The Shop Stool Podcast

This week we discuss some popular joinery techniques and some pros and cons with how they've evolved.

This week we discuss what's involved in the design phase when dealing with clients

There's always room for improving how you charge for your work, based on your expenses. In this episode we discuss how we go about keeping track of costs and overheads.

There's a few ways of getting your hands on some hardwood, we discuss a few of them.

Daily processes are a part of owning a business and being in the work shop, but some of them aren't always that efficient. In this episode we go through a few that are, and aren't, working for us

There's no better way of improving your YouTube channel than to hear feedback from other people. In this episode we dig into our Youtube channels, and discuss the pros and cons.

It's a tough job managing client expectations, but sometimes managing your own is just as tricky.

As 2017 comes to an end we discuss our goals for 2018. We also take a few questions from social media

Finding (and keeping) your first client is a difficult process. Not only are you trying to convince someone to trust you, but you're also throwing yourself into the unknown. Joey and Jordan give some solid advice to Robin about finding his first client

We discuss some shop skills/techniques we wish we'd known earlier on.

The night before this episode I got an email from Jordan saying he'd had an accident while using his jointer. So the original topic for the episode was put on hold and instead we walked through his experience of losing part of his finger, and used it as a learning exercise.

Here in our corner of the globe, Australia and New Zealand, we have some intense sun. Joey had a customer ask him to fix up an outdoor bench that was beyond repair because of the weather it had been through, so in this episode we discuss how you can keep you outdoor furniture looking good.

In this episode, the first episode of the show, we introduce ourselves and let you know where we fit in.