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Title : standard furniture marilyn
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- [marc] yeah baby, yeah baby. all right. we're ready to go? - [nicole] yep. - [marc] that's your audio. - [nicole] oh, is that mine? - [marc] no dunkin' donuts tonight. well, here's the thing. we're having a holiday party,
and it's friday, but i still have a 3-year-old that's going to get upat 5:30 in the morning. i'm not going to hurt anybody but myself, if i drink coffee this late at night, so what i have is a moose full of hot spiced apple cider. - "it's gooood." all right, so i got justa couple of things here.
everything, pretty much is behind me. i've got a plate of red balls. would you like a red ball? - uh-uh. - these are red powdereddoughnuts for the holidays. - oh, are they? - yeah, which, of course, nothing says a good accompaniment toa live presentation ... - weird. - than powdered doughnuts.
all right, so i think we're good, right? - i think we're great. - all right, so nicole is going to join me for a lot of this today. we are completely breaking from the format that we usually have for "tww live," so if you're used to the demo, and giveaway announcements,and all that other stuff we're kind of pushingthat to the side today.
today, it's all about holiday giving. us giving stuff to you. - "not a finga!" yeah, so you could see we love some of our favorite christmas movies. we got a lot of paraphernalia around, and the leg lamp. wasn't this a gift from my brother? - [nicole] it was.
- ian got that for me, right, so beautiful leg lamp. - i love it when mateo goes up to it. - yeah, "yeah, statue." nicole got this for me. this is my latest addition to my christmas collection of goofy stuff, my moose mug. - if you can find them.
you can find those at kohl's. - yeah, and good luck not breaking the damn antlers off, right? - it's glass. - okay, so before webegin with the giveaways because i know that's all you're here for, we should probably just mention woodworkers fighting cancer is coming to a close 2014 drive.
now, of course, you could still donate, and the official team page is still open if someone wants to send money, or build one of the chests, but as far as our bigdrive that we do it's done. we've got the final tally in, and we'll have a summaryvideo coming soon, so you'll be able to seethe results of all that, but i could spoil it for you.
- i was going to say, you just going to leave them hanging? - let me spoil the ending. 340 people built a toy chest this year, and the total exceeded our goal, and last time i checkedwe're at $15,600 something. the goal was 15,000, so awesome, yay! - virtual high-five's. - that was a real one.
that was a real high-five right there. we do the real thing here, so we are really excited about that. i can't tell you how much it means to me that we have a communitythat can get together, and raise $15,000 in what, a month? - you released the video in october. - okay, so roughly a little over a month. that's just amazing,
and you guys know steve helped us out with promoting the event. he built one of the toy chests, too, and we'll have him in ourlittle guest appearance in our next video with steve. so it's just all good. it's that time of year that you want to hear some good news, and i think we've both got things
going on in our families with cancer that's really affecting us right now, so this is especiallymeaningful to us this year. - i will say the money went to cancer research institute. wow, what a nice bunch of people. we've been doing this forfour years, five years? - yeah, i think thismight be the fifth year. - this is the first time anyone
has actually reached out to us, and i really appreciate that. - yeah, just basically how could they do things better. are we going to get in trouble with the copyrighted music in the background on youtube? - do you think they can hear it? - i don't know, let'snot take any chances.
sorry, christmas music is great, but that youtube copyrightstuff is no joke. - this is true. - all right, anything else? woodworkers fighting cancer announcement. obviously, we have a lotof giveaways to do here. bare with us as we announce names. if you missed it, i'm sorry, we had to pull the plug at a certain point
to be able to have this run smoothly, but we also, of course,have a monthly giveaway, and right now we're giving away a festool domino and a ct combo. - what? - right, i know, i gotone back here somewhere. go to the woodwhisperer.com/giveaway to get a chance to win that. - and a superfan membership.
- and a superfan. i almost said a superman membership. - i want that card to the superman. - the superman membership i would definitely join that. okay, so much stuff to give away. this is going to be prettyboring for the most part because we're just goingto be reading names off. - well, we're going toshow some of the stuff
that we're giving away. - yeah, we got a lot of it here. so let's just get started. let's rip the wrapping off. let's dive into it. let's crumble the wrapping, and have our moms yellat us for making a mess. i need a hat, got to get in uniform here. oh, it is a little small.
- i told you. - she said, "try it on first." i'm like "what do youthink, my head's huge?" - you can wear the elf hat. - it just barely fits on my noggin. - i think it's for mateo. - well that explains it, doesn't it? do you want to switch? - yeah.
- i get to be the elf. these actually look likethey could be my ears. how's that? - that's great. - we're good, okay, let's jump into it. so the first one is a guild dvd five-pack, and it contains thesefive beauties right here. it's the mirror frame, shaker table. this is good stuff.
these are all videos thatare published in the guild. there was a time where weput them on dvd as well. we don't really do that anymore, but these are stillavailable, so great stuff. you get a five-pack of these. we're giving five of these away. - they're like $50 a pop. - yeah, or 35, orsomething, i can't remember. boy, this is uncomfortable for me,
but i will endure because that's just the kind of guy i am. so five of these five-packs are going out to you kind folks. first, here's the thing. if you hear your name youdon't have to do anything. we will contact you via e-mail. we have your information. - i have your information.
- so we'll just give you a heads up, and let you know, andthen we'll ship them out. all right, let's do it. jim tory, sylvain ward. - they're from canada, so i'm going to haveto ask them a question. - yeah, did you hear about that? read into canada's giveaway laws. you actually have to answer math questions
when you win a giveaway. - so i'll be sending you a math question. - look forward to thatsquare-root question. lester sak from jersey. jeff watson and anthony osborne. congratulations, you guysget a butt-load of me. enjoy, you could feellike nicole for a while. you'll be like "five hours of this." "now i know what she feelslike, this is terrible."
- and i have 24 hours. - okay, yeah, five hoursis just one project, and you got five of those in there, so enjoy that! all right, let's move on. "hybrid woodworking" book. - signed copy. - signed copies by "yours truly" because that would be weird
if someone else signed it. - i'll sign it. - nicole will sign it,people have asked that. - i took some of the pictures. - that's true, all right, this is my "hybrid woodworking" book. it came out last year. we're giving away four copies of this. - was it last year, or this year?
- it was last year. - was it last year? - i think we're over a year, aren't we? i'm kind of partial to this book. i think it's pretty good. i might be a littlebiased, though. - maybe. - i sat on my butt in a recliner for six months and wrote it. okay, "hybrid woodworking"book is going to go to:
aaron davis, david bennett, brian meigh, dan mallender. - yep. - mallender, mallender. - mallender. - congratulations, you guys get a copy of "hybrid woodworking." - i'm just looking forward to the names that you cannot pronounce.
