marc:the wood whisperer is sponsored by: powermatic and clear vue cyclones. (upbeat whistling music) welcome to the first official tww live. broadcasting live is nothingnew to us, we've been doing it since, franklysince it was possible. we used to broadcast from ourshop on ustream years ago. it was a lot of fun but thingshave really evolved since then and the expectation tohave faster-paced content and
a little bit more professionalpresentation is being pretty obvious, pretty clear to methat that's what we need to do. frankly, got to be honest, thelast few years with the birth of our son really knocked usfor a bit of a loop in terms of content production andconnection with the community. this is our effort to getback to our roots where we used to always have theselive sessions to open up questions to the communityand also just show you some cool stuff that wehappen to be coming across.
that's really the goal withthis and i hope you like it. it's going to be somethinga little bit different. we have giveaways everymonth at the wood whisperer. you go to thewoodwhisperer.com/giveaway, you'll find the details on how to enter. very quickly we'll announcelast month's winners. janet b. won a festool ct-36,that's the big guy, and an ets sander, which is the sanderthat i use every day in my shop. that's a killer combinationand thank you festool for that.
janet is enjoying her sander now i'm sure. nicole:yes, yeah. marc:brian got the 3m safety bundle which includes a dust maskand hearing protection, eye protection, all kinds of stuff. congratulations to you guys. now we're going to- nicole:actually before wemoved into the contest, because you mentioned the 3mstuff, right now amazon is
partnering with 3m so if youwatch those safety videos, if you've seen the glassesand the respirator, they're on sale right nowon amazon, 15 percent off. marc:do you know how many people are annoyed that they bought it- nicole:i know! i didn't know they weregoing to do that. marc: they boughtit right after we did the video. nicole:i didn't realizethey were going to do that. marc:check that out,that's always a cool thing. this month's giveaways we've got
a couple of really, really good ones. let's start with the sprayer. it's the fuji mini-mite 3 stage turbine. if you're not familiar withwhat this is, what i've got here is the q4, thisis a higher grade unit. they make a couple differentones. if the q is in the name it means it has extrastuff to make it quieter. the mini-mite has the same power but it's probably just a little bit louder.
nicole:is it smaller? marc:i think maybe thecasing is probably smaller as well because there'snot as much insulation. the bottom line here, whatyou need to know is it's an hvlp sprayer, which is anawesome way to apply finishes. if you haven't gotten intothe spraying game this is a way to do it witha self-contained unit. you don't need a compressor. you just get a gun, the hoseand the unit itself which is
kind of like a vacuum cleanerin reverse, blowing air. this is a great way tofinish your project. nicole:they're giving this away to our audience, almost a 600 dollar value. marc:590 bucks for this thingso that's kind of a big deal. what about this next one? nicole:we have arbortech.arbortech decided to give away a mini grinderwith us this month. you've done some fun stuffwith arbortech before.
marc:i do fun stuff with arbortech.nicole: well you did the rock'n'roll guy. marc:today won't be so fun.nicole: that was one of my favorite skits. marc:i won't be wearing a wig today. you know what, i haven't even really done anything with this, iwant to try this out. nicole:it's brand new.they just launched it. marc:here's the deal.you've got a very aggressive cutting blade on the tiphere. looks like they have sanding pads that you canadd for aggressive sanding.
you may have seen me use the sculpting tools in the past for larger work. well this is a much smaller blade. frankly i'll be honest,i don't know what kind of use i'm personally goingto have with this because i think this type of toolrequires a little bit of artistic skill, somethingi lack completely. you know what, if you wantto turn the camera over here let's fire this up. let'ssee what this thing does.
now i'm not going to carve a man in a tree or anything like that. i'm just going to seewhat this thing can do. (blues rock music) yeah baby, i like that. look, i made a butterfly. that's some very cool stuff. arbortech mini grinderand an hvlp spray system. incidentally, 259 for thatarbortech mini grinder so
that's a lot of valuablefree stuff going out there. nicole:you have until theend of the month to put your name in. there are actuallynine possible ways you can enter so we give lotsof options for entering. if you don't do facebook don'tworry, you can still sign up through just giving us youre-mail or through twitter. and pinterest i think even. there's a whole bunch of different ways. marc:is that a bird?
