voiceover: the woodwhisperer is sponsored by powermatic and clear vue cyclones. marc: we're going to startout with our giveaway winner announcement and also this month's giveaway is fantastic. nicole: yesmarc: we're outdoing ourself every month. nicole: are we?marc: yes, we are. nicole: i'm trying hard.marc: we're trying. nicole: it's july now,and in june we gave away a
arbortech mini grinderand a fujispray mini-mite marc: yeah, the mini-mite. nicole: hvlp system.marc: hvlp turbine system. nicole: and the luckywinners are, let me, noah... marc: mudgenicole: mudge. he won the arbortech mini grinder. and tonia roberts, shewon the hvlp system. if you go to thewoodwhisperer.com/giveaway has all the information,has the widget, we also
have it on the facebook page, which is facebook.com/thewoodwhisperer. basically, we're justworking with different companies and they'regiving us tools to give away to you guys. marc: why not, right? if we massage theserelationships over the years, then i could squeeze somefree tools out for you guys, why wouldn't we do that?
nicole: it's awesome,and july is no exception. we have an awesomegiveaway going on right now for a powermaticfloor-standing drill press. marc: it's awesome, i'mactually kind of jealous. i have the old one, andi'm lucky to have that, but holy smokes. nicole: this gets great reviews on amazon. marc: it really does. nicole: if you're listeningto this and you're not
in either the united statesor canada, i'm sorry. it's not personal. giveaway rules andregulations in other countries get really complicated andbecause of the value of the tool, it just getsreally sticky, quick. marc: internationalgiveaway laws, you have to sort of conform to the lawsin every region that you have the giveaway, sothink about that globally. it's impossible for peoplelike us, small companies
nicole: it's just the two of us. marc: yeah, to figure allit adds, just the liability is an issue, so we apologize,but that doesn't mean we love you, enjoy yourbangers and mash as we do our show, right? nicole: i guess, allkinds of cool stuff, i'm marc: it's awesome. nicole: bye. marc: i got one of thecoolest things i've ever
received, because it'sactually not even for me, it's for my son. denis demichiel, hope i'm pronouncing that correctly, thank youdenis, for sending this. denis is an engineer thatworks with the blue angels. and asked if we wouldlike a poster for mateo, and they actually, in thatreally nice script, wrote his name on the top, sentus a couple of posters signed by the blue angels dudes, right?
how cool is that? i know, as a kid, iwould have loved to have something like this, so ifigured more appropriate than hanging it in myshop would be to put it up in my son's bedroom. he doesn't quite get itjust yet, but he will soon. so thank you so much forthat, denis, i really appreciate it. next up, very quickannouncement, we've got a sale
coming up at the woodwhisperer store, where you can get, i believe, 20%off tuesday, july 8th. it's our christmas-in-julysale that my mom gets all excited about and likes to do. so give my mom something to do. go buy a shirt or something. i'm wearing a woodwhisperer shirt here, today. we believe in having veryhigh-quality shirts, we don't sell crappy shirts,we get them made ourselves.
we have a family memberthat does screen printing, so it's all done by us, andreally good quality stuff. so, wood whisperer guildshirts, regular t-shirts, my hybrid woodworking bookis going to be on sale, dvds, all that stuff. marc: cory, let's take a look at his bed. it is a purpleheart and walnut bed. he says it took aboutthree months of nights and weekends, i think he has aday job that's in a shop,
and he was able to usethe shop in the evenings and on the weekends to finish this up. gave us a nice story, youcould read about it on the wood whisperer. finished it up with someminwax wipe-on poly. look at that footboard. some beautiful book-matchedpanels, had to do some veneer work to getthat done, the moldings, i mean this is nice stuff,this is really nice stuff.