- oh, there's nothing ican't pronounce correctly. all right, next one. now, this is crazy. you guys know that i watch a lot of woodworking stuff, right, it's kind of what i do. i collect woodworking dvd's over time. sometimes they're review copies. sometimes they're justthings i bought for myself.
let's just say it's time toclean house a little bit here. i've got a veritable butt-load of dvd's. some are open, some are brand new, still in the wrapper. some were watched by me. some were caressed byme on a lonely night. - schwarz. - yeah, a lot of schwarzstuff, especially those. - rob cosman.
- that guy, he looks alittle like kenny loggins, so that just kind of,yeah, does it for me. - "i'm alright" - "i'm alright," so i can'tgive you all of the titles, but there is a ton of content here. so what i'm giving away now are multipacks where you'll get basically about five of these dvd's, at random, so it will be a nice surprise
when you get it in the mail, and see what you got. so each one of thesepeople will be getting five, roughly, dvd's,and we have 12 people. - four to five. - 12 people, nicole. - 12. - i have that many dvd's that i can give that many away.
all right, spread thewoodworking love, i always say. okay, here we go, ready. bradley white, chris smith, janice stoyko, jeff vandenberg, sue jansen, mark nyland, kris kidd, jared mcgrath,kevern pritchett, david mcwilliam, and ross littlefield. i'm assuming that was 12 names. - [nicole] the "woodwhisperer" site is down, what? - that was only 10 names.
- [nicole] that was only 10 names? - yeah. - [nicole] all right,i'll pick a couple more. - okay, we'll pick a couple more. the site is down? i don't buy it. it would be pretty funny ifwe got ddosed during a ... - [nicole] it says, "not available." - oh man. - [nicole] it's not funny,don't joke about that.
- i know it's not funny. as a person who hasbeen ddosed in the past, and who runs a website continuing to do a live session when i know that my site is down is kind of like one yourkids yelling for help, and you're not being able to answer. that's pretty rough. - [nicole] help me, help me.
- i'm just going to continue because i don't know what else i could do. even if i was there iprobably couldn't get the site back up right now anyway. - [nicole] i'm sure our team is on it. - yeah, our team, yeah. okay, random dvd multipack. we'll have to find a couple more, but bottom line that wasa lot of people already.
let's get to the next one. david marks "scrapers and veneers" dvd's. you guys know david marks from "woodworks fame." the guy just makes amazing furniture, and has great instructional dvd's. so what we have hereis his "scrapers" dvd, and his "bandsaw and veneers" dvd. these things aren't cheap.
david makes some premium stuff, so there's only one of those available. that is going to jack garozzi in new york. congratulations, jack. i think you're going to enjoy those. david is the man. - [nicole] underscorefunkis in the chat room. - hey, john, any chance you can find out what's wrong with our site
while you're doing nothing? okay, it's a good thingwe're on youtube, right? at least youtube ain't gonna go down. rockler's router table and box joint jig, or router table box joint jig. i think i got this a long time ago as a sort of promotional thing, or maybe they wanted me to review it. you could see i did agreat job of reviewing it.
i said, "oh, that's such a lovely box. "i'm going to put that in the corner." so this is still brand new, ready to go, router box joint jig. we only have one, so i'm going to give that to steve kuzmer, k-u-z-m-e-r. congratulations, steve,looks like a nice unit. i got about 20 different ways
to make box joints though, so i wasn't really compelled to open it myself, unfortunately. man, i want one of those doughnuts. - [nicole] eat it. - no, i can't, i'm in the middle of doing something here. okay, here's a great book that i read. peter korn, this is the guy who runs
the centre for furniture craftsmanship, i believe, in maine. incredible writer, andthis is a great book called "why we make thingsand why it matters." a really good read, and i'vegot a copy here for you, and so it is what it is. who is this going to? noah mudge, congratulations, noah. this is a great read.
let me know how you like it because i rather enjoyed it myself. moving on, baby. i'm going to give away three posters. you guys might remember. i did a blog post about this, and a couple of people thought that the little graphicwe made was pretty cool, so they asked for it in a poster size,
and that's what we have here. it's sort of the methodology of how we design things as woodworkers, and it's kind of cool wall art. i got mine in a frame because nicole is crafty like that. - [nicole] oh yeah, i go to michaels. - she's crafty, she bought a frame. okay, three of those posters.
paul godwin, caleb bales, and dan miller. congratulations, guys, you're going to get a cardboard tube in the mail. all right, so the last four items. - [nicole] do you wantme to give you two more for the dvd pack? - yeah, give me two more for the dvd pack. just make sure you gettheir names down there. - [nicole] i have john mcabby.
- john mcabby, this isthe random dvd pack, by the way. - [nicole] and tim rix. - and tim ricks, never trust a man with two first names, as they say, oh, r-i-x, i see, okay. - [nicole] yeah, r-i-x. - well those guys get the random dvd pack. congratulations, you two.
all right, so these are kindof the bigger ticket items, things that are just more expensive. these are the big gifts. these are the ones thatyour parents wait 'til three hours after christmas is done to surprise you with. - [nicole] oh, the site is back up. - oh, is it? well, whatthe heck was that about? - [nicole] i'm rebooting it.
i think it's up unless this is a cache. it's still there, it'sfine, don't worry about it. - you know, you're tryingto do something nice, right? and then your site goes down. here we go, i'm going to do "woodworks." speaking of david marks, his "woodworks" show isnow available on dvd. again, not cheap, i mean this is really top quality stuff,
so he has each season on dvd, and i have a pack here containing ... this is an awesome prize. season two, three, four, and five. i don't have season one, sorry, but two through five. that's just a ton ofwoodworking inspiration. i mean this is what got me started in woodworking and thinking that i wanted
to actually do this stuff myself was watching david on "woodworks." so, if you're not inspired by this there's something wrong with you, and you should see a doctor. okay, seasons two throughfive of "woodworks" will go to one lucky winner, and that lucky winner is jason gram. congratulations, jason.
this is awesome. this might actually be the biggest cash value we have here. maybe not, i don't know,i didn't do the math. okay, next up, should i do the saw last? i actually think the saw iskind of the biggest deal. yeah, let's do that last. okay, one-year guild subscription. this will get you the next three projects
that are coming down the line, one of which is a sculpted rocker, so that's going to bepretty amazing in may. so you get a one-year subscription. we're going to give two of those away, and if you're an existing member that time just gets added to your account, so no worries. greg thuringer, and robertwallner, with two l's.
congratulations, guys,so we've got your e-mail. i will set you up with a membership. you'll receive an e-mail, and you'll be able tochange your password, and all that good stuff, and you can log in and checkout the guild goodness. okay, we have a superfan subscription. - [nicole] why the superfan? - this is one, one subscription,
and the superfan membershipis a little different than the regular one. you get some extra bonuses and some cool stuff with it. - i send you a christmas card. - you get a christmas card. you get special access to me, easy access to me via skype consultations, and good stuff like that,
but we're doing one of those, and that is going to a lucky man named jason treadwell. - jason. - congratulations,jason. - congratulations. - don't ask me for help too soon. you're new, settle down. okay, this is the big one. - the big one.
