Spoken Wood Podcast No.50

Matt | June 6, 2010

Today’s episode was written and recorded by Ed Pirnik, Editor at Finewoodworking.com’s GlueTube. The post is titled “Why am I Steaming Mad?” and was orginally posted June 1st, 2010.
This is the first of what I hope will be many episodes from the folks at Finewoodworking.com, the website of Fine Woodworking Magazine, hope you enjoy [...]

The Power of Woodworking!!

Matt | April 9, 2010

The numbers are in and the total is amazing! Marc Spagnuolo just announced the final results of the Woodworkers Fighting Cancer build over at The Wood Whisperer website.
“After 30 days of intense building, Wood Whisperer Guild members have finally finished their tables. 67 people participated and thanks to 158 contributors and numerous sponsors, [...]

Spring Break Hiatus!!!

Matt | April 7, 2010

Hi everyone,
In case you haven’t noticed the slight absence of content so far this week, it’s because I’ve taken a last minute Spring Break Hiatus from the shows (Matt’s Basement Workshop, The Daily Matt and of also The Spoken Wood). I wish I could report I’m sending this post from some sunny beach someplace [...]

The Daily Matt No.86

Matt | March 31, 2010

It’s time to wrap up our discussion of the block planes. Hopefully I’ve answered some questions and explained the hows and whys of using the block plane. It’s an important tool for all woodshops, powertool, handtool or hybrid. Regardless of whether it’s a low-angle or standard angle block plane, the block plane [...]

422 Veritas Surface Vise

Matt | March 29, 2010

There are a lot of workbench accessories on the market, but typically they’re either something that needs to be built as part of the workbench top and are nearly permanent components or they’re small useful items, but don’t have much versatility to them.
A newer accessory that hit the market in the past year is the [...]