Good Clean Fun

Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop

By: Nick Offerman

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

After two New York Times best sellers, Nick Offerman returns with the subject for which he’s known best - his incredible real-life woodshop - in a program that includes five original songs.

Nestled among the glitz and glitter of Tinseltown is a testament to American elbow grease and an honest-to-god hard day’s work: Offerman Woodshop. Captained by hirsute woodworker, actor, comedian, and writer Nick Offerman, the shop produces not only fine handcrafted furniture, but also fun stuff - kazoos, baseball bats, ukuleles, moustache combs, even cedar strip canoes.

Now Nick shares his experience of working at the woodshop with his ragtag crew of champions, tells you all about his passion for the discipline of woodworking, and teaches you how to make two of the woodshop’s most popular projects along the way: a Pop Top bottle opener and a three-legged stool. This audiobook will take you behind the scenes of the woodshop, both inspiring and teaching you to make your own projects while besotting you with the infectious spirit behind the shop and its complement of dusty wood-elves.

While working on their projects, listeners can also enjoy exclusive original songs by Nick and his pal Jeff Tweedy - “Music to Sand By”, “American White Oak”, “Raising the Grain”, “The Lazy Carpenter”, and the title track, “Good Clean Fun”.

Good Clean Fun also includes writings by Nick, humorous essays, odes to his own woodworking heroes, insights into the ethos of woodworking in modern America, and other assorted tomfoolery, all imbued with Nick Offerman’s brand of bucolic yet worldly wisdom.

*Includes a Bonus PDF with Drawings, Visuals, and Original Song Lyrics.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 Nick Offerman (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Good Clean Fun has helped me discover new ways to have fun in the shop.... If Offerman’s goal is to expose a wider audience to the world of woodworking, he’s hit the nail on the head. The guidance is sound and presented in a much more entertaining manner than you’ll encounter in other woodworking books. Good Clean Fun may be the first woodworking book that’s actually fun to read.” (Woodcraft Magazine)

“Offerman offers detailed projects, shop tips, and tricks, wider reflections on his career and craftsmanship.... Offerman really loves wood. By the time you’re finished, you will, too.” (Popular Mechanics)

“Part memoir...part technical guide (which provides instructions on how to build fine pieces down to the very inch), and part spiritual guide (there's zen-like life lessons to take away from crafting something with your hands).” (Esquire)

Spirit animal: Nick Offerman

This tome gives a wonderful run down on tools, people, and life around the Offerman shop. It too leads to many deviations down rabbit looking up Windsor back chairs and Canadian boat companies. This book expands the listeners horizon.

Absolutely loved it.

Can't wait to listen to he's other books! And nick did a great job narrating as well.

Good Clean Fun is a fantastic piece of bookery.

10/10. Simply the best. Nick Offerman is, put simply, a saint amongst men. What gumption.

Awesome, enjoy every second of it.

Loved the book and hearing the Nick narrate it was the best. Sorry I can't express more but my English is limited due to it not being my first language. Hopefully one day I maybe so lucky to be thought woodworking technics by Nick Offerman himself. Until then, thank you for this sir, and a great life.

Learned more of wood here than in videos.

Learned more of wood here than in some videos. Excellent book to listen to, fun and interesting. ...oh and educational.

loved it

if you're into woodworking at any level you will enjoy this. Nick did a fine job.

Excellent listen

Comical takes on woodworking, original and very good listening. Good knowledge from a solid source

Great book!

The one and only Ron Swanson never lets you down. Great book if you are a fan of Nick, his personality really shines through his narration.

Insightful, Cover to Cover

In my spare time I like to call myself a Woodworker. I have a small wood shop in my garage, and I do my best to make furniture and what not for the house, as time, and budget permits. When I saw a title on Woodworking, written by someone with as much enthusiasm for the craft as I, while being pleasantly surprised to find it written by a comedic talent whom I enjoy on television I had to give it a try. I wasn't disappointed!

Nick Offerman is a well recognized character actor, and notable Hollywood comedian. I'm only famous at my address. What makes Nick and I the same, and thus my attraction to his book, is our title as craftspeople, instilled with the desire to work with our hands, building and designing with wood with a complete understanding that regardless of our lot in life, to a degree we are one in the same.

Like most people who dabble in the wood craft, our devotion to a skill, that still utilizes 14th century tools, while accepting the fact that no matter how much time and effort one applies, to the craft, it cannot be perfected is humbling at best. It is the quest for knowledge, and like-minded people that continues to fuel our desire to make sawdust with the outside hope that a piece of furniture, or a bookcase, or a shelf, or a picture frame, finds its way into a home with the intent of providing a domestic (decorative) need, while ultimately satisfying the craftsman.

This book was a delight! I found it entertaining, insightful, reflective, and humorous, and it kept my attention from start to end. His droll delivery along with his woodworker quips kept me listening and had me on Audible, and Youtube immediately following, looking for additional titles by Nick Offerman. Regardless of whether you're a woodworker, you may find this title as fulfilling and insightful. You will be educated and entertained from the get go, and may even inspire you to go make some saw dust.

Very informational, fun, and rewarding!

Very informational, fun and rewarding book! N.O. Reads this selection and has no shortage of fun tales along with informational content about woodworking and somehow about life.
I highly suggest this and his other books. After reading everything he has ever written I am wanting more...