Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Joey had an unexpected call back this week, but it might’ve been unwarranted… If you would like to donate to the show you can find…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Some good updates from the boys; Bryan’s shed is getting close to completion, Robin takes on his first vanity build, and Joey’s go…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We might have a NEW new theme song. If you would like to donate to the show you can find out more here. Robin Lewis: https://www.i…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We might have a new theme song. If you would like to donate to the show you can find out more here. Robin Lewis: https://www.insta…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Nathan has been building beautiful furniture for the last 10 years and in this episode he goes through his story from using pallet…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Clients often spend a lot of time going back and forth with you either refining a design, or just trying to feel confident that yo…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Joey gets a little heated about a recent visit from his insurer, they’re cracking down on work from home furniture makers. If you …

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We get into the networking topic we mentioned last week, enjoy. If you would like to donate to the show you can find out more here…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). In this episode we catch up after a few weeks of guests. Joey’s power went out and Bryan’s headphones wouldn’t connect, all before…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Jon Goulder is a leading figure in both design and craft in the Adelaide region. We were lucky enough to talk to him about his his…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Our first guest of the season is Dan Barker from Bricolage Studio. He shares his story and the boys get into detail on one of his …

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Robin goes into detail on an issue with a product he sold, that broke while the client was using it. No one was hurt but it raised…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). In Australia it’s the big green and red, but all around the world you find massive big box stores that suck up competition while o…

Welcome to season 6 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re back for season 6 and we’ve got to get through some major updates! If you would like to donate to the show you can find out …

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re done for season 5. Here’s a look back, and what we’re looking forward to in 2024. If you would like to donate to the show yo…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re talking to another prize winner this week. This time it’s the coveted Clarence Prize and this year it was taken by Patrick A…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Joey’s through the worst of it with new work coming in. Robin also talks about an end grain cutting board with dowels covering up …

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Everyone has their ups and downs in business but what happens when the down go on longer than expected. If you would like to donat…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Jess Humpston has had a meteoric rise to fame in her career after winning the Wood Review Maker of the Year award for “Ch-air”. In…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Look, a woodworkers gotta do what a woodworkers gotta do. And Robin’s had zero sales on Celery Top Shop so the guys chip in for so…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Phil Morley is known around the world for his incredible furniture. His story takes him from London to Texas and it was a wild rid…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Joey’s decided to open up his work shop to students so we discuss how, and what to teach. If you would like to donate to the show …

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). April Wilkerson is a household name at this point. Part of that success should be credited to her amazing work ethic, and in this …

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This episode Robin runs through his new jointer and thicknesser, and we talk about the logging ban that’s recently back in the new…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We all got to hang out with Patrick at Wood Dust 23 and really enjoyed his approach to woodworking. In this episode we talk about …

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re back from Wood Dust 23 and it was an epic experience. We hosted a woodworking event, alongside Jimmy Diresta, April Wilkerso…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Matt’s all the way over in the UK but he got up early to join us on the show and talk about what makes him tick. He’s been through…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Jimmy Diresta. We got him on the show. Enough said right? We got an hour with the legend himself to talk about his upcoming trip t…

Welcome to season 5 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re back for season 5 and have some exciting news! If you would like to donate to the show you can find out more here. Robin Lew…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). That’s a wrap for season 4, and what a year it’s been. This is the audio from an Instagram livestream we did as our going away eve…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). In this episode we’re joined by Paul O’Brien from Modet, a contemporary furniture designer and maker out of Ireland. He walks us t…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). It's our 100th episode! Bryan’s off this week spending some time with Zola. A huge congratulations to him and Lani and the birth o…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Vivienne was an intern in Bryan’s workshop not long ago and she joins us to talk through what that was like, and the importance of…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re back after a logistical break, just in time to talk about Joey’s new shed. Also, a question for the listeners… If you would …

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Nick joins us again after talking to us 3 years ago. His creative journey has rocketed forward in that time and we discuss one of …

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). As a woodworker it’s easy to constantly compare yourself to everyone else. But at what point do you get past that? Or is it even p…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Nick Atkins is a 3rd generation boat builder out of Melbourne. His love of modern technology in a traditionally hands on field has…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). James Howe is renowned furniture maker from South Australia. He joins us to share his journey, and go through the process of becom…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This episode we have a very special guest, one very close to Brian’s heart. Lani, Brian’s wife, is a creative marketer and she’s o…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This week Robin has the opportunity to quote on a built in book shelf. With the help of the boys they go through some of the chall…

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). It’s time for our first guest of the season, Julian McCartney from Glencross Furniture. He’s got a strong background in furniture …

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We made it through episode 1 and we made it back for another. We’re talking supply chain, knock affects, and how it all costs too …

Welcome to season 4 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’re going unfiltered this season with our first show of season 4 being very unscripted. We used this episode to catch up on wher…

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). We’ve made it to the end of 2021, and the end of season 3. We’ll be taking a few months off from the show, returning next year, bu…

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). This week we talk to a long time listener of the show, Leeroy Reading, from Big Rock Timberworks. He’s out on the Northern Beaches…

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). It’s been a few weeks since our last episode, Robin’s been unwell and the clocks changed for Bryan and Joey. But we’re back again …

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). In a Shop Stool Podcast first, we talked to a kiwi woodworker this week! Jem Culpitt started his woodworking career as a hobbyist …

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). It’s been months but Robin finally published a new video. We also have a new way of supporting the show, inspired by a very genero…

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Tonight we’re joined by Ross Williamson, from the north west of Brisbane. He’s a woodworker that, after some indecision in directi…

Welcome to season 3 of The Shop Stool Podcast, a podcast for woodworkers and the maker community in general. Hosted by Robin Lewis (RobinLewisMakes), Joey Chalk (King Post Timber Works), and Bryan Cush (Sawdust Bureau). Tom Morton, from Bootleg Studios, joins us on the show to walk us through how he makes his unique cold bent steel furniture. It ha…