Father's day weekend is here so what plans do you have for this weekend? Saturday I will be in my shop finishing up number two of the porch swings. I did tell you that I have five of them to make right? I will also be putting together a few cutting boards and some bread dipping trays. Next weekend I have a three day craft show so I am just checking inventory and filling a few holes in it.

Sunday afternoon I plan on spending with my family and getting to spend some time with my dad. He is 86 and still doing pretty good. I am so thankful for the time I got to spend with him in his shop and learning many of the things I use today. For the most part it sits idle now, but I have his Craftsman RAS in the shop. He taught me to make a lot of cuts on it. I look back and can't believe what all we made and never had a table saw. That saw taught me a lot about safety. I am also thankful for the time that my sons and son n law spend in the shop with me. I hope I am passing a little knowledge and memories down to them. My grandson also loves to come to the shop to vacuum. Now how great is that, he is two.

So what are your plans? Working in your shop, around the house, yard, relaxing, family time, HDL, or some time at your favorite sport? You know we like to knowing
What are you doing? Share your weekend plans with the rest of The Patriot Woodworkers!

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John Moody
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Well John, Saturday is dual purpose.  The morning will be devoted to finishing some flag cases and the afternoon is swim time.  Sunday remains to be seen.

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Ron Dudelston
Site Host


Above and Beyond WoodWorks

Hopefully, I can get the turquoise stuffed and pictures taken by Sat. evening.
Sunday will be spent sanding.

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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

Siblings are all in town  for the weekend, so not much shop time.

Have one and a half rolling pin blanks that still need the "cut-glue-clamp-trim" processes to get them ready to turn. Each "cycle" takes about 2 hours (including the glue drying time) so a pin blank requires approx 8 hours to be ready for turning.

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

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

My wife Tami and I are getting ready to head out to breakfast and then we will be heading down to a reclaimed lumber place to check out materials for making a headboard, bathroom door and crown/trim for our master bedroom renovation. Saturday Tami and I will be drivers/chaperones for a Jr. High youth ministry miniature golf outing for our church. Our son is the Jr. High director over youth so it should be a fun time. Though I have a feeling that we will be herding cats a lot as Jr. Highers have a veeeeerrrrrry short attention span and far more energy than we do. But it is fun watching our son trying to round the little buggers up and keeping them focused and then having him look at us for sympathy but we just grin and nod our heads knowingly at him. Sunday will be church and then lunch here at the house with the family. I have the NASCAR race set to record on the DVR Sunday, so I will be good.

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

allenworsham@earthlink.net

http://www.awcreationsandwoodcrafts.com

'Graze in every man's field, but always give your own milk' J. Vernon McGee

Thanks for asking John! No woodworking plans really, I have a load of slabs that a friend of mine gave me that I need to transport up to dads place this weekend to clear out our yard, it's just going to be a really laid back weekend, I am in between projects and life is nice slow this weekend, at last!!!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

I'll be working on the banjo I been working on. Hopefully I will get the neck cut out and started shaping it.

Been trying to learn Scruggs style banjo playing forever. A Navy Chief taught me the 4 string when we on the aircraft carrier but that 5 string has stumped me.

Phil Chestnut said:

I'll be working on the banjo I been working on. Hopefully I will get the neck cut out and started shaping it.

How much can this be: I'm waiting for varnish on several large cabinets to cure enough that I can work out the i perfections and apply a final coat. Nothing more boring than waiting for stuff to dry/cure/whatever. Only good thing is the warm dry air we have right now should cure it out much quicker than normal

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Packaging and shipping out 5 orders today..

I should have been in Festus Mo for a Build Brigade for a Marine today, but my daughters wedding is this next following weekend and all my kids/family will be home so I couldn't financially nor time wise pack in so much in this month.

I've got two grandsons going to be home this next week/weekend and I've still got to string up some fishing poles and be ready for them... we're going to sneak off to a local farm pond and do some fishing...

Somewhere making time for a round of Golf with Son and Nephew and whoever else wants to tag along.. always good to get out and do my Bill Murry impersonations on the course...

