Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who, if combined, would make one hell of a woodworker.

Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

Ooke-Doke, it is Wood Talk Number 128 for April 10th, 2013.

On today's show, we're talking about green mineral spirits, wood floor coating options, designing

for strength, fixing a hand-cut mortise, armor seal alternatives in the UK, arriving knife

usage, carving tools, radial arm saws, cross-cut sled usage, there's a lot here,

steel hardness, butcher block finishes, using good old Elmer's glue and sprung joints.

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All right, let's jump right into what's on the bench.

Shannon, how's about you, sir?

Well, I've been talking about a shop renovation for more than a year. you not quite building something from the ground up but it's going to require basically stripping

the walls bare moving everything out to the driveway and hopefully ideally laying a floor framing

out new walls and cladding all the walls and looks like that's actually going to happen.

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