- this is the big one. this is the one that'shiding behind the tree. sometimes in this line of work you just end up with extra things. you end up with morethan one of something. i don't know why, it just happens. and i happen to have more than one of this lie-nielsen saw. it's a crosscut, you can certainly use it
for dovetails if you wanted to. it's a little big thanyour normal dovetail saw, but this can certainly do a mean dovetail. a real beautiful unithere, and i don't know if you noticed back there, but i happen to be partial to lie-nielsen for my handsaw needs, but i happen to already have this one, so this beautiful saw is going to go
to one lucky winner. what is his or her name? - we've had a number offemale winners in this one. - say it isn't so becausefrom what i've heard we sort out the females, and make sure that men only win. - never. - that's what we've been accused of. that's going to go, what?
- right there. - that's going to go to marilyn guthrie. - congratulations, marilyn. marilyn is actually an old friend of "the wood whisperer," and everybody. she's a great lady. - just to let you know the system that we used this year to manage all of this because it's a lot,
basically just randomly picks names, and i will be posting them in the widget. so if you signed up, and you want to see your name in there, you want to see theofficial list of winners, you will see them listed in the widget as soon as i just go hit the button. - look what i'm doing to marilyn's saw. i'm kissing your saw handle.
does that bother you? that's weird, that's alittle creepy, actually. sorry, for molesting your saw. that's good stuff, oh, shnikies. all right, well that's actually it, which means i could take my goofy hat off. that's it for the giveaway stuff. in the past we've done this and drew names as we were going, and what a mess.
- logistical nightmare. - yeah, and this is nice and fast which means we can get to other things. at this point we don'thave anything else planned, but, man, we just gaveaway a ton of stuff. - yeah, we did. - so what i'd like to do. nicole, if you want to monitor chat, we can have just a chilled, relaxed
open q&a fireside chat, conversation. - you want to eat some of those doughnuts. - i'll have a few doughnuts,a little more cider. i'll nozzle up against my leg lamp. maybe make out with that saw over there. marilyn won't mind, right? if that sounds good to you guys, we'll just hang out, let's chill. let's chill like a bunch of friends.
- [nicole] so boring. - yeah, that's whatyou say until your name is announced because you won something. yeah, someone said, "can'twait for the rocker." the rocker is going to be a great project. let's just hope i don't screw it up. and honestly this is open questions, not just woodworking related. if you've ever wanted to know
what it is nicole sees in me she can come over andanswer that question. if you want to know questions about my personal life i'm an open book, for the most part, wecan talk, let's talk. you know, most importantly,what i want to do is annoy the people on youtube who don't like it when we don't do woodworking in our videos
because if we haven'talready angered them, we will now, you're welcome. - [nicole] where did you get the hat? where did i get the hat? - the elf hat, i don't know. we've had those for years. - [nicole] yeah, walmart, walmart. - look at the red balls. look at those things.
you want one, don't you? - [nicole] the mug, so tell them the mug came from kohl's. - this mug, nicole says,she found it at kohl's. the question is whether or not you'll be able to find it at this point. - [nicole] they're gone. - she went back to get another one because we wanted a pair,
so my brother and i could have eggnog while he's wearing a dickey turtleneck, and white pants, and there was only one. - [nicole] the hat i got at walmart. - by the way, this is thelast "tww live" for this year. we'll be back in 2015 to start with a brand new schedule. i think this was fairly successful
as far as one of our little ventures goes. i think we'll keep doingit unless we hear feedback that you guys hate this thing. - [nicole] someone wants to know if we're going to have any more children. - are we going to have any more children? we will let mother naturemake that decision. - [nicole] thomas wants to know, he's going to be buying adisc sander/belt sander,
any suggestions? - a disc sander/belt sander. well, the combo units that are out there, there's quite a few. you don't really askmuch of tools like that, so i think grizzlymight have a combo unit. i know powermatic hasone because i've got one, but i don't know that you necessarily need to go for top grade on a tool like that,
so i would check outgeneral, check out grizzly. they should have solidofferings in that department. like i said the powermatic one is okay, but i don't know that younecessarily need to go to that level for that type of tool. - thomas would like to know what video games you play. - thomas? thomas? okay, i play lots of different games.
it just kind of depends on what strikes my fancy at the time. on a pc i play a lot of wow. i play skyrim off and on just because it's likethe game that never ends, and on consoles i kind of just play whatever is hot at the time. we were playing destiny for a while. i still need to get throughcall of duty, the latest one.
i actually just got a wii u, so i've been exploringsome old school wind waker. - you didn't even mentionworld of warcraft. - i did, too, you weren't listening. - oh did you, i guess i ... - miss fancy pants over here. - i'm going to pull up the chat, so i can actually ... - can you pull it up there?
- yeah, why not? - oh yeah, do i have it there? but, what about the youtube chat? - that's where i'm going. oh, i didn't go into our chat, sorry guys. well, can they see it? - well not if the site's down. it really doesn't matter now, does it? okay, what else, give me more questions.
- someone was asking about what style and sizescrapers would you recommend that came from parker? - well, scrapers, for the most part you just need the square. a gooseneck scraper isreally nice to have, but i think you need to at least get the square ones to start, but if you get one of those multi-sets
you'll get three different types anyway. you know just aboutany set is going to do. a basic crown brand set is nice. you don't necessarilyneed to go to lie-nielsen to buy scrapers. they're just pieces of sheet steel that you put a burr on, so i wouldn't spend moneyon something like that. just look at amazon,and see if you can find
a nice little set there, and start there. as you dig around a little bit, you might find some companies. look at the thicknesses, and you get more familiar with it, you may realize youwant a thicker scraper, or a thinner one because they flex more. once you're at that pointthat you kind of know what you need out of it,
then do a little diggingat the different brands, and see if you could find one that has the thickness you're looking for because then it willoperate a little bit more to your liking, but youneed to start somewhere, so don't go nuts withspending a lot of money on a card scraper. - oh, this is a great question from guitar texan.
"have you ever been starstruck with any "famous woodworkers you've talked with?" - yes. - all the time. - i was starstruck, i would say twice. once was the first time i met david marks. this is back at acalifornia woodworking show. i'll move over and getyou centered in the frame. i went with a buddy of mine.
i was living in temecula at the time, and i met david marks. in fact, we peed next to each other was our first experiencemeeting with one another. you know how awkward that is. you can't exactly strike up a conversation with a dude taking a leak next to you. it's just not bathroom etiquette. yeah, i actually did get a chance
to introduce myself to him after his talk. he did a presentation, andi thought it was awesome. so i was pretty starstruck then. and then norm, right? i was working for festool at the time doing demos for them at awfs in vegas. it was like my first big event that i was asked to attend, but david marks was doing the delta booth,
so i would hang out there almost as much as i wasat the festool thing, and they had norm come in for autographs. i was just like kind ofin the corner of my eye, and just like, you know,like you're watching, and just kind of lookingand seeing what he's doing. is he real? is that a real beard? is he wearing flannel?