nicole:yeah. marc: i'm like, "whatis that noise, that's terrible." i thought it was feedback.okay, it's a bird. if you've been online in thelast couple of days and you're a woodworker you probablynoticed the, i'm going to call it the great bessey lowe'sclamp frenzy of 2014. this was an amazing thing to watch. i heard a couple days ago that lowe's was reducing the prices oftheir bessey clamps. apparently they lost a contractor let go of a contract
and home depot is gettingit. i don't care about that. bottom line is prices areinsanely cheap and everybody ran out to their locallowe's, and if they weren't already pilfered they pickedup what was left over. we've got a couple ofthreads on facebook with just picture after picture of people who have just gone nuts at their local store, because clamps are expensive but you do really need a lot of them.
this is a great way to getthem, when something is reduced. i think we're going togive a little no-prize like they used to in marvel comics. the no-prize goes to ryan royal and this is what he came home with. (laughs) that is insane. hesays it's 1,000, let's see, 1,032 dollars worth ofclamps: 200 bucks. (cha-ching) that's great, good stuff. congrats to everybody who was
able to take advantage of that. i went to my local lowe'sand there was nothing there. i had no idea there were any woodworkers in this town besides me. this one in particular iscalled anna's hope chest. it's made by steve boudreau, and here's what he says about it. "one of the things iwanted to accomplish with "this project was to usemore hand tools and fewer
"power tools and very fewmechanical fasteners. the biggest "challenge with them wasgluing up all the joints and "inserting all the panelsbefore the glue started to set. "this piece was built formy daughter and dedicated to "my dad," who apparentlyallowed him to sweep up all the saw dust in shop whenhe was little and taught him and inspired him to be a woodworker. this is hot off the press, thisis right from this morning. i got a twitter, or not on twitter.
a facebook comment fromchuck hampton who says, "another 'look at theseprojects and answer questions' "video? hmm. do wereally need another one?" well thanks for the feedback there chuck. i hope you enjoy the showthat you haven't seen yet. ultimately the answer is no,we don't need another video. we certainly don't needanother woodworker on youtube showing how he built something,or she built something, in their shops. since whenis it always about needs?
there are different personalities, there are different perspectives, there's different ways to get jobs done. i celebrate having hundredsof options. i'm glad we have so many people out theredoing their thing online. i know you haven't seen this show. feel free to pass judgementon it after the fact but ultimately even ifthis were a carbon copy of something else that's outthere -- which is isn't --
but if it was that wouldthat be such a bad thing? you don't have to watch it,but if you like it hopefully you'll get some inspirationfrom it. that's the point. it's a different person,a different perspective. i wouldn't care if we haddozens of these shows. if i had something to offerand something to say i'm going to do it, and i encourageeveryone else to do that. nicole:it was just about- marc:they can't hear you over there.
we don't have her miked. sometimes you'll hear a little mouse in the background. nicole is having aconversation with herself. this is from chris. hee-mailed us and asked about the concept of makersversus woodworkers, and we could probably spend alot of time on this but we're going to movethrough it pretty quickly. he says, "this link showed upin my social media feed today," and it's a nerdist articletalking about adam savage.
you know him, right? from the mythbusters. and how he's sort ofspearheading the whole maker revolution, whichis really a big deal. he goes on, well let mejust say the article is, a little quote here from the article. it says, "by letting usinto his crafting world, "savage has exposed us to an idea that's "been long lost in popularculture: experiencing "things is cool, butmaking them is way cooler."
i couldn't agree more, andfrankly anyone who has been creating for a while, be ita woodworker, a sculptor, a metal worker, thesepeople know this already. it's a question of whetherit's permeated into popular culture yet, andsomeone like adam savage just might be the rightperson to push that into popular culture.it's a very cool thing. chris goes on to say, "i'vebeen woodworking for a couple "of years. as a huge fanof adam savage i'm finding
"myself drawn more and moreto these hippies that call "themselves 'makers,' whichmakes me ask the question: "is there a real dividebetween woodworkers and makers? "would i be crossing theline if i start calling "myself a maker instead of a woodworker?" well i looked it up because i was curious what the general consensus is. according to wikipedia, "themaker culture represents "a technology-basedextension of the diy culture.
