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Someone posed a very good question in a forum thread recently, and I wanted to bring the discussion to you. The gist was that all of the recent excitement over woodworking (blogs/podcasts/etc…) could actually be BAD for the craft. The logic presented was that many of our great woodworkers h...
know you love them! Some may be surprised to know that my dad was a competitive body builder. As a teen, I used to tag along to the gym several days a week. I learned more about weight lifting and nutrition than any skinny guido in Trenton should know. But apparently, I get my frame from my mom̵...
Again?!?! Every time Woodworker’s Safety Week rolls around, I can count on at least a few folks saying, “Haven’t we covered everything already?!” Yeah, I’m talking about you Shannon. Ha! Honestly though, it is a valid question. After all, how many times can we talk abo...
hit me – we needed a special event to get folks off the sideline and into woodworking as a hobby. That’s where the idea of Get Woodworking Week comes in. This February 5 – 12, woodworking bloggers across the Internet are banding together to gear their sites toward the novice or soo...
The Wood Whisperer is proud to announce the first annual Woodworker’s Safety Week. Every year, during the first full week of May, I hope the woodworking world will join me in taking some time to refresh our memories about the importance of safety and proper techniques. Most of you probably ...
I wanted to make a quick announcement about two new projects we have going here at The Wood Whisperer. The first is sort of a pet project of mine: NewToWoodworking.com. Many of you may recall our original New to Woodworking page. It was a place where I organized links to videos and articles tha...
be treasured for generations. Not only did he create a table based on what she needed but also added some details that I would’ve never thought of, like the bow pulls on the drawers, the bows on the tabletop. The tabletop is made out of solid soft maple with walnut inlays and then dyed reddis...
Once again, Woodworker’s Safety Week is fast approaching. Starting May 2nd, you can expect many of our blogging and podcasting friends to discuss various safety-related topics and I will aggregate the links here for your convenience. As always, the goal is to look at this as a yearly refreshe...
n. Good luck my friend. Matt’s reply: Thanks so much replying, and especially the same day! I thought if I heard from you at all it would take weeks! I will be placing an order for the DVD in the coming days. Meanwhile, it may be hard to answer this question without seeing the project, but...
So this morning, I started reminding people that it was Safety Week. This is the result of having way too much on my plate and getting in from Atlanta last night at 10pm. I totally forgot I already postoned the even till next week. So since we have a whole week yet to be unsafe, I thought it wou...
I am not really a fan of answering a question with a question since I find it annoying. But after 4-5 years of answering woodworking inquiries from thousands of woodworkers around the world, I have come to realize there are just some questions that I cannot answer accurately without knowing signifi...
Welcome back to another episode of Wood Talk Online … a little late … or early depending on your point of view. This week’s episode starts out with Marc and Matt sharing their most recent experiences from the past week, some shop related and others not so woodworking related. We...