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This week’s question comes from Rock. He writes: I’m curious to know if even after all these years of woodworking if there’s still an area of it that vexes you? Say a joinery method, a finishing technique, etc.? And here was my reply: “Hey Rock. I wouldn’t say anythi...
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...
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 ...
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...
Every year during Safety Week, I like to spread the love a little and share links from my fellow bloggers and podcasters. Last week, I was quite distracted with website trouble so here’s a quick list of links that were brought to my attention. If you have a blog and you wrote a safety-related...
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...
Usually by this point in the week, things are slowing down. But as you can see below, the community contributions keep rolling in! Timber Frame Tools – Best Practice is a Safety Habit Splintered Board Podcast – Safety Week 2010 (Pt. 2) Stu’s Shed – 10 Safety Tips Sleep...
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...
Our first voicemail was from Wilbur. His question involved power jointer vs. jointing with hand planes. Skee called in, he was curious about the use of different wood species within the same project and how you balance that. Are there rules or guidelines that you use? Matt thought it was a matter o...
Woodworker’s Safety Week blazes on with some great articles from our friends in the blogosphere! Matt’s Basement Workshop – Sensible About Safety Tom’s Workbench – Offput By Off-Cuts? Giant Cypress – Dust thou breathe, and unto dust thou lungs shalt return, redux...
Woodworker’s Safety Week blazes on with some great articles from our friends in the blogosphere! Half Inch Shy – Safety Awareness Week 2011 Penultimate Woodshop – Real Men Don’t Need Fingers Little Good Pieces – What I Screwed Up Back Then – Bandsaw Injury Stu...
Hey folks. Just a quick announcement concerning Safety Week. I am pushing it back a week due to a number of reasons. So the new dates are May 10-May 14th). If you are a blogger and you are producing safety-related content, you have a whole extra week to prepare! My content contribution will be...