thewoodwhisperer

Welcome aboard! Your website looks interesting. And a little intimidating to us tecnochallenged old farts.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

lol. “technochallenged old farts”. Good one. :)

I am here to answer any questions that baffle you, sir.

Thanks for checking out my new fangled site.

Marc

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

I checked out your site, & I think you’re doing a great job. It should really help those that are starting out in woodworking. I think it will even help us old timers that have forgotten a lot of things, & also learn some new stuff. The PC is a great learning tool. Keep up the good work.
Dick

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Great website! Welcome aboard

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Marc, I’m a huge fan of your pod cast…not sure why you posted the promo vid though, I was all excited when I saw I was DL another pod cast only to be like the kid who get a pet on xmas morning…but mom and dad didnt poke holes in the box…I kid. Keep up the good work man.

-- Cheers

lol. Ok. I’ll post the new episode tonight. :)

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Marc – Yay, a new episode tonight! how nice amid the NOTHING new or worthwhile on TV these past weeks.

Shawn – thanks for the insight into the recesses of your imagination… sorry about the painful holiday memories. ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Marc, I’ve enjoyed veiwing your pod cast. I wish you would have used a board with a little more cupping and/or twist in your pod cast on the jointer. The board you used was something that most of us could do with a hand plane. It was very informative for someone who has never done it and that is good. Keep it coming!! Thanks.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Scott, if you have DIY, it looks like they’re doing a three-fer of Woodworks on Saturday! And two of them are on Arts and Crafts pieces… Man, I love TIVO.

But I hear David was considering making some more full-length DVDs. Marc, I would think you might have some interactions with David still on a more personal level? I thought he was going to do that since Woodworks was cancelled… is it still cancelled, and they’re just rerunning shows? Or did he get signed on for another season? What’s the scoop?

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Hey Ethan. The unfortunate scoop is that David is pretty much done with TV. Woodworks has been out of production for years and last I heard, there was no possibility of new episodes. But as you can see, DIY is milking Woodworks for all its worth. The whole thing turned out to be a pretty raw deal for David. But then again, the fame and notoriety he received is what allowed him to make a career out of appearances and teaching. So I guess he is making lemon aid from lemons.
He is making DVD’s, but they are coming out slowly. He currently has two videos: one on chemical patination (from the 80’s) techniques and one on jigs and fixtures. You can buy them at www.djmarks.com

Hopefully he will be able to make more DVD’s soon.

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Cool (about the three-fer on DIY) we don’t have it, but I think my in-laws do. I’ll need a break from the rest of the fall-clean up I need to finish before the snow comes (finally) on Sunday.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Yeah, I’d read he didn’t get the best end of the stick with that deal and he was planning on making more in-depth DVDs, instead. Chemical patination isn’t really my thing, but I might check out the DVD on jigs and fixtures.

Actually… maybe I’ll put in a request for our guild to buy a copy for their library.

Thanks for the info, though!

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

ok, I just came from The Wood Whisperer site and I’m not seeing my new podcast out there yet!!

I’ve got the shakes so bad from withdrawl I’m amazed I can even type this message…

I gotta go score me a podcast!

-- ~ www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com ~ www.woodworkingdungeon.blogspot.com ~

Sorry about that. I have been trying since last night to get my video uploaded to Blip.TV, which is the site that hosts them. Unfortunately, something keeps screwing up the upload. But since you are a nice guy, here is a link to another super secret location where you can see the next video. Dont tell anyone. :)

http://www.didgu.com/items/244

Its really high res so hit pause and give it time to load.

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Mark Welcome to LumberJocks.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

hey!!!! im Louis Hill, im a BIG fan of your podcast! ive learned boatloads of stuff! thank you so much for all your video podcasts! its been a great learning source! ive also learned lots about sketchup! keep em’ comin!

-- "What one can make with good tools is limited only by one's talent" (lucius-hill@comcast.net)

Hey Louis. I am glad you are enjoying the podcasts. Make sure you take a nice tour of LumberJocks as well. there is a lot to learn here.

