Matt Cremona (@MattCremona) is best known for his woodworking video channel on YouTube. Primarily self-taught, Matt challenges himself to build beautiful furniture, going so far as to cut and prepare the timber, documenting the forest-to-finished-piece process along the way.
Matt’s background is diverse, with previous work in software development, interface design, and economics. Together we discuss wood, carpentry and essential tools, and producing a weekly video show. Check out his videos and some of his work at MattCremona.com
Show Notes & Links
Woodworking with Matt Cremona on YouTube
Matt calls himself a “furniture maker” because he doesn’t focus on pure design
Matt, a former software designer, learned to build and maintain homes by working for his landlord
Unlike most woodworkers, Matt will take a piece from forest to showroom.
Adam Smith wrote about the input of labour into the cost of goods
Matt studied Business Finance and Vertical Integration
“Everything I have that’s useful in my day-to-day life … I taught myself.”
—Matt Cremona
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Autodidact
“Every time [timber] changes hands, the cost doubles.”
—Matt Cremona
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Dovetail Joint & Half-blind Dovetail Joint
Dovetail Joint
Half-Blind Dovetail Joint
Matt’s Shop Update — published every Monday, after four hours of production
Matt learned video editing in the high school A/V club, and returned to the practice years later
Lindsay Katt, quotable past guest on The Busy Creator Podcast
Calculus
“Geometry plays an incredibly large part in what I do.”
—Matt Cremona
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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Is this a Rhombus or a Kite?
Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other electronics
Modding XBOX to build a Linux web server, for example
Prescott aspires to 3D model and print his own steampunk outlet covers
Drywall anchors, tile spacers — can be 3D printed
Drywall anchors, will be 3D printed as needed in the future
The original Metre was just a brass bar with two chinks in it (now it’s the oscillations of a Krypton ion)
The First Metre
A Foot is actually defined by its proportion of a Metre — .3048m exactly
Chroma keying (green screen)
Slabbing up a 6000-lb red oak log
Matt’s Cherry Cabinet project
Selecting the panels for the doors
Matt Cremona on Twitter
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Tools
Milling machines such as jointers, planers
YouTube, for learning just about anything
A second monitor (the best tool for a digital workflow)
Display Fusion, and other Taskbar management apps for dual monitors
Evernote
Adobe Premiere
Stabilization Plugins
Saws – hand saw, circular saw, mitre saw
Techniques
Examine your material costs and where you can save money by producing your own
Hire a guy with a saw mill, rather than try to do that part yourself
Look for trees that have already fallen or been damaged
Publish a weekly update to force yourself to do something each week
Fight to have everything square from the start
Keep an old computer in your shop and look at your notes
Shop for used equipment, build your workshop slowly
Arrange your workshop around your workflow; place first-run tools closer to the door
Pick a first project before you choose your first tools
Bring a camera and record events … you never know when you’ll need the footage!
Learn to use the grain of the wood
Habits
Combine power tools with hand tools
Find the time that’s most productive for your (midnight–3:00am for Matt)
Prepare and eat pancakes every day
Answer email and connect via social early in the morning, get it out of the way
Map out “main goals” for each day
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