Fresh Baked Wood | Wood Talk 598

Wood Talk | Woodworking

Marc Spagnuolo

Planer, Finishing, Woodworking, Diy, Education, Lumber, Tablesaw, How To, Milling, Wood, Furniture, Leisure, Design, Hobbies

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It’s show #598 - On today’s show, we’re talking about safety lessons for a maker space, strategizing lumber for a workbench, helical heads in benchtop planers, cypress finishing.

What's On the Bench

Marc is bending and laminating to make the fanciest towel rack, and now has his new True Grip Clamp Pads for sale!
Matt is cleaning and sterilizing.
Shannon took his architect training course on the road to California and admired trees.

Kickback and Stuff

Paul teaches Fusion 360 at his local Woodcraft and shares what he likes about it over SketchUp.
Joel comments on how Europeans make better plywood with a history lesson on wooden fighter planes in WWII.

Listener Questions

Joel wants a planer and wonders if a spiral head is worth it in a benchtop model.
Von milled a Red Oak log into boards and is now about to build his workbench but asks if there is any particular grain orientation he should consider for the parts as he builds it.
Jim is building Adirondack chairs from Cypress. He wants them to grey naturally and wonders if he should put any finish on them at all.

Selected Woodcraft Events

In-Store Classes are awesome. You should take some! Check your local store to see what they have going on.

Here’s just a sampling of what’s going on:

Store Events:

Supreme Bowl Contests – Woburn, MA; Walpole, MA; Richmond, VA; Norfolk, VA; Portsmouth, NH (Separate contests at each store)
Submit your bowl to be voted on in a variety of categories. Voting ends February 8th (submission dates and categories vary somewhat by location)

Classes:

Kansas City, KS – Learn Resin Casting – Saturday, January 31st, 9 to 4
January 30th – DATE NIGHT: WINE & CHEESE, Turn a bottle stopper and cheese plane

Ask Us a Question

Our questions primarily come from our generous Patrons. You can also send in questions via the contact form. Or you can hit us up on Instagram at woodtalkshow. And you can even send us an email or voicemail at woodtalkshow@gmail.com

Finally you can find us individually on Instagram at mattcremona, woodwhisperer, and renaissancewoodworker

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wood Talk. Now here are three guys who have combined would make one hell of a woodworker.
0:11.3	Mark, Shannon, and Mad. All right, it's show number 598, and on today's show we're talking about safety lessons for a maker space, strategizing lumber for a workbench, helical heads in
0:22.5	bench top planers, and cypress finishing. All that and more coming up. But first, we want to let
0:27.7	you know that Woodtalk is proudly sponsored by Woodcraft. Woodcraft is the leading authority
0:31.8	in woodworking, making, and creating. They have the tools, supplies, and expertise, as well as
0:36.6	hands-on classes to aspire creativity. At every level, learn more at woodcraft.com. And again, for a limited time until January 31st, the code is WT-2025 to get 10% off your order. And hopefully we'll have an updated code as of the next show because that's just, that one's old. Look at it. It's dirty and old and dusty. Got all that 2025 residue.
1:11.0	We got a, updated code as of the next show because that's just, uh, that one's old. Look at it. It's old. It's dirty and old and dusty. Got all that 2025 residue. We've got to get a new one. Ooh. Yeah. Keep it away from me. Gross. Get rid of it. And our soul, our show, bad. Our show is also, let's try to there. I'm trying to get to smoothly there.
1:12.3	Our show is also
1:12.8	sponsored by the generous contributions of people like you, you beautiful people. If you want to help support the show, you can, you can do so. You can go to Patreon.com slash woodtalk and Seth to become a patron the show. I'm assuming we have no one to thank and I have no context for why those comments is here but I'm going to read it anyway.
1:29.9	Sean Bond says I'm assuming we have no one to thank and I have no context for why those comments is here,
1:28.5	but I'm going to read it anyway.
1:29.9	Sean Bond says, I'm only here for Wood Talk.
1:33.3	Okay, so that's actually two people and the person's name on Patreon is I'm only here for
1:38.8	Wood Talk.
1:39.6	Oh.
1:40.6	And the second person is Sean.
1:42.9	Well, look at that.
1:44.1	Somebody did it right for once. Well, look at that.
1:45.9	Somebody did it right for once.
1:48.2	Yeah, they put their little message right into their name.
1:50.0	I thought there's like a quote.
1:54.7	Like, look at this insightful quote someone has about how great the show is.
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