Shop Talk Live - Fine Woodworking

Shop Talk Live - Fine Woodworking

Fine Woodworking magazine editors and contributors answer your questions and share woodworking tips and techniques.

Episodes

April 19, 2024 64 mins

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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March 22, 2024 74 mins

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!

Sophie's IG - https://www.instagram.com/arcburn_furniture/

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March 8, 2024 64 mins

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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Find out more about Fine Woodworking New England here: https://www.finewoodworking.com/2024/03/06/fine-woodworking-new-england-april-26-27

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February 23, 2024 72 mins

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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February 9, 2024 67 mins

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January 26, 2024 72 mins

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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January 12, 2024 66 mins

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

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December 15, 2023 74 mins

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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December 1, 2023 67 mins

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

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November 17, 2023 59 mins

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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November 10, 2023 70 mins

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

This episode is sponsored by MatterHackers

Check out MatterHackers on Youtube here:  @MatterHackers 

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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November 3, 2023 65 mins

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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October 20, 2023 69 mins

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

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October 6, 2023 67 mins

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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September 22, 2023 64 mins

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

For more information about our eLearning courses - http://www.finewoodworking.com/elearning

For more information about our Woodworking Fundamentals journey - http://www.finewoodworking.com/fundamental

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September 8, 2023 65 mins

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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August 25, 2023 69 mins

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 ...

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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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July 28, 2023 62 mins

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!

Find Bridgid on YouTube:  @dinkles_woodshop 
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