"typical interests enjoyedby the maker culture include "engineering-orientedpursuits such as electronics, "robotics, 3d printingand the use of cnc tools, "as well as more traditionalactivities like metalworking, "woodworking and traditionalarts and crafts." there's a clear difference there. personally i don't care what you call yourself, it's just a label. it's ultimately unimportantto what you do in your shop.
but i do think thatthere is a difference if you're getting specificabout the terminology. i wouldn't call myself amaker. i mean, i do make things but the terminologythat says what a maker is, i really don't focus, i'm moreof a traditional woodworker. i'm not someone who's necessarilygoing to be incorporating a laser engraver, or a cncmachine, or even electronics into the things that ibuild, but there are plenty of people out there whoare doing that and frankly
that's the thing i thinkthat we need to celebrate. i also got another e-mailfrom ashley who says -- a very informative e-mail in fact. i could post the wholething if you're interested. ashley says, "as a makerit's the idea or design that "i want to execute that's thesource of the authenticity. "instead of being a massconsumer i can conceive "and build a thing that's just for me. "in woodworking i findthat it's more about the
"process you take to getthis, which is maybe why we "call ourselves woodworkersand not furniture makers. "hand tool and power toolguys like to argue whose "process is the moreauthentic form of woodworking. "both seem to agree that adding additional "degrees of automationlike cnc somehow diminishes "the authenticity of thework, as you've taken "a shortcut that smacksof mass production." that's a really good point, andi think that's largely true.
this is really all just food for thought. what i want to know from you is how you view this whole maker revolution. the truth is that this is a good thing. whether or not you likethe terminology or the fact that they're incorporatingcnc and other automation, i think ultimately it's a very good thing. the people that are coming infor these others reasons that we might, someone may notunderstand why someone wants to
build a suit of armor orbuild a robot they saw from a science fiction show, butultimately that person is probably going to find somewoodworking videos and find out how to do some thingswith woodworking tools. this may be the source for the next generation of woodworkers. in fact ashley made acomment in a subsequent e-mail that i thoughtwas really insightful. he says every time he'sat the local maker space
where he goes to buildhe has to laugh when he hears about old-schoolmagazines claiming that, "woodworkers are dying offand we have to find a way to save the craft," when helooks around at this crowded space of creative mindsbuilding together and doing things with woodworkingtools. may not be the way that traditional fine woodworkingenvision things going but it may be the thingthat keeps this craft alive. very compelling stuff. letus know in the comments.
there's youtube commentsthat you could leave. you could comment on thispost after it's edited. let us know what you think about it. it's kind of an interesting thing. there's a lot of contentonline and if you aren't aware of drunken woodworker,really cool dude. david reviews a lot ofonline content very specific to the crafting and woodworking community. he does this weekly so i'mgoing to recommend that
right off the hop assomething you should check out routinely if you reallywant to keep up with it. that's not necessarily my goal here. we're actually going to lookat not just woodworking videos from our community members butthings a little bit outside, or tangential to thewoodworking and the craft. things that reallystart to make you think. we're going to open it up a little bit. the first one here isactually from a buddy of ours,
bill doran. bill doran is aprop maker. he's certainly one of those people whoyou would call a maker. bill:i grabbed somesturdy leather that i had laying around and got itall soaked up with water. then i put it on thewooden form that i cut out and clamped theframe over the top of it. i left this contraptionovernight until the leather completely dried, givingme a chunk of leather that was the same form as my leatherman.
finally using a pair ofneedles and some hemp thread i stitched the two havesof the piece together. this was a really fun,cool, quick little build. it took me maybe a couple of hours and i had to wait overnightfor the leather to dry. marc:that's my buddy billdoran and he was actually just in the shop. he's here forcomic con and he's a prop maker. here's a guy who i think falls under that category of maker, usingleather, using wood.
