Current/Future project description

• Tom’s Bandsaw Box
• Building Pinewood Derby
• Chris’ Dollhouse Table

Blog post that piqued our interest

• St. Petersburg Woodworkers Guild
• Matt Kenney at Fine Woodworking: It’s impossible to cheat at woodworking
• Steve Branam hosts Free Woodworking Classes at the New England Home Show (The Furniture Project)
• The Drunken Woodworker David Picciuto

Goings on in the MWA

• Lie-Nielsen at 3rd Ward last weekend
• The Woodworking Show in Western Springfield Massachusetts 1/11/13 - 1/13/13

Main topic

• Megan Fitzpatrick, the new Editor at Popular Woodworking Magazine
• Megan discussed taking the reigns at Popular Woodworking magazine, how she got her twitter handle and the up to the minute info on Woodworking in America.

Next broadcast’s topic

• Scott Meek, of Scott Meek Woodworks, maker of beautiful hand crafted wooden planes.

Where can they find us

• Modern Woodworkers Association
• Twitter
• @MWA_National
• @tomsworkbench
• @highrockww
• @Dyami Plotke
• Google+
• Modern Woodworkers Association
• Chris Atkins
• Tom Iovino
• Dyami Plotke

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In September of 2011 Marc Spagnolo blogged about the plywood boat they made on GardenFork.tv. Entrigued, I watched the GardenFork.tv video and fell in love the idea. How could I say no to making a simple, functional boat out of nothing but plywood, screws, caulking and some very simple carpentry tools?

I couldn’t. So, I decided it would be the perfect family activity for our annual vacation in Lake George the following August.My plan was to pack a tool bag with the smallest tool kit possible. Then, once we were up at Lake George, I would buy the material locally, build the boat, use it in the lake and then scrap it when we were ready to go home.In order to determine the tool kit (I didn’t want to be short a needed tool or schelp unnecessary tools to and from Lake George) I first set about building a mock plywood boat.For the mock boat I used a sheet of ¼” luan plywood and some 1x3 as battens. I used my Makita 6½” 18v Li-Ion saw with a Freud ATB framing blade. I marked line with a chalk line and then cut them by eye. I screwed the whole thing together using Kreg screws so I wouldn’t have to pre-drill anything.

Much of my tool kit (and the boat making materials).

With the mock boat constructed, I packed up my Makita saw, my 12v drill, a chalk line, some clamps, a cheap plastic framing square, my Kreg screws and a handful of other small tools. I had the basic build figured out. It was time to go on vacation and build the actual boat.Before I get too far into my odyssey, heres the video that started me on my choice.

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