MWA Podcast Episode 48 - We Found the Shop!

Show Notes:

MWA Podcast Episode #48

February 26, 2014

We Got Here . . . Somehow

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Plays with old timey steel
  
• Dyami
• Lill’s Quilt Rack
  
• Tom
• Just need to build the tops of the front entertainment units
• Had to build some pocket screw samples for last night’s guild meeting
• Excellent discussion  about getting new woodworkers into the shop at the SPWG meeting

Blog post that piqued our interest

• Inside the Oldwolf Workshop
• Seemingly Random Acts of Coincidence
• An Eshrick Inspired Stool
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• Dyami’s Post
• Chuck’s Post

Goings on in the MWA

• Northeastern Woodworkers Association 25th Annual Showcase
• March 29th & 30th, 2014
• Saratoga Springs City Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
• The Woodworking Shows
• Kansas City, February 28 - March 2
• Atlanta, March 7-9
• Milwaukee, March 14-16
• Tampa, March 21-23
• The Atlanta Chapter
• March 8th 9:00 am
• Atlanta Woodcraft

Main topic

• How’d we fit in here
• The Renaissance Woodworker
• Don’t Ignore The Fourth Wall

Next broadcast’s topic

• Jeremy Pickett of Pickett Furniture

Where can you find us:

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MWA Podcast Episode 47 - Matt Vanderlist AKA the Podfather

Show Notes:

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Box
• Dyami
• A jointer and . . . space
• Tom
• Sliding doors (more) Working inside the home is a pain in the rear...

Upcoming events

• The Furniture Project 2014
• Seaport World Trade Center – Boston, MA – February 21-23, 2014
• Display at the Furniture Project
• Chimney Cabinet
• Fine Woodworking Live Classes at the Woodworking Shows in Somerset, NJ
• Matt Kenny & Mike Pekovich will each be teaching two classes at the Somerset show on February 21-23, 2014
• You’ll need tickets to the classes. You can buy them here.
• Northeastern Woodworkers Association 25th Annual Showcase
• March 29th & 30th, 2014
• Saratoga Springs City Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

Main topic

• Matt Vanderlist
• Matt’s Basement Workshop
• Wood Talk Online
• When Matt began podcasting, about 7 years ago he had been woodworking about 5 years.
• Does being the first voice mean anything?
• Breaking the stereotype of old men woodworking.
• Even in Atlanta, Zebra wood is surprisingly easy to work for an exotic.
• Most surprising development (of online woodworking community)?
• Number of people
• The way there are turf wars over topics and techniques
• some online personalities have followers who are very territorial
• How have you kept motivated?
• Viewer/Listener emails, it’s audience driven
• What’s it really like to work with Shannon Rogers?
• How comes the bed?
• Slowly.
• Marc had Matt at “Hello?”. He completes Matt.
• Biggest surprise of Wood Talk
• How large and demanding the audience is
• The “God Horrendous chortle”
• An uncontrollable natural phenomenon which Matt has no control over.
• Have you talked to Mary May since Woodworking in America?
• He’s trying
• 5 Questions
• how did you get into woodworking?
• Once he bought his first house, it blossomed.
• what's your favorite tool?
• his brain, no. A tool he uses? the Breese smoother plane he built from a kit.
• who has influenced you the most?
• Mmm. Originally, Chris Schwarz.
• Chris still gets lots of credit, but the online woodworking community has supplanted him in Matt’s heart.
• What was your biggest stumbling block & could it have been avoided?
• When Matt overthinks. Too much information online and in print. Information overload.
• The internet has ruined my woodworking
• How has the internet influenced your work?
• Seeing what other people are doing and hearing what they want to learn has improved his woodworlking

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MWA Podcast Episode 46 - Tom McKenna of Fine Woodworking

Show Notes:

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Snow
• Dyami
• A pile of calendars
• Tom
• Sliding Doors on his cabinet

Goings on in (and out of) the MWA

• Chris Wong’s Shop Stool Build Off
• The shop stool build off that was
• The Furniture Project 2014
• Seaport World Trade Center – Boston, MA – February 21-23, 2014
• Display at the Furniture Project
• Chimney Cabinet
• Fine Woodworking Live Classes at the Woodworking Shows in Somerset, NJ
• Matt Kenny & Mike Pekovich will each be teaching two classes at the Somerset show on February 21-23, 2014
• You’ll need tickets to the classes. You can buy them here.
• Northeastern Woodworkers Association 25th Annual Showcase
• March 29th & 30th, 2014
• Saratoga Springs City Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
• A great showcase of member works
• Classes by Garrett Hack & Shelia Landry
• A large market place
• Randall Rosenthal
• http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/artist/index.php?aid=64

Main topic

• New Fine Woodworking Editor Tom McKenna
• How did you get started with Fine Woodworking?
• How did you get into woodworking? Did you?
• Now that you’ve been editor for a few months, is it all you’d expected?
• Are there changes you’re looking to make to FWW?
• Rich history at the magazine. What does that mean to you?
• Changes to the online presence
• No Fine Woodworking Live 2014

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MWA Podcast Episode 45 - Tom Fidgen




 Show Notes:

• Main topic
• Tom Fidgen
• How did you get into woodworking
• Start with power tools and move to hand or always hand?
• Why hand?
• New book:  The Unplugged Workshop.

 

 

• Where can they find us
• And, that just about wraps it up for this show.
• If you’re missing us already, you can subscribe to the show on itunes. Just search for the Modern Woodworkers Association. Once you’re subscribed, you’ll be sure never to miss an exciting episode. While you’re in iTunes, please leave us a 5 star rating. It helps our rank so others can more easily find us.

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MWA Podcast Episode 44 - Jeff Miller

Show Notes:

 

 

 

What’s in the shop?

• Chris

• Only used wood named after jungle creatures
• Dyami
• Carter Guides
• The stool is blue & getting glossy

• The Dyed Timberstrand Chris Mentioned

• Tom
• Tom’s wee bench

• Last minute elf

Blog post that piqued our interest

• Nik Brown - The Digital Woodworker
• A rustic bombproof farmhouse / harvest trestle table for a family kitchen
• The Wood Whisperer
• Scott’s Low-Back Chair
• American Craftsman Workshop
• Carpentry and Fine Woodworking - It’s All Related

Goings on in the MWA

• Jim Heavey at Infinity cutting tools

Main topic

• Jeff Miller
• furnituremaking.com
• Jeff has 7 benches, each outfitted differently
• One of Jeff’s Books (Dyami’s favorite): Charimaking & Design

Next broadcast’s topic (12/11/13)

• Tom Fidgen

Fun Fact: Today (12/4/13) is Jim Ashley’s Birthday

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