Good Monday Morning!

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many of us get to stay home from work today, I am one of them. To view a brief history of the man, please see Martin Luther King Jr. (A history.com page) We also happen to have a scroll saw pattern of this historical giant in our American culture.

So I'll get to the point of this weekly topic, What did you get done in your shops over the weekend, and what plans have you for the week ahead?

We've seen some great projects the past week, so we know your all busy and productive in your shops. This topic is a great place for a weekly check in, to show us what you have been up too, so please post away, images, projects, life, family, it does not have to be woodworking related, did you take a vacation? Did you see a great movie? Anything!

 

Personally I was able to make it out to the shop yesterday and cobble together a weaved seat for the shaker stool I built a couple weeks ago. As some of you may know I had a little accident running up my stairs here at home, and I fell up the stairs and banged up my wrist pretty good. It was quite the challenge holding parts of the weave material with a bad hand and shoving the weave through with the good hand, but I got her done! You can see the stool in the Gallery.

 

Adopt-a-Family Debrief

Our 2017 Adopt-a-Warrior-Family for Christmas project has wound down, the last check of the raffle proceeds is going out to the Akin family, ma and pa Akin will have enough in the last disbursement to hire a babysitter and head out for a much needed night together and have a nice dinner. At least that is what I'll suggest they do, but more than likely they'll use if for the kids. The details and breakdown of the project and financial statement will be available this week. We'll post it in a separate topic from the project topic.

 

Leaderboard

Check out your Leader Board for some interesting statistics, it's always fun to see who or what is moving and shaking in our community.

 

Featured blog

Please check out Gerald's wonderful blog on building a cherry entertainment center!

 

Thank you

I'd like to thank everyone here who comes into our little home away from home who contributes and participates in our topics in all the areas of our woodworking community website.

Our website is a tool for woodworkers to share their knowledge, lend council to other woodworkers, and to share our projects with each other. It's always nice to get an atta boy isn't it? Without you, the contributor, we don't have a community, it's because of your contributions that we are growing and becoming stronger and we are in turn able to provide some help in some way to the men and women who have served our nation. Without you, we don't have sponsors, without our sponsors, we don't have funding to stay live and aid those we can. Remember, this is a truly non profit community, nobody on our staff pockets a single penny, not even yours truly, all proceeds are used to fund our community, keep it live, and help our veterans.

Thank you for that folks!

 

Eye candy image of the week

In honor of the Holiday today, I found this image of a group of boys working together in 1939 at "Dobbins Vocational School - Class in soldering. [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]", it's not woodworking, it's metal working, but it shows the boys working together, a moving picture I feel, and symbolic.

_{New York Public Library Collection}

 

 

 

 

enjoyed the winter weather...

2 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

enjoyed the winter weather...

Our version of winter here in So Cal Stick is rain, and we are getting it! I hope this continues so we can fill our local mountains with snow pack and our rivers with water. I envy your winters Stick, the images you've shown are absolutely incredible.

Survived two rounds of freezing rain over the weekend

Attend H.S. Swim Conference Finals this PM; oldest grand-daughter swimming 4 events

Remainder of week; family matters & business...

7 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

oldest grand-daughter swimming 4 events

How'd she do Dave?

I did manage to go to the shop for alittle bit and start cleaning. 

Getting the wood around for my next project.

Going to Menards today to get some nails and screws then it's time to build. 

Got most of the materials cut and milled for the Communion table. Need to head off to the mill for a piece of birch plywood and a couple of other things.

17 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Attend H.S. Swim Conference Finals this PM; oldest grand-daughter swimming 4 events

and.....................

13 minutes ago, John Morris said:

How'd she do Dave?

Meet was rescheduled from Saturday to today due to the ice storm

She's qualified for (4) events...50 & 100 freestyle; seeded 16th & 15th, but hey she made the finals...not bad for a sophomore

By default & regular season times to date, the two relay teams she participates on 200 & 400 freestyle have made the finals; not sure of seed positions

ISHAA restricts participants from participating in more than (4) events per meet/day

Her team is 7-0-1 in dual meets & 2-1 in triple meets so far on the season

Thanks for asking

 

Edited January 16, 20179 yr by Grandpadave52

@Grandpadave52 that is awesome!!!! Making the finals is an accomplishment, a big one, especially in swimming. That is one of the most demanding sports on the face of this earth. If you got the time Dave, can you please explain 7-0-1?

1 minute ago, John Morris said:

@Grandpadave52 that is awesome!!!! Making the finals is an accomplishment, a big one, especially in swimming. That is one of the most demanding sports on the face of this earth. If you got the time Dave, can you please explain 7-0-1?

(7) wins, (0) losses & (1) tie...No provisions for a "tie-breaker" in team point scored meets or individual events

Even after 5 years now I'm still trying to learn the in/outs of swim meet scoring; was new to me; dual, triple meets and invitational/multi-team events all score points differently; fortunately there is an APP suscription that is real time for each meet & event

I know basketball, football, wrestling; baseball...finally learned tennis when daughter played in H.S.; oldest grand-daughter also plays H.S. tennis

2 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

(7) wins, (0) losses & (1) tie...No provisions for a "tie-breaker" in team point scored meets or individual events

Thanks Dave, I get lost too in the acronyms and scoring of almost every sport. I can follow Baseball, ya, baseball, the ball gets hit, a man comes into home, a point is scored, that's an easy one for me.

Nada accomplished this weekend. My get up and go done got up and went.

Don't watch a lot of sports but the scoring of most of the olympic type events and tennis has me totally baffled. Any sport or competition that relies on the subjective opinion of judges is incomprehensible to me. Style points??? What's that all about?

Ugly views outside the window, about as ugly as the view in the mirror.    Learned the hard way, do NOT work in the woodshop on Mondays....bad things happen...

OUTSTANDING Gramps...

1 minute ago, Stick486 said:

OUTSTANDING Gramps...

Thanks...she does all the work...I mainly am there for support & transportation services...

The 6 AM practices are the worst...don't know how she feels about them

I have been spending much time at my band saw scrolling with a 1/8" blade. Been cutting out 3 dimensional deer----using the technique in which a pattern is glued to the wood block and the companion pattern is glued at 90 degrees----cut one side----tape pieces together---turn 90 degrees and cut companion pattern and voila a deer with fine rack appears as if by magic. Lots of work cleaning up saw marks and attaching a base. Probably made about 50 so far in the last 2 years. The finished product brings the usual responds "how did they do that?"   One of my major interests is repurposing redwood. All my cutouts are made of this amazing wood. All of my redwood is reclaimed from fences,decks etc---All off which exceed  60+ years old. Works for me.

25 minutes ago, Marv Rall said:

Works for me.

Me too! That is great Marv.

I love re-purposed projects like this.

1 hour ago, Marv Rall said:

I have been spending much time at my band saw scrolling with a 1/8" blade. Been cutting out 3 dimensional deer----using the technique in which a pattern is glued to the wood block and the companion pattern is glued at 90 degrees----cut one side----tape pieces together---turn 90 degrees and cut companion pattern and voila a deer with fine rack appears as if by magic. Lots of work cleaning up saw marks and attaching a base. Probably made about 50 so far in the last 2 years. The finished product brings the usual responds "how did they do that?"   One of my major interests is repurposing redwood. All my cutouts are made of this amazing wood. All of my redwood is reclaimed from fences,decks etc---All off which exceed  60+ years old. Works for me.

The deer cutouts sound really neat!!

Have you posted this that I can see what it looks like?

49 minutes ago, LarryS said:

The deer cutouts sound really neat!!

Have you posted this that I can see what it looks like?

I would love to see a picture of that too.