i should mention that ifyou want to submit your own project, you can do that thewoodwhisperer.com/contact/submit-your-project/ because we believe in very simple urls at all right, so let's gointo our kickback! segment. [be-jaw] we had a conversation onfacebook at one point, and the question of wood movement came up. patrick said, i don'tremember exactly what he said,
i couldn't find the quote,but he wanted to know if the concern over wood movement is a bit over-blown, and i thinkdepending on where you live sometimes wood movementis more or potentially less of an issue, so fromsomeone's perspective, it might not be such a big deal. but the truth is, yes,you do have to worry about wood movement, always. there are some basic rulesthat you need to follow
when it comes to wood movement. you really just don't wantto restrict the movement across the board. now we're talking,generally speaking, flats on material, which is what mostof us will get access to. they move across the grain. you could see i've gotthese arrows showing you where most of the movementis going to take place. so there are things that you can do.
you can glue these twoboards like this, because now everything kind ofjust moves in unison as it expands and contracts overthe course of the seasons. that's okay, what is notokay is when you put these perpendicular, all right? if you restrict the movementlike this, you could see those arrows are not going in the same direction, so as thisboard tries to expand and contract, it's restricted by this board.
depending on the sizeof the board, you may or may not have problems,but the bigger the board the more movement, andyou have to allow for that movement. so to sort of more directlyanswer the question of if wood movement isnecessary, let's look at a couple of boo-boos. couple of situationswhere folks maybe didn't make all the bestdecisions concerning wood
movement or maybe underestimated it. i'll start with me,because i have no problem making fun of myself. you guys may rememberthe rustic, outdoor table that we built on the sitea couple of months ago? beautiful table, it's stillin my back yard, although the breadboards don't quitelook as good as they did on day one. this is what thebreadboards look like today.
each side has shrunk downby about a quarter inch, so that's a full half inchmovement across that top. thinking back on it, ithink the wood was probably just a little bit more wetthan i'm used to here in arizona, so i got a lot of shrinkage. do they know about shrinkage? here's another example. see, breadboard ends area good example for this, because that is a cross-grain situation.
we'll get into that in aminute, but if you look very closely here, that's agreene & greene coffee table that's sitting in my livingroom, and if you look at that area where the ebonyspline is, that spline is supposed to be proud ofthe breadboard, and it's sunken in, which tells youthat that top, the central portion of that top hasshrunk down and sucked it in a little bit, and that'sbecause i built this project in california, in southerncalifornia, brought it home
to arizona and, naturally,it's less humid here, so it shrunk. now let's move into someone else's. let's make fun of someone else today. dan rightler sent thisto me, he says this is a california redwood bartop that i installed at a customer's house last summer. this crack opened upafter the long winter here in michigan.
now this isn't something,it doesn't look to me like he violated any sort ofrules of wood movement. but with wide boards,big, wide slabs like that, you do have movement issues. the wood is a naturalproduct, and it just naturally moves with changes inhumidity and conditions. sometimes cracks just open up. it's unfortunate, but that's how it goes. here's a really cool example.
you're going to love this. look at this gorgeoustable, absolutely gorgeous. nice circle design, he's gota metal plate in the center. this is from matt downer. he said, i'll tell youwhat's a "downer" is what happened to this table, matt (da-dun-dun). over time, expansion andcontraction between these boards caused a big splitand what matt realized he needed to do, as crazy asit may seem, he had to cut
this into slices to re-work it. because the problem wasit would continue to crack even if he repairs thecrack, it wouldn't actually stop it from happeningagain, so by cutting it into slices, and then headded some reinforcement underneath. it's kind of a re-engineeringof the whole thing. but it makes it work,using some angle iron and other things, he basicallyreattached the slices.
now they have, think abouta concrete situation, where you have thoseexpansion gaps between the pieces, and that's whatwas necessary to get this thing to survive the seasons. all right, so unfortunately,yeah, you do need to pay attention to wood movement. the bigger the board, themore you have to consider also there's changes based on species, the conditions that the pieceis left in, as well as the
time of year. sometime, if you're buildingin the winter, you have different conditions thanif you're building in the summer, so you have to keep that in mind. a really handy tool that irecommend for you, is the woodshop widget, that's anapp and also it's on the website, you can use itthere, too, there's a little flash deal. very, very cool, there'swood movement calculator.
