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This week we discuss Saturday's video on the Sawstop Jobsite Pro tablesaw. Also some fishing talk and more. Thanks for listening and don't forget to write in your tip suggestions and leave your comment for comment of the week.
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Welcome back to the show.
Hosts' Introductions and Format Discussion
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I realize I turned off the air conditioner and it didn't turn off. So you hear a brisk wind there in the beginning. Yeah. Welcome back to the American Craftsman podcast. I'm Jeff of Green Street Joinery. I'm John of John Peters.
00:01:33
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Yeah, I guess we're still we're still figuring out our formatting here a little bit, but we can talk about the video with your shot. Yeah, I think that's like maybe we use this as like a preview. You know, videos come out Saturday. Podcast comes out Friday. Hey, you want to know what this video is going to be about? Sure. Find out on Friday.
00:01:54
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For sure. So we just shot a video on the SawStop job site saw and we were going to shoot another video on the spray booth, but we had a visit from Rob DeMarco and that was good. It was great to see Rob. We'll see him. You may see him before, but I'll see him up at maker camp.
00:02:12
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Yeah. Um, Robin is, I forget his wife's name. The second time I met her was Laura. Well, Laura, that sounds right. Okay. Yeah. Sorry, Rob. I have that like in one ear out the other thing with names. Supposed to repeat it back to them. I know I do the same thing. You're supposed to be like, Oh, hi, Laura. How are you? You know, great to meet you and all that stuff, but I never do it. And then the entire time I'm talking to somebody, I'm thinking,
00:02:36
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What is this person's name? And then the worst thing is when somebody you know comes up to you and then you feel like you have to introduce the person that you know to the person that you now forgot their name. And it's just like, oh my God, I'm bad at that. Hey, introduce yourself. Yeah.
Woodworking Tools and Workshop Setup
00:02:56
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Oh, yeah. So I think we've had that saw. We had it right when we got the van.
00:03:06
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So that's got to be maybe three years now. I remember when you bought it. It's pretty pricey. So I think it's about 1700. Yeah. I looked it up right before we started just so I could get that the full name of it. And I saw it for 1700, 1599 looked like maybe the cheapest.
00:03:23
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It's a good saw. I have one. I've used it a few times. I thought I would use it more. On my list of to do jobs, I'd never seem to be getting done along with the sauna is my garage is right off of my kitchen.
00:03:40
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And last year I, I patted out the walls because it's, I've got two by four walls that go into a two by six shoe and a two by six header. Cause it's sitting on block. Yeah. And, uh,
00:03:55
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I've padded them out to the two by six and then I hired an electrician to set it all up so I could have a small shop in there with lighting and then I'm going to sheetrock it. So I did the padding out and I did the electrical work, but I've never done any of the insulation and sheetrock. And I said to my wife, I said,
00:04:15
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That's a job now that I'm saving for the end of September because I don't want to be dealing with insulation now. Oh, God, no. But the idea is when that garage gets finished, then I'll put the job site saw in there along with a cordless Makita, not Makita, Milwaukee chop saw. Yep. Because the barn, my barn's about almost 200 feet from the house, pretty far.
00:04:41
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And inevitably, whenever I do the smallest project on the house, I walk back and forth to the barn a minimum of 10 times. It's just amazing how many tools you need to do the slightest little project. And so I finally convinced my wife that the house will look a lot better in these renovations and things that she wants to get done. We'll get done quicker.
00:05:03
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if she doesn't listen to the podcast. So I can say if she'll get all of her shit out of the garage and it's just too much stuff. Oh, yeah. And if she'll I shouldn't say that she'll get all her stuff out of the garage and let me have just a small area, then I'll keep it clean. And it's just funny. My wife is not the best at keeping like tools and things like that organized. She loves the garden.
00:05:30
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But I've taken all the gardening tools and I've kind of organized them out by the barn and occasionally they'll go missing. And I just found one the other day in the in the compost pile. You know what I mean?
00:05:44
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Yeah, my wife's the same way. So I'm actually going to pick up a little bit later today, a kitchen that we had cut and then my kitchen that I had cut from the CNC guy. And I was down in my basement and a lot of the stuff from the kitchen is now in the basement because of the Renault. And I'm looking at all of that and all the stuff that's in my kitchen now. I'm like, where is all this going to go? My kitchen is not that big.
