Okay folks, here we are starting a brand new year and I am sure some of you much have gotten a few new toys, uh tools in the shop. By now you should have them out of the box and wiped the drool off them and put it through a test or two.

So we need to hear about those newbies added to the shop family and how you like what has been added. Also tell us what project you plan on starting the new year with or it is a continuation of a project from last year.

Sad to say, I am continuing a couple of projects from last year but I am getting close to finishing them up. I will hopefully get a little shop time this weekend and work on a cedar chest and more slats for the porch swings.

I picked up several gift cards over the holidays and have a few newbies that should be arriving soon to the shop. A new Porter Cable 3x21" belt sander will be joining the sanding team. I have a 3x21 Ryobi that I have had for many years and it has been a work horse. Still working just adding one more so that should it decide it wants to retire we will already have someone trained to take on all of the work load. I also liked the reviews from Allen and Mike about the Bosch Jig Saw. I have a metal bodied Black and Decker that I have had from about 35 years. Still works and does a good job, but we will start training up a new member of that team also.

So share a few of the items you brought into the shop and let us know how well they are working with all of the other tools.

As always, we here at TPW want to know what you are working on. Show share with us your projects. Are you working in the shop, doing home improvement, tool maintenance, HDL, or still laying on the couch watching football games. We want to know.

There is only one bowl game I am interested in watching and it is the BCS Championship game. Yea my team, Alabama will be there again this year and we will see how it goes.

Post pictures of your projects and show us your shop in the Patriot Woodworker Shop forum.

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Today and tomorrow, will be just dressing pin oak. Sunday, hope to be sizing it for trim and face frames.

Then, I'm off for 7 days starting Monday. Wife's bro. and grown nephew will be here from IL. Hope they are bringing warm clothes. It is +4 degrees up here on the mesa. 

BTW, got all the dadoes cut yesterday. That jig is slick.

Two new shop additions. An I-Box and a portable DVD player. 

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

I plan on starting a long promised bed project for my wife.  But first, I must clean and reorganized the shop/garage so she can get her car in.  Two snowstorms in and I'm getting the look!  Not sure where I'm going to put everything either.

Equipment wise I have to get my 1900's H.B. Smith 12" joiner moved into the shop and up-n-running.  I also want to start shopping for a oscillating spindle sander, as I really want to do more Craftsman style furniture and the curves will be easier to do with a dedicated machine.  And upgrade the electrical.  All it takes is time and money!

Happy New Years everyone.

Will

First off - Gene - what is an I-Box?  And - Going to watch movies and make saw dust at the same time?  Be sure to encolse your DVD player so the mechanism doesn't get any dust in it.

As for me, got an order for a shadow-box quarter map so I'm cutting out maps this weekend.  Also have several military things going AND more work on the Apostle's clock.

Hopefully, these projects will keep me out of trouble.  (big grin here)

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'
Scroll Saw Forum Host

 I have a little "project" coming in the mail later today... ( pictures when it gets here.....HIDE THE KIDS, MABEL!!!)

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Sign on pick up truck's back window..:' Save a Horse, ride a Cowboy'

Frustration!

Trying to finish a very large picture frame for a puzzle my Mom just completed. A big 40 mile loop only to find the plastic supply house is closed until Monday and Michael's doesn't have the foam backer board in the color I need.

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Here ya go Fred. I-Box

The DVD player will stay in a zip lock baggy most of the time. It'll be handy for watching DVDs full of YouTube vids and the stack of other instructional vids. No more trying to remember a process or running back and forth to the house to watch it on the computer. 

It plays music, too.

Fred Wilson said:

First off - Gene - what is an I-Box?  And - Going to watch movies and make saw dust at the same time?  Be sure to encolse your DVD player so the mechanism doesn't get any dust in it.

As for me, got an order for a shadow-box quarter map so I'm cutting out maps this weekend.  Also have several military things going AND more work on the Apostle's clock.

Hopefully, these projects will keep me out of trouble.  (big grin here)

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'
Scroll Saw Forum Host

 Ok, hide the kids!  Here goes the weekend project..But wait, there's more...Seems I had better find Eugor, and had for the Dungoen shop....

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Sign on pick up truck's back window..:' Save a Horse, ride a Cowboy'

"Walk this way," Steven. 

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

Going to get some pens done that have been waiting for a calm moment, also going to try and make a goblet that I have already got started on. since its the first one I have tried to make, I'm just going by a look rather than anything as far as measurements. If there is still time left, I am going to crank out a couple of SMALL bowls that I have blanks for that have been sitting here since before Halloween, On the goblet, I need to now concentrate on the base first before anything else, to make sure that I get a good round base before trying to gauge what the rest of it should look like from here on.

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Charles Nicholls
Site Host
nicholls61@att.net
Proud supporter of The Wounded Warrior Project, Homes For Our Troops and the NRA

http://www.etsy.com/shop/nichollswoodworks

 Dang, didn't even take all day...

Gene Howe said:

"Walk this way," Steven. 

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

That was quick. And, it looks real nice, too. What kind is it?

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

It is called a Companion brand.    Made by Stanley for sears.   I looked, and it is the same, almost, as a Handyman #4 I have in the shop.   The only thing different was the adjuster wheel.  I happen to have a spare Handyman wheel, IF I want "Twins" 

I might have this plane rehab figured off before too long...

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Sign on pick up truck's back window..:' Save a Horse, ride a Cowboy'

not much to keep me busy this year. I need to build some kind of stand for my Dulcimer to sit when I play it. also have a couple of Dulcimer in the wings waiting to be built. then I have been wanting to try may hand at making a tongue drum.

and also a Thump Piano (Kalima) Mine will by no means be this grand I'll be lucky to get it tuned plans I have only has I think 15 tines.

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http://www.prchestnut.webs.com/

Looks like you got it down, now.

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton