The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour

By Matt Kenney & Joe Faraoni

What's The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour about?

An hour or so of woodworking fun with Matt and Joe.

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030: Favorite and Least Fav...

09.25.2020

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 ...

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 ...
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 answer ...
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. Stat of the ...
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. He’s ...
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 needs ...
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 ...
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. What we’ve ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.

The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour

What's The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour episodes:

030: Favorite and Least Favorite Woods

026: All About Hand Planes

025: Interview with Kelly Dunton

024: Rout-er or Rout-ah?

023: Top Things That Have Changed Our Woodworking

022: Mistakes Were Made

021: Door construction

020: Pandemic Episode 2

019: The Socially Distanced Episode

018: Packing Wood (tools)

017: Matt Writes a Book About Kumiko

016: Matt Works Big and Tries to Motivate Joe

015: Matt's Table Saw Accident

014: Joe needs a desk

013: 5 Essential Woodworking Skills

012: Pricing your work

011: Matt Flies Solo

010: Dovetails and Mistakes

009: Rip n' Flip

A Quick Announcement

008: Order of operations

007: Finally, Milling

006: Where do Pieces Come From

005: Getting Wood (at the lumber yard)

004: Design with Phil Morley

003: Design

002: Sharpening

001: Woodworking Fun Hour