IN OTHER NEWS A Christmas Chat! Our Home Page at The Patriot Woodworker will have an Open Chat up for the entire days of Dec 24th and the 25th for our woodworkers who might want to jump on and just chat about what's going on throughout this coming weekend. Remember, you must be signed in to use the chat feature. We will be popping in and out all day both days to see how folks are doing. Visit Our Affiliate ! Wounded Warriors Please help us support The Wounded Warrior Project with your tax deductible donations. Help our troops and their families get through another challenging Christmas. Click on the image above to place your donation. 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to The Wounded Warriors Project. Support Homes For Our Troops! Homes For Our Troops, a wonderful organization that builds homes for our disabled or challenged servicemen and women returning home from war. These guys need your help. Please click on the image above to see how you too can help! The Patriot Woodworker's Links Fine Woodworking Magazine OWWM Forum (Old Machinery) The Furniture Society TPW Facebook Page TPW YouTube Channel Vintage Machinery.org Woodcraft.com Woodcraft Magazine Blogs You'll Love Chief Woodworker's Blog The Village Carpenter Woodworking Adventures Merry Christmas Patriot Woodworkers! From the guys at The Patriot Woodworker to you and yours, we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This has been such a wonderful year at The Patriot Woodworker and we are just so humbled and honored that you all choose to call us home. During this special time of the year, we wish you all a blessed Christmas Season and a Happy New Year. Here is to a great 2012 ahead and a great time on The Patriot Woodworker. And I would also like to thank all our members who have contributed to The Patriot Woodworker and The Wounded Warrior Project this past year. As you may have noticed, we have teamed up with Homes For Our Troops just recently and we look forward to working with them this coming year as well. When we are all snuggled in our beds with visions of sugar plums dancing through our heads, please remember those who could not be here with us. The American fighting men and women who protect us day in and day out from terrorism and extremism around the world. They don't have Christmas day off, our enemies don't take the day off and neither do our soldiers. And please pray for the families of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. These familes are back here at home, missing their loved one and worrying about them. These are some pretty sleepless nights for the families of our troops, and they need our support just as much as the troops themselves. So please, when you think of our fighting soldiers and their safety, think about their families as well, they are in this and at times they pay the price as well. Dad or Mom is overseas, fighting the good fight, meanwhile back home it's hard for their families to make ends meet, homes get forclosed upon, food on the table is hard to come by at times, and since alot of these familes are sole income families with the main bread winner at war, it can be really hard for these folks to make it to the 1st of the month. I wish we could help all of them, but we can't. But what we can do is pray that they are watched over. So, thank you again folks, and thank you for being a part of what we think is very special. We are woodworkers with a cause. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. John Morris (The Patriot Woodworker) Without You- A Christmas Tribute to Our Troops All Over the World. A Message from our Assistant Administrator It is with great joy in my heart that I wish each of you here on The Patriot Woodworker a very Merry Christmas and a most prosperous New Year. Your presence here on this site has been a special blessing to each of us. I so look forward each day to seeing what my fellow woodworkers are doing. Much encouragement and training has been given by you, probably without you even knowing it. Sharing how you do projects gives each of us a little lesson every time we read a post. This has been a special year as we have seen the site grow and many of you become very active. I have made new friends which I get the opportunity to share with everyday. Through our Instant Messaging, Chat/Video Chat we have gotten to know each other and hear their voice, not just see words on the screen. As we move into this next year, let me just say Thank You for all each and every one of you mean to me and to this site. I hope we will continue to grow and share with each other and continue to be blessed as we journey together through our woodworking and supporting our troops So from my family to yours, Merry Christmas and may God bless you and yours in this coming year! John Moody (Assistant Administrator) Top Content for the Month of December Below you will find our Top Content at The Patriot Woodworker for the Month of December. Some day I would love to do a "Top Content" for a complete year but unfortunately my technological dreams are way ahead of my personal capabilities at this time. So for now we'll have to do this month by month. So with out further ado. Top Blog Posts First Place: Mammaws Rocker Revival by Frank Byers of Woodcraft fame! Follow Frank and his wife Liz Byers on this wonderful journey restoring an old rocker full of childhood memories. They