MWA Podcast Episode 47 - Matt Vanderlist AKA the Podfather

Show Notes:

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Box
• Dyami
• A jointer and . . . space
• Tom
• Sliding doors (more) Working inside the home is a pain in the rear...

Upcoming events

• The Furniture Project 2014
• Seaport World Trade Center – Boston, MA – February 21-23, 2014
• Display at the Furniture Project
• Chimney Cabinet
• Fine Woodworking Live Classes at the Woodworking Shows in Somerset, NJ
• Matt Kenny & Mike Pekovich will each be teaching two classes at the Somerset show on February 21-23, 2014
• You’ll need tickets to the classes. You can buy them here.
• Northeastern Woodworkers Association 25th Annual Showcase
• March 29th & 30th, 2014
• Saratoga Springs City Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

Main topic

• Matt Vanderlist
• Matt’s Basement Workshop
• Wood Talk Online
• When Matt began podcasting, about 7 years ago he had been woodworking about 5 years.
• Does being the first voice mean anything?
• Breaking the stereotype of old men woodworking.
• Even in Atlanta, Zebra wood is surprisingly easy to work for an exotic.
• Most surprising development (of online woodworking community)?
• Number of people
• The way there are turf wars over topics and techniques
• some online personalities have followers who are very territorial
• How have you kept motivated?
• Viewer/Listener emails, it’s audience driven
• What’s it really like to work with Shannon Rogers?
• How comes the bed?
• Slowly.
• Marc had Matt at “Hello?”. He completes Matt.
• Biggest surprise of Wood Talk
• How large and demanding the audience is
• The “God Horrendous chortle”
• An uncontrollable natural phenomenon which Matt has no control over.
• Have you talked to Mary May since Woodworking in America?
• He’s trying
• 5 Questions
• how did you get into woodworking?
• Once he bought his first house, it blossomed.
• what's your favorite tool?
• his brain, no. A tool he uses? the Breese smoother plane he built from a kit.
• who has influenced you the most?
• Mmm. Originally, Chris Schwarz.
• Chris still gets lots of credit, but the online woodworking community has supplanted him in Matt’s heart.
• What was your biggest stumbling block & could it have been avoided?
• When Matt overthinks. Too much information online and in print. Information overload.
• The internet has ruined my woodworking
• How has the internet influenced your work?
• Seeing what other people are doing and hearing what they want to learn has improved his woodworlking

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