you select your wood, youselect the type of cut that it is, and you can changeeither the moisture content or the relative humidityand show how it will change over the course of thatchange in humidity. so you might be wonderingthen, we showed some breadboard ends before, right? how do breadboard endswork, why is that okay? here's a breadboard endtop on a little jewelry box that we're going to bemaking here on the show
soon, and you could see iviolated that rule that i said before not to violate. expansion of this panelwill be across this way. and this piece isn'treally going to expand much this way, it might expandjust a little bit in that direction, and there'snothing stopping it from doing that, so we havea problem where this breadboard end restrictsthe movement of this panel, so how do we get around it?
it all comes down tothe construction method. here's an example of agreene & greene breadboard end, in fact this is thecoffee table that i showed you before that has a bit of a problem. if you look closely there,i'm only adding glue to the center, which makes sense. you glue it at the center,the panel can expand and contract at the end, youleave it so that the tongue and groove joint has a littlebit of room at the very
end, but you're onlysecuring it with glue in the middle, so everything can expand. but you still need to secureit at the ends, because otherwise, you mightactually see the ends of the breadboard pull away from the panel. so how do you do that? in this case, you see thosescrews sitting on top of the panel? those screws will go inover-sized holes, so there
won't be any glue at theends, but we will have screws that will pull itnice and tight, while still allowing some flexibility side-to-side. the thing is, you don'talways want to use screws. there are times where screwsjust aren't appropriate. on greene & greene, youcan cover those screws with ebony plugs and itlooks great, but you can't necessarily get away withthat especially you look at this example here, there'sno room for screws here.
how do we make sure thatit's nice and tight at the ends? well this brings up anotherthing that came up on facebook recently. there's a video here, alittle clip that i have from, i hope i'm pronouncing thisright, doucette and wolfe. they posted this video,showing a trick they used with a sprung joint. that's the center wherethat little gap is.
tight at the ends. now they're going to tightenthe clamp in the middle. the gap in the middle is removed. now it's really tight at the ends. so that methodology, ifyou've never heard of it before, is called a sprungjoint, where you actually induce a little bit of acurvature in the board, so that when you clamp it in thecenter, the board has no choice, it's going to gonice and tight in the center,
but by the time you pull itall the way in the middle, you've really secured those outside edges. essentially, it's kind of under tension. so if you just apply gluein the middle, squeeze it in with that one clamp,the outside should stay nice and tight. that's actually what wasdone for this, as well. it's on a smaller scalethan that, but the concept still works very well.
the other thing with sprungjoints, is they can be great for panel glue-ups. i'm going to show you anexample of a sprung joint. we'll actually cut onehere, it's very easy to do. as you're putting thesetwo boards together, when you do wide-panel glue-ups,one of the problems that people have, not onlyin applying the pressure properly, but havingenough clamps to do it, so what's great about a sprungjoint is, most of the
time, you only really needone clamp right at the middle, so you bringthat gap together and the outsides are alreadysort of applying pressure just based on the geometry of the joint. so this one has alreadybeen worked, has a barely perceptible, perceivable,perceptible, let me know. it's got a little bit of a scoop,a little bit of a belly in it. so this one is now deadstraight right off of the jointer, so let's putit into the light vice.
the process for doing this, super easy. all you really need todo is get a smooth plane. you want something that'sgoing to have a nice, light touch, and what i'mreally trying to do is remove some stock from the middle. my plane only takes a fewthou' at a time when it takes a shaving, very light. this is gossamer, asthey say, gossamer stuff. what i'm going to do isremove material from the
middle, as best as i can,sometimes you have to skew the plane to getthe blade to work right. as soon as i removepretty much as much as the plane is going to let meremove right here, i can start going back a littlebit, working out toward the ends. this should be the last one. by doing that, what i'veeffectively done is created a little bit of a scoop.
