The Shop Stool Podcast

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). One of the biggest challenges in dealing with clients is managing their expectations. We might be professional craftsman but we do still make mistakes. How the mistake is dealt wit...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We're back from a short break and talking about a table delivery that went bad for Joey. Furniture movers...are you better off delivering a piece yourself? Robin Lewis: https://www...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). 2019 has been a good year for all of us. We go into some of the highs and lows, and what’s coming up for 2020. Robin Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TIGDEkNJzdYCZUKJFtmxQ...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We have the award winning designer, Adam Markowitz on the show! We discuss his strong opinion on the design process, and how important it is for all woodworkers to embrace it. Adam...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This week we discuss the pros and cons of different workbench designs, and what we prefer in them. After that we get into the recent crediting scandal that hit the maker scene, and...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). What happens when you’ve finished an extra long project and you need to switch gears? Taking your head out of an all consuming project and putting it into something else can be a b...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This week we talk about clients changing their minds on projects (or completely missing important details, as Joey found out) at the last minute. When is it ok to say no to a clien...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau Unfortunately we’ve had to bid farewell to Jordan Crawford. Our schedules are no longer lining up and Jordan’s busier now than he’s ever been. We’ve decided to go our seperate ways a...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes) and Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works). This week we talk about steam bending wood. Robin Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TIGDEkNJzdYCZUKJFtmxQ Joey Chalk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwkFVvmhR6JmDgdWkio2kA

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Jordan Crawford (Periodic Furniture Studio) and Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works). This week we discuss which is the better tool to have in the shop, as well as a number of other topics. Robin Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TIGDEkNJzdYCZ...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Jordan Crawford (Periodic Furniture Studio) and Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works). This week Joey has a story about a difficult client and how he dealt with it. If you listened to season 1 you’ll know this as a “Joey story”. Robin Lewis: https://ww...

Welcome to season 2 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Jordan Crawford (Periodic Furniture Studio) and Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works). This week we have Scott Turner from Forme Industrious joining us, to talk about his huge success on YouTube as a steel and wood maker. Scott’s channel: https://www.y...

This week we discuss 2 topics; should you use treated pine in furniture projects? And do you release the tension on your bandsaw between projects? Robin Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TIGDEkNJzdYCZUKJFtmxQ Joey Chalk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwkFVvmhR6JmDgdWkio2kA Jordan Crawford: https://www.youtube.com/user/JWSblog

Nick Pedulla from Pedulla Studios joined us this week. We talked about some of his YouTube videos and how his apprenticeship has shaped his career. Check out Nick’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY-TqIvCTgI2Rxcb7g4AtOg Robin Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TIGDEkNJzdYCZUKJFtmxQ Joey Chalk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwkFVvmhR6JmDgdWkio2kA Jordan Crawford:...

In this episode the boys return for the start of a new season and catch up on what’s been happening in the 10 month break.

We wrap up season one and talk about what's to come

Jordan was at the WA Wood Show over the weekend, here's what happened

There's been talk of late that the YouTube maker scene is slowing down. Let's discuss

This we we discuss options for the Sawstop table saw. Robin's looking at buying a table saw

Last week we had some problems with the recording so we made some changes this week and recapped a little from the previous episode

This week we talk workshop organisation

This week we ended up down a rabbit hole when Joey told us a story about a recent run in with a client.

The final episode about the finishes we use.

This week we continue the chat about finishes and how we use them.

After being asked this question a number of times we decided to dedicate a few episodes to the topic of finishing