MWA Podcast Episode 42 - Around the Web

Show notes:

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Random things
• Pneumonia
• Dyami
• Lumber!
• Urban Specialty Woods
• Stephen’s step stool
• The dovetails needed a wee bit of help going together
• Wine Rack
• What’s a good wine, Tom? Red & White
• crazy wines
• rule of thumb - Nicest Label or crazy label
• cardinal Zin
• Plunger head
• goats do roam
• Tom
• Dutch Tool Chest
• New Saw Till

Blog post that piqued our interest

• Short Bus Woodworking - Kyle Barton
• How To Fix A Cup In A Glued Up Panel - Or How I wasted A Week . . .
• Halfinchshy.com - Paul-Marcel St-Onge
• Hand-Cut Dovetails on Compound-Angles
• The Woodwhisperer - Marc Spagnuolo
• The Young Artist’s Easel - Woodworkers Fighting Cancer 2013 for CancerCare
• A Dainty Book Launch Party
• Sawdust In My Socks - Kev Alviti
• Tetris Style Shelves
• The Avid Woodworker - Patrick Meriwether
• Podcast

Goings on in the MWA

• Jim Heavey in Tampa (Infinity Cutting tools - 12/7)
• MWA Calendars!

Main topic

• Jeff Miller’s Chair Class at Highland Woodworking

• The chair prototype the class made
• The Crazy Joint we discuss in the show
• Jeff’s Hand Cut Tenon Jig In Use
• Jeff Miller’s Chairmaking Class at Highland Woodworking
• Jeff’s Blog
• Highland Woodworking’s Blog
• The Penultimate Woodshop

Next broadcast’s topic

• Review of Bob Lang’s Building Blocks of Sketchup

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While at Woodworking in America we got a bit carried away and took some beefcake photos on every bench we could get our hands on.  We were even able to rope some of the presenters into posing.

Ejler Hjorth-Westh works it for the camera.

Our plan is to make a 2014 MWA Calendar. It will be a traditional, one page per month, flip up calendar as you’d usually hang on the wall. They will cost about $20.00 per piece.

MWA Podcast Episode 41 - Woodworking in America 2013

Show notes:

For episode #41 we’ve thrown our normal show note format out the window (sorry, I wasn’t making notes during the recording as I usually do). We recorded this one live at Woodworking in America. Thanks to the generous donations of our listeners we had the equipment to do it.

Live on the Marketplace floor at Woodworking in America 2013, we sat down with new MWA Chapter Administrator, Sean Wisniewski and discussed the event.

As we were live on the floor, we were interrupted visited by guests including Chuck Bender, Nik Brown and the Wood Talk crew.

We had a great time recording the show and we hope it comes through on the recording.

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.

If you want to find out more about the Modern Woodworkers Association, be sure to visit modernwoodworkersassociation.com, follow the MWA on twitter @MWA_National, like the MWA on Facebook or circle Modern Woodworkers Association on Google+. While you’re there, join the MWA Google+ community for project sharing, discussion and loads of woodworking banter.

Join the MWA at WIA

If you’ve heard me talk about WIA or FWWLive or any other woodworking conference on the Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast, you’ve heard me say over and over how the best part of the conferences is the community of fellow woodworkers who you meet and socialize with over the event. Evening is a prime time for this to happen.

We work wood and eat German food (and we're loud).

The Modern Woodworkers Association has setup and is helping promote meetups every night of the conference. All are free to enter (you pay for your own food & drink) and all will be attended by fellow woodworkers.

Thursday:  MWA Meetup at Keystone

Beginning at 7:00 pm, we’ll be hanging out in the upstairs bar room at the Keystone Bar & Grill. It’s a quick walk from the convention center and most of the hotels. Meeting at the Keystone on the opening night of registration has become a tradition for WIA and we hope you’ll join us. Many fellow MWA members, woodworking bloggers and other WIA attendees will be there. If you’re going to to the Roubo Book Release, don’t worry. You can join us at Keystone afterwards. All are welcome.

Friday:  Hofbrauhaus

The Hofbrauhaus excursion on Friday night is another WIA tradition. It’s less organized than the meetups at Keystone, in that we don’t reserve a private room. We just jump on the trolley and head to Hofbrauhaus. It’s a fun night of great beer, great food, great company and loud music. If you’re going to the official WIA Banquet, please join us at Hofbrauhaus afterwards. We usually stay late. If you’re looking to meet us at Hofbrauhaus, there’s no telling exactly where we’ll be, though in past years we’ve started the evening at the outside bar area and then moved to one of the many long tables. Just listen for Tom Iovino and you’ll be sure to find us. All are welcome.

Saturday:  WoodTalk Meetup at Keystone

The WoodTalk guys have setup their own Meetup at the Keystone on Saturday night. It begins at 6:30. Since it was organized by and features Marc, Matt & Shannon, you should expect that this will be the smoothest running event of the weekend. Still, it’s going to be an absolute blast and all should come. I know we’re going to try to represent the MWA there in force.

Afterwards:

Just about every night some folks will stop by the Behle St Cafe before heading back to their rooms. If it’s late, but you’re still looking to hang out with woodworkers, joint us there. All are welcome.

Venue Information

Keystone Bar & Grill

313 Greenup St

Covington, KY

Hofbrauhaus Newport

200 East 3rd St

Newport, KY 41071

Take the SouthBank Shuttle (trolley) to the stop between Monmouth St & Saratoga St (it doesn’t have stop names)

Behle St Cafe

50 East Rivercenter  Blvd

Covington, KY 41011

Across the street from the convention center in the same building as the Embassy Suites





MWA Philadelphia Field Trip on Saturday, October 26th

Members from MWA-NJ/NY will be making a field trip to Philadelphia on Saturday, October 26th, to visit 2 venues of interest to woodworkers (only a few streets away from each other).

1. A Nakashima Show at the Moderne Gallery in Philadelphia (www.modernegallery.com) -- "An Evolving Legacy". It runs until Saturday, November 2, with hours Tues-Sat, 12-5. 
2. The Center for Art in Wood (www.centerforartinwood.org) is a showcase for Woodturning. Their upcoming show is “Shadow of the Turning: The Art of Binh Pho,” and there will be a Gallery talk and Book Signing with artist Binh Pho & co-curator Kevin Wallace on Saturday, October 26 from 11 am – 1 pm. The Director of The Center - Albert LeCoff - is interested in meeting with us when we are there. 

No Reservations are needed for either venue.

The plan is to be in Philadelphia by 10 am to walk through the Binh Pho show before the 11am - 1pm talk/ book signing, go to lunch, and head over to the Moderne Gallery (which opens at noon) to see the Nakashima show.

We don’t have to travel as a group, but we could meet for lunch, beforehand, or afterwards.

Contact Jay Siegelaub (mwa@sibat.net) for any additional information.