i haven't removed anythingfrom the outside edges, just a little bit in the middle. this is really tough tosee, so you're going to have to bear with me, maybetake my word for it. when you put these twotogether, you should see that there's just a littlebit of a gap in the middle - nicole: where's the middle? marc: see that, that'show good i am, she didn't even know it was two boards.
anyway, there's a microscopic gap. you might be able to puta feeler gauge in there to find it, it doesn'thave to be very much. but now, if i apply clampingpressure, right in the center, across this panel,that's all i need to close this joint up. i also have a resource torecommend, submitted by mike orsteed, orsted. it's a fine woodworkingarticle by gary rogowski
called "spring joints: anedge glue-up's best friend". it kind of goes over thewhole logic and explains what we did and probablyshows you a couple other techniques. let's start with a videofrom april wilkerson. you guys might have heardher, she's relatively new on youtube, but hassome really great videos showing some projectsand techniques that she's into, seems like a reallynice person, and talented
as well. she is trying to spreadthe word about a program or an organization calledgarden of innocence. it's very sad, i don't meanto bring the mood down here, but it's a california-basedorganization and their goal is to give a proper restingplace to children and infants who, essentiallyhave been abandoned and found deceased. so no one claims them andthey feel like it's the
right thing to do to give a proper burial. a lot of them are cremated. this organization needshelp with that, because they need to have the boxes made, the urns. woodworkers love to buildthings for people when it really matters, you know? there's a lot of heart inthe community, and this video clip will show you exactlywhat i'm talking about. april: so any time thata child is abandoned and
goes unclaimed, thisorganization will step in and claim the child, they willprovide the child with a name and then proceed togive it a full-service memorial. if there is any way that youcould also lend your time and resources to help out,it would be going towards a very good cause. (josiah k. alwood's "unclouded day" plays) marc: beautiful stuff.
the plans, or the modifiedversion or april's version of theplans are availableon her website, and you can go to gardenofinnocence.comand they have published plans there where youcould build one of these things and send it to them,so it's a great cause. if you want to getinvolved, definitely do so. really good stuff, and thankyou, april, for bringing that to our attention. bob lang wrote an article recently called
"the 6 most importantwoodworkers i've ever known". this is about an experiencehe had over at the andy chidwick's schooland who's the guy's name, mattson, i guess? basically, they takeunderprivileged kids who are in a situation, as they say,falling through the cracks, and try to give them a littlebit of guidance, let them experience making thingswith their hands, in hopes of kind of refocusingtheir attention and
putting them on the right path. so andy has this fantasticprogram where these kids come to the school andthey learn and build and bob lang was able to bethere to, i think he was assisting, and just sort ofbeing there to be bob lang from popular woodworking,which would be nice in and of itself. these kids built a bunch of chairs. absolutely beautiful chairs,it's really inspiring.
here's a little quote from bob, he says, "when i look at the fivestudents in the class "i see the future ofwoodworking and a solution to "many of the problems our society faces." "the headline of thispost mentions the six "most important woodworkers i know." "number six is the young manat the left of the picture." "he graduated from the north salem "woodworking program two years ago."
"when he entered the program, he was "thinking about dropping out of school." "instead, he graduated,now works full time "as a teaching assistantin the program, and is a "full-time college studentpursuing a degree in education." doesn't get a whole lotbetter than that, does it? so if you want to read moreabout this or learn more about this, this is a yearlyprogram that andy does over there, go tochidwickschool.com and andy's got
a bunch of things. check out his website, he'sgot a program there that you could sign up for, as well, but really inspiring stuff, fantastic. also, we've got a clip fromthe highland woodworker one of my favorite woodworking shows. if you've been yearningfor that sort of tv-style woodworking show, this iswhere you're going to get it online, is the highland woodworker.
