The Make or Break Show

By Make or Break Shop

The Make or Break Podcast is a weekly audio and video series that features amazing makers across the world. We dive into the greatest things they make as well as lessons learned from the things they ... more

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The Make or Break Show episodes:

May 30, 2019 Teaching and Woodturning with Rex Krueger
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Toolerable: Making Try-Squares for Woodworking
Jimmy Diresta Interview
One Week to Woodturning (Rex's Book)
Wranglerstar
Stanley 12-404 (testing the cheapest plane on Amazon)
Cindy Drozda
Ashely Harwood
Lampworking (small glass blowing with propane torch)
Chris Swhartz Interview
TOPICS
00:02:18 - Rex's background in academia
00:06:42 - Love for music
00:11:22 - Family background in making
00:16:50 - Work as a professional woodworker
00:27:18 - Starting on YouTube
00:36:44 - Strategic focus of YouTube
00:40:12 - Restoring cheap tools from Amazon
00:42:18 - The world of Blacksmithing
00:44:06 - The world of Woodturning
00:46:06 - Rex's Woodturning Book
00:54:32 - Revenue Streams for Teaching
00:56:56 - Relationship with Sponsors
01:04:34 - What's next for Rex
01:12:56 - Shop Update
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1h 15min
May 23, 2019 Uri Tuchman's Metal Engraved Sculptures
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Marking Gauge
Gold Reduction
Maker Central
Backward Scissors
Handshake Handsaw
Making Engraving Tools
Click Spring
Jimmy Diresta
Alec Steele Engraving
ZH Fabrications Engraving
Ball Vice
Sam Alfon
Make Your Own Brushes
TOPICS
00:03:20 - Uri's art background
00:06:32 - Making Billiard Tables
00:07:52 - Contempoary art and making
00:10:05 - Getting started with engraving
00:11:16 - Work as an artist and cook
00:19:16 - Starting to post projects online
00:24:18 - Does sharing a project influence it's creation?
00:26:16 - Getting into engraving
00:27:08 - Gold Reduction Project
00:28:54 - Uri's workspace
00:29:30 - Making for the community
00:33:02 - Uri's unique sense of style
00:34:18 - Backward Scissors
00:36:22 - Handshake Handsaw
00:38:18 - Tips for sculpting
00:42:24 - Making engraving tools
00:44:50 - Japenese Engraving
00:47:10 - How to learn engraving
00:48:58 - Upcoming projects
00:51:24 - Where to find Uri
00:52:12 - Shop Update
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56min
May 16, 2019 From Beginner to Forged in Fire Winner with Crooked River Forge
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LINKS
Crooked River Forge
Pallet Lounger
Blacksmith for Beginners (Facebook Group)
ACME Tools (165 Rigid Anvil)
Harbor Freight Rounding Peen Hammer
Paul Beisler (rounding hammer)
Jason Davis (Gizmo’s Fabrications forges)
KMG Grinders
Grizzly 2x12 Grinder
Knife Talk
Geoff Feder Interview
Industrial Tube & Steel
Three Barn Doors
Paragon Heat Treating Furnace
1095 Steel
Machinest Handbook for steels
Forged in Fire: The Steel Takedown Bow
Sparrow Knife
Japanese Santoku Knife
The Bladeshow (June 7-9, Atlanta, GA)

TOPICS
00:02:20 - Getting into Blacksmithing
00:06:46 - Building Pallet Wood Furniture
00:09:36 - Incorporating Metal in Designs
00:10:20 - Getting started as a Blacksmith
00:17:48 - The first knife
00:22:34 - Heat treating
00:24:38 - Working with the right steels
00:26:50 - How to start selling knives
00:34:06 - Making knives for chefs
00:37:00 - Surprised from Starting a Business
00:37:54 - Favorite process in the knife making
00:40:44 - Competing on Forged in Fire
00:44:52 - Where to find Tommy
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49min
May 09, 2019 Wood, Epoxy & Scorpions with Jonny Builds
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LINKS
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Harrier Jet

HomeMade Modern: Smart DIY Designs for a Stylish Home

Ben Uyeda Interview

Mike Montgomery Interview

Jimmy Diresta Interview

Bob Clagett Interview

David Piccuito Interview

Shanty to Chic

Modern Maker Podcast

Chris Salomone Interview
Modustrial Maker Interivew
Industrial Media Console
Scorpion Axe
Bike Stand Cabinet
DIY Fireplace Renovation
SHOP UPDATE
The Play Kitchen is done!
Make or Break Show(Case): Episode 1
TOPICS
00:04:20 - The Scorpion (axe) King
00:06:27 - Jonny in High School
00:07:30 - Service in the Marine Corps
00:13:28 - Work as a prison guard
00:16:43 - Service as a police officer
00:20:35 - Getting into making
00:28:44 - Sharing projects on YouTube
00:31:12 - How to keep going when no one is watching
00:33:40 - Influences for getting better: Modustrial Maker
00:37:58 - Wanting to go full time
00:40:31 - Upcoming living room project
00:43:24 - Metal Treetable
00:47:10 - Design Process
00:49:53 - Scorpion Hatchet
00:56:20 - Dealing with the trolls
01:03:02 - Favorite recent tool
01:05:22 - Shop Update: Play Kitchen
01:06:16 - Shop Update: Make or Break Show(Case)
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1h 11min
May 02, 2019 Turning a Basement into a Star Wars Freighter with The Smugglers Room
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The Smugglers Room

