Welcome to Woodthaw, for Wood Workers by Woodworkers.

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

Welcome to Wood Talk Number 144 July 17th, 2013. On today's show we're talking about books that inspire us,

wood movement in work benches, cutting dovetails on long boards, and four-quarter

vor vor vie, versus eight- quarter pricing.

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near you. Let's jump into what's on the bench. I'll go first. I had a very fun

experience yesterday. It's not that I don't normally have fun experiences. This one was just particularly fun.

For Tuesday. For your average Tuesday. I went to Porter Barnwood and this is a company that has only been serving the public for about a year and they've been more into the industry and serving pros for a while.

But this has only been about a year and that's when I became aware of them, but I've never been there. And this is a place down in Phoenix that actually sells a bunch of old barnwood. They get recovered barn material, they get stuff sent to them, they go pick it up, whatever it takes to get the stuff there. And they have some amazing stuff.

And this is when you realize you truly have

gone off the deep end of being a woodworker

is when you could see a pile of what looks like just crap wood and you know that it's something special or you actually believe it's something special.

That's when you know you've got issues.

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