00:06:14
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I have every, my wife buys every single kitchen gadget imaginable. Cherry pitter, strawberry cutter, ice cream maker. We got the KitchenAid, a blender. Pasta maker. Yeah. I think I got two of those. Instant pot. We don't have a crock pot, but the Instant Pot is basically that. Air fryer, waffle maker, and some other waffle maker that's like dinosaur shaped waffles, you know, everything. I've heard good things about the air fryer.
00:06:44
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Yeah. I don't know. No need one. I mean, I don't really, I guess, you know, because I, I'm keto or whatever, I don't really eat stuff that can go in there. Okay. But, um, it's kind of a pain to clean. Oh, really? I get to clean out this like basket instead of just cleaning out like a frying pan.
00:07:02
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Yeah. I like it. I just like good stuff. Fewer things, but better things. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, my wife's getting better and better at, at getting rid of stuff and, um, realizing that, you know, you just don't need that many things because we have so many things for holidays, like, like different trays for this and different, and like,
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Like she got rid of a lot of Halloween stuff. Part of that is sentimental value. You know, her thinking of the boys or Olivia who've outgrown, you know, the little scarecrow thing or whatever it was. Like we had one of those little skeletons that, you know, are on the front porch. Tiny. Literally this thing is only three feet tall, but I hated it because
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I'm, I'm the maintenance man on the, on the property. And when I would blow out the driveway, I ended up blowing this, you know, skeleton over. Yeah. Little, uh, jack-o'-lanterns, whatever's out there, you know, now I'm blowing. Oh, that's like, my wife puts like the skeleton in the grass and the tombstones. And yet if, you know, you still have to cut the grass in October and now I'm moving all these stupid things.
Lifestyle and Personal Choices
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Yeah. And I say this to my sons who are all in their twenties now. I say less is more, the less stuff you have, the more time you'll have. My son Jack bought a boat last year and we fixed it up a bit. He bought a new motor for it. And I was talking to him the other night. He's like, yeah, I think I'm going to sell it.
00:08:26
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Because it's just, he's, he said, it's just one more thing to think about, you know, is, is the sub, uh, whatever the, uh, the automatic pump, if it rains, the bilge pump, is that going to not work? And is the boat going to sink? And you know, it's, it's not the kind of boat that would stay afloat. It's not like a Boston whale or, so, uh, you know, it's not in the slip. So it's like, if you want to take it out, you have to trailer it. Oh, he has it in the water.
00:08:52
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His girlfriend is right on the Navasynch River. So it makes a lot of sense, but he doesn't live on the Navasynch River. So he still doesn't get over there. It's not like having a boat in your backyard. Like I've said to my wife, I think my dream location to live would be upstate New York or Vermont or Pennsylvania, somewhere on a lake with a small boat.
00:09:19
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access to mountain biking and fishing, fishing in the lake and rivers and potentially golf. I don't know about golf because the only way I'm going to go out on a boat is if it's in my backyard. Yeah. I don't know. There's something about the ocean. I like the ocean. You know, you know, you get out on a lake and it's like everybody is, you know, do you like being out in the ocean on a boat?
00:09:43
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Yeah. See, I don't know. I, I'll go out and I've, I've, I've gone out once or twice this year. I don't like to be too far off. Yeah. Did you guys go around the hook and actually out into the ocean or just in the bay? We ended up just in the bay off of, uh, off of Coney Island. And, um, and even that was like, wow, you get some big rollers coming in there. You do get some big rollers and I've, I've been seasick once or twice and it's just not fun.
00:10:11
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Yeah. I went offshore once. So we went to Corderet Canyon, which is like, we went about a hundred miles offshore, like, and then we went all the way south, like about parallel with like Baltimore, but like, you know, way offshore. And, uh, we, so we ran out, out of Point Pleasant and you're sitting in these bean bags, you know, they have these like Marine bean bags, which is what, like what you sit in. Yeah. Like, you know, a fishing boat only has like, let's say two seats, you know, captain seat and one next to it. Yeah.
