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What’s Going On In The Shop
Kyle – Moving into the new apartment. Kitchen cart in white oak and copper pipe. LAMCA trip.
Sean – Stool building is continuing and ahead of schedule. Made a video on improving your clamp handles.
Brian – Roubo build is going strong!
Main Topic – Professionalism vs. Being a Pro.
Listener Questions, Email, and Comments
Guest Questions:
David Gunn – Do you plan out your videos in advance or do you base your videos on your commissions/projects for yourself? What are the pros and cons of planning vs commissioned piece videos? Follow David on Twitter, Instagram, and check out his YouTube channel.
Email/Comments:
What type of respirators do you guys wear?
Steve – I’ve been making a clip board for my wife, she picked out morado and bloodwood at the lumber store. Looks awesome, but the finish is curing. I’m using varathanes polyurethane out of a spray can. Meanwhile the bloodwood dried fine. Any reason why, my though was oil in the wood? Is there a solution if this is the case? Thanks guys!
Steve Dale @grain_creations on Instagram
Correction to the answer: Use Denatured Alcohol in the Bulls Eye Seal Coat Dewaxed Shellac to dilute it, not Mineral Spirits.
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A Woodworking Podcast 
Not sure if this is the right spot to chime into the discussion on the pro woodworker topic, but here’s my 2 cents. I went through this thought process when I was a photographer and I think it applies here. I would classify things in this way – Pro = more than 50% of someone’s income is derived from woodworking (or whatever) – Semi-pro = less than 50% of someone’s income is derived from woodworking.
The biggest challenge on this view is you don’t really include the hobbiest that may sell a bit to cover their woodworking hobby costs. Not sure about that one.
Anyway, great show – quickly becoming one of my favourites.
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