May 23, 201610 yr Good Monday Morning! And what a wonderful week we are heading into. Firstly, what have you been up to over the weekend, what accomplishments, or setbacks have you run into in your shop? Or in life! Whatever they may be we'd love to see some images and we'd love to read about your adventures over the weekend and for the week ahead. As far as your beloved Patriot Woodworker community is concerned we have a couple things brewing as of late. Just in case you have not noticed, over the last few months we have had a re-appearing link at the top of our navigation bar here on our website and it is titled "Wiki (Under Construction)". If you click on that link it will take you to The Patriot Woodwiki. This is our official wiki portal for our community here. We are finally coming down the home stretch to opening our knowledge base portal. The portal still needs some work, but we are on the way to opening soon. Here are a few links of interest: The Patriot Woodwiki What is a Wiki? The Patriot Woodwiki will be open to all for editing, collaboration, creation and sharing. The wiki is by default a software that allows anonymous entries and editing, so you don't even need to be signed in! In other words it's an open knowledge base open to the world. But, we do hope folks will sign in and leave their mark for the creations and editing they perform. Currently a separate sign in is required, but we are working on a single sign in, so if you login here at The Patriot Woodworker, or there at The Patriot Woodwiki, you'll be signed in to both. That will come later. Also We have fired up the MWTCA "What's It" campaign to help encourage membership and the preservation of historical hand tools and implements. More information can be found at the MWTCA topic here in our community. We will be coming up with the first What's It later this week! So stay tuned! So that is the excitement for us here in TPW, back to you, what's on your plate for the week and what did you do in your shop over the weekend? Have a terrific week!
May 23, 201610 yr Subbing again today. Being a sub, during the last week of school, is sorta like herding cats- especially a class full of 15 to 18 year olds. Off to fix a computer later on this evening. Hope to get some shop time later this week.
May 24, 201610 yr 12 hours ago, lew said: Subbing again today. Being a sub, during the last week of school, is sorta like herding cats- especially a class full of 15 to 18 year olds. Off to fix a computer later on this evening. Hope to get some shop time later this week. Ha! Was just talking to my brother, he is a construction trades teacher in Ohio and he made a comment about the kids in a certain situation was like herding cats. Pretty funny it came up twice in a couple of days in reference to school kids.
May 24, 201610 yr I have done a lot of work for the folks in this house over the years. They have several built-ins and cabinets that I have built. Their house was on the heritage home tour a few years ago which really shined a light on my work, which was nice. They asked me to install a new screen door, so I couldn't turn them down, they have just been such great customers. I had to make the opening fit the new screen door. The arch on the new door is perfect, so I used it as the standard to fair out the arch of the doorway which had lost it's shape over the years. After painting everything, I had to let the paint cure enough so the door would not bond to the doorway trim where it makes contact on the latch side. It shuts and latches perfectly, that is still just so satisfying. The clients are absolutely pleased. Edited May 24, 201610 yr by Todd Clippinger
May 24, 201610 yr Author 20 hours ago, lew said: Subbing again today. Being a sub, during the last week of school, is sorta like herding cats- especially a class full of 15 to 18 year olds. My condolences to you Lew!
May 24, 201610 yr Author 7 hours ago, Todd Clippinger said: I had to make the opening fit the new screen door. Todd, I have done a few entry ways this way for old Salvage doors the customers wanted installed into their entry ways. One of my most challenging jobs was making the entire entry way fit a door they had purchased at an antique salvage store, the door was about 140 years old and came off of a church back east, they had the door shipped out west. I had to rip out the existing entry way completely, and raise the entry way up for a new header, and then I roughed the entry way out with layers of bendable ply to get it close to the general shape of the door, then I was able to fine tune the fit with the door frame. After a lot of shimming and trial by error, and cursing, the door went in, and I must say it looked wonderful. I'll see if I can dig up some images of that old door, it was about 3" thick, and 8 feet tall. Ya, my back was never the same! Sorry for my long story, but I wanted to say, and let others know, that the intricacies of building a frame around a door are much more challenging than fitting a door to its frame when it comes to irregular shaped doors. Especially when your talking about entry doors with full weight and girth.