00:10:41
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So you have these bean bags, if you have more people and you just sit in them and you get out there and the ride was fine, but then you stop. And that's when I started to feel sick. Did you take anything like jemamine or anything?
00:10:55
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I don't think I took any dramamine, but you know, so we left Point Pleasant at like nine o'clock at night. So we got out there at like, you know, two o'clock in the morning or something through one o'clock in the morning. So I just ended up falling asleep. And then I woke up and I, I guess, I don't know, just like the rocking in my sleep gave me some sea legs and I felt fine. Did you catch any?
00:11:15
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So we went out for tuna and so we're trolling around. We ended up catching some skipjack, which are just like the little BS tuna. And then we went, we fished for tilefish in like 600 feet of water. And I got a tilefish that was big. Good eating? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll show you a picture. The tilefish is a cool looking fish too. It's like almost looks like a tropical fish, but it's
00:11:42
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I mean, once you get out there, the water is like, is blue, you know? It's all like yellow and it was a golden tilefish. I don't know if I ever showed you this, but this is a big fluke I caught. That's a huge fluke. 32 inches. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That is a big fluke. That was 2016 right off, right in front of Earl in the bay. Off the boat. Yeah.
00:12:10
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So if you don't know what Earl is, that's the Navy base by us here in New Jersey. And you can't get too close to that when you're fishing, it's patrolled.
00:12:19
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Yeah. So actually what happened is it was like a Saturday. There was a tournament going on. Uh, we weren't in the tournament, but Oh, wow. That is a cool looking fish. Yeah. So we actually, we went out and with my buddy and his girlfriend on his boat and his girlfriend caught a seven pounder. Wow. Big fluke. Yeah. You know, 20 something inches. Um, and then my buddy Anthony called and he's like, Hey, we're, he was on his uncle's boat. We're in front of Earl. They're catching him over here. So we shot over there.
00:12:45
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And we set up on a couple of drifts and then the Navy boat comes out. It's one of those Kodiaks, 50 caliber machine gun. And they get on the loudspeaker. They're like, everybody has to move 100 yards towards New York because people started to drift into the restricted area. So we move out, we set up on a drift. And I'm fishing with a big six ounce cannonball with like a big grub on it, curly tail grub. And I thought I was snagged.
00:13:14
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it turned out it was this monster fluke. And they like sucked down to the bottom when you catch them and had to pull it up. And people were going crazy because it was a tournament and we weren't in the tournament. So there's people that they're like, let me buy that fish off you. Because the purse for the tournament was like, I forget five or $10,000. Yeah, it was huge. Yeah, that's a huge fluke. I've never seen a fluke that big. It was like 13 pounds. Jeez.
00:13:40
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So you ate that. How did you cook it? So actually that whole, I got married, that was June or July 2016. I got married in October. So all the fish, all the fluke that we caught that summer, I froze and we gave to the chef who did my wedding and that was one of the dishes. Oh, nice. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, that is cool. That's like a real nice touch. Do you have a big wedding? Uh,
00:14:07
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I forget how many people we had, less than a hundred. Yeah, that's probably not what I was. Mine was a long time ago.
00:14:15
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Yeah, we did it right at my sister-in-law's house, sister and brother-in-law's house in Leonardo. There were like three houses off the water right by the lighthouse. Nice. Yeah, it was cool. Leonardo's a great town. Yeah. We went to the marina on Saturday, last Sunday. We're sitting there Saturday. My wife's at work. I'm like, maybe we should go fishing tomorrow. My tech star said, you want to go fishing tomorrow? Yeah. So we went over to the marina and there's a little bulkhead.
00:14:40
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And I got her set up, I got my son set up, and then I got myself set up. I throw out first cast, bang, hit a short flu. This Saturday? Yeah, Sunday. Sunday? Yeah. Because it rains Saturday. Wait.
00:14:54
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off the dock or out in a boat? You go down to the beach and then there's a bulkhead where the channel comes in. First cast got a short fluke and then that was it. Nothing else. That's a great place to keep a boat if you have a boat. I don't know. Are there slips even available there? Yeah. I saw some recently about there being one available. What do they go for?