Good luck with your woodworking!

marc

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

hey marc, i love your new podcast with matt! keep it up!!!

-- "What one can make with good tools is limited only by one's talent" (lucius-hill@comcast.net)

Thanks Lou! Glad you like it!!

marc

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Enjoy your work. I’m from a woodworking deprived area, so there are few to learn from outside the small clubs. I resort to the magazines and forums. A video is worth a thousand words so I look forward to your future casts. Also, nice job on teaming up with Matt. Listened to the first episode on the drive home last night.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Thanks Jeff.

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

I also listened to your first episode today and really enjoyed it. Hopefully, it will be the first of many.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

we should have a new one by sunday. :)

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Marc. just joined here. i have been so inpired by your podcasts, videos, etc.. I have really gained so much knowledge/ I also listen to Woodtalk Online with you and Matt. I’m almost done with my second project, king size platform bed… My wife can’t understand why i need a new tool every week..
Thanks.

-- JAnderson: Columbus, OH

Hey Joe. Thanks man. I appreciate your support. So a king size bed for a second project?? I like your spirit!!

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Hey Marc,

Thanks for mentioning this site in your “A Cut Above” podcast. Looks like a great place for a newbie like myself.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks,

-- Wayne - Newbie looking to learn!

I love your podcast! I watch it at lunchtime when Im out building stair banisters. You and Nicole rock! I have ‘shop envy’ as mine is mostly the portable tools in my van to set up at jobsites everyday.

Later!

-- Wayne Rogers, www.Miniaturebases.com

Mark,

Thanks for introducing me to this site. Another good source for tips and info for a beginner.

Marc,

Thanks for giving a new woodworker the video “crack” one needs to feed one’s addiction. One of your podcasts pointed me to this site, so thanks for that as well.

Just checked out your projects, you have some really nice work. I especially like your inlaid jewelry box.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

Marc, just joined lumberjocks based on your rec. Looks pretty good. Loved your podcast – spent my whole Christmas break watching it. My wife won’t stop bugging me about building her the cutting board. Good things!

-- Bob, So. Cal

I found lumber jock through your site which was also a random stroke of luck. I love what you bring to this industry…videos and websites full of info like yours is exactly what’s helping bring this craft into the mainstream. Thank you for taking the time to share with all of us.

Hey Marc, I love your podcasts, they are so funny and I get alot out of them. I started watching them about october of last year, and I watched every sigle episode you have in about a week. All of the episodes you do teaches me about diffrent woods, tools, and pretty much anything else there is to know. I know that you had an apprenticeship with David Marks as well. I appriciate alot of his work. You both use alot of the same techniques in doing things. I can’t wait to see how that end table will turn out. By the way I think you shuld definetly use glass for the top. It will give it alot of class I think. Thanks.

-- Tyler, Illinois

hey Marc i just wanted to say that i love your podcast just like about everyone on this entire site. you’re the one who convinced me to start my podcast and it has been doing great so far. currently i have 5 episodes out and am looking for some sponsors (hopefully i can get some free tools). so i just wanted to say thanks and i think that what you’re doing is great and keep it up. i eagerly await the next episode.

Well thank YOU buddy. I think you are a doing an excellent job with your videos. Keep up the great work and good things will come!

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

just thought i’d say hello and keep up the good work

-- I cut it twice & it was still too short

Marc,
I know we’ve all seen your workshop through your video podcasts, but come on man.. no workshop pictures on Lumberjocks?! :)
(actually, I have cleaned my shop, reorganized, and have some new equipment, so I am due for some new photos)

BTW.. Love your podcasts!

-- Jamie, Kentucky

Hey just thought I would leave you a comment, i realy enjoy waching your podcasts, it is nice to see how other people go about a project keep up the good work!!

