour of England—part museum crawl, part shop class, all inspiration. From London's Building Crafts College (trade-focused millwork and stonemasonry) to the Snowdon School of Furniture (studio furniture, domestic woods, and a "rip-only" tablesaw philosophy), they compare shop practices and rethink joinery workflows (tenoners, Domino, band-sawn cheeks, using the miter saw's depth stop). The trip winds through the Westonbirt Arboretum and an unforgettable boxwood deep-dive with a Baroque oboe maker, then into the V&A's technique-curated furniture gallery. In the Cotswolds, Rodmarton Manor (Barnsley/Gimson) and the Gordon Russell Museum spark lessons in design "grammar," chamfers, and English drawer slips you'll want to steal. There's even a pub-hall turning demo with Paul Hannaby—pints included. Plus: a quick preview of next week's Woodworking in America in Des Moines and what Ben, Phil, and friends will be teaching and doing on site.

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Frank Strazza and Eric Yocom chat with Amanda about the Texas woodworking community, and the impact it's made in their lives.

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Mike Mascelli, Mitch Kohanek, and John Coffey talk about their friend and one of the godfathers of finishing, Bob Flexner.

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Ben and Amanda chat with Luke Lyu, who founded Zen Wu Toolworks, a tool company making traditional chinese planes with a modern approach.

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Adam Godet shares the secrets of making a shared shop work, and the way he diversifies income as a full time woodworker.

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Ben, Amanda, and Owen catch up about our dream shops, what we would go back and change, and what's okay being left alone.

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Zach and Shawn from Shaper Tools join Ben and Logan on the AWFS show floor in Vegas to talk about BenchPilot, all things Shaper Origin, and what they're seeing in the community that excites them.

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Folks Shawn and Zach talked about: Kim McIntyre - https://www.instagram.com/mcintyrefurniture/ Aspen Golann - https://www.instagram.com/aspen_golann/ Die Gute Form 2025 Award winners! - https://www.tischler-schreiner.de/die-gute-form-2025 --- For more information on BenchPilot and the Shaper Origin: https://www.shapertools.com/

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