Modern Woodshop

Posted in Audio | Tagged Chris Schwarz, Hand Tool Warrior, podcast, role model, what's up with that, Woodworking | 7 Comments

7 Responses

1. on September 21, 2008 at 4:11 am | Reply Neil

   Dave………I got exhausted listening to how one becomes a hand tool warrior. Just when I thought the path lead to Adam Cherubini…..you make us aware the costume just won’t work in the sawyers pit.

   Hey……..how about the “Noftz Eye” on the Path of the Contemporary Woodworking Warrier.

   
   
2. on September 21, 2008 at 7:48 am | Reply Dave

   Nah… Adam Cherubini doesn’t meet these criteria… in fact, I think he only meets the first one: “work only with hand tools.” All that means is that he’s a talented woodworker.

   Nobody meets these criteria… that was my point.

   
   
3. on September 22, 2008 at 8:12 pm | Reply Eric

   I have to say, this was a weird episode. All I can figure with your hand tool warrior bit was that you were extremely bitter towards some hand tool collector who just snatched up that mint condition Stanley #71 that you actually wanted to USE in your shop. And now it’s just going to sit on a shelf and in a photo gallery on the web. :^)

   For the most part, though, you were just describing a collector (with the exception of the lumberjack tangent). Hmm, maybe these guys DO consider themsves warriors!

   Oh, and I like the “What’s Up With That” segment, provided you reduce the number of times you say “What’s up with that?” by half. ;^) It’s like the Wood Talk Online drinking game where you have to drink every time Matt says “absolutely” or Marc says “exactly.”

   
   
4. on September 22, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Reply Dave

   @Eric: You don’t like how many times I said “what’s up with that?” What’s up with that?

   The hand tool warrior thing was just meant to be an entertaining combination of stereotypes… no deeper meaning than that. There is a TV commercial playing here in the States right now for a cell phone digital music service. A father and mother are so into all the music they are getting that they dress up in 70s style rock band leotards, etc, and go to pick their son up from school. He is humiliated, and they don’t understand why he’s pretending not to know them. I saw that commercial and starting thinking… what if a woodworker did the same thing? And from that line of thought came a ridiculous list of criteria to be a hand tool warrior.

   So, just trying to give y’all some mindless entertainment while you’re working in your shops. The news and WUWT segments were really the “meat” of the episode.

   Ya never know what you’re gonna get when you listen to an episode of the Modern Woodshop podcast.

   
   
5. on September 23, 2008 at 12:20 am | Reply Eric

   LOL! I didn’t see that last “What’s up with that?” coming. I guess I had it coming for being snarky. :^)

   And hey man, don’t go changin’! Before I listen to one of your podcasts, I don’t know where you’re going to go. During, I don’t know where you’re going. After, I don’t know where I’ve been. But it’s a fun ride and I do it week after week.

   Oh, and nice touch with the “outtakes” at the end.

   
   
6. on October 4, 2008 at 9:18 am | Reply Josh

   Hey Dave,

   Keep up the good work on the podcast. I enjoyed the new “s’up wit dat” segment and my sentiments mirror yours in the premium Stanley tools area. My impression of the LV premium planes has always been that they will be a new line under the Veritas brand, like the line of bevel up planes. On the LV planes page and the first heading is Veritas Family of Planes. I expect that premium planes will just be another category under this heading. I might have missed something though.

   Josh

   
   
7. on November 24, 2008 at 3:27 pm | Reply derek

   one more thing, a hand tool warrior will only use mules or horses to transport all the lumber they fell. No trucks!