Shop Talk Live - FineWoodworking

STL258: Making pretty things and blowing up their spots

January 28, 2022

Woodworker, artist, and author, Danielle Rose Byrd joins Barry and Ben to discuss greenwoodworking techniques and culture, taking care of your body, wood allergies, sharpening, and how to find your own style.

STL257: Barry gets a tablesaw

January 14, 2022

Anissa, Barry, and Ben discuss budget tablesaws, milling a bench top by hand, mobile bases, and finer furniture pads

STL256: Just’a planin’ and a scrapin’

December 17, 2021

Mike and Ben finish out the year answering a batch of questions about flattening plane irons, micro bevels, hot card scrapers, and touching up a glue line.

STL255: Vic’s plywood workbench

December 3, 2021

Vic Tesolin joins Anissa and Ben to discuss economy shop life, his new workbench, making handplanes, and sharpening toothed planes.

STL254: Iron and oak (and maple?)

November 19, 2021

Cozied up in the new shop, Mike, Barry, and Ben discuss the progress setting up the shop, techniques for ebonizing, painting panels, and primo box hinges.

The Innovators: Grizzly Industrial

November 12, 2021

We chat with Grizzly’s own Jameson Hawn to get a behind-the-scenes look at the company.

STL253: Woodworking is just tricks and fixing mistakes

November 5, 2021

Furniture maker and machinery guru Ellen Kaspern joins Anissa and Ben to answer listener questions about jointers and walnut slabs, and to proclaim her never-ending love of the Delta Unisaw.

STL252: The pull of the Japanese handplane

October 22, 2021

Andrew Hunter takes over the show to answer listener questions about Japanese handplanes and how he uses them in his work.

STL251: Assume the glue is going to fail

October 8, 2021

Mike, Anissa, and Ben discuss Patrick Sullivan's end-grain glue myths video, how a listener can hide a joint on an 18-ft. run of molding, and the pros and cons of floating tenon joinery.