this one features glenhuey, megan fitzpatrick, and jelan waggoner, ifyou're not familiar, he's sort of the youngwoodworking whiz kid, who's you find him actuallypublished in a lot of places. he gets a lot of attentionfor his work, and it's well-deserved, he makes some great things. so there's a nice interview with him. let's take a look at thisclip featuring glen huey and showing how he makes that sprung joint
using his jointer. glen: even on your dead-flatjointer bed right now, you can see the fact thatwe're tight back here at the back, we're tight up hereat the front, but you can even see right now thatit's raising up off of that bed just the littlest bit. so, when i bring thesetwo over and i put them down side-by-side, youcan see what's going on. i'm tight at the ends, buti've got that gap in the
center. voiceover: so now do youhave to put a whole bunch of clamps on it, the front and back? glen: you would think so,with a gap that big, but this is where this springjoint really pays dividends. i can go and put glue onboth sides of this, put one clamp in the dead center,pull this into where i get a little squeeze-out and,after that, i'm going to be tight on these two ends,where one clamp is all i
need to glue up this piece. up to about 24 inches,i can get by with one, single clamp, think of the time it saves. marc: now if you've beensuffering through jointer's set-up woes, maybe this isa good solution (laughs). you make it intentionally set improperly. i wish i could sit init, i'm kind of tired. this is the bow-arm morrischair, freshly-assembled, has the first coat of finish on it.
i just used a little bit ofwaterlox to kind of bring a little bit of color and life to it. then i'm going to finishit with some lacquer. sherwin-williams lacquer. with chairs, with all thedifferent parts, it's so "i don't want to do it allby hand," so something like this, i really prefer to go to a spray. but love this design,we've got a contoured back. you could see it actually canrecline, and i've got pins
here, see the little turned pins? i made these on the lathe,and those go into holes that support the backrest. there's four holes, sowe've got multiple reclining positions, and we'll havea seat in here that's going to get upholstered. there's a nice little footrest. beautiful through tenons here on the top. my only dilemma, at thispoint, is i don't know
where the heck i'mgoing to put this chair. eventually, you startbuilding, like for the website i started building somany things that are not necessarily for me, i justbuild them because i want to or they've beenrequested, that it becomes a little tricky to find out whatto do with all this stuff. my mom pretty much wantseverything that i make. so that's always a problem,but it's a good problem to have.
if you're interested inthis particular project, you can go to thewoodwhispererguild.comto find out about that. nicole: didn't realizeyou were this far along. marc: girlfriend, i'vebeen busting my hump. this one i thought was really cool. i haven't read throughthe whole thing, because it actually just came in yesterday. it's "civil war woodworking,volume ii" by a.j. hamler.
i know a lot of you areprobably history buffs. i know when i'm cruisingaround the boob-tube and i see some historicalthing, it's hard for me to turn away. i enjoy it, and this is abunch of projects that are relevant to the time period,i guess like some of the folks that do the re-enactment stuff. things that they use intheir, what do you call that, when they play dress-up,what's that called?
nicole: civil war re-enactments? marc: i called it are-enactment, but they play dress-up, it's likecos play for old dudes. bob asks, "what aboutwhen sealed??? i have "heard don't worry aboutmovement if you seal it "in poly???" well, bob, that's bad advice. bottom line is finishes,film finishes, they will slow down the absorption and loss of moisture.
definitely will slow itdown and it does help to stabilize your projects,but it is not impervious to moisture, you stillwill get some of that. so i would never trustthe finish to control wood movement completely. that's a great way tofind yourself with some cracked boards, right? so if you always justfollow the rules of wood movement, and then finishit, you're going to have,
for the most part, you'regoing to stack the cards in your favor. there are times even, ifyou follow all the rules as you known them, and thenfinish it, where you still may have problems, so let'sstack the cards in our favor, and make sure that,at least, we followed the rules, there's a good chance that nothing disastrous is going to happen. that's all i have to say about that.
