Blackwing president Grant Christensen discusses pencils with Mike and Ben, while Anissa, Amanda, and Ben debate unanswerable woodworking questions.

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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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Mike and Amanda chat with Ramon Valdez about belt sanders, magnets, and making jigs.

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Gary and Vic join Ben and discuss fancy scrapers, the durability of veneer, projects that instill a love of woodworking, and Gary declares his life's greatest love.

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Amanda and Anissa welcome new FW staffer, Owen Madden to the show to discuss working in a cabinet shop, bandsaw blades, and more. Also, Ben is joined by Logan Whittmer to talk about the upcoming Woodworking In America event.

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Ben, Vic, and Amanda talk about turning, what to buy when looking for entry level tools, and when to stop and clean your blades.

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Bridgid Gruber of Dinkles Woodshop shares her thoughts on what she'd tell herself 8 years ago, at the beginning of her woodworking career. 

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Mike and Amanda chat with Chris about his recent work and go through a list of questions we specially curated, just for him. 

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Ben and Amanda are joined by TV's Phil Huber, for an episode discussing bandsaw tension, edge sanders, and downdraft tables. 

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Robby Simon shares his journey into woodworking, and the inspiration behind his strong design voice and creative direction.

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Amanda sits down with Mike Mascellii and Bob Van Dyke to answer questions and chat about Fine Woodworking New England.

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Amanda chats with Vic and Mike, who have both recently picked up some exciting new tools.  

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Sergei Gerasimenko thought he was just dropping off his latest commission. Instead he received a well-deserved round of applause. 

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Ben and Amanda chat with Phil Morley, the newest Lead Instructor for Center for Furniture Craftmanships nine month comprehensive.

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Randy Wilkinson joins Amanda and Ben to discuss his work as a furniture conservator and wood identification expert.

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Vic, Anissa, and Ben discuss jointing very long boards, woodworking with younglings, hand-tool dust clean up, and their all-time favorite tools of this week.

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Amanda chats with Chelsea Van Voorhis and Albert Kleine, two marquetry artists with entirely different approaches. 

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Ben, Vic, and Amanda catch up, answer listener questions, and talk about how they're wrapping up 2024.

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Mike and Ben answer a pile of listener questions to help you through your holiday weekend.

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Amanda chats with Kate Swann, who runs Florida School of Woodworking, and Morgan Grove, a student and team leader at the USDA Forestry Service in Baltimore. 

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Mike, Vic, and Ben discuss the precision really needed in woodworking, methods for creating tapered bevels, and tracksaw techniques.

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Rollie Johnson, Gary Rogowski, and Phil Huber join Amanda in front of a live audience at Woodworking In America 2024.

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Seri Robinson, a.k.a. Dr. Spalting, says the best food-safe finish is no finish at all.

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Amanda is joined by Brenon Plourde and Logan Wittmer to discuss milling logs, drying lumber, and their mutual "problem" of hoarding the perfect board. 

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Amanda chats with Larissa Huff and Adrian Ferrazzutti, arguably two of the most creative woodworkers in our world. Both chat about boxes and prototypes, and their workflow. Mike and Ben answer a couple questions from our listeners, covering pinned tenons and creative solutions for eliminating tear out on the tablesaw. 

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Woodworker and recording engineer Kenny Varga joins Ben to discuss building furniture for some of the most famous recording studios in the world.

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Mike, Anissa, and Ben discuss new the issue of FW, beveling bookshelves, bench height, and what direction to turn a table saw miter gauge.

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Ben and Mike Mascelli talk finishing and upholstery, Then Amanda chats with Mike about his thoughts on our "fine woodworking" question from the last episode.. 

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Ben and Amanda chat with Vic about bandsaw accessories and what constitutes "fine furniture"

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Phil, Mike, and Ben discuss store-bought vs shop-made dowels, what wood to use for floating tenon stock, and whether CAD models negate the need for full-size mockups.

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Amanda is joined by Ashley Pieper and Bonnie Elisabeth Hawk to discuss woodworking education and how it has carved a path for them in their furniture making careers.

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Mike, Amanda, and Ben discuss router table techniques, fancy router-based tools, favorite vises, and Mike takes on a burst of quickfire questions.

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Hague Haswell and Vic Tesolin of Melbourne Tool Company join Ben to discuss what it's like to start a hand tool company from scratch.

This episode is sponsored by Melbourne Tool Company

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Over three years of collaboration with woodworkers and designers, Melbourne-based woodworking retailer Timbecon has created a new brand of hand tools. A brand that takes inspiration from the past yet designs tools for today. A brand producing tools that are simple, accurate, and accessible to all people who are passionate about woodworking. A brand called Melbourne Tool Company.

