EPISODES

WT209 – 2014 in Review

Did we meet or exceed our goals? Or did we fall miserably short. Listen to find out!

WT208 – The OCD Woodworker

Today we’re talking about fine-tuning tapered plugs, avoiding slippery surfaces on step stools, and attaching a table top to its base

WT206 – We’re Thankful

Lie-Nielsen vs Veritas, loose tenons and bed rails, refurbish or buy new, and what we’re thankful for!

WT203 – Mirror Frisbee

Wood warping after a resaw, trouble with a smoothing plane, and octagonal frame joinery.

WT202 – Do Less Woodworking!

Solvent confusion, box joints and short ceilings, workbenches and T tracks, and selecting wood for your projects.

WT201 – Bagged & Boarded

Safe finishes for comic book storage, drawer guide positioning, and restoring an antique workbench.

WT199 – Patronizing Matt

Finishes for kitchen cabinets, dealing with glue squeezeout, and should you get a really small hand plane?

WT198 – Neanderthal Parenting Tips

Steam bending vs bent lamination, choosing your tools based on sharpening methods, and replacing your dust collector’s filtration bags.

WT196 – Pimp My Bench Plane!

Avoiding rounding over with a random orbit sander, splines or biscuits as a glue-up aide, a bit of marquetry on a box, and a WIA wrap-up with a discussion of Lee Valley’s new custom planes.

WT195 – And We’re Back!

Preventing cupped panels, respirators for the permanently bearded, box hinges, Spraying outdoors, acclimating lumber before a project, and avoiding tearout while turning.

WT193 – Marc Go Sleepy

Mixing profiles and breadboard ends, using a chisel plane, and making dadoes and grooves with hand tools.

WT192 – The Vanderlist Method

Easy durable finishes, automation distancing us from our craft, and how to perform a ritual bloodletting with your chisels

WT191 – The Chortle Shakes

Ammonia fuming, pre-finishing rituals, plywood in the hand tool shop, and how flat is flat enough.

WT185 – Robot Balls

Matching stain, rough vs smooth glue surfaces, tips for beating the summer heat, framing mirrors, and unique joints for a bed frame.

WT183 – Shannon Sparkles

Hand tool dust collection, steam bending kiln-dried wood, flattening a partial log slab, using molding planes on curved edges.

WT182 – Marc is Patient Zero?

Bandsaw dust collection, small insert screws, choosing the right size hinge, carving tool brands, and if too much woodworking content is a bad thing.

WT180 – Butt Buffing

The pros and cons of a granite countertop for a workbench, adjustable height workbenches, and how to use a spokeshave.

WT176 – Cadbury Cream Eggs

Cadbury Cream Egg stand, budget chisels, avoiding tearout with plywood, flattening waterstones, the draw knife, a twisted workbench, setting up a skew rabbet plane, and constructing Art Deco pieces.

WT175 – Lazy Woodworker

Wood movement cracking finish, 15″ planer options, protecting milk paint outdoors, building with decking lumber, spindle sander for the drill press, cloudy surface when sharpening, and bits for a brace.

WT174 – Hand Tool Menagerie School

Plywood cases, planing dried glue, angled mortises, the iBox jig, cutting dovetails with a tenon saw, and choosing between a fret saw and a coping saw.

WT173 – What’s with Brad Pitt?!

Planing thin stock, stationary sanding machines, woodworking in the cold, sharpening the micro-bevel, hybrid saws, un-calibrated jointers, and a primer on chisels.

WT172 – Do They Know About Shrinkage?

Alternatives to epoxy thickeners, hand-planing small parts, the ideal plane for a shooting board, Blacker House Chair, how cold temps and high humidity will affect wood, and reclaimed wood.

WT171 – Mind the Neck Divot!

Cuttin down on pro bono work, wood acclimation, returning bad wood, injury time-outs, minimizing noise transmission, and reinforced miters.

WT170 – Crushed Walnuts

Flat panels after glueup, wooden screws, workbench questions, lamination techniques, big box store wood, and dealing with large slabs.

WT169 – Shannon’s Bloody Reign!

Downdraft tables, powder coating hand planes, drilling end grain, veneer vs solid wood for a dining table, liquid hide glue and lubricants staining wood.

WT167 – Nobody Likes an Ash Hole

Pre-finishing your projects, skill-building strategies, sharpening with diamond stones, a fence for a small bandsaw, dealing with an infestation, and smoothing dovetail pins.

WT166 – The Wet Spot

Sweating on your projects, what grit you should sand to, and researching wood prices.

WT165 – A Zen Moment

Carbide tipped bandsaw blades, palm routers, avoiding sapwood, wooden gears, weathered wood, and making a large bridle joint.

WT164 – Going for the Jugular

When its safe to remove a blade guard and riving knife, resawing to conserve wood, making a wooden plane and shooting board, your first workbench, buying stock in the rough, and disposing of old power tools.