- he was, in las vegas,he was wearing flannel. - he was norm from top to bottom. so, yeah, i was justkind of eye-balling him, and nicole is like "come on, let's go, "let's get an autograph," and i was like, "oh no, no-no-no-no-no. "i do not want to standin line to meet this guy. "i don't know what to say to him." she forced me to, and it was cool
because we got a picture, and i've used that picture to be like "hey, look at my buddy,norm," so it worked out. - we did a video, if youlook in the back catalog. - oh, yeah, in the back catalog, awfs video with him there. so, yeah, that was probably my only other starstruck moment. mostly these other peopleare just normal people.
here's the thing, even those guys. norm is the exception. david, it takes about two seconds before you just realizehe's just a regular guy. - so are you. - after that point, like i said, with the exception of norm, anytime i meet a famous woodworker it's kind of like i justwant to get in their brain.
i don't necessarily gettoo starstruck about it. - the event that you metdavid for the first time. was it krenov that wasjust over in a corner? - no, no, no, no, no. - who was that? - it was maloof. - maloof. - yeah, that was sad. it was at that same show, and maloof was representing
i think it was woodline usa, the blue router bit company. i didn't really know much about woodworking at the time, but i did recognize maloof. i don't think at the time i appreciated who he was or what his contributions were, but he was sitting by himself at a table just hanging out at the woodline booth.
- he probably liked it that way, though. - he was just kind of like sitting around. thinking about itafterwards kind of makes me a little sick to my stomach. it makes me angry thati didn't know enough to go over and say, you know, "hey, hi, hello mr. maloof." - we're not worthy. - we're not worthy, mind ifi take some digital pics?
so, that was that. - that's from brak. - mind if i take a digital pic? - miguel, wow, that is the acronym for or initialization. - world of warcraft. - also, it stands for wow! - wow! we have toons on both the alliance side and the horde side.
we play on earthen ring for a small percentage of you out there. - that care. - that know what we're talking about. - more questions, more questions. i like these freeform questions. - chris l.b. wants to know have you built a wooden computer case yet? - i haven't even thoughtabout it, honestly.
a couple of people have mentioned it. i don't really dig the woodwith electronics thing, and that's not to say there'sanything wrong with it. i think some of the things that i've seen out there are really great, but the things that i'veseen that are awesome i can't even come close to competing with, like when someone says "have you built a wooden iphone case?"
no, i haven't, and i probably won't, but a computer case isa little different story because you can kind ofbuild a nice little box, and it's a self-containedsort of structure, but it just hasn't really occurred to me because then i don't knowwhat i would put in it because i'm not going tobuild my own computer. i guess i could build one, and just put like anotherfull size case in it.
- shelves. - a couple of shelves for nick-nacks, but no, i haven't built one. - miguel has another question. he said, "what's theadvantage of applying glue "to both sides if it is allgoing to mix in anyway?" - well that's the thing. it may not all mix in, and the way that you think it will
when you apply things. when there's glue on one side, and no glue on the other you squish them togetheryou're not as guaranteed. one thing that you can do to help it, and i do this frequentlyif i'm only gluing one side is you rub the joint, and what that will dois really effectively help spread that glue nice and thin
along that adjoiningsurface and that can help, but generally speakingwhen you don't do that, if you just kind of squish it the glue on this side hashad quite a bit of time to already absorb into the fibres which is really whatmakes it a strong joint. then you squeeze it together, and there just isn't asmuch of an opportunity to soak in before you apply pressure,
and most of that gluejust kind of comes out. it's kind of probably a little bit of belt and suspenders, but i believe a number of people have done some tests showing that there is a significant increasein strength to the joint when there is glue applied to both sides, and i think i've seen that in like a mortise and tenon joint,
and an edge joint test. honestly, it's not the end ofthe world if you don't do it as long as you do that rubbing thing, and you get a good transfer you'll probably be fine, but if you can apply it to both sides, and there's nothingpreventing you from doing it, you probably should becausethere's a good chance it's going to give you,
even if it's a couple pounds stronger, a couple pounds is a couple pounds. - so eric maxim wants to know who won the november giveaway which was the arbortech contour sander. - and that was andrewrichard who won that. - andrew richard. never trust a man with two first names. did i say that already?
- you already did. - okay. - and then the festool track saw, and i think it was the ct 26 vac, that was eric mcmann. say it the way you want to say it. - mcmannon. - no, for some reason she would say things like micmahone.
- micmahone. - eric micmahone. okay, well, congratulations you two. - those are the winners. when the website is up you can find all of the past giveaways at the woodwhisperer.com/past_winners, so that's where they are. - yeah, what else we got?
- tristan wants to know what is the jig next to the dvd's? i guess that jig. - oh, i showed that briefly in the last live session. in case you missed it i'll show it to you. it's just the new leigh jigs. the company that makes the fmt and their dovetail jig.
it's a router table baseddovetail jig set up here, so it's a little bit less to it. you don't need as much because the router table is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. so you basically bringthe jig to the router instead of the router to the jig. - i lost my flow. - what is going on with the website?
what else we got, anything else? oh, did you lose the comments? - oh yeah, i needed to refresh it. i was hoping that's refreshed, but ... - refreshing. - what's your skyrim character like? - not very talented warrior type. likes long, long walks on ... i don't remember any ofthe regions in that game,
but i'm actually trying to. i downloaded all the expansion contents, and what i'm trying to do is finish the main content first beforehitting the expansions, but once they're installed it's kind of hard to (mumbles) so i just have this neverending list of quests that just keep going in,and i knock a few out, and come back again a week later.
- clyde hunt says,"marc, what do you think "about the collaboration and cross-mixing "of content providers, i.e.,making it or brain pick?" i don't know either of those. i'm so out of the loop. - what do i think about it? - do you see a surge in youtube providers? has it diluted the content at all? - i don't know that i can comment on
whether there is a surge or anything, but the bottom line isanytime you have people in a community collaborating i personally see that onlygood things can happen. i don't think there's adilution of anything really. - i feel like i can't keep up. - well the problem is ... - because i don't even know who making it or brain pick is.
- well, you're not a woodworker. - do you know who they are? - i do. - oh, okay, i usually try to keep up with what's going on. - right, listening to allthose woodworking podcasts. i think those shows are also branching off into a different format. there's more of a liveinterview discussion format, or an audio podcast format.
those areas there's really not a whole lot going on in there, so i don't see there really being much in the way of dilution. the thing is there'sso much stuff out there people will start to haveproblems prioritizing what they're going to watch, and what they're going to listen to because there's so many choices.
so who knows what that will do in the big picture for things, but ultimately what it means is you could find whatever you like. if you don't like my style, my delivery, geez, there's a ton of otherpeople you might enjoy. - if you think he talks too much. - if you think i talk too much which some of you definitely do.
well, no, you wouldn't getthis far in this video, if that's the case. - that's true, we lost them in minute one. - yeah, they're gone. i've got the tolerant people now. yeah, i mean if you don't like a particular person's delivery,or style there's choices, and frankly, as far as i'm concerned, that just means that we're doing good.
if this many people wantto talk about woodworking, and show woodworking, then things are goingin the right direction. if this was a niche withina niche within a niche, and no one cared about it, and it was still super small, and not getting any bigger it's a bad sign for thecraft and for the industry. - i think it's awesome.