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Anissa crosses the border to hang out with Vic and Steve Der-Garabedian and ask them questions about jointing veneer, minimalist woodworking, moving shop, and why the best place to use your track saw is on top of a table saw.

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Ben and Mike recap Fine Woodworking New England, and answer a couple questions from our listeners. Amanda is joined by Sophie Glenn, who answers questions on how to get started in metalworking, finishing tips, and how she translates woodworking techniques in her metalworking practice.

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Mike, Anissa, and Ben discuss their lumber haulers, tolerances when cutting large joints, and safely cutting thin strips. 

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Amanda is joined by Owen Madden and Evan Court to discuss their work in production shops, how their backgrounds in other shops and schools effect their work flow, and their plans for the future.

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Andrew Hunter joins Vic and Ben to discuss sharpening, carpeted workshops, and one listener's dining table issues. Amanda talks to Sophie Glenn, a metalworker/woodworker who you should know!

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Bob Van Dyke joins Mike and Amanda to discuss dovetail layout lines, tambour doors, and designing to a specific board. Also, Amanda and Ben discuss the fading future of affordable table saws. 

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Vic and Ben welcome a new co-host into the mix and discuss resawing, adjusting the mouth of hand planes, easy-to-build knock-down benches, and how one Dr. can stop overusing their table saw.

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Larissa Huff joins Vic and Ben to discuss working in the cold, dovetail layout, fancy tape measures, and if spokeshaves are in fact worth it.

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Bill Pavlak and Dan Faia join Ben to discuss inspecting historic furniture, resawing by hand, and sharpening drawknives.

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Woodsmith's Phil Huber joins Mike and Ben to discuss taking care of fine furniture, making tools and jigs, and the new home of Fine Woodworking.

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Gary Rogowski joins Vic and Ben to discuss lumber yards, ungluing a chessboard, weird router bits, and hybrid sharpening setups.

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Mike, Anissa, and Ben discuss Shaker furniture, fixing a bench top, oddball shelf joinery, and the conversation comes back to Christian Becksvoort over and over.

0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Random chat
11:12 - Becksvoorts Shaker cabinet feet
21:45 - Patching a benchtop
33:04 - Most embarrassing woodworking moment
49:38 - Weird wall shelf joinery

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MatterHacker's Dave Gaylord joins Ben to discuss the plethora of digital tools available to woodworkers.

This episode is sponsored by MatterHackers

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You can find links to the tools discussed in this episode at:
https://www.finewoodworking.com/2023/11/10/stl-digital-woodworking-tools-with-matterhackers

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Well, not ALL bandsaws, but Rollie Johnson joins Vic and Ben to discuss the weird noises your bandsaw makes, resawing wood by hand, and flattening boards with handplanes.

0:00 - Intro
3:19 - Bandsaw noises and setup
40:33 - How to resaw without a bandsaw
50:33 - No room for a jointer!

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Anissa and Ben welcome David Johnson onto the show to discuss his work repairing furniture in LA. 

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Mike, Vic, and Ben discuss vacuum bags, coping saw blades, and ammonia fuming.

0:00 - Intro
3:03 - Catching up with Vic
10:52 - Vacuum bags
25:05 - Coping saw and fret saw blades
37:38 - Segments
50:54 - Fuming with ammonia

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Not really, it's really Mike, Anissa, and Ben discussing jointers and planers.

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0:00 - Intro
1:46 - 300 of these things 
7:10 - Woodworkers making speakers
16:44 - Milling 1-3/4 stock
23:07 - Segments
36:15 - Do you need a jointer?
48:20 - What cutter head for a Dewalt 735

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We chat with Father John Abraham of Benchcrafted and Phil Huber of The Woodsmith Shop, and Mike, Amanda, and Ben discuss all of the great woodworking festivals of late.

0:00 - Intro
2:30 - Chatting about festivals
16:35 - Phil Huber of The Woodsmith Shop
32:30 - Tools we dug seeing at shows
44:25 - Fr. John Abraham of Benchcrafted
1:02:18 - Wrapping it up

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Bob Van Dyke joins Mike and Ben to discuss sharpening to 80 grit, which wood is best for bending, bandsaw blade issues, and shoulder planes.

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0:00 - Intro
2:23 - What's new at Bob's?
11:34 - Gluing hinges on a box?
19:41 - Steam bending wood
29:48 - Segments
40:35 - Sharpening to 80 grit
52:15 - Breaking bandsaw blades
59:10 - What shoulder plane to get?