if you get a chance, i'llput the link in the show notes for this, you can gosee the entire project for this little leatherman case.that's fantastic, and he's using a bunch of differentmaterials and woodworking tools, a lot of different things justto make this simple project that i think any of us canprobably make if we had a little piece of leather anda leatherman to put it in. the second thing you mayhave missed, and this is not necessarily new.i believe this was an
adam savage talk from a maker faire, 2012. adam:but more than thatmake what you want. it starts with what you want to have. i get asked a lot, "howdo i learn how to weld? "how do i learn how to do electronics?" my advice is always thesame. choose a project. don't just read about.which do you think is going to work better tolearn about electronics? reading a book aboutit and putting together
some zener diodes andresistors and leds or building your own fully operationaltricorder from star trek? when you have a final goal, whatever that goal is, you are more likely to finish. you're more likely to getthrough that point in every project when the thing you'rebuilding is kicking your butt and making you reallymad because you're failing. that final goal will carry you past that. marc:really inspirational,passionate stuff that comes
from adam and i think that'swhy, in that nerdist article, you read about him propelling the maker revolution, in a way. these maker faires are incredible.there are thousands and thousands of creative peopleconverging in one space. some of them arewoodworkers, some of them are focused in other areas,but very cool stuff. now how this relates towoodworking is actually a piece of advice i try to give newwoodworkers all the time.
that is:don't necessarilygo in your shop and spend a weekend -- youcan do this, i don't want to say there's only oneway to do things, but i don't think it's agreat use of your time to sit there and practiceone thing over and over. let's say you want to getinto hand cut dovetails, so you have all theselittle sample things and you cut 20 or 30 of them untilyou think it's perfect. i would much rather see-- okay, practice one,
but then build something.build something where the stakes are high,where your passion is in it and you want to getto that finish line. it's amazing how muchbetter the lessons you learn are if you'reactually building something. i absolutely love that advice.it's on a broader scale that he's giving there butin terms of woodworking it's totally the way to go, andfrankly it's the way that i got better at woodworking ina very short amount of time.
i never actually practicedanything. maybe a quick cut to get things ready but everytime i built something it was probably the first time thati was building that thing, and my skills then progressedmuch quicker because of it. it's time to gear up.nicole you want to yell? nicole:gear up! marc:we think nicole mightnarrate and sing our transitions. i've got a nice selection ofbrad nailers here and if you aren't familiar brad nailersare just run on compressed air.
you can get them withdifferent size nails. typically what, at least traditionally what i've been aware of, the two that your average woodworker,furniture maker will use. if you're framing or somethingyou need much better ones. the 23 gauge is a littlepin nailer and then an 18 gauge brad nailer is amuch more substantial one. has good hold, actually had agood-sized head on the nail. then i got this littlesample gun here from senco,
this is right in the middle.this is a 21 gauge nailer. if you can let's get a little close up here and i can show you the difference. it might be hard to see butif you look very closely here are 23 gauge pins,very, very small hole. i clustered a bunch of them together so it's fairly obvious to see. next to that is the 21gauge and then the 18 gauge. the bigger one, i mean lookat the size of that hole.
the problem with your smallerones, these pins is like i said they have no head on them,they're just a clean pin, a wire nail that doesn't reallyhave that much holding power. it does work and it leaves anice tiny little hole because there's no head but there'snot much holding power. 18 on the other end of thespectrum has great holding power but you get this giantrectangular hole at the top. but the 21 is a nicecompromise because you do have the head on the nail butit's much less substantial
and you have a much easierto fill hole that's not quite as clear of a rectangleas these other ones. this is a new gun. it'sthe finish pro 21lxp. frankly i think this may bethe one that i use from now on. i don't know that i want touse the 18 gauge any more for the things that i build.i like the idea of the small head and still gettingthe holding power that i typically would get froman 18 gauge brad nail gun. nicole:what scenario would you use it on?
marc:when you use this depends on the type of woodworking you do and your preference, your personal preference and tooling. if you watch the newyankee workshop classic episodes it's used on every project. when you're putting onmoulding, sometimes you're putting a little mouldingon the top of a cabinet it's very difficult to clamp thatin place so brad nails are perfect because you can justhold it there, the glue dries.
the funny joke thateverybody always says is that norm would use the nailsjust until the glue dried. he certainly didn't meanto imply that he was going to go back and removethose nails afterwards but the idea is the nailsare only holding it there until the glue dries becausethe glue bond is actually what's going to secure thatthing for life. the nails are just there to act as alittle clamping mechanism. you can use these inlots of different things.