Callum

-- For wood working podcasts with a twist check out http://thetimberkid.com/

Hey Marc—
I’m like a lot of others; it’s all your fault I’m here. I really look forward to the podcast; it’s like a healthy combination of Norm (whirring routahs… everything always fits together first time…) and St. Roy (we get to hear the clatter of an 1860’s Sheffield tenon saw hitting the bricks…) Can you tell me why my wife relates to Nicole so much?
Seriously, I truly appreciate it when you explain to us the elements of your design and how you arrived at the design decisions you made. Keep up the energy!!

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

Marc. I really enjoy your podcast(TWW and Wood Talk Online). I think it may be time for a new shop tour podcast. I can tell by watching that things have changed a bit. Just a thought. Keep the episodes coming.

Good Afternoon Mark, I’m some what a newcomer here but wanted to stop by and thank you for being such a Great Ambassador to our field of Woodworking. It’s a pleasure to watch your Pod Casts and your good nature
nonchalant attitude to the audience in your presentations.
Keep up the Good Work!
Have a Good One,
Smitty

-- Smitty, Alabama, http://www.firstdesignwoodworking.com/

Just came across your podcast today and watched about 15 of them! They are really informative and easy to watch. Keep up the good work.

is there a way to place sound clips on ones blog?

-- Yanky, pateince is everthing.

Hey Marc,

I just got into the podcasting thing and have almost cought up with all your videos and audios w/Matt. You have opened a new world to be in cyberland.

I am building your/Norm’s outfeed table. Used up some junk finishes and experimented with others around the shop like you suggested. So tommorow I am sanding a bunch of that crap off…. hey it’s shop furniture.

Looking forward to new podcasts both with Matt and your videos. Thanks.

-John in Corpus Christi

-- JB

Hi Marc, I wonder if you could help with a question on laying endgrain flooring. I saw Tom Porter redwood floor and my son is in the process of doing the same thing for our kitchen. We are cutting 4 X 4 douglas fir tiles and getting all of the products ready that we need. I saw Tom used a mixture of sawdust and acrylic for grouting the tiles. What kind of acrylic should we use that will provide for enough flexibility in the grouting? And can we just use the maustic and lay the tile and not worry about adding a layer of plyboard or particle board? We are tearing up the linoleum and the particle board layer in order to lay the new floor. I sure would appreciate any advise you have to offer.

-- sues

Hi Sue. Honestly your question is a bit out of my league. I haven’t done many floors in my time. From what I do know, an underlayment is usually a good idea as it provides you with a nice flat and even surface on which to apply the tiles and mastic and perhaps even a bit of a moisture barrier. But I would absolutely consult with a flooring specialist first. Sorry I couldn’t give you a very good answer.

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Welcome to lumberjocks!

-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,

Hi Mark. I am a big fan of your site and I must thank you for the link to this site. LJ’s is truly a great place. I am just getting back into the craft and I am so pumped about how technology as made it interactive. In the past my wife and a few friends would be the only ones seeing my work now the possibilities are endless. Thanks

-- All bleeding will eventually stop.

go cardinals….

-- SurferMoefoe

go cardinals….

-- SurferMoefoe

Haha! Go Cards indeed!

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

i can always paddle around in the lakes and rivers….

-- SurferMoefoe

No, seriously. Do you sleep? Or is it Nicole’s job to do all the web connections?

I’m from IT and know how much work this stuff can be. For you to do all this AND spend time in the shop, well, you must a #@%^ of a lot better than me!!

Thanks again for all you do!!

Answering your comment just a few minutes after you post it doesn’t really help my case does it? lol. I do sleep. But fortunately I don’t need more than 6 hours to be a happy camper. Nicole on the other hand….whooo! That girl can sleep! :)
Actually, Nicole’s role in what I do goes in waves depending on how busy she is at work. But for the most part, its all me homie. The hardest times are when I am in the middle of a project. I like to spend a good 8-10 hours a day in the shop if I can, but I know I’m going to come back to an inbox just packed with emails. But a bad day doing this job is 1000x better than any good day I had in the lab! So I can’t complain.

