Maker Skills

Rigging

This week PJ hits a huge one stop shop of bargains, including a literal bargain basement. Tanda has purchased a turn of century Witte 2HP hit and miss engine and Tom is convinced she was alive when it was made. The maker skills crew doesn't really know much about rigging but, Hey! if it comes up in the random draw they will happily talk about it. Could you improve on a pirate ship design and make yourself useful? 

Learning

Most makers are in a constant state of learning. In this episode the Maker Skills crew are talking about just that! The floodgates that were hold back all the bargains have opened up for PJ and Tom... Tom.. are you there? Tom had someone come to pick up a 6000lb Bridgeport with an itty bitty trailer and they were still taking things apart and wrangling it as we recorded the podcast. You had to be there. but you can listen in.

Balancing

This week on the Maker Skills Podcast,  PJ, Tom and Tanda strike a balance between something and something else. Tanda attempts to under-research Tom, Deals are found and the meaning of life and shop balance is well it's.. um, and Old Oswald pops in to answer some listener questions. 

Design

After being banned from using "Design" as a skill that pairs well with any other design, we have a whole episode on design. Okay Okay, if you are familiar with the podcast you will know it's just a jumping off point. The deals keep coming for Tom and PJ has wrapped his epic abstract drill press artwork. He's also added a nuclear launch switch to drill press. Tanda, being a math and science fan, is keeping the launch codes from him.  

People Skills

PJ has one heck of a bargain hunting adventure, Tom finds some deals as well. Tanda, well, Tanda thought the episode was on peep hole skills so she's still looking out the little hole in the door for the FedEx guy to arrive with her latest deal. 

Cleaning

Is cleaning a maker skill? Are these topics drawn from a hat? What does the hat look like? If you're thinking, "I bet I could make a really cool maker skill hat to draw topics out of", your in the right place, welcome! Yes making the skill hat out of metal is fine as well as silk, epoxy, wood or twine. Tom's snatching up so many of the good deals PJ has resorted to "absolutely free" deals just to one up him. 

Drawing

In this episode your hosts will be drawing on their knowledge of, well drawing. There is talk of spirographs, lucid dreaming, bargain machine tools, and flying monkeys. Wait, one of those may have just been a dream but I'm pretty sure the Maker Skills hosts touched on all of the others. You'll just have to listen. 

3D Printing

The bargain hunting slump is ending, and what can't be found on the bargain hunting trail can be 3D printed! PJ joins the 3D printing revolution, and he also looses a bet with Memphis which means Memphis gets to pop it an run amuck on the show for a bit. 

Hammering

In this episode our yammering is about hammering. Tom has quite the bargain retrieving adventure story and Old Oswald checks in again to answer some listener questions. There's a "now for some nonsense" segment that lives up to its name as Tanda decides that PJ is definitely right or Tom is definitely right. As always, seriousness is pretty much out the window.

Storytelling

Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute... wait a minute Tom did you really write this into the script. This week's topic is storytelling and how it relates to making.