for me, primarily i usethem for jig building. in fact i've got a jigthat i'm going to show you later that was heldtogether with brad nails but there are some cases inmy work that i'll use it. there are people thatuse them all the time in their work, it just depends. it's just another method offastening things together. you guys know david marks, right? you're familiar with the man.
check that out. season five ofwoodworks was just released. if you're not familiar, maybeyou're new to woodworking, woodworks is an old tv show that was on hgtv as well as the diy network. ran for several years andthere's quite a few seasons, there's a lot of contentwith some great projects. david's a great guy,incredible woodworker, master craftsman. someoneyou should definitely know, someone you should definitely follow.
season five of woodworksis out and you can get that at djmarks.com. infact david's got a whole new website that they're veryproud of. you go to the store, there's digital downloads ifyou don't want to buy the dvd, or you can actually purchase a dvd. this is a small jewelery boxwith a breadboard top and the inside is covered withrice paper on the bottom, quarter sawn walnut, and myfavorite detail here of all: the finger joints on the ends.
these finger jointswere cut on the bandsaw, we'll show you that technique. this is a video that'sgoing to be on the free site so no complainingthat it's in the guild. shut up. nicole:be nice.marc: i'm being nice. really cool project, there'sstill more to be done. you can see it's not finishedand here's the reason why. you may have heard of awoodworker named gary rogowski.
incredible woodworker. infact he wrote one of the first books i read inwoodworking, which is the joinery book by finewoodworking, by taunton press. it's like the definitivelibrary shelf title reference book thatwoodworkers use for joinery. nicole:show them your shelf? marc:it's too much work. anyway,gary rogowski, great guy. he has family in the area. he stopped by and spent twodays in the shop with me.
we got as much done aswe could and we're going to bring this projectto you as soon as i can. really i just need to finish it up. he kind of did three quarters of the work and then i'm going to come in and finish it off and probably ruin the whole thing, which is, that's what i do best. seriously, it's goingto be a great project. i think you're really going to love it.
the other thing i'm working on is a guild project and that's down here. we're building a moorish chair. this is the frame of the moorish chair. still has a lot of work togo, we're not quite there yet. you can see i've got alittle foot stool here, ottoman, whatever you want to call it. there's quite a bit of work to go. the arms on this piece are going to be
bent laminated sothere's a bow arm design. you'll notice that thesides are still very weird looking, they'restill bulky and square. the reason for that is oncewe have that bent arm we're going to drop it in placeand trace the final shape on here and then this way we geta nice perfect custom fit. this project is actually going on right now in the guild so good stuff. this is definitely going tobe a very comfortable chair.
now the bent laminationprocess is something that we could talk a little bit about. if you take a peek backhere you'll see my jig. this monstrosity, medieval torture device. is my computer in the way? nicole:eh, i got it. marc:this is a bending formthat i created and you can see it's got this segmentedtop section and this is so that we can have individualpressure all the way across.
we're going to put a stackof laminates in here with glue between each layerand press the crap out of this thing until it bendsto the shape we want. this is an incredible process, it took me a weekend just to do this. it seems like a lot of workjust to prep for a part of the project but it's totally worthit because bent lamination is an awesome process butit's one you have to respect. if you don't plan ahead with your jigs and
things like that you will be in hot water once that glue is on there and drying. i have a little samplehere that i could show you. what i have here is a little stack of laminations, these werecut at the bandsaw. you usually keep them in theorder that you cut them so that you have grain matching on thesides and on the end grain. when you have this stackedtogether you put a whole bunch of glue between each layerand you bend it on a form.
this would be the shapeyou're going for and then you have the negativeor the top of the form that comes in like thisand pinches it closed. then once the glue sets it willstay roughly in that shape. you might get a little bitof springback but not much. watchingdragon asks, "hey,how do you cut wood for a wooden tankard without tablesaw/bandsaw/grinder/router? just hand tools right now." i guess it really depends on how you
want to construct that tankard. if you're doing a coopereddesign you basically, you can make these cuts witha handsaw but you're probably going to want to go backwith a hand plane to smooth them because the idea iseach one gets cut on a slight bevel and then you'll beable to glue them together so once they piece together andyou get your angles right. you'll want to draw this out first to make sure you get your angles done properly.
