Splinters N' Stuff Podcast

Alex Johnson joins Luke and Anthony to help Luke unpack a particularly difficult month and offer some perspective on how the #GRINDSET can affect home life and ways to make sure you secure the bag at home. 

Anthony and Luke welcomed guests Tony and Tyler from TNT Industries (https://www.madeatthefarm.com/     @tnt_industries_llc) to talk all things shop, customer deposits, niche markets, specialty finishes WITH LASER BEAMS, and just all around a good time. These guys are up to some exciting things!

Jordan and Melissa from www.momentumpropertysolution.com talk IN DEPTH about creative ways to get into the real estate game. Don't worry, we relate some of it back to wood working. Lots to learn here!

Anthony and Luke lament about the distances they have to drive to buy parts for their toys, while solving the ever present issue of lead time questions with clients, and finding the good in a bad situation. 

Anthony and Luke bring guest David Oberle, Entrepreneur and co-owner of Acropolis Security, to talk about business startups, similarities between their different mediums, and self actualization through entrepreneurship. 

Luke and Anthony go over some listener questions and talk about recent wins and losses, and how they've been spending their money.

Anthony and Luke get together to talk about how to be a good stewart to tenants as a landlord and Anthony's background as a comedic performer (hard ot believe, we get it) 

Luke and Anthony talk about preference in undwear and then have a long chat about all the stuff you need to know about buying an investment property. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, but a good intro to help you figure out questions you need answers to. 

Anthony and Luke get caught up after a short separation and talk about Anthony's recent run in with the law in Mexico, Wood and Plane's biggest client yet, the fun of language learning, and how to gracefully work through issues with customer expectations. 

With Anthony following Luke's lead, and vacationing in Mexico, Luke was joined by Patrick Bilazzo aka @pinebarrenpalletworks, and Carlina Sacco aka @sawdustgypsy. Without Anthony there to keep the conversation somewhat relevant, this one is filled with random rabbit trails, and went way over time. Patrick and Carlina are awesome folks with an awesome operation, and are just a blast to be arou...

Old friends Luke and Jonathan (@blacklabeldesign.co) get together with Anthony to catch up and talk about how their life paths seemed to have converged over time. Jonathan runs a Set/Production design/fabrication shop in the Atlanta area. The guys talk about the challenges of scale and managing client expecations. 

Anthony and Luke catch up after a long separation (two weeks is a long time!), talk about Luke's bday trip to Mexico, and a fun time stuck in Chicago. For the Splinters seciton of the podcast, the guys talk about how to manage clients' expectations for doing your best work within the scope of the project!

Luke and Anthony reach out to the listeners to say thanks (we love you and your feedback, give us more!) and with Luke's upcoming THREE O birthday, the guys relive some of the glory days, stick around for Anthony's surefire way to beat your opponent in a beer shotgun. 

Anthony and Luke have a pretty existential discussion with Michael Williams (@CalaveraToolWorks). They cover the true enlightenment found in control of ones time through business ownership, life balance, and keeping in mind what really matters.  

Anthony and Luke had fun bringing Trevor Bergk (@bergksmetalworks) on the show, and covering topics form rare materials in custom jewelery fabrication like Fordite and Meteorites, and found that there were a lot of similarities in their journies to becoming a maker!

The guys actually talk shop pretty much the whole time. They focus on new ventures into commercial development subcontracting and how to handle the inevitable flaws in your work. 

Jess, a multi-faceted maker out of the chicago area, known online as @TheLivingTimberCo joins Luke and Anthony for a chat about her work, her journey, and Menards. She has a lot of projects in the pipeline so be sure to give her a follow and stay tuned! 

Wow, this one got deep. Normally this is written in the third person, but this is straight from the heart on this one. We honestly didn't know what we were going to talk about when we got together at Luke's shop for this recording, and it seems like magic happened. We dove into perspective of self, inspiration, growth, mindfulness, goals, privelege, confidence, balance and more. We hones...

The guys bring on local celeb Huy Huynh (@Alabamawoodworker) to the podcast, and he turns the tables on us. Turns out we were all excited to meet each other. The guys talk about their similar backgrounds in engineering and what's led them to woodworking, the journey to self employment, pricing structure, how to price projects for friends and family, and chairs! Definitely need to bring Hyu ba...

Luke and Anthony welcome special guest for the first official Splinters and Stuff Maker Hang episode! Lizzy is a scroll saw wizard (@thehouseoftimber) who specializes in custom commercial signage and is passionate about sharing her knowledge with other aspiring scrollists? scrollers? scrollologists? She talks about her unique entry into this niche, her approach to marketing, making time to develop...

The guys talk about what's going on in the shop, answer some would you rather questions from the audience, and then Luke accidentally let Anthony keep talking about siege warfare.  SIEGE!! 

Anthony and Luke almost make it through a full episode without taking a hard left turn, the guys discuss shop updates, the less glamorous side of running a good business, and accidentally take a turn into the american political system (Anthony will fix it, so it's all good). 

Anthony and Luke talk about project delays and cancellations and lessons learned from some recently finished projects.

Anthony and Luke talk about what they've got going on in the shop, in case you thought they weren't actually building anything lately. The episode takes a hard turn into tool tips and tricks for the second half (shout out to all the Milwuakee guys and gals) with a fun celeb encounter story at the end. You might actually like it.