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.

All right, it's Wood Talk Number 259 for July 17, 2015.

It's a weekend edition of Wood Talk, and we don't have a single topic today.

We actually have a little bit of a hodgepodge,

a couple different questions,

and I think once in a while we'll do that

just to help clear out the email bag

and keep the topics moving.

And sometimes, you know, the topics,

it's a single question, but it's not big enough

for us to even spend a single topic episode on,

but we'd like to answer those questions.

So we've got four of them here for you today, so we'll just kind of take them one at a time, work through it.

And we'll do the first one here from Chris. He asks,

I would like to hear how woodworking has influenced your daily lives outside of the shop?

It's a very interesting question.

Hmm, yeah, that's one of those that I'm sure I do a lot of things and I just don't realize it.

It must work its way into the way we look at a lot of things and I just don't realize it.

It must work its way into the way we look at things,

the way we do things, and the way we interact with things.

I know for me, when I look at furniture or woodwork,

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