you'll be able to cut alongthere, but it is going to be key that you smooththe joints between those bevelled pieces otherwisethe joints won't line up properly, you'll never get a good seal. especially if you areputting liquid in there you need those jointsto be nice and tight. you should theoreticallybe able to cut them to size, use a handplane to smooth them out, join them together and thenprobably use a band clamp
once you glue it togetherwith a nice waterproof glue. put a band clamp around there, clamp everything together and then clean it up. now i'll be honest, i'venever built a tankard. i've never built anythingout of wood that's meant to hold water so i can't give awhole lot of advice on that. but construction wise, it'sgoing to be some work but it should be something you cando without a ton of tools. jonathan asks, jonathan howesays, "when burning wood scraps
"are there any types that aredangerous in terms of gasses "or cooking over a fire?plywood, mdf, melamine, etc." first rule:never burn your -- well, okay. if you want to burn andjust not be around and you don't mind a littlebit of air pollution. (laughs) is that bad advice? that's one thing. but generally speaking i try not to burn any sort of sheet good. here's the reason. sheetgoods are loaded with
adhesives and it's justnasty stuff so burning it, i just can't imagine anythinggood coming out of that. you certainly don't wantto burn it in an area where anyone is goingto breathe it or anyone is cooking with it. just not a good idea. the other thing i try toavoid when we're talking about solid wood, i try toavoid anything that is in, generally speaking, theexotic category of woods. exotics tend to have a lotof natural oils in them,
there could be otherthings going on in terms of their composition. there's just so many woods out there i can'teven give you specifics. there is a wood toxicitychart out that there you may want to take a look at.there's quite a few out there. that may help you andguide you into what things might be so irritable,like my son every morning. man is he irritable lately. that may be so much of anirritant that there's just no
way you want to burn thatanywhere around people or food. when it comes to foodi smoke with my scraps all the time but i stickto the domestic, soft -- well i don't really use soft woods. domestic hard woods primarily just because that's what i'm building with. i will smoke with cherryscraps, maple scraps, oak scraps. those things are all fine. certainly pressure treatedstuff, stay away from it.
anything with a lot ofsap in it, stay away from that too, just asa safety precaution. suggestions for, this is from eric koelle. suggestions for a good, cheap, readily-available woodfor a beginner woodworker. i think one of the betterwoods for the beginner woodworker, two of them, and one of them may be hard to getdepending on your region. a decent one is poplar. poplar is fairly
inexpensive, it's easyenough to work with. i think it's a good wood to learn with. here's the problem with poplar:most of the time it's ugly. if you're going to paintthe project, great. if you're trying tostain it poplar doesn't really respond that well to staining. it's very blotchy and poplartends to have green streaks that run through it so it'snot the prettiest wood but it's available, it's fairly inexpensiveand it works pretty well.
i still think it's a goodoption for learning but you may consider paintingit when you're done. of course alder. this may bea west coast thing because i don't think on the eastcoast it's as plentiful but around here alder isincredibly inexpensive. it's a little bit soft andwhen you try to chop it with a chisel for instance,even the sharpest chisel, you tend to get crushed fibersinstead of severed fibers. that's a little bit of an issue but
ultimately it's stillinexpensive and the great thing about alder is it looks gorgeous. you could take some precautionswith blotch control if you need to stain it but you canmake alder look like cherry, you can make it look like walnut and even on its own has a beautiful,nice brown color. alder is another wood that i'd recommend. mattr0815, "have youever had the problem that "you spend the majorityof time in your shop
"building things for andorganizing your shop? "i find my shop issomething i'm never happy "with and end up toomuch time working in the "shop and not buildingthings in the shop." i think this is a classicproblem for hobbies. not just woodworking,any type of hobby has the potential to get you lockeddown into research mode, or you're constantly focusedlike -- i built a home theater in our lasthouse. had a nice basement
area so i was able todo a diy home theater. i spent a lot of time in the avs forum. great forum but if you go onto the home theater section youwill find tons of people who never finish their home theater. isn't the goal to build the home theater so you could sit in itwith your family and enjoy some great moviesor music or whatever? the problem is for them thehobby, part of the hobby
and their joy came from theconstruction and improvement of this space so theynever finished it because finishing it means closingthe door on the chapter of that process and theynever wanted to do that. the same thing can absolutelyhappen in woodworking where you are so focusedon building your shop. it's fun, you enjoy it soyou want to keep doing it. here's the thing: if youwant to build furniture then yes, you need tostop what you're doing,
stop improving the shop andjust start building furniture. if you're not happy withit you'll fix it over time. there are plenty of thingsin this shop that i'm not happy with. i haven't finishedmoving in technically. there's still a lot ofthings that i need to build to get this space the way i want it. but that doesn't stop mefrom building furniture. i have to keep building otherwise i have nothing to put online to show people.