The RPF

What is a Greeblie
Intro to The Smugglers Room
Graflex Lightsaber
Build a Star Wars Droid
Buliding R2D2, BB8 and Wall-E with Mike Senna
Smooth On
TOPICS
00:02:18 - First Star Wars memory
00:04:22 - Growing up in a family of makers
00:06:02 - First projects
00:07:50 - Working in the AV field
00:09:02 - Setting up shop in the garage
00:12:18 - Star Wars + Making
00:15:40 - Adding Greeblies to projects
00:18:44 - eBay finds for prop building
00:21:13 - 3D Printing
00:22:23 - Building droid drink holders
00:29:12 - Screen acurate props
00:30:08 - Building the Smugglers Room
00:36:54 - Sources of inspiration
00:38:44 - Smugglers Room on YouTube
00:41:18 - Make or Break Shop Update
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44min
April 25, 2019 Building Custom Guitars with Austin Papp
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LINKS
Austin Papp

Instagram

Totally Guitar: The Definitive Guide

Bryan Galloup School of Lutherie

Stew Mac Luthrie Supplies

Go-bar Clamping Deck
Caleb James
TOPICS
00:02:18 - Austin's guitar background
00:06:50 - Starting with guitar repairs
00:10:42 - Being a guitar tech on the road
00:13:04 - Picking building over playing
00:17:02 - Lutherie School
00:22:52 - Starting a custom guitar business
00:30:52 - Sponsor: Make or Break Store
00:31:52 - Using a CNC in traditional lutherie
00:38:29 - Teaching lutherie
00:48:13 - Typical guitar problems
00:49:51 - How long does it take to build a guitar?
00:53:07 -Favorite part of the process
00:54:35 - What tools do you need?
00:57:06 - Shop Update
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1h 3min
April 18, 2019 Covering the World of Making with Donald Bell
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LINKS
The Maker Project Lab
Cool Tools

Autodesk Tinkercad

Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis

Make Magazine

Bay Area Maker Faire

Adafruit

Adafruit Roland 303 Kit
Power Racing Series
Jimmy Diresta

Bob Clagett

David Piccuito

Becky Stern

Jon a Tron

Mike Warren
TOPICS
00:04:10 - Maker Project Lab
00:07:22 - Working with Autodesk's Tinkercad
00:09:30 - Power Racing Series at Maker Faire
00:11:42 - Circuit Bending
00:17:13 - Working at CNET
00:23:22 - Love for the Maker DIY Community
00:28:30 - DIY Roland 303 Synthesizer
00:30:54 - Sponsor: Build Plans @ Make or Break Shop
00:32:20 - Working with MAKE:
00:44:16 - Partnering with Autodesk
00:47:44 - The evolution of the Maker Movement
00:58:18 - Where to find Donald
01:00:08 - Make or Break Shop Update
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1h 5min
April 12, 2019 Making a Business Modifying Tools with TBD CNC
EPISODE SUMMARY
This week we chat with Luke Wilson the owner of TBD CNC. We get into what it takes to custom your CNC and how Luke how built a business around it.
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TOPICS
00:02:37 - How Luke got into CNC
00:04:05 - High School Projects
00:08:03 - Industrial Engineering
00:09:47 - Getting into CNC
00:11:05 - Current shop layout
00:12:43 - Beginning CNC modifications
00:17:50 - Building a CNC modification business
00:21:29 - Perfection vs Shipping
00:24:57 - CNC's making CNC's
00:26:49 - When is a CNC not a CNC?
00:30:13 - Upcoming projects
00:32:14 - Autotool changers
00:33:07 - Luke's custom CNC
00:34:48 - Where to find TBD CNC
00:35:48 - My Shop Update
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38min
April 05, 2019 Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Inventing a Better Vise with Andy Klein
EPISODE SUMMARY
This week we chat with woodworker and inventor Andy Klein. We get into his recent twin screw turbo vise Kickstarter as well as his new jig to create pencils with a hand plane.
TOPICS
00:04:36 - Andy's Background
00:07:28 - Chemical engineering
00:10:48 - Side Projects
00:17:56 - Quick Release Twin Screw Vise
00:18:41 - Fossil Table
00:22:14 - Folding Dado Miter Set
00:27:33 - Partnering with Rockler for sales
00:29:38 - The hardest part of product development
00:31:16 - Partnering with the Wood Whisperer
00:32:12 - Wood screw taps
00:34:40 - Twin turbo vise on Kickstarter
00:47:48 - Next steps for the vise production
00:52:17 - Pencil making jig
00:55:28 - Shop Update
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58min
March 28, 2019 Makerbot, Bantam Tools and the Evolution of the Maker Movement with Bre Pettis
00:04:07 - Jim Henson Creature Shop
00:08:01 - Background in making
00:11:51 - Weekend Projects with Make:

00:17:21 - Maker Spaces NYC Resistor
00:19:13 - Start with 3D Printing
00:17:21 - Creating Maker Bot

00:28:03 - The intersection of art and technology
00:31:37 - Bantam Tools

00:36:57 - The evolution of the maker movement
00:41:57 - What Bree is excited about in the future
00:46:01 - [Where to find Bree](Where to find Bree)
00:46:31 - Bantam's Podcast: The Edge
00:47:52 - Shop Update
Work at Bantam Tools

Firefox Books
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50min

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