Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

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

Hey everybody, it's Wood Talk Number 197 for September 22nd, 2014.

On today's show, we're talking about design rules for grain orientation, filling

cracks with finish, and making really long panels. All that and more coming up of first,

let's hear a quick word from our sponsor. Hey good news everybody

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a couple of donors, specifically Nathan O'Leary, Martin, Smith, and Kevin Strugs.

Thank you guys for your donation and if you want to help out to you can go to woodtalk show

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use to set up either a recurring donation in a very small amount or like a one-time

donation which is always appreciated so thank you everyone who did that and who

continues to do that.

And you know what I decided guys?

I'm going to read full names from now on.

I've been doing like the last initial thing and I'm like,

look, if you donated to this show you should be proud of it and I'm going to say your last name and probably mispronounce it, but I'm going to out you no matter what.

Exactly. Some of your spouse is like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

That's supposed to be picking up milk and you were actually

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