for me i have to do thatbut if there were no cameras here and i was left to my owndevices if i wanted to spend the next six months improvingmy shop space who has a right to tell me that that'snot the right way to go? it's how i want to spend my time. i recommend you do a gutcheck. do you want to build furniture or do you want tobuild stuff for your shop? either one is perfectly fineand who cares what other people think about it. youare the only person you
have to justify yourselfto, or possibly your wife. nicole:spouse. marc:your spouse. what about my tattoos? nicole:show them. marc:i can show my arms.i'm not showing you the ones on my back, that's alittle bit private y'all. jay c asks, "any suggestions on "finishes for children's toys?
"namely the ones they keepputting in to their mouths." one of the best finishes is no finish. you don't really have toput anything on a child's toy if you really want tobe super cautious about it. as long as it's a good quality wood that isn't going to splinter a lot. in fact we bought acouple of teething rings for our son -- well, nicole bought it. i would have just made onebut she bought them online.
they're actually made frommaple. it's very well sanded and it doesn't splinter and he wasable to gnaw on that thing. wood is surprisingly good for that because they've got really hardteeth behind their gums so having something firm butnot as firm as a metal, something like that forthem to bite into is good and it's a perfectlynatural, clean material. nothing at all is one option. you could always go withsomething like an oil.
like a tongue oil, evenboiled linseed oil. that will give you the look of somethingthat has finish on it. you know, for a kids toystay away from the boiled linseed oil because there'schemical driers in there. maybe go with a pure oillike a pure tongue oil or even tried and truevarnish is a good option. there's no petroleum distillates in that so that might be a reasonable option. then if you're looking for afilm finish consider shellac.
shellac is one of those materialsthat's a natural product. the stuff it's thinned withcan be poisonous because it's alcohol and a lot of timesyou're using denatured alcohol which contains methanol whichwill make you go blind, you don't necessarily want todrink it, but once it's dry the film that's left over isactually something that's edible. it's actually somethingthat we actually do eat in the form of medicines and candy coatings. that is also another option for you
to consider if you want the film. let's wrap this up. next show, ultimately what we want to do is the first friday of every new month. the problem is it's july next month so july 4th i believe is friday. we're going to bump it up acouple of days, we're going to do this on wednesday, july 2nd,it's going to be two days early. but we're going to aim for the first
friday of every month thereafter. frequency wise we're goingto start with once a month. we'll see how this goes.your feedback is going to help us decide whatto do with this venture, whether this venture isworth doing ultimately. nicole:yeah. this is the first time we've done this in a long time. marc:i do monthly live showsfor the guild all the time, that's much moredemo-oriented, but this is
something a little bitmore community-based and that's what we thinkneeds to happen here for us and for thepeople we hang out with. some contact info. if you want to send a question in ahead of time. obviously i've got pre-preparedquestions and things. you could use twitter anduse the hashtag twwlive, that's a nice option to get to us. facebook, i'm always on facebookposting and sharing things.
you can catch us there. we have a contact form that you can use at thewoodwhisperer.com/contact. where else? google+, we're everywhere. nicole:yeah, we are. marc:get us your questionsand we'll try to get them into the show, but obviouslywe can't answer all of them. you always have a chance ifyou're here live to get your question answered right hereas we're doing the show.
nicole:i'm scanning them all the time. marc:she's scanning them all the time. i think we're going to wrap it up. thanks everybody, i hope you enjoyed this. there will be an edited versionof this available for you to view and it will be a littlebit more condensed, i think. i've got to get started on that because i want to get it out soon. thanks for watching everybody,we'll see you next time.
nicole:bye!