- i'm all for it. - sterling davis said something nice. "i just want to saythank you for your show, "your channel, and all you'veshared over the years." - thank you sterling. - "have a merry christmas." let's see "how is that wood with poly "over wax shellac holdingup the long term?" - well if you can find thelandfill it's sitting in
we could find out. - i don't know what he's referencing. - i did test boards a long time ago on the poly over shellac, and i don't even knowwhat happened to that, that was so long ago. that was like pre mateo time, so if there was a board in my backyard my son probably wouldhave eaten it by now.
- should i tell themyour dirty little secret? - oh boy, it depends on which one. - when we moved therewas this stack of wood. - oh well, yeah, i didn't have any place. i had a small stack of wood that i didn't have a place to store it, and i put it under a tarpon my patio out here, and the tarp deterioratedand it was a mess, and i lost a lot oflumber because of that.
- i think you did a video from that, too, or you did something. - i used some of the wood from it to talk about the effect of outdoor. - yeah, weathering. - it's like, you know,for experimental reasons left these boards outside for three years. - let's see, (mumbles) dust collector, planer or bandsaw next?
- that's a hard question. - that is a difficult question to answer because honestly ... - i'm going to say bandsaw. - it really depends on your goals, and what you're trying to do. for me, personally, i believesafety is very important, but if you don't have theplaner and the bandsaw yet, i wouldn't put the dust collector
that high on the list, so we can at least rulethat one out, in my opinion. dust collection is very important, but getting the tools that make the dust to me is more important. you'll eventually get therewith the dust collector, so i would say the planer or the bandsaw. if you want to mill your own lumber, and you're getting rough stock
that planer is going to become more and more important for you, and if you don't haveanything to do cuts on, curve cuts, you're goingto want that bandsaw, but a jigsaw can substitute for that. so if you've got a jigsawmaybe get the planer, and then the bandsaw. it just, again, kind of depends on what you're going to do.
- i want to give a shout out to everybody in our irc chat that'sstill hanging out there. - well the thing is theirc is not on our server. they could still hangout in the chat room. - and it's independent. it can be accessed outside of the site. - right, exactly, wellhey guys, how's it going? how's the site doing? maybe they brought it down.
- kyle wants to know did you make those window shades? - yes, i went to home depot. i said, "i'll take those "at your earliest convenience," and just like that. - i will make them with? - i made them with the helpof my good friend visa. - how often do you take a nice drive
up through sedona to the canyon? - well, i was there once. - i've gone more than you. - you've gone a couple of times. i've only been there once when we had friends from out of town, and we took a trip up to the grand canyon. - you've never been to sedona. - haven't been to sedona,
but we just went to the grand canyon, then off to vegas, andit was a whirlwind trip, but the grand canyon, let me tell you. i guess people who livein more rural areas are probably used tothis, but as a city boy i was not prepared for what you can see in a night sky on a clearnight at the grand canyon. - it's kind of overwhelming, right? - it's like when you watch ...
- cosmos. - a science show, yeah,exactly, a science show about the galaxy, or whatever, and you see how many stars there are in some of those photos they get. it's like "there are notthat many stars out there." i've looked and i've seenand there aren't that many, but when there is an ambient light, oh my gosh, it was amazing.
- i think it's cute that you pretty much saw the sky for the first time. - yeah, i saw the sky for the first time. look at this, have you seen that? these toilets are gynormous. - tim j. wants to know what's your worstproject disaster to date? the whatchamacallit, the chess board, that was pretty bad.
- yeah, yeah, okay. - that was early, early on. - i did a video on thatshowing some of my worst. i think i called it (mumbles) it was a chess board that i made out of solid wood andframed it with solid wood, and it eventually just had and kind of just split, and all kinds of bad things happened.
- that's when we lived in temecula. - that was a long time ago. honestly, once you follow some basic wood movement rules, and you got a few basictechniques under your belt you're not going to make that many dramatic, drastic mistakes. honestly after that, i mean, i make mistakes all the time,
but small errors and stuff. nothing on that scale of like, you know, i totally should nothave done this this way because now this piece, or get a call back froma client that says, "this thing looks like crapnow, you need to fix it." that hasn't really happened, luckily. - didn't you do a video out there on how to correct your ...
because all woodworkers make mistakes. - i don't think ispecifically did a video, but it's something that i cover routinely if a mistake happensthen i show how to fix it right there on that video. - james wants to know howlong we've been married. - were you trying to get me in trouble? do you know how long we've been married? - 11 years.
- 11 years, see, i was just testing. - 2003. - i wasn't sure if she knew. - i saw the question aheadof time and did math. - okay, good, good, yougot your calculator out. hold on, let me check my calendar. hey vic, i see vic, i justsee your head scrolling by. - what's your favorite woodworking style, modern, et cetera?
- gangnam style. - you know i heard thatbroke the internet, or not the internet. - the internet? - no, youtube. - did it? - the counter. - oh really. - it went so high that it ...
- oh, that's funny. - my favorite woodworking style? - i would say greene and greene. - well, greene and greene was sort of an infatuation for a while, but eventually you gettired of making ebony plugs. i don't know, i like alot of different styles. i can tell you what i don't like, is i don't like a lot of old stuff.
i tend to appreciate more modern designs. while i can appreciate the craftsmanship, and the history behind certain pieces, my personal tastes justdon't go there that often, so it's mostly modern stuff and ... - curvy. - curvy, modern new things, i don't know, and greene and greene isn't actually new. it's basically arts andcrafts with an asian flair
from early 1900's, but that's still new compared to chippendale and queen anne. - you don't like the queen anne. - i don't like grandma furniture, and that's, you know, no offence. - no offence. - no offence, even thoughi just offended you, no offence. all the poor grandmom's watching this
are like "that son of a ... " - i'm gonna get him. i'm gonna take down his site. - ddos it is, sucker. - mike adams wants to know what is your opinion of the rotex? - the rotex. this is the rotex. i get this question quite a bit
when folks are looking for a new sander, or maybe they're justlooking for one sander. the rotex is a very attractive option because it's so capable. it can do everything from incredibly rough stock removal to fine finishing, so it seems like the go-totool for something like that, but my problem is when you're sanding there's a couple of things that happen.
