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Splinters with Gary Rogowski

by Northwest Woodworking Studio

This podcast series is a look at furniture building from a veteran maker, designer, and author. The episodes are practical, philosophic, witty, and irreverent. Gary was a former contributing editor at Fine Woodworking Magazine, and founded The Northwest Woodworking Studio, A School for Woodworkers, in Portland, Oregon in 1997. He has no illusions about the value of this work in today’s culture of fast and furious and disposable. Making art, building furniture, is work that is useless and beautiful, and necessary for those who produce it. Creativity feeds the soul like nothing else can.

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Episodes

  1. Q&A with Gary and Ashley

  2. Education Works!

  3. My First Shop Reconsidered

  4. The Tool Wall

  5. Thanks

    Practice at the bench to give thanks.

  6. Q&A #4

  7. Why Bother?

  8. My First Student

    https://northwestwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/My-First-Student.mp3

  9. Furniture Design: On Chairs

  10. April’s Gluing Fool

  11. Furniture Design

  12. The Chair: Considered

  13. Q&A #3

  14. Q&A #2

  15. Setting Up Shop

  16. Q&A on Woodworking

  17. Nuts and Bolts and Screws

  18. I Get It

  19. To Be Seen

  20. Teaching Styles

  21. Flow in the Shop

  22. Lyricism

  23. Precision

  24. Creativity: Hustlers, Fakers, & Thieves

  25. Cutting on the Wrong Side of the Line

  26. Reading the Fish

  27. Musing on Mastery

  28. Creativity and You, the Student of It

    A conversation with Matthew Lynch, OMP graduate, Part One. Matt and Gary talk about the two year program and its challenges and rewards.

  29. Addled

  30. Dead Bird

  31. My First Shop

  32. Setting Up Shop

  33. Flow

  34. What Happened?

  35. Open That Door

  36. Counting the Rocks

  37. What If?

  38. Rock Climbing and the Online Mastery Program

  39. Pay Attention

  40. Bird Brain

  41. Footsteps

  42. Dead Weight

  43. Borrowing My Chisel

  44. At the Bench

    https://northwestwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/At-the-Bench.mp3

  45. Question Your Assumptions

  46. Why Do This Work?

  47. Gargantua

  48. Which Wood, Why, reprise

  49. Change

    I hate change. I love change.

  50. The Problem at the Bench As Well

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This podcast series is a look at furniture building from a veteran maker, designer, and author. The episodes are practical, philosophic, witty, and irreverent. Gary was a former contributing editor at Fine Woodworking Magazine, and founded The Northwest Woodworking Studio, A School for Woodworkers, in Portland, Oregon in 1997. He has no illusions about the value of this work in today’s culture of fast and furious and disposable. Making art, building furniture, is work that is useless and beautiful, and necessary for those who produce it. Creativity feeds the soul like nothing else can.

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Northwest Woodworking Studio

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This podcast series is a look at furniture building from a veteran maker, designer, and author. The episodes are practical, philosophic, witty, and irreverent. Gary was a former contributing editor at Fine Woodworking Magazine, and founded The Northwest Woodworking Studio, A School for Woodworkers,...

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