00:15:19
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I don't know. It's usually, I think a couple hundred bucks a foot. Okay. For the season. It's a nice area to have to keep your boat because it's not very busy. Right across the street from my house, basically. Yeah. That whole area back there is really nice. I thought like years ago, it would have been great to buy a house back there and I really couldn't afford to do it, but I just liked the neighborhood. And I think that's the same school district that my kids go to.
00:15:47
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Yeah, it's all Middletown. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, we're getting pretty deep in the weeds on fishing stuff.
Kitchen Design Projects
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Let's talk about your, uh, let's talk about your kitchen or the kitchen that you're starting on. Yeah. So, uh, working on a kitchen up in Ramsey, which is Bergen County, um, like 90 minutes north, like almost to New York state. Um, so that's with Donnie Douglas design. If you've listened to the podcast for any amount of time, uh, you know, the name Jacqueline was on the podcast maybe about a year ago.
00:16:15
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So we haven't worked with them a lot recently. I think for a lot of designers, residential has kind of slowed down. And apparently like general contractors are very slow from what I've heard. I mean, we're pretty busy.
00:16:29
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I would say not as many leads coming in right now compared to the busiest time, but it's definitely not slow. So that is going to be Egger five-piece doors. So I'm buying those through Richelieu. They have a manufacturer who make Shaker-style doors, but it's all out of the Egger TFL panel, the Melamine. So that should be nice. The island will be painted. I'm going to be painting that.
00:16:57
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And then I have some cabinets that have glass doors, black aluminum from Haefla. They make custom aluminum doors, so you just give them the specs. They make them glass panel.
00:17:09
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So those cabinets are made out of the Egger. And then we have a storage wall that has two pantry height cabinets on the outside. And then there's base cabinets with a countertop. Sitting on top of that countertop is three cabinets that we have an open cabinet in the center and then pocket doors on the sides. So that'll be out of Melamine as well.
00:17:34
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Is this new construction or is this a renovation renovation? Yeah. So they gutted it like maybe three weeks ago. Did you, did you actually set foot into the job site before they gutted it or during the gut? Before and after. Yeah. Okay. They dragged me out there afterwards, even though I didn't want to go.
00:17:54
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So it's probably good though to kind of get a good idea of what's happening. Yeah. I didn't really, uh, glean anything from the trip, but you know, I made him pay for it. Oh, that's good. They're like, we've never had somebody refuse a site visit. I'm like, they wanted me to meet with the GC to go over the things that I needed. I'm like, it's in an email. Like we could like FaceTime or something. Like I'm going to drive 90 minutes. It was a 15 minute meeting. Yeah. I charge them for, uh,
00:18:21
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Six and a half man hours. Nice. 90 minutes to drive up. Two guys. 90 minutes to drive there. 15 minute meeting. 90 minutes to drive back. Yeah. That's the way you have to treat everything. Otherwise people just take advantage of you. Like your time doesn't matter. Yeah. It's like I didn't build in that to the job, you know? Yeah. No, it totally makes sense. And I think the client will take you more serious if you take yourself more serious. Yeah. So you got that job going. When will you actually start your kitchen?
00:18:52
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So I actually ordered the edge banding today, whereas I wanted to actually show you the colors I landed on. They're two historical colors from Benjamin Moore. But you're using enduro paint. Yes. So the charcoal slate will be the base cabinets and the Kenny bunkport green will be the uppers. I like that. Now, what's the finish?
00:19:18
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I know it's paint, but like what's the mat? Uh, yeah, I'll probably go with Matt. All right. And how durable is the mat?
00:19:27
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I don't think they make any distinction now. So that's the color of the flooring. Oh, nice. And then the walls. So that's called Summer Peach. That's what we have in our living room. I think we might do that in the kitchen as well. All right. And that's actually that color there. So it's just kind of has like a touch of
00:19:52
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How are you finishing the top of the cabinets, like a small crown or something? Yeah, I have to. And then, like, so if you're looking at the sink, there's two windows, and then I have upper and then the fridge cabinet, and I have a drain pipe that's actually, like, I have to build a soffit. But rather than do it out of sheetrock, I think I'll just continue something around off of that upper cabinet, you know? Sure. So I'll have to figure out. And what are your countertops?
