Wood Talk | Woodworking

On today’s show, we’re talking about…modifying a table, finish for a whiskey tumbler, salvaging parts from an old table saw, and woodworking with children.

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• Lars wants to refinish a live edge desk and needs help matching the existing finish.
• Pennington wants to make a whisky tumbler from his friend's downed Red Oak tree.
• Peter has an unusable Rigid tablesaw and wonders if he can salvage and repurpose the parts.
• Jered has a 4 year old daughter and wants to work with her in the shop and needs advice.
• Michael wonders why shop is no longer in our schools and how to get a job in woodworking.

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It’s show #571 On today’s show, we’re talking about kids getting started in woodworking, shop lighting, woodworking slumps, and hand planed vs sanded surfaces.

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• Weston is 13 and wants his parents to trust him around sharp tools.
• Jon wants to know if he should add splines to his large table top.
• Peter wants to know if hand planed surfaces are too smooth for some finishes.
• Christian asked about our shop lighting situations.
• Bob's been spending too much time on Instagram and asks if we ever get frustrated and disappointed with our woodworking.
• David's wondering if he should add support to his planer.

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It’s show #570 On today’s show, we’re talking about tool knock-offs, resawing thin stock, glue and brads, which epoxy and saving the cherry trees.

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• Shannon finished up his mother's urn.
• Marc is suddenly finishing floors because Matt is a bad influence.
• Matt is building drawer boxes like a real woodworker.

• Charles is in an ethical quandary about manufacturers and intellectual property of machine designs.
• Eric has questions about epoxy open time and which brand to use.
• Alex is building guitars and looking for a way to resaw thin material
• Shannon says, check out the luthier friend
• Daniels is concerned about the Cherry trees on the DC mall being cut down.
• Isaac asks about using brad nails to clamp glued joinery and if they are strong enough.

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It’s show #568 On today’s show, we’re talking about hard vs soft sanding pads, the purpose of a shavehook, PVA glue life, emotional projects, Cabinets with drawers, and practice pieces out of pine.

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• David wonders about the hardness of sanding pad for doing cabinet work.
• Jeffrey asks about using dividers between drawers on a cabinet.
• Chris wants to know the purpose of a shavehook and how to sharpen it.
• Josh has old PVA and asks if it can be used past it's shelf life, and what even is that?

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• Jeremy asks if we ever get emotional about finishing a project or completing a hard task.
• Joe asks if practicing in cheap Pine is actually detrimental.

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It’s show #568 On today’s show, we’re talking about woodworker vs the HOA, sharpening a card scraper, flat bottom table saw cuts, and disposable blade hand planes

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• Shannon is building an urn for his mom on a bum knee.
• Marc had some shop guests and built a table with a wiener.
• Matt is still making cabinets.

Alex asks about this helical head router bit of death and how we feel about using it.

• Fantin asks about building a new shop at his new house and how to handle the HOA.
• Bill is using his ATB blade to cut cabinet dados and wonders if he needs a square grind blade.
• Johnathan got an Accu-Burr tool to help with card scraper sharpening but asks whether he needs to go back to the stones the re-hone the edge every time before pulling the burr.
• Les asks about disposable blade hand planes like RALI and whether they are worth it for a new plane user.

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It’s show #567 On today’s show, we’re talking about shoulder planes?, the very super cool tools fence, and a question about router fences that Matt probably can’t answer.

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• Howard asks about Marc's experience with the Super Cool Tools fence
• Michael asks about micro adjust on a router table fence and for suggestions.
• "Joe" asks whether a shoulder plane is useful enough to justify buying or should he stick with a paring chisel.
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It’s show #566 On today’s show, we’re doing another Oops! All Questions episode. We’re talking about some new tools, the longevity of glue joints, uses for CNC, and domestic hardwood alternatives.

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• Marc is schilling books at the St Louis Woodcraft (Green Rockler) on Saturday, February 3rd.

• Alex asks our thoughts on the Bullseye Borer doohickey
• Chris is looking for options in domestic hardwoods beyond the usual suspects.
• Nathan has a question about modern glues and their longevity as compared to animal based glues of days past.
• Rocco runs a machine shop for a school and asks how he might integrate a wood CNC into the school and curriculum.

Send in questions via the contact form here on site or hit us up on IG at woodtalkshow or send us a voicemail using your phone voice memo app to [email protected]

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