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STL 95: Looking Back Fondly

Shop Talk Live · 8 Oct 2015 · 50m

What this episode covers

Fine Woodworking editors Tom McKenna, Mike Pekovich, and Asa Christiana discuss the departures of former staff members Ed Gabriel and Asa Christiana, while sharing woodworking advice and tool reviews. Mike Pekovich demonstrates using a block plane for Kumiko lattice work and discusses frame-and-panel door construction, while Asa Christiana highlights a Japanese Kabiki marking gauge and Tom McKenna explains how to modify a chisel into a skew chisel. The hosts also review Lee Valley's PMV-11 steel blades, discuss the value of local woods, and address the logistical challenges of setting up a home woodworking shop.

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Companies
Fine Woodworking, Lee Valley, Lee Nielsen, Freud, Veritas, Taunton
Chips
PMV-11
Also
Kumiko, Kabiki

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