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Now here are three guys who like to use a lot of words yet say nothing at all. Mark Matt Enchanin.

All right, welcome to Wood Talk, number 164 for January 6, 2014.

On today's show, we're talking about when it's safe to remove a blade

guard and riving knife, re-sawing to conserve wood, making a wooden plane and

shooting board that work together, your first work bench, buying stock in the rough and disposing of old power tools but

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Crap, I just pulled the thing out of my headphones. I was so excited. Hold on.

There we are. All right. All right. Well, it's the first show of the year and well, 2014 and we got the last few shows of the year we were dabbling in this for the last

couple of months of the year is doing a couple of those single topic

episodes and the feedback on that has been really good.

It seems like people really like it when we take the time out, even if it's a slightly shorter

show to focus on one particular thing and really hash it out, and especially that

overrated woodworking show was the one that we kind of

a lot of good comments on it seems like people really like that and in fact they

asked for more so I thought some of the commentsbs were just really overrated.

That's true.

You know pretty sure that was my idea wasn't it?

Anyway, so next topic we move on to

two un-soldas. Yeah, to underrated woodworking. In fact I think someone I just saw because I kind of took

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