Tool Talk Podcast
A podcast from the folks at Toolmonger.com. Chuck and Shawn like to talk about tools, tools, and guess what else? MORE TOOLS!
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Tool Talk #44: Shop Rules
November 14, 2008
Join us as we run down this week’s top five, wonder how GM’s fate will affect Toolmongers in need of trucks, and discuss Sean’s shop rules. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk #43: NASCAR and Shop Truck Update
November 8, 2008
Join us as we run down this week’s top five, take some time to update you on our cheap-ass shop truck trials and tribulations, and relate our recent NASCAR experience. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk #42: Cheap Shop Truck Build and GM’s Hybrid Pickups
August 15, 2008
Join us as we run down this week’s top five, take some time to run down what we’ve accomplished so far with TM’s budget shop truck, and tell you a bit about our recent experience with GM’s new-next-year hybrid pickup. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk #41: Trucks and Grills
June 8, 2008
Join us as we run down this week’s top five, take some time to rant about the cost of fuel’s affect on working people, and offer some insight into an upcoming Toolmonger feature: five grills to help you (re)kindle the flame this summer. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #40
May 16, 2008
Join us as we run down this week’s top five, plus give you a peek into our testing this week — specifically Husky’s 5-in-1 drywall tool, Stanley’s new FatMax levels, and Paslode’s CF-325 cordless framing nailer. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #39
May 13, 2008
In part two of this week’s Tool Talk double-feature we run down this week’s top five tools, walk you through building your own giant plywood dinosaur, and review Skil’s handy 6.0 amp corded jigsaw. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #38
May 13, 2008
In our haste to build a giant dinosaur we forgot to put out podcast #38. So join us as we run down of the top five tools — from a few weeks ago — track down some answers for a caller who wants to know why pneumatic nailers feature different nail angles, and shoot the bull with our friend Mr. Jalopy who tells us about a Japanese tool magazine that visited his shop. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #37
April 11, 2008
Join Chuck and Sean for a run down of the top five tools this week, a first-hand look into this week’s Toolmonger hands-on posts, and our take on the very popular Leatherman Skeletool. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #36
April 7, 2008
Join Chuck and Sean for a run down of the top five tools this week, and hear Sean’s treatise on setting up a garage sharpening station to start caring for your own knives. Sean also brings us up to speed on the first season of Ax Men. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #35
April 1, 2008
It’s top five time again with Chuck and Sean, plus a discussion of Darwin award moments and notes on the construction of a sweet new (and inexpensive) desk. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #33
February 28, 2008
Join Chuck and Sean for a waltz through this week’s top five, plus a fun discussion of tools you need (even if you don’t want ‘em) and when to stay and when to go in a woodworking project. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #32
February 28, 2008
Guess what? We recorded Tool Talk Podcast #32 a week ago and totally forgot to distribute it. So you get two this week. First up, #32. Besides the top five, we discuss the new History Channel show Ax Men. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #31
February 12, 2008
Join us as we run down the top five as selected by Toolmonger readers. We’re also joined by our friend Mike Haney from Popular Science who calls to discuss his small wood shop predicament. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #30
February 1, 2008
Welcome back to Tool Talk! This week Sean and Chuck run down the top five as selected by Toolmonger readers, discuss the upcoming Sears/Craftsman split, and tell some great shop stories. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #29
November 9, 2007
Besides this week’s incredible top five as selected by Toolmonger readers, we’re joined by Nick Engler, a Shopsmith trainer, who tells us why we should all join the Shopsmith brigade. Highlights: we discuss woodworking tools and projects, cover a device perfect for blowing up rocks and concrete, and argue for and against the all-in-one tool concept. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #28
October 29, 2007
This week Sean and I make an impassioned plea for you to try welding, talk reel vs. electric vs. gas mowers, and, as always, run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers. Highlights: we discuss the zillions of small flux-core welders available inexpensively, question the cost of building with aluminum or other high-buck materials as compared to steel, reminisce about pushing reel mowers as kids, and talk tools, tools, tools. Remember, if you’ve got a question or...
