Marc Spagnuolo - The Money Whisperer!

Yeah, at least a quarter mil.

Prolly not. His loss. ;)

-- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -- Madeleine L'Engle

$400k, with all the extra work, tile roof, stucco, and cement work.

wrong to me. What do you make of the mess at 10:28 in the video? I see severely cracked boards not fastened to the J-bolt, like they were put together the wrong way. It looks like white wood on the sill plate, not PT (except for the tiny j-bolted sections 9" long.)

-- While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. -- Gilda Radner

Remember he has sponsors. May have a lot to do with why it's set up for filming.

Mike M

------------------------------------------------------------------- He'd need a roll off to handle that junk.

A dumpster just isn't going to cut it.

Lew

Always glad to see someone carry on successfully with a dream.

(While I don't begrudge responding to a call for donations about a year ago, mainly because I suspect a large part of it went to address medical issues with their new born son, it would have been nice to receive a follow-up acknowledgement/thank you of some sort).

That notwithstanding, Marc and Nicole are good, well intentioned folks and it is nice to see them on the road to making a living in this business.

I certainly would not have done it that way, but this is the construction business and nothing is ever picture perfect for any number of reasons, so I don't see any need to denigrate the overall work based on the split end of a tuba four, from too damned many nail gun shots, in a patio post.

Besides, macho, rapid fire, nailgun use apparently goes a long way to making up for a small penis in some cultures.

I suspect that a majority of the equipment is donated. The building could be out of his pocket and or investors pockets. OR his wife's pockets, She is seen often on one of the major TV news networks. She is probably more recognized on TC than he is on his blog.

Did you notice the size of his back yard???? And the forever cinder block fence/wall around the compound???

Marc was apparently mentored heavily by David J. Marks ... while that kind of clout behind you, along with an obvious talent in woodworking and promoting your endeavors in a personable way, won't guarantee success, there can indeed be "riches in niches", providing you get in on the ground floor.

At this point, and IMNSHO, there are just too damn many of these woodworking podcasts, and they are getting more ho hum as a result (and I specifically exclude Brian from that remark as the obvious intelligence he brings to the party sets him apart from the many).

Sill plate is PT and you can't see if there are 4 anchor bolts or not. The splitting is probably quite normal, wet PT wood in Arizona. Non PT studs not making ground contact is pretty common.

I was denigrating the patio -post- construction materials and methods, not the entire job, suh. The j-bolts are holding down an 8" piece of wood, nothing more. That surprised me.

Damnit, coffee everywhere...

-- While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. -- Gilda Radner

There are a lot of so called experts doing their pod casts, hell many of them are on TV. Including the easy to forget his name guy that insisted on calling his SCMS a radial arm saw. Something Johnson IIRC.

Agreed, Bryan brings a different angle, more of a "Shop Notes" type of pod cast vs. a relatively new to wood working person trying to teach.

Learning woodworking from most twenty to mid thirty somethings is like practicing self-taught brain surgery ... good luck with that. ;)

Yea, I'm not a fan, I think his work is just ok.. not great. I used to think David Marks was pretty good when I could catch him. I only saw about 5 or 6 of his episodes.

Mark is just well spoken... but mostly too many words.. not enough talent.

Let's see, someone who is figured out a way of making money doing something he loves to do and that's wrong? (the Money Whisper title to the email). I don't know Marc other then through his podcasts, but he's still around and keeps doing them. Must mean something.

I suspect that the shop was funded through his company and therefore a capital expense.

Everyone thought that Norm used too many large power tools, but people turned in to the show every week. Marc's prowess with furniture building is growing. The neat thing is that he comes across like a regular guy. I saw him in person a couple of weeks ago and he just seemed to be just like one of us.

I wish Marc all the luck. He's understood that the Internet is where it's at. Not TV. In my area, there is no PBS station out of 4, that show "Rough Cut" anymore.

MJ

I never thought of my show that way (Shopnotes), but I can see where you're coming from.

I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them. Less talking - more explanation - more project related shows - shave more often - lose a few pounds...

more project related shows - shave more often - lose a few pounds...

If that's PT, it must be 1/32" deep at most. That entire front left end is WHITE.

I've always replaced boards which did that, and I haven't seen many.

BTW, -wet- PT wood seldom splits, in my experience, but I use screws much more often than a nailgun.

-- While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. -- Gilda Radner

MJ whimpered thusly:

Save that whine for your ceramics class, pink boy. The only thing "that's wrong" is your reading comprehension and the fact you don't know an"email" from a Usenet post.

Let me guess, an Obama voter right?

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