Episodes
Last pod of the summer. Matt & Joe Discuss their favorite and least favorite woods, some dumb and some great things done in the shop. 3 Things to know about making end grain veneers. Matt’s Joke & Stat of the podcast. Matt’s teaching an online 6 lesson endgrain veneer course - check it out.
Published 09/25/20
what to get, stay away from, and an essential set.
Published 07/10/20
Matt & Joe enjoy some beer and a conversation with Matt’s long-time friend and former Fine Woodworking Art Editor and professional furniture maker, Kelly Dunton.
Published 06/26/20
This one is all about routers. Big ones, small ones, bits and dust collection.
Published 06/12/20
Matt and Joe discuss their top moments or things that have made significant or pivotal changes in their furniture making.
Published 05/29/20
Matt had a bad week. He made some small mistakes and a really big one on his credenza. Its not how you make it but how you recover.
Published 05/15/20
Sounds simple but maybe its not. Matt & Joe are both building doors for their current projects. Joe had questions about building doors. Small doors, frame and panel doors, laminated, lumber core veneered doors and more.
Published 05/01/20
Second episode from quarantine. Matt and Joe answer more listener questions.
Published 04/11/20
This week Matt and Joe mistakenly call this our 18th episode. Its 19! Anyway, we hope everyone is staying safe and isolated and enjoy the show. We catch up on what we’ve been doing with our home time and answer some questions. Preorder Matt Kenney’s signed hard cover “The Art of Kumiko” Book
Published 03/25/20
In this episode Matt and Joe discuss the essential tools to pack for woodworking classes. They go into a little about how to pack them and making sure not to take them with you on a cruise.
Published 02/28/20
In this week’s episode Matt and Joe discuss Matt wrapping up his book about kumiko. Joe asks some questions about kumiko. We answer a listener question from John about a reliability of a table saw miter sled vs. a miter shooting board. Matt’s 3 things to know about planing figured woods.
Published 02/14/20
In this episode Matt and Joe discuss goals and accomplishments to look forward to in 2020. Matt explains tips and tricks to working and holding larger scale pieces with jigs and fixtures. Matt’s Joke of the podcast. Stat of the pod. Matt’s 3 things to keep motivated in the shop.
Published 01/31/20
Matt and Joe are back. The past few months have been super busy for the fellas (mostly Joe’s fault). While we were away Matt had some serious kickback on the table saw and took a trip to the ER. He’s okay. In this episode he explains what happened, how to prevent it and what’s happening moving forward. Three things to know about what happened after Matt’s table saw accident. Stat of the pod and of course a joke.
Published 01/17/20
This episode went a little off the rails but we still got some good stuff for you. Matt's headed to Indiana to teach at the Marc Adam's School of Woodworking. Menial progress was made on Joe's tea cabinet. Joe needs a desk for his new office space and Matt answers questions about building one. How to build it, what matches with Ash, to paint or not to paint, so many questions.
Published 10/04/19
Holy Moly. We're back! What have we been up to. We Talk about where we are with our Tea Cabinets, Matt's new wall cabinet and Matt's 5 Essential Woodworking Skills. 1. Vision 2. Sharpening 3. Milling 4. Layout 5. Order of operations 3 things to know Joke and stat of the podcast.
Published 09/20/19
Matt taught some end grain veneers and explains his process. We also go into pricing work.
Published 08/09/19
Matt and Joe couldn’t make it work this week so Matt flies solo. Matt answers random questions and talks about Slim McGinty.
Published 07/05/19
In this episode Matt & Joe go over what goes into cutting dovetails - Matt’s method, how Joe wasn’t ready with sharp tools to cut his. We also touch on making mistakes and how to recover from them. What we’ve been up to…Matt was at Peters Valley last week and is heading to Maine for a class at Lie-Nielsen this weekend to teach kumiko - Joe took vacation and put in a walkway.
Published 06/21/19
We discuss Matt and Joe’s cabinets and where they are in the build process. We go a little further into detail on the Rip n’ Flip method we used for Joe’s panels.
Published 06/07/19
Matt and Joe will be live streaming on Friday May, 24.
Published 05/23/19
Matt and Joe discuss the order of operations (sort of) and best practices for moving along with our tea boxes. - Listener questions we missed (sorry) - A fine review of Matt’s book - Stat of the podcast - 3 things to know your a bad business person - A joke about flies Send us your questions about making boxes and/or joinery for the next podcast. Or, whatever else you like. Also, let us know if you all want to hear a different style of podcast in one of the upcoming episodes like a podcast...
Published 05/10/19
Matt and Joe finally do the episode about milling. Joe and listeners ask Matt questions about milling lumber.
Published 04/26/19
We lied. No milling this week. Instead Joe and Matt discuss three of Matt’s pieces. Matt’s design choices, why he chose to make them in the first place and where they are now.
Published 04/12/19
This episode Matt & Joe discuss lumber selection and how to prep to go to the yard. Matt explains buying what you need, don’t buy board feet. - Dumb things we’ve done getting lumber - Best deal we snagged while buying wood - 3 things about Matt’s friend, Randy Dingle
Published 03/29/19