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Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

All right, welcome everybody to another episode of Wood Talk, and today we're doing another

one of those single topic episodes, and specifically we're going to talk about hybrid woodworking and how you might

integrate hand tools into your power tool shop.

And when does a hand tool make more sense and when is it just plain dumb?

Yeah, this is going to be fun. This is...

Oh, is I supposed to give an answer to when it's plain dumb?

Not yet, not yet, save it.

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This is obviously a topic that's near and dear to my heart and it's a topic that I wrote and my first book was published on so I do have a lot to say about it but I will admit it's at the end of the day we haven't

prepared a whole lot for this and we're just kind of winging it so for a little

all over the place and disorganized forgive us but we just want to talk about this

and kind of hash it out a little bit.

Yeah, just because he wrote the book on Highwood Working doesn't mean he actually read it.

Well, I've got, like I said before, I've got it open to page 10 and I will be reciting thusly.

And I think at this point we should put a disclaimer. and I will be reciting thusly.

I think at this point we should put a disclaimer out there that if this is your first episode of Wood

Talk, stop listening right now.

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