Is it the art of haggling or the skill. All we know is that PJ and Tom have it and Tanda may not. PJ has more deals that you can shake a stick at together the maker skills crew designs a great fire pit for Tom... or not.
This week the Maker Skills three are chatting about researching. Tom and PJ both snagged some great deals and Tanda comes clean on her research addiction.
Today we talk about completing projects, but mostly ended up talking about not completing projects. Also, lots of talk about the slip'n slide party that took place this past weekend in up, up ,up state NY.
This week on the Maker Skills Podcast we welcome our first guest, Ben Wilson. The topic is troubleshooting and we visit with Ben to get his take on troubleshooting as well as having him join in on some of the usual segments. Enjoy!
With a topic like Beautification the maker skills gang naturally gravitates to talking about blueberries, astronauts, hooded blankets and chasing turds. PJ scores another locomotive sander, Tom's beautifying has shop furniture and Tanda makes absolutely no mention of leprechauns.
This week's topic is squeezing goo through stencils with screens on top of them. It's more fun than you would think. There are bargain stories, some odd segments and Tom mostly survives so all is well. Give it a listen and let us know what you think over on our Instagram feed @maker.skills
In this episode, the topic is modifying. With an extra week of research Tom and Tanda more than double their usual complete lack of research. You can do the math. PJ does battle with the flakes of FaceBook and old Oswald drops in to answer some listener questions, although he also drops out a few times.
Inventing? Yes, this crew invents stuff on just about every episode. In this episode they talk about it. Sort of meta. PJ sells off a truckload of hand tools, no really, literally a truck load of hand tools and buys some new goodies as well. Big news, Tom DID NOT by another giant machine this week. I'm pretty sure Tanda retells an old story and gets away with it, while Tom and PJ both get flagged for re-using old material.
This week Maker Skills is sticking with the basics. Yep sticking things together is a pretty basic skill and rates a whopping "1" on the maker skill level scale when adjusted for inflation. Should a bandsaw be called a bandsaw, comes up in a new segment about naming things and welding can always be sneaked in under the sticking category. Enjoy!
Flipping tools, flipping people, flipping the bird, you name it this flippin' episode is about "flipping". The intent of course was to talk about buying and and then selling tools in a short period of time. However, the maker skills threesome is easily sidetracked. PJ has finished up a beautiful pinstriped vise, sure to please those with art deco vise vices. Tom has acquired an amazing table saw, yet seems more jazzed about a battery operated die grinder and Tanda questions whether flipping in y...
This week PJ hits a huge one stop shop of bargains, including a literal bargain basement. Tanda has purchased a turn of century Witte 2HP hit and miss engine and Tom is convinced she was alive when it was made. The maker skills crew doesn't really know much about rigging but, Hey! if it comes up in the random draw they will happily talk about it. Could you improve on a pirate ship design and make yourself useful?
Most makers are in a constant state of learning. In this episode the Maker Skills crew are talking about just that! The floodgates that were hold back all the bargains have opened up for PJ and Tom... Tom.. are you there? Tom had someone come to pick up a 6000lb Bridgeport with an itty bitty trailer and they were still taking things apart and wrangling it as we recorded the podcast. You had to be there. but you can listen in.
This week on the Maker Skills Podcast, PJ, Tom and Tanda strike a balance between something and something else. Tanda attempts to under-research Tom, Deals are found and the meaning of life and shop balance is well it's.. um, and Old Oswald pops in to answer some listener questions.
After being banned from using "Design" as a skill that pairs well with any other design, we have a whole episode on design. Okay Okay, if you are familiar with the podcast you will know it's just a jumping off point. The deals keep coming for Tom and PJ has wrapped his epic abstract drill press artwork. He's also added a nuclear launch switch to drill press. Tanda, being a math and science fan, is keeping the launch codes from him.
PJ has one heck of a bargain hunting adventure, Tom finds some deals as well. Tanda, well, Tanda thought the episode was on peep hole skills so she's still looking out the little hole in the door for the FedEx guy to arrive with her latest deal.
