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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