Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who have great personalities.

Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

Welcome to Wood Talk, number 139 for July 10th, 2013.

On today's show, we're talking about expansion differences between hardwood and softwood,

resaw alternatives to the bandsaw, and the difference between parallelogram and Dovetail

way jointers. But before we get to all that, let's hear a quick word from our sponsors.

Today's show is supported by Festool.

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All right, well, before we get started here, I do want to send out a special thank you to my new buddy

Andrew Allen, who is an incredible musician, he made our new intro song.

And I do want to mention that if you are somewhat geeky, maybe you like video games or

maybe you even like Star Trek, Andrew Allen has taken a lot of Star Trek music and he made an

album called smooth Federation and it's jazz interpretation remixes of Star

Trek music and then he... New Generation original I don't know I'm not

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