MWA Podcast 35 Bob Lang

MWA Podcast Episode 35 - Robert Lang (58:16)

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Date: July 20, 2013

By: Chris Adkins, Dyami Plotke, Tom Iovino

Description: Join us in this episode as we talk to Robert Lang of Popular Woodworking Magazine. To find out more about Bob or the Modern Woodworkers Association visit http://modernwoodworkersassociation.com

Show Notes:

• What’s in the shop?
• Chris
• sitting on his butt & playing with his Uncle
• Dyami
• Kick Ass Week
• Electric
• Floor
• AC
• Jointer
• Tom
• Removed the router table from his table saw and re-installed his factory made cast iron wing

• Blog post that piqued our interest
• Justin Leib
• http://halfblindwoodworker.blogspot.com/
• FORP
• French Oak Roubo Project
• For more on FORP
• Jeff Miller’s blog
• http://furnituremaking.com/wordpress/

• Goings on in the MWA
• Going to FWW Live
• Going to WIA
• No definite MWA plans yet, but there will be

• Main topic
• Bob Lang
• Sketchup allows users draw the way they woodwork
• The 21st Century Bench has proven useful, because it’s designed to accommodate the way Bob works. Bench’s should always accommodate they way you work, not just make you a cool kid.
• Classic Arts and Crafts Furniture
• has a collection of arts and crafts furniture articles from Popular Woodworking with expanded text and bigger photos.
• Re-release of Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture
• Now, with no printing errors
• Hunter’s Computer Desk
• Wiggles a bit, but has held up very well for college
• Rasps
• Bob has learned that the price point for hand cut rasps though high is worth it.
• 5 Questions
• how did you get into woodworking?
• building speak cabinets for bands & fixing wooden boats
• whats your favorite tool?
• Stanley 5 1/4 Jr Jack Plane
• who has influenced you the most?
• Fine Woodworking from the 70’s
• Jim Ipekjian
• Dale Barnard
• What was your biggest stumbling block & could it have been avoided?
• overanalyze
• At about 30, Bob figured out that it just wasn’t too hard. It just required that you get to work and do it.
• How has the internet influenced your work?
• Helped him get his gig at Popular Woodworking
• Has tons of good stuff, which should rise to the top, but there is tons of bad info too.
• Has allowed him to run his business in plans

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