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Gary Rogowski joins Vic and Ben to discuss adjusting hinges, using a chamfer bit for box miters, and making Queen Anne furniture without a bandsaw.

0:00 - Intro 
1:28 - Adjusting hinges
27:41 - Chamer bit for box miters?
35:05 - Queen Anne furniture and no bandsaw

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Bridgid from Dinkle's Woodshop joins Amanda and Ben to talk about her obsession with building bed frames, the best material for shop furniture, favorite tools, and how beginners can stop overthinking things in the shop.

0:00 - Intro
16:04 - How can a beginner shut up and start doing?
33:35 - All-time Favorites
43:48 - What to build shop cabinets out of?
51:14 - Help with bed frames!

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An important discussion about hearing health, and why it's important to every woodworker.

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Mike, Vic, and Ben discuss (for the last time) shops without a table saw, when to sell a tool, and why the simplest way to get something done is the best way.

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In this episode, we talk about all things Windsor chairs with Aspen Golann and Kelly Harris, as well as their involvement with The Chairmaker's Toolbox.

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Megan Fitzpatrick joins Vic and Ben to discuss round vs. square dogs, drilling at an angle, plane iron camber, and the best material to use on a bathroom vanity.

0:00 - Intro
5:00 - Square on a drill press when drilling at an angle
13:37 - Wood for a bathroom vanity
20:50 - How much of a camber
32:24 - All time favorites
44:24 - Angled dog holes?

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Tim Coleman tells us about his early days in woodworking and the difficult yet rewarding choices he made on his journey.

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Not really—but Mike, Amanda, and Ben discuss their methods for kind of dialing it in, as well as prefinishing strategies, and how they use computer-aided design in their personal woodworking.

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Vic and Ben answer eight listener questions, ranging from table saw throatplates to shiplap board spacing.

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Dan Faia joins Ben to answer listener questions, talk about the last 30 years of his woodworking journey, and what he hopes for out of the next 30 years.

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Mike, Vic, and Ben discuss Vic's upcoming move (again), design classes, the features they'd want in a bandsaw, and what vises make them happiest.

0:00 - Intro
1:30 - Vic is moving again
19:15 - Mike and Vic teach design
30:17 - What size bandsaw would you choose?
43:02 - Segments

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We talk to two experts about considerations when using tropical hardwoods, and how to make the rain forest too valuable to burn.

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Mike and Ben welcome new associate editor, Amanda Russell to the mix, and discuss sprayer options, magnets, and what other craft skills translate to woodworking.

0:00 - Intro 
1:43 - A.I. furniture design
18:31 - Edge banding for plywood
25:48 - Segments
53:32 - Magnets for a knife block

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Larissa, Vic, and Ben discuss A.I. in furniture design, edge banding for plywood, machine maintenance, and a listener's bandsaw issues.

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Gary Rogowski joins Mike and Ben to discuss knockdown joinery ideas, steam bending, wood movement and what to do with your stuff when you die.

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - The stages of becoming a better woodworker
16:35 - Knockdown joinery ideas
23:20 - What to do with your stuff when you die
35:50 - Segments
44:07 - Flattening wet stones without running water
46:40 - Wood movement

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Vic and Ben discuss life without a table saw, how much room a bandsaw takes up, bench top jointers, and how to be a good Instagram community member.

0:00 - Intro
2:04 - Instragm Trolls
21:15 - Life without a table saw and where to put a bandsaw
55:58 - Small jointer/planer combos and benchtop jointers

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Asa Christiana joins Mike and Ben to discuss tool libraries, the best way of fairing curves, and what one listener might be doing wrong with their hand plane.

0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Asa's new book
15:18 - Are tool libraries useful for new woodworkers?
23:03 - Skipping plane problems
30:35 - Segments
42:31 - Fairing a curved surface

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Mike, Anissa, and Ben discuss their favorite plywoods, how flat an assembly table needs to be, Mike's tormek, and corner desks.

0:00 - Intro
4:58 - Flatness of assembly tables
14:42 - Best plywood for fine woodworking
30:14 - What dead woodworker do you want to hang out with?
47:18 - L Shaped Desks
57:58 - How does Mike use his Tormek?

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0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Teaching online
13:40 - The important parts of a mortise
31:10 - Using string as a clamp
47:19 - All-time favorite tools
1:03:35 - The piece of wood you don't want to cut

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Bob Van Dyke joins Mike and Ben to discuss table saw blade sharpening, drill press height, scary router bits coming loose, and his upcoming dovetail bootcamp.