number one, a lot of times you're sanding for a long period of time, so a sander needs to be comfortable. it also needs to be well-balanced because if it's not, andi'm moving things around, and i have to constantly support something as i'm doing it thatcould be uncomfortable, and that's not a fun experience for me, so while i think therotex is an awesome tool
for what it does, i don't think that forthe average woodworker who most of the time isusing 120 grit and above i don't think the rotex is a great choice, and it comes back to thosereasons i gave before. i don't like the balance. you can hold it in place, but it really is a two handed operation. you can't quite get away with
a one handed grip on this, you do need two. a lot of times you haveto put the hose in, and throw it over your shoulder, and that helps counterbalance. you might be able to get away with one handed operation that way, but i'd rather not have to do that, so i much prefer the ets line of sanders
which is your standard balanced sander, but festool quality, and that's the one that i use everyday, so i'm glad i have this because there are times when there's just a job that only the rotex is going to be able to do for me, but i don't pull it out nearly as much as you might think.
so the ets line if someone is getting into festool sanders unless you know you need this rotex mode, and you got to remove alot of stock in a hurry, like what you would normallydo with a belt sander, unless that's the casejust go with the ets line. i personally think that's the better buy. - joseph wants to know ... hey, i think joseph won, too.
yay, he's here. - you won something, man, congrats. - what's the best/favorite national woodworking show to attend? - oh, woodworking shows, wow. well, there may be some small ones that i'm not aware of, but there's only one national traveling woodworking show that i know of, right?
there's the woodworking shows. - i think he's probably also talking about weekend with wood. - yeah, but that's not a national show. - that's true. - those are single shows, one location, once a year. so i think the woodworkingshows are the ... you know what, the chat room ...
but that's not a national show either, it's just a big show. the chat room might bebetter at answering this because they may know ofdifferent things than i do, but the woodworking shows is the only one thati'm actually aware of. - kush wants to knowwhat's your recommendations for a finish for kitchen cabinets? didn't you do something
with your mom's cabinets one time? - i did a little bit. you know, for kitchen cabinets there are probably other things like industrial level finishes, conversion varnishes and crap like that that you could use because these need to befairly well protected. if you have the ability to spray,
i wouldn't go that far i would probably look ata pre-catalyzed lacquer is a good option. it's all in one can,everything is added to it. you don't have to mix components, and it sprays beautifully. it sprays like regular lacquer, but the catalyst inthere, the finish itself, is just going to turn out to be
a little bit more durable than your standard lacquers, and because you're doing kitchen cabinets you probably want to move quickly, and get a lot done ina short amount of time, and lacquer is a great choice for that. so for me, if it were my cabinets i would be using pre-catalyzed lacquer. short of that, if you don't spray,
just use a good quality polyurethane. - do you want that one? - kevin, no. kevin coughlin is asking if the guild is making a miter station next. no, i had to move some things around this was a while back now. the next project is goingto be kind of a twofer. it's going to be a five drawer
chest of drawers dresser,and a night stand. - that goes with? - it kind of goes with,it doesn't have to, but it's in a similar veinto the platform bed we built. it's a very modern look to it. after that it's goingto be the rocking chair. the third project for nextyear i'm not really sure, so what's happened is istill need a miter station that's probably going tobe pushed to the free side.
just again, time management is always a problem for me. - for some reason what's showing up on the computer isn't showing up here, but somebody asked about how our sponsors came to be, and then someone wanted to say that they ended up going with our powermatic bandsaw
because they saw you use it. - oh, good. - i don't know if you wanted to talk about our relationship with powermatic, and how that all came to be. - if that's interesting to people. - i don't know, somebody asked it. - is that interesting to you guys? do you care?
powermatic was back in2006 when we started. i just cold called them, and said "hi, i'm marc,you have no idea who i am." - we love you. - we have something you want. i have a very specific set of skills. i can woodwork. - you already used powermatic. - it was an easy choicebecause i liked them.
i already had a shop full of their tools, and we said "who would be a great person "to contact for sponsor opportunities?" "well, let's contact the companies "we really believe in." and that was basicallypowermatic and festool. so i got the right person on the phone, or they pushed me into the right person. i was nervous as heck
trying to do my best salesman thing. "so we have a podcast,"and they would say, "what's a podcast?" and i would say, "it's this online thing." what would happen wasthey knew at that time, and this is the key to this working. someone inside understood that if they didn't get apresence in the online area, and they couldn't makethe videos themselves
that they would get left behind, and that's the reason why it worked. we were there at the right time. we were building an audience, and they knew that ifthey partnered with us they'd have a good chance of being in the areas they wanted to be in a way that they couldn'tnecessarily do in-house, and that's really what it came down to.
so that relationship began, and has continued ever since, and we're just really lucky and thrilled to have them with us year after year. it's a great relationship, and we've gotten to knowthem personally since then, and it's awesome, and i'll probably cry when they're not a sponsor. obviously, all good thingshave to end at some point,
but if and when that ever does i'm going to be a sad little boy. - victor haven says, "do you think the spindlesanding attachments for the drill pressput too much side load? you can finish. - yeah, victor, thoseattachments are okay, but that's not what that tool was necessarily meant to endure,
so the more pressure you put on it, yeah, you could cause some problems. you could knock thespindle out of alignment, so if you do have to do that because money is tight just go light. don't put a whole lot of pressure. don't dig into it. use it as a fine finessing tool, and not as a material removal tool,
and you'll probably be okay. also, use the appropriate grit. if you really do have alot of stock to remove get some sleeves that are very low grit. you can hog off more material that way. if you are trying toremove a lot of stock, and there's a 220 grit sleeve on there you're going to have toapply a lot of pressure to get that thing to work,
and i don't want to see you do that. i think they're okay in lieu of a full on spindle sander, but be careful. - r.g. wants to know if you cried when "old yeller" died? - i don't even remember that movie. - my dad made me watch itonce when i was younger. - they brought us into the gymnasium, and they made us watch that movie.
a bunch of elementary kids. - that's because you live in missouri. that's what they do out there. - and then they followed it up with "where the red fern grows." like, there's kids crying everywhere. - no, no, i mean i knowall about "old yeller," but i couldn't tell you other than the ... - i just remember cryingmy eyes out in the gym.
- and the reason everyoneknows "old yeller" i don't know anything about the movie. - let's see, so me1ab says, "any tips to get my 3-month-oldto sleep in her crib?" - is the 3-month-old notsleeping in her crib? is she getting out of the crib? we don't know if it's a boy or a girl. or is it just to sleep in the crib? - he said "her," it's a girl, her crib.
- well you know what we did. we went crazy for six months, and just about ... - well, the first threewere the roughest, honestly. - yeah, honestly, we are probably the worst people to ask. - we went through a lot i think. - exactly. - swaddle, if you'renot swaddling, swaddle.
make sure that the room is dark. - there's some really good stuff out there for getting babies to sleep. i can't remember the title, but what was the four s's? - "the happiest baby on the block." - "the happiest baby on the block" is a really good resource, honestly. - and "the baby whisperer."
