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What's on your work bench? This is the official topic for images and friendly chatter regarding that all important surface, the personal statement of your shop, the steadfast friend we can always count on, the space of your shop that nobody knows better than you, we are talking about the almighty "Work Bench". Submit your images now! That's right, don't clean it up, don't be embarrassed, the messier the better, or if there is nothing on it at all, that is fine too. If you have not touched your bench in years, and you have taken a break from woodworking and have boxes piled on it, we want that image too! All images are welcome. Spirit of T…
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Introduction Dear folks, I have a wonderfully pleasant surprise for you, Hal Taylor contacted our community here at The Patriot Woodworker and asked us if we'd like to showcase his original rocking chair book and the first three chapters of his new book, to you all. The premise of this generosity is to help folks make it through their Covid19 Quarantine time in their homes, in their shops. To give you something to read, to take your mind off it all, and hopefully, to start your own journey in making a rocking chair that you and yours will cherish for generations to come, and to even quite possibly help you on your own journey to create a new business for yourself, bu…
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Happy Birthday! Dear folks, I'd like to give a huge shout and a big Happy Birthday to our entire Patriot Woodworker Community. Today, April 3rd, 2020. We are 10 years old. Thank you! I want to thank all the members here who make this community what it is, and I especially want to thank our Administrators Ron Dudelston and John Moody and our Forum Hosts, Lew Kauffman, Gene Howe, and Larry Buskirk for keeping this community organized and tidy, and for being helpful to the members who frequent these pages and forums. Your support We also need to thank our community of woodworkers, for coming to the aid of the causes we supp…
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Good Monday morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Happy Thanksgiving We hope you all have a wonderful and memorable Thanksgiving, as a nation we have much to be thankful for, this is the time of the year when we see great deeds being done from one American to another, charities and Americans giving, neighbors helping one another, families coming together. From my heart to yours, please be safe, enj…
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on the 13" Dewalt planer.. Two companies have them for less than 100 bucks where the companies in the US is somewhere around 650.00. Thats not fishie sounding, they are just trying to get us in the woodworking!!! Who will be the first to order from one of those upstanding companies?
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Does anyone have recommendations for breaking down 4’ x 8’ sheet goods easily? Maybe plans to make a jig to simplify this task or a tool purchase? Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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My wife and I alternate making Christmas ornaments for the grandkids each year. This is my year. At first, I made some "log reindeer" (my father had one in his yard in his later years). They seemed very delicate in ornament scale, so I looked for an alternative. Found something like this on YouTube. Showed it to my wife and she said, "Oh, Plaited hearts, those are very traditional." (She sews and quilts a lot). So off I go. The size of the square is 1.5" x 1.5" and the woods are two of my favorites to match, walnut and hard maple. The YouTube video showed the guy using a cross-cut sled on his bandsaw. I'm wondering why that never occurred to me…
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..Friday again! What happened to all those days in between? Guess I must have misplaced them. So, how was your week, and what have you got planned for the weekend?
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Today we finished the concept of the media room. This is going to be a long one. I am expecting this to take me at least 2-3 months. The whole room including a major portion of the ceiling will be in black walnut. This is one of my favorite woods to work with so it’s going to be fun along with more than a few challenges. It includes making and hanging three doors, one of which she wants inlayed. The cabinet doors will be a combination of black walnut and Birdseye Maple. I am starting with the cabinet that houses the TV and going from there. Paul
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During the last few projects it was obvious I needed to organize this part of my tooling to make it easier to get to and more important, FIND. Had Forstner bits in 3 spots, spade bits in 2 spot etc etc. Never mind the various drill bit kits I have tucked away, or those fancy bit kits for drivers. So I started with this Forstner bit holder. That is done and installed. Have two more smaller trays that are in the works for the open side. Made this box and drilled the holes and thought to myself why not highlight it, make it easier to see? So I taped off that section and applied two thin coats of poly (it is a shop project …
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to show daughter this redwood table and base and wow, no telling what I posted or if I even posted anything so I left that site...then thought maybe she might see this??? It has taken me many years to remove almost all the bandsaw marks but finally am making a showing but hey only about 50 years of sanding has gone by and it only seems like 49.
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Well, the Christmas Gift Exchange list is out.....I have to find a present for my Grand daughter-in-law...... Bought about 25bft of Quarter Sawn Ash, today.... There are 11 boards in that stack..average width is just under 6"....all are around 3/4" thick. Hmmmmm, how about a Blanket/ Hope Chest build? Frame and panel? Or maybe a "6 board" style? been a while since I built a chest....maybe see what I can come up with? Give things about a week, or so...while the Single Brain Cell Sketch Up works things up into a "Plan" have to work around the snipes, though. grain looks decent enough....fellow did have a rack of thes…
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I have spent some time this year reworking my shop arrangement. Started with a 60 amp service & this allowed me to move the compressor into an attached shed then hard piped it into the shop. Install a small dust system in the shed and connected my miter saw, belt/spindle sander & a port for my ROS. I passed on things to other people that could use them & got rid of things I haven't or won't need. Consolidated everything to the 3 walls in the shop. I realized during the process that walking around my work bench to get to the other side of the shop just wasn't working anymore, time to downsize & go mobile. The plan is to build a set up to ho…
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I've been putzing around with wood scraps until things improve enough for me to get to my hardwood dealer. Some of things I've been making include some tissue box covers. The primary reason I'm making them is to add weight to the boxes and keep them from lifting up when you pull a tissue out. But with this one I did something else. What I had was a piece of cherry that was not suitable for much else due to the multiple pitch pockets and cavities. So I decided to make a small tissue box but with continuous grain around all 4 corners. The technique is familiar to most, or all, of you I'm sure. But you take a board and resaw it in 1/2. Then hold the halves together as they w…
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I received a text from my granddaughter asking me if I would build her a cajon (pronounced KAH - HONE). In all honesty I could not answer her until I did a google search to see what a cajon was - LOL. Well it turns out it is a percussion box drum that you sit on. So at that I said YES - I could build her one. Here is the start - I am almost finished with it - I just need to attach the padded seat and create some stops on the inside so she does not overturn the snares. Here are the pieces for the basic box - will be 12 x 12 x 18 ... and of course a dry fit She wanted the drum to have a snare settin…
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I know way back when, most of our families had porch swings. Nearly all were made by hand, I've made a few too. As I was preparing mine for winter, some memories came back of years past. I'm sure that we all have memories of the time the swing chain broke. My family sure did and I still snicker when I think about that time so long ago. No one got hurt, but someone laughed so hard she peed herself. 1 Comment Like Comment Share
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And I always thought this was just a rural Kentucky thang[sic]. https://homewords99.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/chester-drawers/?fbclid=IwAR3h387_Au0hM1qdFy60UulgXTGNh4tSTdb8PpuotSv9B3BFxhNDriI5lZs
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...What's on your weekend agenda?
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Good Monday morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Welcome new members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Community news As you all know by now we are in the…
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I'm trying to help out a friend who is also our dog groomer. The quick recap is that she opened her own place after the June startup from Covid, and had this sign made by a local who has a CNC. Nothing about this sign is suiable for the outdoors, though she indicated that would be it's use. Anyway, fast forward to now and the sign has already broke in 2 places and has a serious crack in another 2 places, we're addressing the most serious rack. The sign seems to have been made from a box store pine panel, so the 2 previous breaks were right at the glue seam. Missy's boyfriend "fixed" one using epoxy to re glue the seam. I fixed the second one with biscuits. The edges of th…
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