November 12, 20187 yr 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 Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools is being updated at light speed thanks to the great open source book Principles of Woodworking by Herman Hjorth. Also, the Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools has made it into our main navigation tab under "Wiki" at the top nav bar of our community. Just hover your cursor over "Wiki" for the drop down. As you all know by now, the wiki page for Glossary of Woodworking Terms is open for editing. Just visit the page, do not log in, it's not necessary, and hover your cursor over the down carrot symbol and click on "Edit", the page will then open for edit. Once you complete your edit, you'll be asked for a short description of what you did, simply enter into the field short terms such as "edit text", "added chisel", "corrected spelling", then you'll fill in the simple captcha anti spam robot field and submit, and your edit is recorded! Editing our Wiki Folks may be apprehensive about editing our wiki, I must admit when you open the page for edit it looks a tad strange. Just use the examples that are already there and you'll be fine. At this point we are using "wiki syntax". Soon I will open up the wiki with a standard windows style editor, but for now I am hoping folks will give the "wiki syntax" a chance as it's much more reliable because it's all "plain text" entries. Not too mention once you get used to it, it's quite fast too, since you are relying on text to create fonts, and bold lettering and underlines, it's actually much faster than having to highlite your word, and click on a formatting button as you do here in this forum. Here are a few examples of plain text entries for our wiki, and what those entries generate. The "Desired Formatting" is what you would like to see in your text, the "Syntax" is what you type, the "Result" is what you'll see once the page is saved. The Golden Rules of Editing our Wiki Really there are only two Golden Rules in wiki'ing. Be Bold! Be bold in your editing, be bold in your page creation, be bold in accepting others editing of your own personal work, and be bold in referencing and checking the facts. Be Creative! Don't be shy, and don't let the standards of wiki'ng stop you from editing or creating. Wiki's rely on research and references, in order to create content that is factually based. Our wiki should not contain content based on personal opinions, nor biased writings, but the wiki should be a source that readers can count on for factual statements about any given subject. Enter your content, enter you knowledge openly and freely, don't worry about the reference or research details if you don't have them, we can always come back and edit in those details later, so edit without fear! Creating and editing a wiki should be fun, since you cannot really damage a wiki page you should not worry if you are going to make a mistake or erroneously delete something that cannot be retrieved. The reason is that all wiki pages have a history, a history of edits and changes that can be recalled and re-established as a page. So if you accidentally destroy a wiki page, no worries! We can simply revert the prior page back to its former glory. So, create, edit, and just have fun! New Members Please welcome to our community, @therealwahnsinn, @AudioChris, @Harold Phair, @Skip Ellis, @MadJester, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured image Clarence Goddard, student from Lamar, Nebraska with deafblindness at Perkins Institution on the Glover Scholarship Fund. A class in Sloyd woodworking. Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA (1928) Ref: Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kh04dw97q>
November 12, 20187 yr Got nothing done in the shop. Spent the weekend with son and family. Son is doing a large landscaping project. He needed some large, flat stones to make some steps. We went rock hunting and found several. About 1500 lbs worth, he estimated. I'm glad he's unloading and setting them! This week will see the slab sled completed, the mesquite slab flattened, sanded and finished. Next on the list is to R&R the cutter in the planer. New Shelix head going in. That'll be enough for the week. If there is time left in the week, we'll start on the carving station. Edited November 12, 20187 yr by Gene Howe
November 12, 20187 yr Popular Post Spent 5 days last week at the MS AG Museum with the woodturning club. Had the best sales week ever and got 13 new contacts for the club newsletter. We have really high hopes for next year when we start having our meetings there. Working today but tomorrow start trying to get caught up in the shop. Got to get started on Christmas and get the drawers done for a lathe storage unit. Maybe we need to send @Stick486 a list. And we can start with Sticky Buns.
November 12, 20187 yr Weekend: Basically nada...watched the 125th Wabash-DePauw Monon Bell Classic D3 football game....Wabash squeaked out the win...Everyone here survived the"big dance." Weather was lousy Friday-Sunday nights with near record low temps. Week Ahead: More lousy weather forecast with snow and likely record low temps in the forecast so outside & garage/shop work on hold until further notice. Some errands to run and other normal stuff.
November 12, 20187 yr 3 cabinet frames built, sub-base built. made the sub-base too long (oops, will fix tomorrow), forgot to account for the baseboard on one end. floor is level (yay), so no shimming needed. next, work on 12 drawers. all the same size thankfully. ordered glides and pulls, should arrive next week, also need some 1/2 ply for the bottoms. chase that this week.
November 12, 20187 yr 8 hours ago, Stick486 said: can't come w/ anything to do... made a coconut cream pie...
November 12, 20187 yr Popular Post oh yeah... took two naps... kitchen work can really take it out of you...
November 12, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, Stick486 said: for what??? for you, me and that coconut creme pie?
November 13, 20187 yr 31 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said: for you, me and that coconut creme pie? oh that... (sigh) - wellllllll - (sigh)... I believe Schnooge, during my 1st nap ( @schnewj ) stopped in and ate the pie and the turnovers... A left behind licked clean pie pan and plate, his trade mark, is all that remains.... should never have told him I was just finishing up the pie... Edited November 13, 20187 yr by Stick486
November 13, 20187 yr 18 minutes ago, DAB said: pie?! i hope you brought enough for everyone Mr. Spicoli.... yup.. there's plenty... you just have to get it from Schnooge....
November 13, 20187 yr 41 minutes ago, Stick486 said: (sigh) - wellllllll - (sigh)... I believe Schnooge, during my 1st nap ( @schnewj ) stopped in and ate the pie and the turnovers... A left behind licked clean pie pan and plate, his trade mark, is all that remains.... should never have told him I was just finishing up the pie...
November 13, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Stick486 said: yup.. there's plenty... you just have to get it from Schnooge.... @Stick486 You mean there was plenty, remember the hard time my wife had getting her platters back?
November 13, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said: @Stick486 You mean there was plenty, remember the hard time my wife had getting her platters back? I stand corrected... .... WAS....
November 13, 20187 yr Popular Post Well John, I didn't get much done other than digging around in the archives. It's pretty tough digging, the grounds getting pretty hard, they've been buried for awhile.
November 13, 20187 yr Popular Post 1 hour ago, Stick486 said: I stand corrected... .... WAS.... Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp! Lord, I'm full...Sorry guy, the devil made me do it...
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