# STL187: Desert Island Dream Projects

- Show: [Shop Talk Live](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live)
- Published: 2019-04-12
- Length: 1h 13m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects
- Listen: https://shoptalklive.podcast.static.taunton.com/stl187-desert-island-dream-projects

## Summary

Fine Woodworking editors Mike Pekovich, Tom McKenna, and Ben Martin discuss woodworking techniques and ethics. They address a listener's struggle with cupped walnut boards, share a 'smooth move' involving a shirt in a dust collector, and debate the ethics of selling furniture based on magazine designs. The episode also covers favorite techniques like using pocket holes for mockups and pivoting on a bandsaw blade.

## Chapters

- [0:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=7) Introduction and Dust Collector Mishap
- [9:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=567) Keeping Wide Thin Boards Flat
- [19:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=1147) Desert Island Dream Projects
- [32:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=1978) Favorite Techniques: Pocket Holes and Bandsaw Pivoting
- [51:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=3089) Ethics of Selling Magazine Designs
- [1:06:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2019-04-12-stl187-desert-island-dream-projects#t=4001) Quarter Sawn Stock for Drawbore Pins

## Topics

- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Fabrication & craft](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/fabrication-and-craft)
- [Intellectual property](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/intellectual-property)
- [Maker community & events](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/maker-community)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Fine Woodworking (company)
- Rikon (company)
- Chris Becksvoort (other)
- Steve Latta (other)
- Garrett Hack (other)
- Greg Classon (other)
- Sam Maloof (other)
- David Picciuto (other)
- Heide Martin (other)
- Bob Van Dyke (other)
- CMT (company)
- Crimson Guitars (other)

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