00:20:20
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We haven't gotten that far. Actually, I reached out to Lindsay, one of the designers we work with, and centered that picture. I'm like, what do you think? In my drawing, I have almost like a black countertop with soapstone. Soapstone's not a great... Will black make the space look smaller? I don't think so because the cabinets are... I only have two upper cabinets. Half of the room is open because it's
00:20:50
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Like the dining area, you know. Okay. I don't know. I just, uh, I always think white. Well, not white, but I do, I do like that sort of white quartz Island looked at you see a lot these days. Um, I just think with those colors, like it has to be something that's relatively dark. Cause you put white now between those two colors. It looks weird.
00:21:15
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Yeah, you're probably right. Let's see if I can be interested to see what your designer comes back with, because that's definitely a talent. Oh, yeah. And that's something that, like, you know, she has to do all the time. Like, I don't ever have to pick out. Oh, this is the one that's missing the.
Furniture Design Philosophy and Materials
00:21:36
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So this is your kitchen we're looking at right now. Yeah. Let me just switch over to this.
00:21:44
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Oh wait, this one. And this is a mosaic is your design software. Yeah. Pretty simple to use. Yeah. It's, it's mostly drag and drop. Really? Can you give me the dimensions of the length and width of the room? Yeah, it is, um, two 53. Okay. By one 37 and eight. All right.
00:22:15
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So 20, 21 feet by, uh, so there's your triangle, right? There's your, um, yes, sink. Yeah. Stove bridge. This is like a little peninsula. I added a couple shallow cabinets here. So this is not a sitting Island or peninsula. And then I'm going to do a bank cat here with a table. Are you going to make your table?
00:22:39
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That's the idea. We should make that table. We can make it on today's crossroad. Yeah, that'd be cool. I think a table like that, you make something that's pretty solid, elegant, but something that's going to take a beating. Oh yeah. You have to have a solid wood top if you're going to have a table with kids.
00:23:03
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So our kitchen table originally, the base is ash and it's made with basically it's two parts interlocked together with a lap joint. And then there's a round top. And originally I had, I think, might've been an ash top as well, but it was small. It was maybe 42 inches. And that was great when the kids were little.
00:23:27
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And then a couple of years ago, or maybe 10 years ago at this point, or maybe even longer, I made a new top for it out of cherry. Cause the top now is 52 inches. So you barely even see the base, but it's five quarter. And then I, I use the power plane to plane it down. So the edge is only an eighth of an inch, not an eighth of an inch, a half of an inch thick. Yeah. Like that's what I want to do. Have a real big undercut on it. So it looks light. Yes.
00:23:55
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That makes a huge difference. It's like that lily table that I made out of white oak. If that had a bullnose on the end of it, like five quarter bullnose, that would look like a Flintstone piece of furniture. But because you taper the edge, all of a sudden it looks nice and elegant. So I did that and I finished it with Minwax's oil based polyurethane. I think I did five coats and that just holds up to everything. Oh yeah, it's cool. Poly is a bulletproof finish. I mean,
00:24:22
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And, you know, if you put it on right, you can get a nice finish. And then you're talking a kitchen table that's constantly getting wiped off, constantly getting plates thrown on it. Oh, yeah. It kind of gets its own patina after a while. And there's places there where I can see where the kids play tic-tac-toe, you know, with a ballpoint pen on a piece of paper. And now all those things are kind of like nice character. Yeah. George Nakashima called it Kevinizing. That was his son. Oh, that's neat. Yeah. Things become Kevinized. Yeah.
00:24:52
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Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. He liked it when things would. Yeah, people would bring him stuff and be like, can you like refinish it? And he's like, no, he's like this. That's what happens to furniture. Like that's part of it. How did he feel about just like lightly sanding and then just going over it again with another coat of oil?
00:25:08
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Yeah, I don't know. Like, oh yeah, like refreshing it a little bit. Yeah. I've done that with water locks and it kind of brings everything back to life, but you still retain that character. Yeah. So my coffee table is made out of, it's a quarter cherry, big undercut like that.
00:25:23
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originally it was in the podcast studio in my basement we had that and two side tables it's all now in my living room. And that's like where my son sits every day he eats breakfast there he watches tv plays with clay draws and it's you know same thing it's got like its own patina on it now.
