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

Park Matt and Shannon.

Welcome to Wood Talk Number 168 for February 3rd, 2014.

On today's show we're talking about tool quality. Yep, that's it.

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

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All right, so let's talk tool quality good tools bad tools cheap tools expensive tools

Let's just bite right into the meat of it. Shall we guys? Oh good, because I am starving. Matt just mentioned to BLT.

I think his mouth is watering here, so we need to get going.

Okay, so tool quality.

Now, this is, I think this is an interesting topic topic and let's explain a little bit more

where we're going with this one thing we might want to touch on is in the past

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