Rick Waters shares his woodworking experiences, book reviews, tools reviews, and general woodworking opinions.
After 3 years of great times podcasting followed by 6 months of inactivity, I call it quits...for now. ; A special thanks to everyone who made it possible. If I left your name out, well, shame on me.
When I received the package containing the Back to Basics series, I had had a particularly rough day at work. I came home and found it on the kitchen table, and my wife giving me one of those "So, what did you buy for your shop now?" looks. I usually just have to say, these are books from Fox Chapel, and she understands. So that crisis was averted. I was really excited, because I wasn't expecting a new book, or books. I opened the package, pulled out the books and was overjoyed! Then a little ...
Well, it was my birthday this week, so that means it’s also Splintered Board’s birthday. If you’re not following me, the original Splintered Board podcast began at the end of May, in 2008. I was very new to woodworking and was eager to show everyone my progress. I wanted to join the ranks of the Toolmonger podcast – my first ‘manly’ podcast subscription, Tommy MacDonald’s Rough Cut Show – my first woodworking podcast subscription, Marc Spagnuolo’s The Wood Whisperer, and Matt Vanderlist’s Matt...
Hey everybody it's Rick Waters for the Splintered Board Podcast. This 3rd annual Wood Workers' Safety Week was organized by the ubiquitous Marc 'The Wood Whisperer' Spagnuolo. In this episode I want to demonstrate something that MicroJig sent me last Fall. It's their safety tool called the GRR-Ripper. I think the GRR-Ripper is one of the most safety-centric tools on the market today. Now everybody has push sticks or push blocks, but the GRR-Ripper protects your hands and give you a place to gu...
This 3rd annual Wood Workers Safety Week was organized for the community by the ubiquitous Marc ‘The Wood Whisperer’ Spagnuolo. What I want to actually show you all today are the dangers of wearing baggy or loose clothing while operating a table saw. I realized that this would be a great subject while filming the next video that will come out later this week. So, here we have a dummy with a single arm that should be a good representation of a left arm too close to the saw blade while wearing a...
Please excuse my rambling about the New England Home Show. I think I got a total of 16 hours of sleep in the 6 nights leading up to this recording, and I taped this at midnight. Anyway, this is a little description of my trip to Boston.
Tommy MacDonald and Laurie Donnelly announce that WGBH has signed a deal with Tommy for a new woodworking television show!Stay tuned for the details.
Tommy and Justin discuss the very recent announcement that Tommy MacDonald has landed a TV deal with WGBH to become the next television woodworker.
Big news tomorrow, so stay tuned to the podcast feed! Pics from the Home Show - Day 1 New England Home Show 2/25/2010
Finally! I got out a serious episode in 2010. Here are my New Year's Resolutions, and some goals for the podcasts for 2010.
