Be a Sponsor!!! How would you like to sponsor our site for a month! See your business here and on our Home Page. Please contact John Morris at thepatriotwoodworker@verizon.net This space can be yours for only $59.99 per month, plus you'll have your business on our home page! Shop our Affiliates!     Video of the Week Learn from the best woodworkers and see the newest tools in action at the 2011 live show Woodworking in America 2011 Weekly digest time, folks! Who's signing up, who's making waves and what's new? We're looking for a member to feature next week so get in touch if you're interested. Don't forget to invite friends, colleagues and fellow woodworkers to the site - it's all about sharing! People to welcome A few of the new members signing up this week,   Tom Hamiliton, Christine Wilson, Alan Wood, Lai, Steve Palmer, Larry Krull, Manny Bolano, and David Peebles all joined this past week! Say hello and get connected or see all our latest members here. Best of the week's blogs Two Ways to Finish Your Parts Before Assembly - Larry Jenkins is getting alot of attention with his great blog about pre-finishing your project parts before assembly. Ronald Dudelston continues the week's hot topic with Re-Working a Basket Case Coffee Table. Follow Ron on his table rehab project, a neat little table, with a little bit of history, and a new life.   The above blogs are in order of popularity as our ticker counts the hits! in focus  Member Ron Dudelston as most of you know by now, Ron Dudelston has been with us for quite some time now. Ron is in focus this week because of his on going support of our Challenge Coin Display Campaign for The Wounded Warrior Project. I can always count on Ron to come to the table with a big box of displays donated to the cause straight from his shop. He has donated somewhere around 30 coin displays I believe. Ron will correct me on this if I am wrong I am sure Also Ron is one of our site hosts, he is instrumental in helping out with the decision making process of what goes on around here. You can always count on Ron to keep us in check and keep our site goals realistic and grounded. Ron's heart is in this project for the long haul, so rest assured folks, as long as Ron is on top of us here at The Patriot Woodworker, you can expect more fine ideas and adventures to come in regards to the development of our site. So once again Ron, thank you for all you do around here, and I personally look forward to working with you for a long time!                       Do you know someone who should be In Focus? Get in touch. Cool Tips We now have the entire "Lie Nielsen Tool Works Video Series" right here on our network!!! Just go to the "VIDEOS" tab at the top of our site, and hover your cursor over VIDEOS, you will see "Lie Nielsen Series" in the drop down menu, click on it and your on your way to Lie Nielsen Video Tutorial bliss! Lie Nielsen has always produced A-1 "How To" videos for all your tool maintenance and usage needs.   OUR 1000th Member Contest Kick Off! As you all probably know by now, we are 3 days into our 1000th Member membership drive!  Please go HERE to find out how you can win!                                                     I would like to thank those who donated to our site to help keep us live. We have collected enough funds to cover our expenses for the next two months. I would like to encourage anyone who believes in what we are doing here at The Patriot Woodworker to make a donation to our site to help defray the costs of our hosting dues which were raised on us just a short time ago. Please go to Support The Patriot Woodworker and place your secure donation with us. All funds received go to the costs associated with our site, not a single dime goes into any ones pocket, we are an all volunteer site, we do this for the love of woodworking and our desire to help our wounded veterans returning home from the fight against terrorism. Your generous donations are also used to defray the costs associated with shipping the Challenge Coin Displays to our wounded veterans. Thank you for being here folks! Without you, we would not exist, we appreciate all of you. John Morris The Patriot Woodworker Â



 

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John Morris
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Thanks for the kind words and yes, you are corrected.  I'll hit 30 with the next box that is already packed.