There is a great story shaping up over at the Woodcraft blog, take a look at what one of the interns did on his cross country journey and by his visits with many woodworkers on the way. This is quite awesome! Click on the image of Ken Aucremanne and Mark Spagnulo below to be taken to the full story. Also, please drop a nice message below the article, let Ken and Woodcraft know we are watching and very appreciative of their efforts!

 A GREAT thing for him to do.  A nice young man.

On 12/9/2015 at 8:45 AM, Ernie Richardson (BAA Bugler) said:

 A GREAT thing for him to do.  A nice young man.

Nice young man might be a stretch

 

I appreciate the support for this project. It's still ongoing. Currently, I'm in Boston for 3 months attending North Bennet Street School courtesy of the GI Bill, while simultaneously trying to finish the film and launch a 501c3 dedicated to promoting woodworking as an activity for veterans healing from the scars of war. Any help, or support would be greatly appreciated. If you're interested in helping, I'm easy to reach at (my username)@gmail.com 

 

John Morris, I'm glad that we could get connected, and apologize for not leaning on this community sooner. Let's chat soon

Thanks for bringing that article to our attention. I look forward to seeing the documentary. 

Thanks to Ken for pursuing this venture. 

 

That is a great  service to our Vets and a great trip across our country. I live about 30 minutes from the Sam Maloof home and my wife and I have toured the Maloof home and the grounds. It is a very inspirational and encouraging place whether our not if you are a Sam Maloof fan.

if anyone would like a say on how this nonprofit (Veteran Woodworks, inc.) comes together, we just started a Facebook group. Tomorrow I'm giving a brief presentation to the veterans at North Bennet Street School, then we're sitting down to discuss what vets might want in a vet-centered woodworking organization. Will be posting those links on the facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/vetwoodworksorg/

The website is under construction. Hope to team up with Happy Joe's for a re-worked web presence. (if you are not familiar, they are a web design company entirely staffed by vets, that teaches vets WebDev and gets them jobs.... they're an awesome group)

 

not sure I said the word veteran/vet there enough... 

By the way, if any of you are civilians that happen to dig this kind of stuff, we welcome your help too. 

 

Respectfully, 

Ken

On March 23, 2016 at 10:19 PM, kenaucre said:

if anyone would like a say on how this nonprofit (Veteran Woodworks, inc.) comes together, we just started a Facebook group. Tomorrow I'm giving a brief presentation to the veterans at North Bennet Street School, then we're sitting down to discuss what vets might want in a vet-centered woodworking organization. Will be posting those links on the facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/vetwoodworksorg/

The website is under construction. Hope to team up with Happy Joe's for a re-worked web presence. (if you are not familiar, they are a web design company entirely staffed by vets, that teaches vets WebDev and gets them jobs.... they're an awesome group)

 

not sure I said the word veteran/vet there enough... 

By the way, if any of you are civilians that happen to dig this kind of stuff, we welcome your help too. 

 

Respectfully, 

Ken

I think what you are doing is pretty awesome, especially in that you have even focused on using a service staffed by vets to build the site to run this all from. 

 

Much respect! Good Luck!

8 hours ago, Todd Clippinger said:

I think what you are doing is pretty awesome, especially in that you have even focused on using a service staffed by vets to build the site to run this all from. 

 

Much respect! Good Luck!

 

If we're going to pay for any products or services to start this, I'd like as much of that cost to stay "local" in the vet community as is possible/practical. Happy Joe does great work, and they deserve our business.

Just a quick update. We published a video on our facebook page of the first "overview" of our nonprofit. If you have 24 minutes, check it out. https://www.facebook.com/vetwoodworksorg/   If you don't have that long, skip to 20:23