Author Archive for Matt
Wood Talk No. 133
On today’s show, we’re talking about sharpening a Benchcrafted Skraper, purchasing the right rip blade, Sweetheart vs Bailey planes, “correct” way to store bench planes, upgrading a random orbital sander, coverings on assembly tables, & outdoor finish or pressure treated wood? News **Announce Keystone Pub live show on Sat 10/19 from 7-10 Food and Drink [...]
Weekend with WOOD Snippet No. 5
Among the speakers at the first ever Weekend with WOOD Event was Marc Adams. Yes, THAT Marc Adams of the Marc Adams School of Woodworking! Marc was teaching a number of courses varying from veneering and marquetry all the way to using routers. I had a chance to sneak into his “Getting the most from [...]
Great sale price to get started on spray finishing
Thanks to Jim Heavey’s class on Spray Finishing at Weekend with WOOD this past weekend, I’m really looking forward to breaking out my Earlex Spray Station and finally letting it do what it does best…allow me to spray on a finish in half the time it would normally take by hand. If you’ve ever thought [...]
Weekend with WOOD 2013 Snippet No. 4
Gary Rogowski, Director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio – www.northwestwoodworking.com, gives a quick demonstration of how he preps and sharpens a card scraper for a finish quality edge as part of his class titled “Three Simple Finishes” at Weekend with WOOD. Please forgive the poor audio quality and background noise. The rooms were heating up [...]
Weekend With WOOD Snippet No. 3
George Vondriska of Woodworkers Guild of America www.wgoa.com was teaching a class at Weekend with WOOD titled “Logs to lumber”. As the name implies it’s about creating your own lumber from logs on a bandsaw. Not the big portable bandsaws (although that’s an option) but instead using a smaller bandsaw that you might have in [...]
Snippet No. 2 from Weekend with WOOD
Another great day of classes at Weekend with WOOD and to wrap it up was an open Q&A with the editors of the magazine.
Snippet from Weekend with WOOD
I’ve never been accused of being a tease, but I’ve tried! The first ever Weekend with WOOD is currently underway and I’m about to head out the door to day 2. I was able to get some great clips of Jim Heavey talking about spray finishing, finishing your finish (making it look even better when [...]
Happy 35th Birthday to Highland Woodworking
Please join me in wishing Chris and Sharon Bagby, the proud owners of Highland Woodworking, in wishing them a happy 35th Birthday today! It’s hard to imagine that a store that has been such a longtime resource for woodworkers, not only in the Atlanta Georgia area but around the country and even internationally hasn’t been [...]
506 Teak Shoe Rack Pt 1
Thanks to a generous donation of some amazingly beautiful Teak boards from a friend of the show, I have an opportunity to work with an species of wood I probably would ordinarily not use. It’s not that I don’t want to use different species, I just have a few that I’m readily familiar with and [...]
