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 Shadden.

All right, welcome to Wood Talk, number 160 for December 7th, 2013.

On today's show, we're talking about cool looking finishes, table saw residue, monotonous

woodworking, best practices at the table saw, plugging holes, clogging dust collectors, not intentionally,

I should say unclogging dust collectors.

It's because we plugged the hole in the dust collector.

Right, oh.

Planning your cuts strategically.

And before we get to all that good stuff, let's hear a quick word from our sponsors.

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All right, well our good buddy Matt is not going to be here.

He's a gallivanting somewhere doing something with steel city tools and some event that they're having there and I guess they're feeding him and

taking him the sporting events and all kinds of stuff so he's very busy right now.

Look out saw stop. What's up with that? Did you ever give Matt food? Nope. And that explains a lot. So if you see a new Steel City table saw in Matt Shop, you know why, because they gave him steak. It's just food, that's all it takes. That's it.

That's how I got my friendship with him. I sent him like a steak of the month club and suddenly

we're best bunnies.

You know, speaking of Matt, at the, what was that thing called, that conference, the

Woodworking America conference, we had the Wood Talk meetup.

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