Welcome to Wood Talk for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who take big pieces of wood and make them smaller.

Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

All right, welcome to Wood Talk, number 162 for December 23rd, 2013.

On today's show, we're talking about our goals for 2014 because the end of the year is coming and it's good to think about what's coming up in the future.

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

Today's show is supported by Festool.

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Visit them online at Festool USA.com. Okay so before we jump into our big topic today

I did want to mention real quick the fact that we aren't having any live shows anymore so some of you

I'm sure noticed maybe five or six, maybe seven of

you noticed that we haven't been doing the live shows and the thing is it's a lot of work

on our end to get it going.

And I think all of us, if we're going to do it,

we really want to make sure that it's something

that we can pay attention to and participate in.

And we've got a chat room.

The problem is, even at Woodtalk, someone even mentioned to me, hey, can you guys just

pop into the chat room once in a while? The difficulty with that is we're really focused on putting

out a good show. And the problem is like there's about at the most on those live streams because of the time we do it primarily

About 20 people are listening and watching while it's live and there's another 30 to 40,000 people who are going to download that to listen on their devices in their cars.

So we really try to focus on making the best recorded quality audio file that we can to you know the vast majority of people who are

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