It's Tiny But It's Better Than Nothing | WT606
Wood Talk | Woodworking
Marc Spagnuolo
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, we’re talking about small shop organization, how to use a push stick with the JessEm guides, why are there always mistakes?!
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Almost Perfection
What’s on the Bench?
Marc: Started MCM table for friend of his
Matt: Finished the breakfast nook
Shannon: teaching sawing and chiseling
KICKBACK
Jeremy - Has some thoughts on losing a job and relying on the shop.
Bryan - Tells us his thought process behind using toothpicks.
Paul - I was wondering since Mother’s Day is so close and I’m not ready for it if you could put it off a couple of weeks so I have time to make a picture frame for my wife.
Questions!
David - I use the Jessem Table Saw guides and noticed Marc uses them also. I find that using a push stick with them isn't easy. The only one I find useful are the long stick type that is included with table saws. Which push stick do you use with the Jessem guides.
Brandon - Over the years, I've made many things I've eventually been proud of, but it seems like with every project, no matter how hard I try, no matter how careful I am, no matter how much planning I do, I mess up something smallish that I didn't need to. Examples (feel free to edit): I'll cut dados for shelves, and all but one of them will be nice and tight, but one of them will be a tiny bit oversized and have a visible gap. I'll carefully clamp pieces of a lumber cart together while gluing-and-screwing it, only to realize that one of the shelves is noticeably crooked when I finish. I'll drop a piece off the table saw or workbench, denting a corner that really needed to be crisp and sharp. I'll go to put my name on something with either my iron or my laser, but the placement will be slightly off or the iron will be too hot. Etc. Etc. Etc. Something like this seems to happen on almost every project. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes it's just a random accident.
My question for you guys is this: When/how do you determine when a mistake/accident/major screw-up is significant enough to warrant repair vs. redoing vs. just giving up? Do you have a rule for your own work for when you ignore a mistake and just keep going, or are you all so awesome that a question about mistakes is alien to you?
Silas - I love listening to the show I'm a teenager worker.I've only been woodworking for around a year now.I have a small job site table saw and a small lunchbox.Plainer , that's really it , I'm hoping soon to start building a small shed for my workshop.It will only be around sixteen by twelve I Want to know If you guys have any ideas on storage or anything, I'd love to hear like I said, I'm a beginner so I don't know that much.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wood Talk. |
| 0:06.0 | Now here are three guys who might stop by to ask for a cup of slab. |
| 0:10.5 | Mark, Shannon, and Matt. |
| 0:12.9 | All right, it's show number 606, and on today's show we're talking about small shop organization, |
| 0:18.2 | how to use a push stick with the Jessum guides, and why are there always mistakes? All that and more. In this show? Yeah, let's be more specific. A lot of mistakes going on around. All that and more. Coming up, but first we want to let you know that Wood Talk is proudly sponsored by Woodcraft. Woodcraft is the leading authority in woodworking, making, and creating. |
| 0:38.8 | They've got the tools, supplies, expertise, and hands-on classes to inspire creativity at every level. |
| 0:43.7 | Learn more at woodcraft.com, and don't forget to use that code. |
| 0:47.4 | WT.2026 for 10% off, regularly priced merchandise and cannot be combined with other offers, |
| 1:12.5 | and exclusions apply. I used it. I used it. Did you do? I got 10% off double stick tape. Look at you. I know. Super sexy purchase, but man, that's like a shop staple around here. Well, sometimes it's tricky too because a lot of times you go to the site and a lot of things are on sale. So then you try to use a code and you're like, |
| 1:13.4 | this code doesn't work. |
| 1:15.5 | Well, because things are already being discounted. It's already cheap. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, so anyway. |
| 1:18.9 | What do more do you want from Woodcraft? |
| 1:20.7 | Come on. |
| 1:21.5 | A lot, apparently. |
| 1:22.6 | Leave Woodcraft alone. |
| 1:27.3 | And, and our show is also sponsored by the generous contributions of people like you. |
| 1:33.0 | Not Shannon in his poignant remarks of my character and my ability to read things. |
| 1:39.3 | Spatient. |
| 1:39.7 | Scape, I prefer scathing. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, it's a little bit scathing. |
| 1:42.5 | Okay, if you want to support the show, you can do so. |
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