Podcasts by Cut the Craft
Have you ever looked at potters smiling from their booth at the farmers’ market and wondered: “what’s their deal?” Have you ever considered whose hands are behind the wooden chair you're sitting on? How about those fancy kitchen knives you admire?
Cut the Craft is a podcast that brings stories of handcraft and its makers to you. Perhaps you are a craftsperson looking for a fresh perspective, or a newcomer to handmade things; no matter your starting point, your hosts Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler are here to cut the craft.
Further podcasts by Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler
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Episode 015: Cassie Dickson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded September 17, 2020. Weaver, spinner, and natural dyer Cassie Dickson guides us through her vast experience with fibers and textiles. Cassie mostly works with flax linen; growing, processin...
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Side Projects: The Workmanship of Risk and the Workmanship of Certainty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded November 2, 2020. This Side Project starts with monthly announcements from John C. Campbell Folk School and North House Folk School. Amy then reads Chapter 2: The Workmanship of Risk and w...
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Episode 014: Aimee Lee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded September 12, 2020. Aimee Lee weaves many aspects into being a craftsperson: she’s an artist, writer, and papermaker. In this episode, she highlights important terms like hanji (Korean pap...
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Episode 013: Seth Gould from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded on September 3, 2020. In this episode, metalsmith Seth Gould hammers out the nuances of metalworking. Seth forges and hand-files his work rather than sanding it, and is intrigued by the id...
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Side Projects: A Sense of Place from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded October 10, 2020. For Side Projects 3, Brien finally convinces Amy to share her article "A Sense of Place," which was published in Issue 8 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine. In it, Amy discus...
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Episode 012: Anong Beam from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded August 27, 2020. In this episode, founder of Beam Paints Anong Beam illustrates her journey into paint making. Anong shares her childhood observation of her artistic parents, her formal ar...
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Episode 011: Corey Pemberton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded August 13, 2020. Glassblower/Painter/Crafting the Future Co-Founder Corey Pemberton walks us through the steps involved in blowing glass as he shares how he entered into the world of glass...
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Episode 010: Ouida Vincent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded July 25, 2020. Woodworker Ouida Vincent shares her inexplicable draw toward 16th and 17th century joinery on this episode of Cut the Craft. She explains how her medical training has influe...
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Episode 009: Curtis Buchanan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded May 7, 2020. Legendary Windsor Chair maker Curtis Buchanan from Jonesborough, Tennessee spends some time with Amy and Brien explaining a wide range of fascinating topics. He gives a helpfu...
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Side Projects: When You're Not Feeling It from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re back at it! Side Projects 2 circles back around to listener responses to our question, “What do you do when you’re not feeling it?” We read each response and comment with our own extremely qu...
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Episode 008: April Stone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded April 30 2020. During this episode of Cut the Craft, we speak with to April Stone, a Black Ash basket weaver from the Bad River band of Ojibwa in Northern Wisconsin. April guides us throug...
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Episode 007: David Grimes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded April 24, 2020. David Grimes, calligrapher and penman from Portland Oregon, explains his love of the care and intention that goes into expressing the written word through his craft. He gui...
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Episode 006: Dawson Moore from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded April 8, 2020. Dawson Moore is a green woodworker based in Michigan who spends his days carving kitchen utensils and a variety of other wooden items such as cups, chopsticks, and chairs. F...
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Episode 005: Erin Fletcher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Erin Fletcher is a bookbinder from Boston Massachusetts. She focuses on unique bindings that incorporate fiber arts in books that have text. She splits her time between working for clients and crea...
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Episode 004: Tim Manney from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this interview, Tim Manney takes co-hosts Amy and Brien on a ten year quest to make one chair while talking toolmaking, gait specialists, and the horrors of cold water submersion.
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Side Projects: "The Hand: At the Heart of Craft" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For their first Side Project, Amy and Brien share an excerpt from Bruce Metcalf's article "The Hand: At the Heart of Craft." They also tell you what Side Projects is all about.
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Episode 003: Courtney Martin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this interview, Amy and Brien talk pots and piracy with fiery ceramicist Courtney Martin.
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Episode 002: Beth Homa-Kraus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this interview, Amy and Brien engage in some filthy basket talk with Beth Homa-Kraus, aka Birch Bark Beth. Among many other things, they learn about the sweetly seductive taste of inner bark and...
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Episode 001: Will Manning from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For their first interview, Amy and Brien speak with bladesmith Will Manning of Heartwood forge about knives, Other-side-of-the-fence Syndrome, and prehistoric tractors.
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Episode 000: Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For the first episode, co-hosts Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler introduce the show and give you a bit of background on two people you’ll hear a lot from: each other.
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Episode 000: Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler from 2020-04-16T17:11
Welcome to the first episode of Cut the Craft! The hosts, Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler, give the listeners a view into the motivation behind the podcast and an understanding of why it matters to ...
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Episode 000: Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler from 2020-04-16T17:11
Welcome to the first episode of Cut the Craft! The hosts, Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler, give the listeners a view into the motivation behind the podcast and an understanding of why it matters to ...
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Episode 000: Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler from 2020-04-16T17:11
Welcome to the first episode of Cut the Craft! The hosts, Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler, give the listeners a view into the motivation behind the podcast and an understanding of why it matters to ...
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Episode 000: Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler from 2020-04-16T17:11
Welcome to the first episode of Cut the Craft! The hosts, Amy Umbel and Brien Beidler, give the listeners a view into the motivation behind the podcast and an understanding of why it matters to ...
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