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Seems I recall her being a nurse, wasn’t she? I just thought you were rich enough now that she had to quit her job to manage your entourage! ;-)

It’s fun for all us woodwusses to watch and learn – BUT GO BUILD SOMETHING!

...but record it…so we can watch and learn some more…

selfish, aren’t we?

Nicole is actually a tech nerd. She works for a software company. The extent of her nursing is to tell me to “rub dirt in it” when I come in from the shop with a cut. lol

I have been working on a streamer trunk for the last week or so. Check out the live page if you’re bored.
http://thewoodwhisperer.com/live

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

hi Marc. I have the plans and some material for the trunk. Waiting to begin to build it. You guys should check out TWW site and see how this trunk project got started. Its amazing.
TomP

Awesome Tom! I am just finishing mine up right now. Actually, I don’t have any hardware yet but I will soon. The woodwork will be done in a day or two. I will also be posting a Sketchup drawing of the changes for the top, in case you are interested.

Thanks for spreading the word too.

Here’s the forum post discussing it.

http://woodwhispererforum.com/showthread.php?t=1208

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Absolutely Marc. After looking at the plans for the original top, I like the idea of a flat top. Looking forward to seeing the plans. This will be my first large project.

Hey Marc,
Chuck Landry here from south Louisiana. I added you to my buddy list yesterday when I noticed you had a page here on Lumber Jocks. I have had your website bookmarked for quite some time now and have viewed nearly every video on it. I must say that as an amateur woodworker I totally admire your work and envy your talent and skill. Please, keep the podcast coming as I, and I am certain many others just like me will be waiting! And if you’re ever passing through Louisiana on I-10 give me a shout, I live in Breaux Bridge just east of Lafayette Louisiana on I-10. Breaux Bridge is the “Crawfish Capitol of the World”, known for its great “True” Cajun resturants and our two celebrities – Carolina Panthers QB Jake Delhomme and the former Miss USA and now actress Ali Landry.
Chuck

-- Chuck, Breaux Bridge, LA

Thanks for the kind words Chuck! And if I am ever in the area, I’ll give you a heads up . Some true cajun food sounds right up my alley! :)

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

Another fan who just found you here. Hi Marc! I’ve watched quite a handful of your videos these last few months, and learned quite a bit. I was grateful for the resawing help, and particularly liked the info in your cutting board video. I was happy to notice just now that you’re a Jock, too! I’ve just joined, a little disappointed it took me until almost the site’s 3rd birthday (today!) to realize it was here all this time. I’ve added you as a buddy so I can keep up with your goings-on, and your projects, which are beautiful!

Thanks again!

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator

Happy birthday, take the day off and have some fun.

-- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

haha thanks buddy. My “day off” will probably be spent in the shop. :)

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

hey man i love ur shows any advice for a teen who wants to build fine furniture for a living wood working is a passion of mine i love working with power tools and even more so with hand tools

Hey Adam. Glad you like the shows buddy! The only advice I have for you at this point, and it might be obvious, is education. There are a number of great woodworking schools around the country where you can get a more formal education in design theory and construction. I definitely recommend going that route as you will want as many skills under your belt as possible. But here’s one bit of advice that might not be so obvious. No matter how good of a woodworker you are, you won’t go very far if you don’t understand how to run a business. So be sure to educate yourself in that area as well. Even just taking some continuing education courses will help a great deal. Running the business, dealing with customers, and marketing yourself are all vital ingredients to your success. So make sure you don’t forget that side of the equation.

Other than that, keep your eye on the prize and focus on that education.

Good luck Adam!

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com

I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your podcasts, keep em’ coming and thanks for the inspiration.

-- "I gotta have more cowbell"--------Bruce Dickinson

Thanks man. Much appreciated!

-- For free video tutorials and other cool woodworking stuff, check out http://www.TheWoodWhisperer.com