Good Monday Morning folks! We hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a safe one as well!

 

I was in the shop part of Saturday building a couple jigs for some up coming chairs I am making. The one main jig is called a Side Rung Mortising Jig for the back and front seat posts to accept the side rungs of the post and rung chairs at the correct angles. Here is a picture of the jig being used by the author of the book I am using as a guide called "Chair Making Simplified" by Kerry Pierce.

 

 

We also want to know in this topic, what did you all get done over the weekend! In life and in the wood shop, share your time with us here, and post some images of your work, or your travels!

 

Charles Nichols

Site Host Charles is still in the hospital and recovering from his surgeries, he has been plagued by issues for years and we all pray and hold him in our thoughts. He is not making it here too often these days but he is communicating with friends and family via Facebook, if you'd like to leave a message of good thoughts you can do that at his original post at Hospital Round Two or at his Facebook Page.

 

Our Wiki

The Patriot Woodwiki is shaping up, I am working on some templates that are pre-filled out for research page starters for each category. Our members and guests only need to enter the title of the research page they want to create, then click on the ready made template with headers and directions for creating a great wiki page, and that template will populate their article, and then they can manipulate the article as they see fit.

We also installed a wonderful interactive map for our wiki at Geolocated Wiki Pages. You can click on a red icon and see the link to the related wiki page. The red marker is placed in a specific location according to the wiki page content. If the page is about a person, the red marker will be in either the location they were born, or the location they died. If the wiki article is about a college for example the red marker will be in the location of the college. If you go to the map, see the red marker in Northern California, and click on the red marker to see a link to "College of the Redwoods".

 

Our Member Map

Our Member map has a new default look to it, you can see the satellite imagery of our world at Member Map. You can still view the world with borders, countries, and streets, but the new default imagery just makes it fun.

 

MWTCA

We also have a new MWTCA "What's It" for the month of July, check it out and try your hand at historical research into these fascinating old tools and implements, and win yourself a membership to the MWTCA while your at it!

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead and be well, and be safe!

 

 

That's a cool drilling jig, John. Several years ago, I made some chairs for the little girls next door. Practically every hole had a compound angle. I made this jig for drilling the seat and legs.

 

 

 

 

I think the technical name for this is a "sine plate".

 

I used the little red chair, in the background of the first picture, as a pattern. That chair belonged to my Dad when he was little.

Love the chair Lew!!! Nice lil red chair!

I like the adjustable jig, that is really cool and a great set up. A sine plate, never would have thought of calling it that! I had to take a second look, I finally see the compound angle that jig is set at. Nice job on indeed.