September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Sitka Spruce, another spruce in the (conifers) family, often growing upwards of 200' or more, with it's very prickly foliage, this majestic tree is also a favorite of woodworkers and luthiers alike, piano sounding boards are made from Sitka as well. Sitka was also used in the early days of flight, an airplanes structure was made from Sitka. Check out our newest addition to The American Woods category. Image properties New Members Please welcome @john768765 to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured Topic @Gerald has been getting creative with his laminated boxes, excellent! Featured Image of the Week Turning workshop in the Bomann Museum Celle Attribution: By Hajotthu [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
September 10, 20187 yr On our trip to Alaska last June, we saw many stools, benches chairs and boxes made with Sitka spruce. Amazingly clear, as in knotand defect free. Beautiful but, subdued grain. And so smooth to the touch. All we saw was unstained. The natural color is a seemingly deeper light yellow than we're accustomed to in most pine. I'll bet Kelly and Herb can find it local to them but, I haven't seen any for sale out here in the desert.
September 10, 20187 yr making a printer stand this week. pre-finished maple plywood (leftover from bookcases).
September 10, 20187 yr Author 1 hour ago, Gene Howe said: ? Kitchen Police. Military jargon. We all pulled it.
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post Got it. Only pulled that duty once, in Basic. Peeled potatoes. Sargent asked me who was going to peel my peelings.
September 10, 20187 yr Monday? Grrrrrr,,Doctor's visit...the office was 40 miles away, one way.....turned out to be a Wellness Check Up....see ya in 6 months. We'll see how things go after Lunch has settled....debating on doing a bit of work in the shop....though not quite as much as yesterday.... Got out of KP in basic ( both times) by having to go to the ranges...have pulled many of a Chow Line Head count duty....
September 10, 20187 yr went to cut down a sheet of glass to frame a picture. cracked it in the corner. trash. in digging thru some stuff, i found 2 more sheets! one already cracked. trash. the other ok. go to cut it down. cracked it in the corner. trash. Homey Depot visit tomorrow after dentist, get 2 more sheets....sigh.
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post 2 hours ago, John Morris said: Kitchen Police. Military jargon. We all pulled it. been experimenting... came up w/ some fairly tasty items... also seem to have created a new element for the periodic table...
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post 29 minutes ago, Stick486 said: been experimenting... came up w/ some fairly tasty items... also seem to have created a new element for the periodic table... I have built them off and on over the years. (periodic tables). Herb
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post 1 hour ago, DAB said: went to cut down a sheet of glass to frame a picture. cracked it in the corner. trash. in digging thru some stuff, i found 2 more sheets! one already cracked. trash. the other ok. go to cut it down. cracked it in the corner. trash. Homey Depot visit tomorrow after dentist, get 2 more sheets....sigh. You cut glass like I don't anymore gave up on that years ago,it is in my journal under "forget about it". Herb
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post Rained all weekend; in between the rains, it rained. Managed to sneak in a couple naps though and watched a little college football. Normal stuff...now that the monsoon season has subsided, mow & trim; once that's done then I'll trim & mow; Oh yeah, pick up all the sticks & small limbs that came down during all the wind and rain. That's more fun now...the dog enjoys making games of it.
September 10, 20187 yr It was indeed soggy this weekend, and if you don't follow football you were pooped out of luck on TV. If it ever dries out the yard will take a day and 1/2 to mow. All that and I see there's another hurricane headed for the central east coast...just might effect some of us midwesterners.
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post I used to do that, Trim and mow, since I downsized to a small yard I pay a guy to take care of it all the mowing trimming,weeding the flower beds trimming the trees,disposing of the yard waste. He charges me $30. every time he comes,old white haired retired guy making his poker money, him and his handicapped adult son. I raid the lawn maintenance fund to pay him and still come out ahead at the end of the year. Herb
September 10, 20187 yr Popular Post third time was the charm. picture all framed up. no cracked glass. now to box it up and ship it 2000 miles. UPS is very gentle, right?
September 10, 20187 yr Subbing 3 days this week. Getting the sump pump ready for the basement pool in anticipation of Florence. We've already had over 4" of rain since Saturday and folks down the hill are already pumping water.
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