MWA Podcast Episode 52 - Gail O'Rourke

Show Notes:

• What’s in the shop?
• Chris

Stess gets a workout

Chris likes to pamper dogs

• Dyami
• Getting to work on the clock
• Only 1 band saw
• making room

• Gail
• Her son’s boat

This isn’t it. This is a typical Cape Cod Frosty.

• Tom
• Len’s Plaque

• Blog post that piqued our interest

• Goings on in the MWA
• Woodworker’s Safety Day comes to the MWA on May 17th.
• Please create any type of safety content you can and share it
• The MWA Atlanta MeetUp

• Main topic
• Gail O’Rourke
• Black Paint should be one of your first 3 tools.
• Type of work
• designs, sells and manages installing custom cabinets
• TV Pilot
• Gail’s Adirondack chairs

• 5 Questions
• How did you get into woodworking?
• Began by building around the house and fell in love.
• What’s your favorite tool?
• Bandsaw: a Grizzly from before the steel price increase.
• Who has influenced you the most?
• Tom. What a deficit
• The community she met when she began.
• What was your biggest stumbling block and could it have been avoided?
• Not knowing what I didn’t know.
• Had no fear. Would sell anything.
• How has the internet influenced your work?
• She just told Tom.
• Over the last 50 years, people’s hands on skills have shrunken.
• Gail’s Videos
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• Next broadcast’s topic
• Safety? Don’t be stupid.

• Community Conversation
• Lawrence
• Rob’s Humidor

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MWA Podcast Episode 51 - The Gangs all here

Show Notes:

Hello, everyone and welcome to this - the 51st edition of the Modern Woodworkers Association online discussion about all things woodworking. Today’s we have no special guest. It’s just us. Before we get to him, let me introduce our usual panel. I'm Tom Iovino of Tom's Workbench dot com, and I'll be your host for this program.

What’s in the shop?

• Chris
• Flattening a dry slab of live edge walnut.
• The small shinto rasp
• Dyami
• The quilt rack is done

• Sean
• Building props (old type phones)

• Tom
• A bowl of native citrus wood

Citrus wood

Goings on in the MWA

• Matt Vanderlist turns 43

Main topic

• Chaos ensues . . . . . Dyami goes off the rails a bit.

If you’re missing us already, you can subscribe to the show on itunes. Just search for the Modern Woodworkers Association. Once you’re subscribed, you’ll be sure never to miss an exciting episode. While you’re in iTunes, please leave us a 5 star rating. It helps our rank so others can more easily find us.

If you want to find out more about the Modern Woodworkers Association, be sure to visit modernwoodworkersassociation.com, follow the MWA on twitter @MWA_National, like the MWA on Facebook or circle Modern Woodworkers Association on Google+. While you’re there, join the MWA Google+ community for project sharing, discussion and loads of woodworking banter.