nick ferry wants to know,"would you ever do a "joint build with nicoleor a build-off, something "simple not requiring many tools?" first of all, i will neverbuild a project with nicole. nicole: (laughs)marc: she's dangerous. nicole: no, i'm not.marc: i don't trust her in the shop. actually, this is somethingwe (ugh) that we talked about this. she has a couple of projectsshe'd really like to
make for our son, mateo,and i thought it would be fun to have her come inand i could kind of guide her through the process,but she would do the bulk of the work. so that is something, ifwe can have time between guild builds, i'd love to do that. i've got a couple of projects in mind. we do collaborative buildsand i wouldn't call it a "build-off," i don't reallyget too much into the
competitive stuff inwoodworking, it's not really my style, i like watching it,i just don't like doing it. we are, in all likelihood,going to collaborate with steve from "mere mortals"again on this year's cancer charity forwoodworkers fighting cancer. so, we're kind of battingideas back and forth right now, but expect thatthis fall, and if everything pans out, instead of kindof like last year, it was last-minute, we broughtsteve into the fold, we're
sort of both going tofull-force go into it and build projects that have slightdifferences between them. he's going to go for a littlebit more of a simplified basic design and mine willbe, it'll be in our styles essentially. mine will be a little bitmore complex, with a little more complex joinery. in this way, we cancover the wide variety of woodworkers out thereand get the most money
possible for this charity. so this year, i think, isgoing to be a killer event. so, yeah, we do collaborations, as well. it's so nice not to haveproblems with fleas, isn't it? matthew s, great question,he says, "hey, mark, "how far can i get with acontractor grade table saw "and what issues will i run into?" "i don't have the room or the budget for a "cabinet saw. thanks."
matthew, you can get asfar as you want with that saw, don't be deceivedinto thinking that you absolutely need a cabinetsaw to do really good woodworking. i've known folks who use, what is it? there's a whole forumdedicated to the bt3 saw, and it's just a littlerinky-dink saw that all these people just absolutelylove, because it was kind of one of those diamond-in-the-rough sort of
products. a lot of people ralliedbehind it, and there are amazing projects comingoff of a saw like that. the problems you're goingto run into is, a lot of times, you may have asaw that doesn't have the best fence on it, so itmay not be a reliable fence that sets down dependablyin the same position every time, or may not lineup perfectly the way you want it, that might be an issue.
your table may be a little bit small. that can certainly beremedied with an out-feed table, and also the tablesaw fence is something you could always replace ormodify the one you have to try to make it work better. you can build out-feed andin-feed support, if you want to, i've seen peoplewho take those little portable saws and builda whole table around it. so now support is no longer an issue.
the third thing you'llprobably confront is power. if it's not powerfulenough, you're going to have trouble with thickerhardwoods, but use the right blade, and things suddenlybecome a lot easier. so, if it's an under-poweredsaw, go with a thin, curved blade. if you're making rips, gowith thin curve, but also go with a rip configuration for the teeth. something that doesn'thave a whole lot of teeth
will cut through likebutter, even if you only have one-and-a-half horsepower. so, if you use the rightmaterials, use good-quality, sharp blades and add somethings to the saw, you will never necessarily hita wall with a contractor grade saw. it may not work as well,there may be things that my saw can do a little bitbetter, or maybe a little bit more reliable, but itisn't a deal-breaker.
so don't get it into yourhead that you need that cabinet saw. collin burris "i am just starting out, "what would be betterspending my money on, "a table saw, or a compound miter saw? "thanks marc!" this may be a differentanswer, depending on who you ask, but for me, iwould say a table saw. i find a table saw to beone of the most versatile
tools, and although it'skind of been made the enemy of the woodworkingworld, just because it has a high potential forinjury and mistakes, it still is one of the mostversatile tools we can have. from cutting parts down,and cutting down plywood, milling and getting yourjoints set up, think about all the different types ofjoints you could do at the table saw, just with a few add-ons. you could build sleds forit, cross-cut sleds, get a
miter gauge and make afinger joint jig, you get a tenoning jig, there's justso much that you can do with that table saw, thatfor me, personally, if i had to choose one or the other,i would go with the table saw first. this is texfire, how you doing, dude? it's been a while. "do you feel that woodworkingas a craft is still in "decline, or are we in themiddle of a resurgence?"
