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Now here are three guys who are actually under the illusion at

Woodworking is cool. Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

It's Wood Talk Number 165 for January 13, 2014.

On today's show, we're talking about carbine tipped band saw blades, when to use a palm router,

avoiding sap wood when buying rough stock, solid wood for wooden gears, working with

weathered wood, and making a large bridal joint without a table saw.

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All right, well, it's an interesting recording day for us.

It is Sunday morning, and you're probably going to hear this normal release time.

I'll release it either Monday night or Tuesday, just keep on schedule but we're recording on a Sunday morning. I've got my my coffee here

You guys are approaching the afternoon, so I don't know if you're still drinking the coffee

I finally finished off the second pot so I might be really

really anxious. You're very wired over to tequila here. There you go you need it for

this show we got to get through it it's only an hour but we'll get through

somehow. All right let's move into what's on the bench.

Let's see, trying to think, there it is, I wrote it down.

It wasn't really an eventful week for me, but I've been doing a lot of,

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