"baby whisperer" is good, too. - those two, yes. - but there's a whole system. the four s's, swaddling, shushing, shaking is the word, but it's not shaking, it's like rocking or vibrating shaking, but look into it. it actually did make ahuge difference for us, and the swaddling, wrap them babies
like little burritos becausethat's what they want. - little burritos, the miracle blanket. - get the duct tape fromthe shop and wrap them up. - if your baby is busting out of those little velcro ones you want to look into a miracle blanket, they're wonderful. it's a little unsettlingputting them in at first, but it's (thumbs up). - sean, i have not beenfollowing anything,
but my own life in the last month, unfortunately, my onlineexposure has been limited, so i have not beenfollowing the coffee table. - you re-tweeted it. - i did, i re-tweeted it today. - i was looking at thosecoffee tables, too. - yeah, neil asked me to re-tweet it. - does sean have one in there? - he's building a sculpted,
very maloof-like sculptured base with a beautiful top on it. i've seen his pictures on facebook, but i haven't been payingmuch attention myself. it's a busy month for the spag's. - what's the tool in your shop that's most unexpectedly useful? - i thought it was over here. i actually am going tobe right there with you.
i use a set of digitalcalipers because analog's work, and i find them incredibly ... yeah, that's them right there. i find them incredibly useful as well. see, right there, they'renever that far away. besides that, i would have to think about that for a while. that's one of those questions that there's a good answer for,
i just don't have it at thetip of my brain right here. i don't have it up here. what else we got? - one of the winners is kyle. - kyle horan says, "speaking of starstruck "i'm so excited that yousaid my name on the air." okay, kyle horan, i'mglad that you were excited by us saying kyle horan. stuck on an island, oh,i hate this question.
which one woodworkingtool would you choose to have with you? can i have my playstation 4? - and a tv. - and a tv. - that's two items. - i want my ipad. - okay, your ipad. - okay, what one woodworking tool? let's think about this.
if you're on an islandyou're going to have a couple of things you need to do. first, is you got to get shelter, right, so you got to have someway to fell your lumber, so i think first of all you'regoing to have a hard time if you don't have a saw. so if i were on an islandi would want a saw. and that saw might allow me to even, if it's a good saw that'sappropriate for it,
i might be able to useit to rip some logs, and actually start to getpieces of lumber to erect some sort of log cabin style structure. if i have that now here's the thing. beggars can't be choosers. we're not going for foursquare here. i can only have one tool, so i can't get a plane,i can't bring a chisel. i could bring those things,
but if i don't have thesaw what am i going to do? chisel a tree down. i'm like shannon in the workshop. i'll get this board flat some day. all right, but yeah. - you're terrible. - i like crapping on shannon. - hi shannon. - he's probably not here.
he's got more importantthings to do on fridays. but, yeah, honestly, a saw. i'd be bringing a saw. - jbt. - okay, "ets 150 is leavingpigtails in the wood "which doesn't seem normal." a couple of things to try. first of all, number one, make sure you're going slow.
try to go about an inch per second. you don't want to putany extra pressure down with your hand, letthe sander do the work. if the board you're sandingis incompletely flat sometimes those dipsand valleys will cause the thing to move in a way that creates those gouges. the other thing that a lotof people don't realize if that's hooked up to a festool vac
sometimes you've got to dial down the suction a little bit because they are so powerful that they will grip and pullyour sander into the work causing those pigtails to appear. so a couple of things to try there. they should help, and if it doesn't helpgive festool a call. their text service is fantastic,
and who knows, maybe there's something wrong with it. probably not, but itprobably could be something in technique that can be fixed, but give them a call, andsee if they could help you. woodworking in america, am i going? well i missed last year. i don't see how i'm going to get away with missing this year.
- do you know where it's at? - i do not, i don't thinkthey've announced it yet, but i will be going to the wia, for sure. - it does kind of remind me of "rocky horror picture show." - yeah, another movie i haven't seen. - do i look like the kind of person who would want to watch "rocky horror picture show?"
- okay, just checking. do i make most of my giftsfor christmas or buy? i honestly make very few gifts for christmas these days. - too busy. - i can't build a video game in my shop, and that's all she wants. - shoemaker, the kids don't have shoes. - multi-router, you know, astro guy 68,
the multi-router is a fantastic tool, so maybe we'll think aboutdoing some stuff on it because you're right, there's not very much out there. the problem with the multi-router is when you distribute content on youtube, and you go out there and show a 5,000, it's not 5,000, 3,000? - i don't know, how much is it?
- i don't remember. i think it's like 3,000,3,500 or something, but anyway, you go out there, and you show that tool you just get hammered. you get absolutely hammered, so there was a day wherei would have no problem going out and being like "hey, look at this greatnew tool that i got.
"it's an awesome multi-router," and people would be "oh, that's cool, look at that." - what does it do? - "what does it do? "i'd love to see that in action." now it's like "you suck, you're an a-hole, "you rich boy," is what i've been called a couple of times which is hilarious.
i'm like, "yeah, meand all the rich people "in trenton, new jersey." anyway, i want to, i want to, but i also don't want tohave my butt handed to me. so the next projectwe're doing in the guild i kind of did a brief informal survey of guild members andasked if they would mind if i showed the multi-router on a joint that wemight normally have done
with more traditional methods that i've shown 20 or30 times how to do it with more traditional methods. let's use the multi-router just so we could see something new, and then the answers were favorable. most people were in favor of it, so i will be using the multi-router on the upcoming project.
i'll think about it. if i frame it correctly, and show it as look, this is just about the multi-router, don'texpect this to be a lesson on mortise and tenons, it's just a little quick look at this particular technique that could be done with the multi-router that might work a little bit better
because then people know what to expect. it's when they go to seea project being built, and they see this really expensive tool being wheeled out theytend to get uptight, and it just kind of makes me miserable reading comments like that. all right, 7:04, should we call it? do you have any other questions? - [nicole] somebody askedwhere you get your shirts.
- i'd really like to findout why the website's not up. i get my shirts in various places. nicole usually gets them for me. a couple of places online, but she goes to kohl's. she goes to walmart, finds them there. - [nicole] target. - just got to keep your eye open. there's usually tons ofgoofy shirts out there
if you know what to look for. - [nicole] jinx. - cool, that's the only thing about the youtube comments is i don't feel it's not as fluid as ... at least on the ipad it's not as fluid as the chat room is, so i don't know what's going on. - [nicole] shannon had ayoutube channel, he does?
yeah, he does, renaissance woodworker. just search for it in youtube's menu, you'll find him. okay, i think we're good, right? let's pinch this thing off unless there's more questions. - [nicole] let me just make sure. i know i missed a whole bunch. somebody said woodworking in america
is going to be in kansas city. - oh really, then i'mdefinitely going to go. that's an easy one. - [nicole] yeah, we have friends there. - we have friends there, family there, and there's great barbecue there. you'd have trouble stopping me from going to that one. - [nicole] drunkenwoodworker wants to know
can you explain how tomake a chest of drawers. - is drunken woodworker ... do you feel better? are you feeling better, david? i know you were sick, and we were thinking about you. yeah, let me ... you got five minutes i'll explain how you make a chest of drawers.
this was fun. i love these informalthings just sitting around. we used to do ... some of the early people, i see vic's there, he knows about this. we used to do informal, sort of wednesday chat nights. this is back like 2007 wewould sit in our office, we'd play music, nicole would be the dj.