00:25:42
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And only once have I like scuffed it and hit it with, it's just tongue oil. Real milk paint, pure tongue oil and citrus solvent. And it's held up like amazing. And that's been in there for a couple of years.
00:25:57
Speaker
Yeah. There's something to be said about solid wood. It can take a beating and if it does, if something does happen to it, it's not like the end of the world. And like, as opposed to veneer, veneer is like, you kind of got to take care of it.
00:26:13
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Yeah, it's not really repairable. And cherry, there's something about cherry that it gets such a character to it. I think if it was made out of white oak, it wouldn't look the same. It doesn't take that abuse in a good way.
00:26:30
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I'll agree with that. I have, cause the deeper green in the white oak can collect almost like dirt. Yeah. It kind of gets dirty. So I have a few pieces that are maybe 25 years old or more that I, I really like the design and the look of it, but I need to actually remove the old finish because I feel like I can't, if I scuff it up, it's just going to be like locking in dirt because of that deep green that you have with white oak. So with veneer,
00:27:00
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If you watch my channel, you know that I do make a lot of veneer projects. I like veneer because I love mid-century modern furniture and I think veneer gets a bad rap. A lot of really good mid-century modern furniture is veneer. Most of it is.
00:27:17
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And I do work with GL Veneer, like one project a quarter. So right now I'm doing a really beginner style bookshelf. Cameron, by the way, is infatuated with the monkey pod.
00:27:32
Speaker
Oh, really? I want to make something like that. I'm like, you're a little ways. I've got some scraps if he wants to play around. Yeah. The monkey pod is nice. I like it. Had some extra from the end tables that I made last time. And so now I'm making, I'm using that monkey pod for this little bookcase too. And in fact,
00:27:56
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This is almost a complete replica of a piece that I made on the channel almost 10 years ago, because the piece that I made 10 years ago, the video got demonetized because of music license. Oh, really? I used to use something called...
Content Creation and Audience Engagement
00:28:16
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Is it the Cherry one? Yes. Yeah, that's the one that we were watching the other day. Yeah.
00:28:23
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I used something called Epidemic Sound. And I didn't like their selection or I found it difficult to use. I'm just looking for something that is kind of relaxed. I just could never find it. And I would end up using things a few times and be like, I don't like that. And I actually kind of think it wrecks the video.
00:28:46
Speaker
But anyway, the downside of it is if you let that subscription lapse, then they can demonetize your video. And it's just kind of like a hassle. So now like you and I don't use any music and I don't use any music in my videos anymore.
00:29:04
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At the end of this video, I'll tell everybody that this is a rebuild if you didn't already guess it by now. And I may even throw some footage of the old project up because I looked 10 years younger, which is, you know, just happens. Couldn't you just like re-upload it with no music?
00:29:22
Speaker
Yeah, but then I have to re-edit the whole thing anyway. And I wanted to fulfill an agreement with with GL Veneer. And I'm making this piece of furniture for my son, Jack, who Jack is out of the house. So that gives me an opportunity to make furniture if I don't have a client. And at this point, I actually prefer making furniture
00:29:46
Speaker
or a family member over a client anyway, as long as the project is sponsored, because then you don't like, I'm giving it to Jack. So if he has any complaints, he doesn't, I'll just like shoot him a picture. Hey, Jack, you want me, do you want something this for your house? And, uh, you know, say yes or no. Or could you do it a little different for this area?
00:30:07
Speaker
Yeah. And people get super like hyper fixated on things when they're paying for it. You know, they do. It's understandable. I agree. Yeah. Like you quote a piece out to a client, it's 15 grand. Yeah. I'm going to paint over every detail too. You know, you present me with two options like, holy shit, which one do I pick?
00:30:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's nice not having to work for a client, especially on furniture builds where things become so specific. With a big kitchen cabinet, it's just too big of a picture to nitpick every little angle of it.
00:30:43
Speaker
So anyway, that's those are my thoughts on veneer. I do like veneer, but I in the long term for something that's going to get beat on like a kitchen table, even a dining table, I wouldn't I wouldn't put veneer on a dining room table. No, I mean, plenty of people do. And and I guess under normal circumstances, it's it's typically not a problem, but it could be a problem.