Larissa Huff's Hand-routed Lettering video: https://www.finewoodworking.com/2022/09/16/hand-routed-lettering

Full-length Sam Maloof documentary: https://www.finewoodworking.com/2022/09/21/sam-maloof-woodworking-profile

0:00 - Intro
2:47 - Dovetail bootcamp - https://www.finewoodworking.com/elearning
20:34 - Table saw blade sharpening
32:49 - Drill press table height
43:34 - Segments
1:02:04 - Router bit on the move!

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Mike and Ben interview Joe Hebenstreit and Adi Rao about their work with Shaper—from the early prototypes to their newest offerings, Shaper Studio and Plate.

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Mike, Anissa, and Ben debate cutting boards and talk about taking box-making skills to the next level, fixing shellac mistakes, and solid-wood door movement.

0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Cutting boards
24:58 - Solid-wood door with kumiko
30:40 - Segments
48:19 - Fixing shellac mistakes
52:24 - Next level boxing

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Megan Fitzpatrick joins Vic and Ben to discuss replacement plane blades, grinding angles, rabbeting dovetails and our first ever (we think) live call in!

0:00 - Intro
1:47 - Replacement plane blades
9:07 - Grinding primary bevels
20:48 - All time favorite tools
33:36 - Adding a rabbet to aid in dovetailing
42:19 - Call in: Antonio asks where he should put his shop

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This episode is sponsored by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers - http://www.sapfm.org

0:00 - Intro
1:46 - Marquetry
24:49 - Crossgrain banding
34:26 - Shaper vs. router table
48:41 - **graphic injury discussion**
57:50 - Dropping wood on the floor on purpose

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Mike, Vic, and Ben discuss how they find information they need to learn a new technique and the impulse buys that they just can't walk away from.

This episode is sponsored by the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and The Northwest Woodworking Studio

0:00 - Intro
2:19 - How do you find woodworking information
41:08 - Segment Potpurri
55:00 - Woodworking impulse buys

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Mike, Barry, and Ben discuss working with thin stock, combination milling machines, chisel handles, and Barry and Ben get a little too close to being fired on air.

This episode is sponsored by Woodcraft and Pony/Jorgensen

Mike Mascelli's video workshop can be found here: https://www.finewoodworking.com/videoworkshop/2022/05/staining-and-dying-wood-with-mike-mascelli

0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Ben's new tablesaw
16:14 - Milling thin stock
25:39 - Tiny pieces of ebony
33:43 - Segments
57:52 - Why don't you like combo machines?

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Larissa Huff wows Vic and Ben with her harrowing tales of freehand letter routing and many other woodworking feats.

This episode is sponsored by Shaper and Pony/Jorgensen

0:00 - Intro
15:23 - Different edge treatments
26:07 - Leveling an outfeed table
40:26 - All time favorite tools
51:42 - Larissa loves routers!
1:04:49 - Shaping an anticlastic curve

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This episode is sponsored by Triton Tools

0:00 - Intro
7:25 - Segment potpurri
12:40 - Shop flooring
20:17 - The carriage maker's plane
22:41 - Workbench height
34:08 - Milling lumber in advance
48:23 - Using epoxy

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Wilbur Pan wears many hats. It's just that sometimes those hats are a white coat, or a community organizing pin, or a shop apron. A full-on M.D., Ph.D, Wilbur's spent over 20 years in oncology, including almost 18 treating kids. As an FWW editor once put it, "He's basically a superhero." He's also a tool nut and science nerd, two passions that seem to feed into each other. Indeed, he may be the only podcast guess to say, "I know just enough metallurgy to get me into trouble." His particular tool nuttiness is for Japanese tools, which are on display above his bench. For years he's run the blog giant Cypress, a tremendous resource for learning more about Japanese tools whether it's which ryoba to buy first or why Japanese tools are tools, not mystical magic wands.

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Thanks to our shop launch partner Grizzly Industrial for sponsoring this episode.

This episode was also sponsored by Pony/Jorgensen

For more information on our newest online course: https://finewoodworking.mykajabi.com/

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Sponsored by the Northwest Woodworking Studio's Online Mastery Program: http://www.Northwestwoodworking.com

Bill Pavlak's blog: https://www.finewoodworking.com/2022/03/22/new-shops-and-old-movies

0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Random talking and old tools
11:07 - Professional woodworking?
20:46 - How flat is flat enough before planing?
33:58 - Dovetails in thin stock
45:07 - Smooth moves
1:03:48 - How accurate is acceptable?

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This interview is was done in 2019, and originally posted to FineWoodworking.com in 2020. It's new to the podcast audience and we thought the world could use a dose of Russ Filbeck right now.

For more information on Russ and to get a copy of his incredible book on ladder back chair making - https://russfilbeck.com/

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