MWA Podcast Episode 36 - Marc the Wood Whisperer

Show Notes:

• What’s in the shop?
• Dyami
• Assembled the new jointer & hung some shelves, blah, blah, blah
• Tom
• Installed a dust collector on my table saw... .

• Blog post that piqued our interest
• Pete Harbin
• Second Wind Workshop (Secondwindworkshop.blogspot.com)
• Danger Boy’s New Bench
• A post about his son and his Dad’s old Bench (not bitch)
• Ian Mackay
• Woodcanuck’s Blog (woodcanuck.wordpess.com)
• Workbench Finishing
• A post wrapping up the saga of building his modified version of the Split Top Roubo built by the Wood Whisperer Guild

• Goings on in the MWA
• Build Off at Fine Woodworking Live
• Please join us for the buildoff
• Friday, 8/9 from 7:00 to 9:30 at Fine Woodworking Live in New Haven, CT

• Main topic
• The Wood Whisperer, Marc Spagnuolo
• So, you’ve written a book, eh?
• Hybrid Woodworking: It’s Nothing New
• It’s a book about how Marc works. Not power tools. Not hand tools. Just woodworking.
• 5 Questions:
• how did you get into woodworking?
• Working at night while still in Biotech. Caught the bug.
• what's your favorite tool?
• The rasp - it has let him enter the world of curves
• who has influenced you the most?
• Tom Iovino David Marks
• What was your biggest stumbling block & could it have been avoided?
• . . . good question. There are so many stumbling points.
• Pick project that you look at and say “I don’t know how that was done.”
• How has the internet influenced your work?
• It has broadened his horizons. Allowed him to learn more and experience more woodworking.

• Questions from the audience
• Justin Leib (halfblindwoodworker.blogspot.com) asks:
• “Does Mateo show any signs of growing a soul patch soon?”

• Next broadcast’s topic
• Wrap up of Fine Woodworking Live
• We’ll try to get some recording their

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• I'm Chris Adkins of highrockwoodworking.com and @highrockww on twitter
• I’m Dyami Plotke of penultimatewoodshop.com. I'm @dyamiplotke, that's @-D-Y-A-M-I-P-L-O-T-K-E on the twitters.
• I'm Resident Shop Monkey, Tom Iovino of Tomsworkbench.com, and @tomsworkbench on twitter. We wish happy sawdust.