The last weekend of October and heading into the last two months of the year. Only a few weeks from "Turn for Troops" at your local Woodcraft Store. Check our your local store and go by and turn a pen for a troop. They will supply everything needed, but you. It will mean a lot to one of our service members to receive a pen especially turned for them.

We are eagerly awaiting the results of the 1st Annual Patriot Woodworker Turning Contest. Keep checking in and we should have the results from the judges real soon.

I got the frame for the next Green Egg Table together last night. I should be ready for the shelf boards and hope to get those on this weekend. I will be heading out tomorrow (Saturday) morning to pick up a load of lumber. A very good friend of mine lost her father. He was a great woodworker and has a shed full of Cherry, Walnut, QSWO, poplar and some other wood I couldn't see. I gave them a price for it and so I am to go clean out the building and take all of the lumber that he had. I was honored that they choose to let me purchase the wood. I know he has some really nice lumber and build some beautiful pieces. I will try to get a picture while I am there of a Cherry China Cabinet he built. Absolutely gorgeous.

So depending on when I make it back and get this unloaded into the wood stash hide away, will determine how much I get done on the Egg Table.

Sunday afternoon we will be celebrating my grand daughters 7th birthday. She lives with us right now, but she and her daddy will be moving out on their own next week. She has been with us since she was one and I for one am going to miss watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with her every morning. Any of you know the Magic Words?

Here she is helping me on the last Green Egg table sanding between the boards on the top after the circle was cut.

So what's on your Agenda this last weekend before Halloween? Are you finishing up any projects in the shop, doing home improvement, HDL, getting ready for winter, watching football, or just some much needed R&R? We here at TPW are always interested in the projects you have on your bench or around your house. Share them us and inspire someone else to build one.

We love pictures, so please share pictures of the projects you are working on.

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John Moody
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An absolutely inspiring picture, John. What a little doll!

I'm sure she will be missed. 

My weekend is in flux. The two lumber/plywood storage rooms are now cleaned and re-organized. 

I'm still waiting on parts for my router lift. I really never realized how much I used that router table.

We need a new insulated cover for our well head. I'll probably be making that. Exciting, no? 

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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

Break em in right John.  As for me, it is the song that never ends.  More kitchen cabinet work. sigh :-(

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Ron Dudelston
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John hard help is so hard to find, sorry your going to be losing yours. I had the same thing with my Grandson he was about the same age when him and his mother moved out.

well if I can get some dry weather I would like to button up that Dulcimer I have been working on. Man I really need to build me a shed/workshop the drive way just aint working.

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Thanks guys, she is a lot of fun to have around.

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John Moody
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Just got back from Seattle with my free metal lathe, so I'll be cleaning the lathe bed, and associated components. With the lathe came all kinds of extras, an extra 3 & a 4 jaw chuck, several back plates, gears, wrenches, cutters, a knurling tool.... etc etc. I need to down load the manual and identify all the parts and take picks of everything before I disassemble the main pieces to clean, remove rust and lube. All in all the lathe is in fairly good shape. The ways have some rust on them so I'm spraying them with WD-40 overnight then its scotch-brite and elbow grease. I'll take some before picks when I get everything laid out. Oh I almost forgot I have to turn a pen for a co-worker.

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Not  a whole this week but did swept the garage / shop out and open the garage door to air blow as much fine dust out Thursday twice.  Sat down with the graph paper sketching out for the router table,  Also work on the cutting board that I been piddling with for about 3 months.  Got it sanded down to 320 grit.  Still need little more sanding on the ends for they still feels little rough. It not the first one I tried making and I'm rather please with it than the first one I tried a few years ago.  That ended up in the fire pit.  This one I might give it as a Christmas present. It is 3/4 inch thick 9 1/2 inches wide and 14 inches long.  I was trying for at least 7/8 inches thick so I guess next time I get more lumber I'll get some that 5/4. The wood is Box Elder, Walnut and Cherry.  Tomorrow I'll see if I can route out a drip groove but I'll do it on some scrape piece first.  Sorry about how the picture came out, I'm just not a good picture taker like Alan.

Wayne E

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Wayne E

Wayne very nice cutting board. I like the box elder, just never thought about using it.

The boards I make like that are turned up on the edge, which of course means the strips are not as wide unless you have some 6/4 or 8/4 pieces. I usually cut the strips at 1 1/4 and then sand down and the final board will be somewhere around 1 1/8".

Look great! Thanks for the picture.

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John Moody
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Saturday I headed up to clean out a friend of mine's father's wood storage shed. He was a very fine woodworker and passed away and they wanted all his wood to go to someone that would make beautiful things with it. I got picked so I was so honored to receive the wood.

Here is a beautiful Cherry China Cabinet he built.

And another view of the China Cabinet

This was the start of the load and It got dark by the time I got back and was late and I forgot to update the full trailer. These were at least 4x4 cherry and one of them is 15' long.

I had a trailer load and knew I had to get back home, three hours away and unload so there is still another load that I have to go back and get. I had originally guess there was about 500 bd ft in the shed but as I started taking it out I could see there was stacks I couldn't see before. So I will be making another run in a few weeks and clean out the rest of the shed for them. I did pay her for the lumber and told he since there was more than I originally told her I would pay the same price per bd/ft for the rest of it. She thanked me for being honest as she had no idea how much was in there.

There was also a good bit of QSWO, Maple and some Poplar.

I got to get busy selling, my storage stash is getting full.

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John Moody
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