Welcome to the Wood Talk Weekend Show.

It's time to unbutton those pants.

Crack open a fresh grave soda and let the soothing sounds of Mark Shannon and

mad caress your earholes. Yeah baby it's Wood Talk number 392 for June

23rd, 2017.

And it's a weekend show, which means we're in such a good mood.

And here's the thing, you would think that Shannon would have had his internet fixed between Monday and Friday, but no, he still has not, so he is not with us today.

We will do our best to answer the question and then keep the good times rolling.

So Andy wrote in, he says a friend who is a new woodworking is new

two woodworking. I was going to make fun of him and turns out I'm the idiot.

It is funny like my when something goes wrong my instinct is to immediately blame someone else even if it's most likely my fault

Okay, so a friend who was new to woodworking called me to ask for help because he was frustrated so I went over to his

house to help him. While we were going through the steps of the project where there were several

instances where I did multiple cuts on a piece of scrap wood or on the end of a board that I knew would be cut off for the final to sneak up on the fit.

It was a Eureka moment for him and I realized that a lot of his information comes from watching sped up YouTube videos

and it just assumed that those builders just use the old adage

to measure twice cut once.

It made me realize that often for fine woodworking my method of work is to

measure once and cut two or three times.

What are your thoughts?

Well, at least I can speak for myself here.

I definitely do that as well. I actually you might even cut out

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