May 24, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, John Morris said: Todd, I have done a few entry ways this way for old Salvage doors the customers wanted installed into their entry ways. One of my most challenging jobs was making the entire entry way fit a door they had purchased at an antique salvage store, the door was about 140 years old and came off of a church back east, they had the door shipped out west. I had to rip out the existing entry way completely, and raise the entry way up for a new header, and then I roughed the entry way out with layers of bendable ply to get it close to the general shape of the door, then I was able to fine tune the fit with the door frame. After a lot of shimming and trial by error, and cursing, the door went in, and I must say it looked wonderful. I'll see if I can dig up some images of that old door, it was about 3" thick, and 8 feet tall. Ya, my back was never the same! Sorry for my long story, but I wanted to say, and let others know, that the intricacies of building a frame around a door are much more challenging than fitting a door to its frame when it comes to irregular shaped doors. Especially when your talking about entry doors with full weight and girth. That sounds like a pretty challenging job and the type that I tend to get myself into. The funny thing is I have always gravitated towards working on older homes rather than working on new, I enjoyed the challenge. It's easy building a new box with nobody living in it. Remodeling requires a skill set above and beyond what is needed for new construction. I would love to see any pictures of that project. Edited May 24, 201610 yr by Todd Clippinger
May 25, 201610 yr On vacation this week and traveling into Virginia for a few days. After that we are heading out and stoping by Black Dog Salvage then on to Nashville, Tn for the Flea Market then down to Huntsville to the Gun Show and home Sunday night. Hope you all have a great week. I am off to Monticello to see Thomas Jefferson's home. Later....
May 25, 201610 yr Author 12 minutes ago, John Moody said: I am off to Monticello to see Thomas Jefferson's home. Later.... LUCKY! You guys got all the good stuff on your side of the country!
May 25, 201610 yr Author 22 hours ago, Todd Clippinger said: That sounds like a pretty challenging job and the type that I tend to get myself into. The funny thing is I have always gravitated towards working on older homes rather than working on new, I enjoyed the challenge. It's easy building a new box with nobody living in it. Remodeling requires a skill set above and beyond what is needed for new construction. I would love to see any pictures of that project. Todd, when I was installing doors exclusively, half of my work was jobs like this, and when a potential customer contacted me one of the first things out of their mouth was, our contractor won't touch this, or, we can't find anyone who will do this. I know the reason, it's not that the contractor could not do it, but there just wasn't any money in it for them. But a one man show like myself with a Ford F-150 and a custom box in the bed with my door tools, I did pretty good. It was pretty cool, I had a pretty good reputation going on in San Diego as the guy who would install any door in any opening. It got to the point I was able to pull my ad from the newspaper, and rely only on word of mouth, and architectural salvage stores had my name on file and would give it out to their customers when they purchased salvaged doors from their business. I have photos I'll scan for some of those projects, I'll try to get to it soon and post here.
May 25, 201610 yr 9 minutes ago, John Morris said: Todd, when I was installing doors exclusively, half of my work was jobs like this, and when a potential customer contacted me one of the first things out of their mouth was, our contractor won't touch this, or, we can't find anyone who will do this. I know the reason, it's not that the contractor could not do it, but there just wasn't any money in it for them. But a one man show like myself with a Ford F-150 and a custom box in the bed with my door tools, I did pretty good. It was pretty cool, I had a pretty good reputation going on in San Diego as the guy who would install any door in any opening. It got to the point I was able to pull my ad from the newspaper, and rely only on word of mouth, and architectural salvage stores had my name on file and would give it out to their customers when they purchased salvaged doors from their business. I have photos I'll scan for some of those projects, I'll try to get to it soon and post here. That sounds a lot like the way my business runs.
May 25, 201610 yr 32 minutes ago, John Moody said: On vacation this week and traveling into Virginia for a few days. After that we are heading out and stoping by Black Dog Salvage then on to Nashville, Tn for the Flea Market then down to Huntsville to the Gun Show and home Sunday night. Hope you all have a great week. I am off to Monticello to see Thomas Jefferson's home. Later.... Sounds like an awesome trip! Have a safe one!
May 25, 201610 yr Author 1 minute ago, Todd Clippinger said: That sounds a lot like the way my business runs. I figured it did Todd. Our one man shops have a place in the dog eat dog world of home improvement don't we? I always felt like I was the sane one showing up at the doorstep of the customer during their huge home improvement undertaking, and I always felt like I was more than welcome into their home as they were dealing with the quick talking contractors.
May 25, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, John Morris said: LUCKY! You guys got all the good stuff on your side of the country! And I'm headed to California? This week is just nuts. The 100th running of the Indy 500 is Sunday and we are taking a young Japanese couple to the race. She was our exchange student about 20 years ago and she and her husband live in Columbus, Ohio so their family is staying the weekend and we're going racing. Side note: this is my 44th race. Next week is prep week for two weeks in Nevada and California. Whew, I'm tired already.
May 27, 201610 yr On May 25, 2016 at 9:27 AM, John Morris said: Yep, your coming to California! Are you and Ron going to get to meet up? We need to get you two together and a picture to prove it.
May 27, 201610 yr Author 58 minutes ago, John Moody said: Are you and Ron going to get to meet up? We need to get you two together and a picture to prove it. I hope so John! We are typically gone that week on vacation, we are working our angles for both events!
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