00:31:06
Speaker
Yeah. I'm talking about a dining room table. That's going to be another upcoming project for my own home. And I, I asked my wife, I was like, I'd really like to make this out of cherry. And she's pretty much put her foot down once it made out of walnut.
00:31:22
Speaker
which I like, but walnut is soft. Yeah. And it also, it's, it's going to get a decent amount of sun exposure and walnut just lightens up. Oh, big time. Yeah. So I think that's just something you have to deal with. Yeah. We're just going to have to suck that up and know it. Maybe I'll stain it. Yeah. Good stain. I've stained walnut before. Paint it. Yeah. Paint it. I'll paint it. And, uh, we did a walnut stained black.
00:31:52
Speaker
Just, I remember that just for the grain pattern. I don't know. Sometimes people want stuff and you just don't ask questions. But I can see that though, because walnut stained black is going to look a hell of a lot different than cherry stained black. Oh yeah. And a hell of a lot different than something like white oak. I don't know what else you could stain walnut black, that butternut. Ash is like, that's like one of the go tos for going real, like black, black is like white ash.
00:32:20
Speaker
Isn't Ash going to be difficult to get now? Yeah, with the Emerald Ashboard. Yeah. Yeah. So we had a thought on the podcast of how did we, how did you say that listeners choice or something like that? Oh, like comment of the week. Oh, are you talking about the tips?
00:32:36
Speaker
We could do that. We could, what do you think? Tips or comment of the week? Well, I think, I think we should do a comment of the week on the podcast. And then I think we should have the viewers and the listeners write in, uh, tips that we can, well, we can make videos. These are user, user, not user, viewer, listener, submitted tips, and then we'll test them out. So how many is, uh, you think three to five?
00:33:01
Speaker
for each video. Yeah. Yeah. So how do, do people leave those tips on your, on the podcast? I'd say either as a comment on the week's YouTube video, or they could DM us on Instagram. They could DM you, they could DM me, they could DM today's craftsman. I say we keep it all today's craftsman. Yeah, ideally. Yeah. Just cause it'll be easier to find. Right. So either, either today's craftsman YouTube or today's craftsman Instagram.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah. And then we'll compile them however we see fit. Like we were talking about doing a tip, a tip video on like the table saw or a tip video on the bandsaw or organization or.
00:33:37
Speaker
Sounds good to me. Yeah. And then we could let you know if we like your tip or not. So at the very least you'll get a shout out. Yeah, exactly. And then comment of the week. I think it'd just be something funny to talk about. We get some wacky comments. Remember I sent you that comment and I was like, what is this about? I commented back and the guy was like, holy crap. He's like, I thought I was commenting on a different video. It's like, oh man.
00:34:02
Speaker
I was like, I was just thinking to myself, like, yeah, I don't know. I know. Cause you sent me a screenshot and I was just like, yeah, I know. I looked at that and I couldn't figure it out. Whatever. I mean, I've gotten some crazy comments before we talked about the one, uh,
00:34:17
Speaker
on the after show of the podcast years ago, where the guy was talking about how Taylor Swift was in the Illuminati and was killing people, killing homeless people. Yeah. I remember that conversation. I think I might've been on recently after that, but you were talking about that. Oh man. Well,
00:34:38
Speaker
We're, uh, we're, we're trying to keep the show a little bit shorter, give you guys just a easily digestible episode every week. Nothing crazy. So we're going to wrap up. Yeah. And I think when we have more to say on other things, plus you're kind of on a timeline today, you got to get out and we got to shoot out to Washington township and back, which is, uh, about an hour, maybe 90 minutes. So yeah.
00:35:03
Speaker
Well, I enjoyed being here. It was good. We just, I enjoyed shooting that video. And, uh, I guess we will shoot a video eventually on the, on the spray booth. Cause I wanted to know more about that, but we kind of ran out of time today. I don't have any plans on using it, uh, anytime within the next like at least week. So we got time.
00:35:22
Speaker
All right, next week this time. Yeah, thanks for listening. If you're not already, subscribe to the Today's Craftsman YouTube channel every Saturday at 8 30 a.m. We release a video and occasionally we have some bonus videos. And yeah, tell a friend. All right. See you guys next week. Thanks.
00:35:40
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