Matt | January 31, 2009
Hey everyone welcome back for another episode! As I’ve always said, if you have a topic suggestion or show idea that you’d love to have on Matt’s Basement Workshop don’t hesitate to contact me. And that’s exactly what a listener by the name of Charlie Courtney did just recently.
For Christmas Charlie’s [...]
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Matt | January 25, 2009
Hi everyone, January 26th marks the official third anniversary of Matt’s Basement Workshop being on the internet.
As I’ve said before, it’s been a lot of fun creating the show. And I’ve not only learned a lot from it, but I’ve also managed to make way more friends than I ever imagined I would!!
So thanks [...]
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Matt | January 21, 2009
Matt has been pushing piles of dust around his shop just for fun, and he has finally started playing with Google Sketchup. Aaron in the chat room recommends Go-To-School.com. Marc also mentioned signing up for classes with Andy Chidwick and Darrell Peart at the William Ng School.
Marc is also now making [...]
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Matt | January 17, 2009
The small plow plane from Veritas has quickly made it’s way to the top of my list of “favorite tools”.
It’s so easy to use, and like a good “speciality” tool should do, it does its job extremely well. So well in fact I’ve actually wasted time debating whether I should or shouldn’t [...]
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Matt | January 11, 2009
It’s the beginning of the new year and it’s also the beginning of a brand new month…so that means it’s time for ROUTER BIT OF THE MONTH!!
This month’s Whiteside router bit is the 1/8" Roundover bit. A small radius bit that works great to ease edges on all your components.
If you aren’t this month’s winner, you [...]
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