that's a really toughquestion and a good one, because it's one of thosethings that, i don't think, we can really figure out. we can all debate it,and we can yap our gums about this as much as wewant, but the reality is, it isn't until a few yearsgo by and we look at things in retrospect that we'lltruly understand what's happening. if you ask one group ofpeople, not to point fingers,
but, let's say, magazines,old-school publications, and you ask them how woodworking is doing, they're going to thinkof it as a sinking ship. they think that theirreadership is in decline, so to them the audience is dying off. i've heard that phrase said before, where woodworkers are dyingfaster than they're being replaced. in my opinion, they'relooking in the wrong places.
last week's episode, orlast month's episode of tww live, we talked about makers. makers versus woodworkers. if you look in the makercommunity, there is so much going on there, and i thinkthat ties in well to a lot of the diy community, as well. there are so many people getting into it. now it may not be whatwe traditionally think of as a woodworker, the old,bearded guy in his shop,
whittling away at something. these are people withnew ideas, new concepts, new ways to get thingsdone and really, more importantly, new ways to communicate what they're doing. so i think the the craft ofcreating things, be it in wood, plastic, metal,yarn, god forbid (laughs), no matter what the mediumis, there is a creative vein in our world, especiallythe online world, that is
alive and well. so, if you ask me, i don'tthink anything is in decline. i think it's changing,there's a big change going on right now, now where we endup after this, will some of these makers get intothe finer parts of wood craftsmanship? to me, the bottom line is,the more people who are interested in making thingswith their hands, the bigger the pool of peoplethat we could then inspire
to go into these specialized areas. we have to have this stuffout there to get people interested, so maybe someone got into this because they wanted tobuild a robot and then they learned to cut plywoodas a part of the process. then that person's momsays, "oh, hey, you know "how to use a table saw,can you do some flooring "for me?" and then it sortof snowballs until the person is building furniture.
so you don't know wherethese people are going to get that inspiration, whereit's going to come from. they may not immediatelystart out going, "i want to "be a furniture-maker,"but they may end up there. so from my perspective, ithink the outlook is good. when i look at my stats onour website, when i look at things going on onother people's youtube channels as well as myown, i can't help but see a bright future for making things, and that
includes wood. mark nylund says, "whycan't i keep my shop "as clean as yours??" because you don't have an "arley". arley is my step-father,and about once a week, he comes into the shopand does a nice, little, thorough cleaning, he getspaid for his work, so i'm not that cheap. he does come behind,and you should have seen
this floor was coatedwith sawdust and shavings yesterday, but he came in,did a nice little cleaning, and it's done, and that's very helpful. since i have a lot ofelectronics in here, i'm in here every day, i like my shopspace to be clean, because that's the kind of environmentthat inspires me to do good work. last one, from jmk89, he says, "do you use "infeed/outfeed support for the bandsaw?"
"any ideas on what might be the best way "to approach this?" i do use some support,but it's roller stands. i know folks who havebuilt permanent supports or or ones that can kindof roll out of the way. that's great, i just haven'thad the time or really the inclination to do that. roller stands, when i needthat sort of out-feed or in-feed support, a rollerstand on each side does a
fine job for me. so the next one is going to be friday, august 1st, 1:00 pm eastern. same time, same channel. also, contact info, you could find us at thewoodwhisperer.com,of course our youtube channel, what is the youtube channel? it's youtube.com/user/thewoodwhisperer. nicole: you don't have to putthe "user" in. marc: really?
nicole: yeah, you justdo "thewoodwhisperer". marc: that's news to me, nicole.nicole: i know. marc: thanks for the heads up on that, nicole: i've done it before.marc: you're awesome. you can also send us aquestion to the hashtag, twwlive and catch us on facebook facebook.com/thewoodwhisperer i think that wraps it up,thanks for watching again, and we'll catch you next time.
nicole: bye, thanks for participating. marc: thanks for participating. nicole: (mumbles)marc: she's good. nicole: i know, right, sometimes. marc: i know about the hair,i don't want to hear it. i need a haircut. ugh, going off-screen, these moves.