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It is Wood Talk Number 211, January 12, 2015.

On today's show, we're talking about pairing with Japanese chisels,

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we appreciate that help much Lee and I think we should just jump right into the

good stuff here guys what's on the bench.

Let's do it. And what's on my bench? Let me think. A lot of website stuff this past week

so I haven't honestly done very much. I did go in the shop today to take a picture of a couple chisels for an article and that's really about it. Not a whole lot of woodworking in my life so I won't waste too much time and we have a lot of voicemails coming later so let's just move

right on to Shannon and skip me. Well I finished a project that I started three

years ago. Oh my board nice it was it was a project that I started primarily just to demonstrate my joinery bench so it's it's kind of stupid because the project itself really wasn't that big of a deal but it you know it just it walks you through everything

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