What's happening

It's starting to feel like our life is settling down to a dull roar, and the suggestions and projects our members here have suggested are starting to come back to the top of our priority list, we need to move forward on these suggestions and seriously consider them as add-ons into our community.

Below please see a list of pending projects as submitted by you for our consideration.

 

Projects

• Clubs, (separate departments for woodworking clubs) (On Hold)
• Forms, (create forms accessible by you, in order to create tools, supplies, and machinery reviews) (On Hold)
• Add images of "What's It" to the main winners board, so they can be easily searchable for future detectives. (Complete)
• Main landing page for The Patriot Woodworker (Complete)
• Wiki website for The Patriot Woodworker (Complete)
• Polls (Done and thank you @Fred W. Hargis Jr !)

 

Added by your feedback below

• How to Articles Department (Looking for volunteers)
• Wood Swap Department (@Gene Howe are you still interested in this?)

 

Your feedback

Your feedback on any of the items above are greatly appreciated, and if you want to add anything to our wish list of additional departments, features, or anything you like from another forum, that you don't see here, please list them in your post to this topic, and I'll add them to our dream list under "Projects" above.

 

Thanks folks, and I look forward to seeing what you all come up with.

The only one that comes to mind was Fred's suggestion that the ability to set up a poll was not included.

An ability to poll the membership on a variety of subjects would be a plus. As an example if I was looking to buy a band saw I could poll the membership to see what is the most popular model, pros/cons of a model, or any of a dozen other things to help me choose. How about best lathe, turning tools, how-to articles, information of interests...lots of things.

On another thread, I suggested a wood sample swap. Don't know if it would need a separate dept. But, the logistics might need some sort of forum framework.

Gene I remember around 1955 the furniture store I worked at had a very large wood sample kit for their customers to choose from...Constantine was the name..After I got out of the army in 1960 I ordered one . Seems like it had 50 samples but the furniture store had one with maybe 100 samples..

  I just now googled them and they still have samples to sell.. These are good for a person moving up in the world to learn what a person sleeps on and rocks on and so on...

    I decided back then I could not afford the exotic stuff so a little stain would be the way I would go..

 

Suggestions added above.

23 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

Gene I remember around 1955 the furniture store I worked at had a very large wood sample kit for their customers to choose from...Constantine was the name..After I got out of the army in 1960 I ordered one . Seems like it had 50 samples but the furniture store had one with maybe 100 samples..

  I just now googled them and they still have samples to sell.. These are good for a person moving up in the world to learn what a person sleeps on and rocks on and so on...

    I decided back then I could not afford the exotic stuff so a little stain would be the way I would go..

 

Long time ago...a few moves ago...I had one of those Constantine samples. Like you, I just used stains. 

I was thinking of swapping samples of local woods not normally found in a hardwood store or lumber yard. Mesquite comes to mind. As does Salt Cedar or Tamarack and Pistachio, as well as olive wood and sage.

Your idea is great if everyone wold make the same sizes and thicknesses but probably not everyone has the ability to resaw and plane flat and sand smooth like Constantine's set would be.

On 3/14/2018 at 10:36 PM, John Morris said:

Add images of "What's It" to the main winners board, so they can be easily searchable for future detectives.

Done, and strike through in list at this topic.

 

Bump to the top.

@John Morris, late response but yeah a wood swap might be fun.