take this heirloom down to the bare wood and rebuild the memories back into it and turn it into a very functional work of restoration art. Great job Frank and Liz! Second Place: The North Pole Workshop again by our own Frank Byers of Woodcraft! Check out this story about Woodcrafts annual pilgrimage to Parkersburg West Virginia's City Park, where a Christmas Village pops up every year, here crafts folks from all around come to build the best Christmas displays! Third Place: Mail Order Lumber by Michael Frankenhauser. Michael talks about his dreams to make use of every little scrap of wood through his recycled and reclaimed lumber business. In this blog Michael talks about some pretty cool ideas on how to get the right amount of lumber into the woodworkers hands. Top Discussions First Place: A Shop For My Old Delta's by Larry Buskirk. Now this is one cool story! A shop on wheels, and for all of Larry's old Delta woodworking machinery. Larry has managed to join two diciplines in this project. He is building a shop on wheels, and meanwhile restoring his old woodworking machinery to be used in this shop on wheels. Larry plans to travel his local contry side and attend craft fairs with his very unique shop. Way to go Larry! By the way, Larry has received more then 400 views on this top discussion! Second Place: Enterprise Bandsaw Restoration by Shane Whitlock. As many of you know, the old woodworking machinery crew has made a strong showing on our site in the past 6 months thanks to Shane Whitlock and his fellow machinery finatics. And one look at this incredible bandsaw restoration will leave you slack jawed with tongue on the ground. Not only is the restoration incredible, but check out those colors! Great job Shane! Shane has also racked up almost 400 views on this great discussion! Third Place: Now this is a Knife Block by Mike Mathieu. Can you say extreme! Mike worked closely with his customer on the design and execution of this incredible and functional kitchen implement. Mike gave a whole new dimension to knife blocks. Way to go Mike! So that's our top content folks! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we have. Our members always amaze us with their work. And with new folks joining up we are always on the look out for the new talent on The Patriot Woodworker. And speaking of new members. Please don't forget to spread the word about our lil corner of the world here. You can invite anyone and all to The Patriot Woodworker. With your help, we can expand our member base while creating a more diverse bunch of woodworkers and machinery buffs from all types of backgrounds and experiences. This in turn makes for a truly wonderfully interesting forum. More so then we already are! A Special Christmas Message From Our Scroll Saw Forum Host Greg Aksdal Fellow Patriot Woodworkers, It is with a warm heart that I write this wishing everyone and their families a very Merry Christmas. I know everyone is busy this time of year, but it never hurts to slow down for a minute and give someone a warm smile and greeting, these things go a long way. For those of you traveling to see family and friends, be safe, we want to see you back here to let us know what Santa brought you ! And please don't forget the true "reason for the Season", the birth of Jesus Christ. For those of you who will be alone for whatever reason this Christmas, my heart goes out to you, for I can truly say "Been there Done that" too many times. Having only been a member here for I have watched us grow steadily, which is always good. We are looking forward to an even greater 2012 here at The Patriot Woodworker, with increased activity in the forums and growth in membership. Please tell your fellow woodworkers about us and encourage them to drop by and check us out. If you know of any members who haven't been around for a while, send them a message and encourage them to stop on in and see whats been going on. Don't hesitate to share a link on your Facebook page either. In closing I just want to wish everyone and their families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year. May God bless you, Greg Aksdal (Scroll Saw Forum Host) Support The Patriot Woodworker Please help us continue doing the great work we are involved in. There are a few ways you can contribute to our cause. Make your woodworking supply, tools and machinery purchases through our affiliate Woodcraft, it cost you not a dime extra to go through our site to Woodcraft and place your order. With each order, comes a commission to The Patriot Woodworker, we use these funds to cover our site hosting dues and expenses. Or you can donate directly to The Patriot Woodworker by going to our donation page. Donate to The Patriot Woodworker. Help us help our American Fighting Men and Women, we use all our donations and commissions striclty to keep our site live and to help our troops. We are an all volunteer site. No paychecks, no perks, no foolin. We do this for our love of woodworking and our Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Sailors. Thank you once again Patriot Woodworkers and have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! John Morris (The Patriot Woodworker)

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

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I wish one and all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

 

 

Larry