Woodshop Life Podcast

Apr 04 2025 100 ep. 54 mins 592

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Bi-Weekly Podcast Focused on the Craft of Woodworking

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Planer Snipe, Workshop Temperature, Grain Popping and MORE!!!

Apr 04 2025 40 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brian's Questions: I’m preparing to build a set of kitchen cupboards from white oak. The style will be Mission, with some Frank Lloyd Wright Prairies Style touches. I have several questions. I have a question about milling lumber. There seems to be a trade-off: keep the boards long and you need to joint more off to get a flat face, hence the risk of falli

Squaring Lumber, Table Top Cracks, Machine Maintenance, and MORE!!!

Mar 21 2025 57 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brian's Questions: I know planing before face jointing is sacraledge but I was recently visiting with an older experienced wood worker who noted he never face joints. Planes both sides then edge joints and it’s fine. Thoughts? Thinking if you want it dead flat perfect or board is not great to start with jointing certainly makes sense. But anybody just pla

Table Saw Blades, Veneer Patterns, Cocobolo Woes and MORE!!!

Mar 07 2025 54 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions: Hi Guyslove your podcast. I have a quick question regarding table saw blades. Can you give me a recommendation on a good quality 10" table saw blade that I can get re-sharpened when needed. I keep blowing through blades and I'm tired of buying new ones. Also, do you send the blades back to get re-sharpened or take them to your nearest loca

And We're Back!

Feb 28 2025 54 mins

Are Woodpeckers Tool Worth the $$$?, Router Fence Woes, Grain Direction and MORE!!!

Feb 07 2025 50 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions: I am making a toy box for my grandson out of white oak. The dimensions will be 38” width, 18” depth, and 30” high. The front will be 4/4 quarter sawn, while the back and sides will be 4/4 flat sawn lumber. I plan to attach the front and sides, and the back and sides via dovetails. Since quarter sawn wood will move less than flat sawn

Maintenance Routines, Knock Down Hardware, Basic Shop Tools, And MORE!!!

Jan 25 2025 60 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions: Hello Guy, Huy, and Sean,I have two questions. 1) I'd like to hear your thoughts on your workshop maintenance routines. Are there yearly, monthly, project-ly routines to the maintenance and cleaning you do in your shops? Marc What are your woodworking goals for 2025? Brian Guys Questions: Hey Guys, First, thanks for the fantastic podcast.

A Holiday Break!

Hello all, We are taking a one episode break for the holidays and all three of us are dealing with some kind of cold/flu. See you again in two weeks!

Making Thin Stock, Angled Tenons, Dust Collector Placement and MORE!!!

Dec 27 2024 56 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions: I'm in the market to upgrade to a cabinet saw that I want to last for a long time. I've been using a Powermatic 64A contractors saw for the past two years that I bought used and have done my best to tune up. That saw still has its flaws though, and it's time to move on. I'm setting a budget of roughly $4000. I want a new saw with a 3 HP mo

Jig Making, Too Many Exotics?, Honing Hand Tool Skills and MORE!!!

Dec 13 2024 58 mins

This Episodes Questions: Brians Questions: Hola fellas,Been a minute since I've bothered you, I've been busy with rebuilding my 1000 sqft deck with black locust I am milling from logs. It's taking a while, and most of my families patience with me. I took a detour to rebuild my music studio, so now all my neighbors get to listen to death core metal. I need to mill up this beech tree

Workbench Stability, Drum Sander Woes, Veneer Glus and MORE!!!

Nov 30 2024 63 mins

This Episodes Questions Brians Questions I was at a big box store the other day getting a new toilet. As I passed the lumber section, I saw what looked, from far away, like a piece of walnut. On closer inspection, it was a piece of rainbow poplar in with the ugly, green big box poplar for the same price as the regular poplar. Of course I bought it. My question is: was that awesome