Tool Talk Podcast #27
October 25, 2007
Join Sean and me for this week’s special break s#!$ edition of Tool Talk. As always, we also run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, taking some time at the end to call out a few posts we thought deserved attention, but we’re also joined by Mike Marusiak, Stanley’s global product manager for hammers and demolition. Highlights: we dish on all the stuff we broke at Maker Faire Austin last weekend to kick off Toolmonger’s Break S#!$ Week,...
Tool Talk Podcast #25
September 17, 2007
Join Sean and me as we discuss Sean’s new table project — and all the cool projects readers posted over the weekend in the Flickr pool. As always, we also run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, taking some time at the end to call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we comment on how when you’re building bookcases everything looks like a book, stand in awe at Toolmonger’s first (and thankfully short) political discussion,...
Tool Talk Podcast #24
September 10, 2007
Join Sean and me as we wrap up Toolmonger’s glove week and pass on some behind-the-scenes secrets about our glove testing. As always, we also run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, taking some time at the end to call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we reveal some of our testing procedures and personal feelings about various gloves, cover what’s probably one of the sweetest week’s tool-wise on TM in recent history,...
Tool Talk Podcast #23
September 3, 2007
Join Sean and me as we wrap up Toolmonger’s hands-on week and discuss everything we learned from the experience. And, as always, we run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, taking some time at the end to call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we talk Dremel (both large and small), introduce some new TM contributors, and explore Sean’s love of all vehicles treaded. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you...
Tool Talk Podcast #22
August 28, 2007
This week we talk woodworking, delving into a low-cost bookcase Sean is building. For far under $200, he’s put together a nice plan that’s easy to build without mounted power tools. And, as always, we run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, taking some time at the end to call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we talk about all the tools required to build the bookcase, discuss easy hand-wipe oil stains, relate seat-belt-cutting...
Tool Talk Podcast #21
August 20, 2007
We’re joined by John Piccone, inventor of the AutoWrench, who shares the story behind of how this popular tool started life and eventually made its way to Black & Decker — and under Christmas trees everywhere. As always, we run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers, and call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we discuss welded vs. braised saw teeth, talk about DeWalt’s new not-Oxford Oxford work boots, and thank...
Tool Talk Podcast #20
August 13, 2007
This week Sean and I rant about about tool-guy tall-tales, plus we run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers. As always we also call out a few posts we thought deserved attention. Highlights: we discuss woodworking sans-table saw, talk welding sans-TIG, get the low-down on the high limb tree saw, wish we lived closer to RI’s Steel Yard or the Bay Area’s Crucible, and lament the smell of a big-ass pile of cedar. Remember, if you’ve got a question...
Tool Talk Podcast #19
July 30, 2007
This week Sean and I run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers — and call out a few posts we thought deserved attention as well. Highlights: we answer a question about painting chrome exhaust pipes, discuss foam-core modelling, talk Swiss Army knives, and reveal Sean’s track obsession. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #18
July 24, 2007
Join Sean and me as we update you on what’s happening in the TM shop and run down the week’s top five posts as selected by Toolmonger readers. Highlights: we discuss the ins and outs of fiberglass interior work as we near completion on our first ‘glass project, discuss the joys of an unlimited hot water supply, and dish on some childhood indiscretions we probably should have kept to ourselves. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403....
Tool Talk Podcast #17
July 9, 2007
Join me and Sean as we discuss woodworking shop layout issues and some sweet veneer finds, run down this week’s top five tools as selected by Toolmonger readers, give you the low-down on the mini-feud with The Hardware Aisle, and tell you all about our “little black books.” Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #16
July 2, 2007
Join me and Sean as we update you on what’s going on right now in the Toolmonger shop — thanks for the called-in tips! – run down this week’s top five tools as selected by Toolmonger readers, and bitch about Case’s new “vault program.” Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
Tool Talk Podcast #15
June 26, 2007
Sean and I offer a follow up on this week’s stereo installation tips, discuss this week’s very heated Hot or Not regarding short-bed trucks, dish on the best deals to be found at Home Depot, and, of course, run down this week’s top five tools as selected by Toolmonger readers. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download) Read More →
