# STL311: Hold the line!

- Show: [Shop Talk Live](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live)
- Published: 2024-03-08
- Length: 1h 04m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line
- Listen: https://shoptalklive.podcast.static.taunton.com/stl311-hold-the-line

## Summary

Mike Pekovich and Bob Van Dyke join hosts Ben Strana and Amanda Russell to discuss an upcoming free Fine Woodworking New England event, detailing the schedule of demonstrators and the shift from student to instructor galleries. The guests answer listener questions regarding the aesthetic and functional role of scribe lines in dovetail joints, techniques for creating seamless veneered tambour doors, and strategies for designing furniture from limited scrap materials. The episode concludes with a debate on the future of affordable table saws in light of potential CPC safety mandates and Bob Van Dyke's struggle with cracking cast brass hardware on a William and Mary high chest.

## Chapters

- [0:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=6) Introduction: Shop Talk Live 311 and Event Announcement
- [4:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=249) Fine Woodworking New England Event Details and Demonstrators
- [19:39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=1179) Dovetail Scribe Lines: Aesthetic vs. Functional Debate
- [29:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=1785) Techniques for Seamless Veneered Tambour Doors
- [39:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=2396) Designing from Scrap Material and Lumber Management
- [45:36](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=2736) The Future of Affordable Table Saws and Safety Regulations
- [53:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/shop-talk-live/2024-03-08-stl311-hold-the-line#t=3238) Bob Van Dyke's Hardware Failure on William and Mary Chest

## Topics

- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Mechanical engineering](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/mechanical-engineering)
- [Policy, trade & tariffs](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/policy-trade-and-tariffs)
- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Fine Woodworking (company)
- Woodcraft (company)
- Sauce Top (product)
- Optimum Brass (company)

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