we'd hang out in the chat room, and we'd stream live and just hang out, and talk to people. - i used to play a whole bunch of music. - it's like nobody hadanything to do in 2007, including us, like what we were doing? it was fun at the time, though, it was a lot of good times. lots of good memories,
and here it is 2014 already. - justin wants to know what's your favorite 3d design program? - that's a good question, justin. i use sketchup. i haven't really had awhole lot of experience with some solidworks type stuff and cad, but sketchup, i think,has got a very easy, entry level sort of approach to it
that most people can pick up because it's very point and click, simple sort of interface. i've gotten pretty used to it, and i use it a lot now, so sketchup is my personal choice. we distribute our plansand build them in sketchup just because it's free, so people can just download the file.
nothing better thanpulling a project apart, piece by piece, and being able to see how it goes together. - this will be our last one. - last one. - from justin. - "just wanted to tell marc from me, "and i'm sure others, "you have perfectly filled a void
"in my saturday afternoons "left by the legendary norm abram's. "do you have any thoughts on a pbs show?" well, i'm honored thatwe filled a void for you. i'm still waiting for myvoid to be filled, ladies. that was terrible. - that was awful. i fill my void with matt vanderlist. he comes on my tivo,
and "matt's basement workshop" is one of the only woodworking shows i get on my tivo, and i usually watch matt on saturdays, but what was the question? yeah, so i'm honored to do that. - pbs, no. - no, i answer this quite often. people are probably sickof hearing me say it,
but the thing with a pbs show, and having even gone on "rough cut" with tommy mac, recently, the experience was fun, it was great, but i'm glad it's not my job. it's a very whirlwindexperience for building. it's not that fun, and, man, it is nothing in terms of like what that would be like as a job
doesn't hold a candle tobeing able to do this. this to me is the core of why we're here. it's the people, it's interaction. when you're on television it's a one-way medium. it's a broadcast medium. this is a back and forth communication, a constant communication. i wouldn't trade that for anything,
and i think a lot of times you go into that tv format there are people whoare huge fans of tommy's who give him a lot of crap now because of how quick the shows are, and how fast he has to get through it, but the dude's got 30 minutes, less than 30 minutes. - 22 usually.
- yeah, to show a full project. that's a very difficult thing to compress a projectinto that amount of time. so he catches a lot of flack for it. so for me, personally, i'd rather take as long as it takesto explain something, and if the project takes multiple parts, then it takes multiple parts. there's a lot of freedom,and a lot more fun
to being able to hang out on the internet. - and we do goofy skits. - we can do goofy skitsand wear stupid hats, and bring my kid into the show, and just have a blast with it. in short, pbs probably isn'tthe right choice for us. now that's not to sayif the right situation came along, and we hada good reason to do it that we wouldn't consider it,
but it is not something i'm going out of my way to pursue, but thank you for the kind words. - this is the last one. - we're like mateo "last one." - three more later, "last one." - miguel says "if youcould snap your fingers ... - i can. - "and make it happen what three things
"would you change on your website?" - i don't like the colors. - no, this is a good segue into? - oh, okay, well thanks, very good. we actually ... i'm glad you asked that question miguel. we actually have a lot of changes coming to the website. my good buddy, john funk, has been working
his butt off for thelast year pretty much. he also has a little onewho's keeping him very busy. i know how hard it is to get work done in those situations, but we are going to bedebuting a new website, if our server isn't crashed at the time. we'll be debuting a newwebsite probably ... i don't want to make any promises. let's just say in the coming month.
we will have a hugefacelift for the website. so all of my wishlist items for our website will be included there. - search. - prominent search. here's the thing. for me, the website,the most important thing is that we need to give more respect to the content, andbasically what i mean by that
is fewer presence for ads, like fewer opportunitiesfor ads to get in the way, so the content is number one, and also the ability to find old content just because it's a couple of years old doesn't mean it isn't good. it's woodworking, thisstuff doesn't go bad, so i want people to beable to find that content in a sensible way.
- a born on date, not an expiration date. - that's right, born on date, i like that. i like the way you think, lady. and that's what john has been tasked with in building this website is to give us a way tonavigate the material that just because i did it four years ago doesn't mean it's notgoing to be found or seen, and that will be addressed
with the new style of the website. that's coming very soon. i cannot wait for that. - oh, okay, one more question. - one more question. - ryan elliott says he'snever purchased wood online. "do you think there would be a reason "why one would go online "rather than go to a lumber yard?"
- yeah, ryan, you mentionedthe two right there. price and quality could be reasons. if i can't find somethingfor a good price here sometimes i could find it online because their price is so low that even with shipping itcomes out to be the same. actually, you got to hold the button in. or pretty close to the price. no, no, no, that's not it.
here's a problem with aretractable electrical cord. you got to hold the button in on the end. hold it in for three seconds. there you go, push it,one, two, there you go. we're good. and certainly if you findthat your local quality isn't so good, and then you go online, and call the guys at bell forest products, or muterspaw lumber and they say,
"yeah, we've got somebeautiful cherry lumber. "it will be exactly what you need. "we'll get you a fewboards, and send it out." so there's a couple of reasons there, and generally availability. a lot of times people justcan't get certain things, and you make a few phone calls, go to a couple of websites, and boom, a couple of days later you got yourself
a nice stack of boards that you couldn't have found locally. - we had a number of people overseas build forwoodworkers fighting cancer. we had somebody in russia, had somebody in poland, and it was kind of downto the last minute, and it was because just the resources weren't there for them, and it took them
a while to get the lumber, so we're very fortunatethat we can order online. - i want to read james comment because it sounds like an insult. i don't think he meant it that way, but it sounds like one, ready? i'm going to read it dramatically. "both of my sons watched norm with me, "and now they're shop teachers,
"so now i guess they have to watch "the wood whisperer." do you think that's how he meant it? - probably not. or maybe, i don't know. - he could have, you never know. i'm okay with that. i'm okay with kids being forced to watch "the wood whisperer."
i think it should be fine. - we've been told by a few shop teachers they put your videos-- - they force their kids to watch it, yeah, poor kids, poor, poor kids. all right, well let's close off. this has been a blast. thanks everybody for coming out. if you won something, congratulations.
if you didn't we alwayshave that monthly giveaway. - yeah, i work reallyhard in this giveaway, so be sure to sign up. - sign up, and we'll see you in january. we did this one nice and early, so we got a whole month off. have a great christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa, winter solstice. - three kings' day.
- three kings' day, new years. - you know, tomorrow issaint nicholas' day, it is. - all right, thanks. yeah, have a great holiday whichever ones you choose to celebrate, and i guess we'll see you in 2015, baby. - bye. - bye, cool beans, so youthink mateo is sleeping yet? nope, probably not.
yeah, thanks everybody,this was really cool. i need a refill on my cider, and i'm going to eatone of them doughnuts. now i got to go, and find out what the heck is wrong with my website. - [nicole] aye yai yai.