Is cleaning a maker skill? Are these topics drawn from a hat? What does the hat look like? If you're thinking, "I bet I could make a really cool maker skill hat to draw topics out of", your in the right place, welcome! Yes making the skill hat out of metal is fine as well as silk, epoxy, wood or twine. Tom's snatching up so many of the good deals PJ has resorted to "absolutely free" deals just to one up him.
In this episode your hosts will be drawing on their knowledge of, well drawing. There is talk of spirographs, lucid dreaming, bargain machine tools, and flying monkeys. Wait, one of those may have just been a dream but I'm pretty sure the Maker Skills hosts touched on all of the others. You'll just have to listen.
The bargain hunting slump is ending, and what can't be found on the bargain hunting trail can be 3D printed! PJ joins the 3D printing revolution, and he also looses a bet with Memphis which means Memphis gets to pop it an run amuck on the show for a bit.
In this episode our yammering is about hammering. Tom has quite the bargain retrieving adventure story and Old Oswald checks in again to answer some listener questions. There's a "now for some nonsense" segment that lives up to its name as Tanda decides that PJ is definitely right or Tom is definitely right. As always, seriousness is pretty much out the window.
Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute... wait a minute Tom did you really write this into the script. This week's topic is storytelling and how it relates to making.
This week the topic is sewing. What credentials do the Maker Skills hosts have to talk about sewing? Well a couple of them sewed something once and we're calling that good enough! Tom lets it slip that he actually scripts every detail of the entire podcast. This may or may not be true, but it's what he told us to write in this description. The episode is rounded out by an invention segment which results in a clever use of... well a popular search engine and a popular online store to just buy it....
Can the Maker Skills bunch pivot? Oh yes they can! The history and fun facts section is thin on both, a parenting discussion breaks out, there's singing and stories of picking at the dump, Edna takes to reading the fine print on a Johnson's product against legal advice, and it's a wonder we all survived the fire tornado, clams and refried beans in Yosemite. All that being said, I'm realizing it's a pretty typical episode.
This week’s skill is casting and, as always here on the Maker Skills Podcast, our hosts have a lot of information to share. In some way or another a little bit of that information may or may not be related to casting.
As always Tom and Tanda are 100% prepared with their homework assignments and ready to give a detailed history and interesting facts about carving... We hold this out as proof that alternate realities exist. Okay that may not be entirely accurate for the current reality. Lot's of listener feedback in this episode. Thank you!! and enjoy.
The idea of electrons whizzing about got the Maker Skills bunch really charged up. In fact, they got so carried away that this episode came in well over the usual time. If you're confused about the magic of electricity, and love peanut butter, after listening to this episode you will most certainly still love peanut butter.
Wait, aren't all woodworkers just repurposing trees? This week's show is about repurposing. There's a new segment, where the maker skills bunch brainstorm a new tool, and maybe just maybe we will trick someone into knocking off the idea so we can buy one super cheap.
Sanding is this week's skill topic. If you haven't already guessed, it's a skill class 40 grit. No one is quite sure where that falls on the dial of the maker-skill-o-meter. PJ's patience pays off on a deal he's been stocking for a while. Tom is still trying to figure out the podcast sidebar controls. Argh! those counterfeit knock-offs of maker products. Oh, and now for some postal service nonsense.
Prototyping is the topic of the week and the Maker Skills Three mostly manage to stay on topic. Yes, we were shocked too. It makes for a good jumping off point for some personal stories related to prototyping and of course the usual bits and improvisational segments are there in the mix as always. Enjoy!
This week the the maker skills topic is teaching. As they say, those who can do, and those who can do and teach are called makers!... Some great deals are ferreted out, Oswald drops in to answer some listener questions and the Maker Skills Podcast premier sponsor, Johnson's Hardware, has a new section just for teachers.
Leather working has been around for almost as long as they've been making animals out of leather. This week on Maker Skills the gang talks leather work, helping move things, some great bargain finds, and it's possible a battery powered, snot freezing, imitation mustache, is invented.