 

Saturday I'll be replacing an intertube on a lil Honda 50 I bought for the kids to ride.. Sunday no plans...

 

Lewis  It's been almost 20 years since I last tried playing a banjo. Now I could be wrong here the 5th string I know is nothing more than a drone string. You do nothing more that hit with your thumb an let it ring while playing the you notes or chords with the other four string. Or at lest that the way I remember be showed how to play by an Retired Navy man. OK what is it with Banjo's and the Navy?  I play using the claw hammer style somehow I had thought myself when learning to play Guitar. 

Lewis Kauffman said:

Been trying to learn Scruggs style banjo playing forever. A Navy Chief taught me the 4 string when we on the aircraft carrier but that 5 string has stumped me.

Phil Chestnut said:

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

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

I am having a simply craptastic time on my wife's pie safe.  Seems like I'm taking two steps forward and one step back.  I swear I'm getting Alzheimers at 48...

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What's going on with it Dell! Tell us more!

Dell Moore said:

I am having a simply craptastic time on my wife's pie safe.  Seems like I'm taking two steps forward and one step back.  I swear I'm getting Alzheimers at 48...

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

I've learned that if things are not adding up or having a kinda off day... I step away from it for a bit, drink a couple more cups of coffee and sometimes it hits me on where I needed to be rather then where I was allowing my mind fog to take me..

 Dell Moore said:

I am having a simply craptastic time on my wife's pie safe.  Seems like I'm taking two steps forward and one step back.  I swear I'm getting Alzheimers at 48...

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Just finished watching the Movie Act Of Valor.... good movie...

My kids came by this afternoon and took me out to dinner for Fathers Day.. then we went shopping for a bit and I picked up the DVD and some Fishing string to re-string my poles... next week is going to be a busy week with Family coming in and my Grandsons home (we're going to be hitting a few farm ponds) then Daughters wedding Saturday...

 

Hope everyone is having a Great Fathers Day Sunday!!!

Guess next week will find me trying to fix my band saw. I don't have no where here to keep it so I have had it stored at my brothers for sometime. Guess one of his grandkids has been playing with it.  the tension knob would not tighten up the blade. when I got to looking the thing had been screwed all the way out.  So know I am going to have to take it all apart and fix it before I can work on my Banjo again. It's bad enough I have to leave and go across town,try to remember to take everything I will need with me, thinking the stuff I have there was some what safe only to find out once again the only way it's going to be taken care of is if I can find someplace here to put it.

Anyone want to have a Shed Raising? Ya know it's like a barn raising. I'll even fire up the grill and Have plenty of sweet tea on hand.

Two down and three to go.

Finished porch swing #2 on Saturday.

Both of them were picked up on Saturday and I have three more to do to fill the order.

These are being made on the same pattern of an old swing they had. It was only four feet long, these are 5'.

The old swing is sitting the back.

I can hear them now, "Just a Swinging!"

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John Moody
Site Administrator


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Those are really nice John...

I've had a few folks in my area ask If I could build them a porch swing and I had to turn them away... I haven't had time to catch up other projects drawing dust on my shelves...

John Moody said:

Two down and three to go.

Finished porch swing #2 on Saturday.

Both of them were picked up on Saturday and I have three more to do to fill the order.

These are being made on the same pattern of an old swing they had. It was only four feet long, these are 5'.

The old swing is sitting the back.

I can hear them now, "Just a Swinging!"

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John Moody
Site Administrator


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

they are really turning out nice John.

John Them are said:

Two down and three to go.

Finished porch swing #2 on Saturday.

Both of them were picked up on Saturday and I have three more to do to fill the order.

These are being made on the same pattern of an old swing they had. It was only four feet long, these are 5'.

The old swing is sitting the back.

I can hear them now, "Just a Swinging!"

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John Moody
Site Administrator


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

Just too many screw ups, not paying enough attention to detail.  Same thing that's been plaguing me for months now.  Didn't make the right cut yesterday, before that I glued up the opposing side so they twinned, rather than mirrored one another. *sigh*, it's enough to make me quit sometimes...

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