Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! February 4, 2019

[John Morris]

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! 

 

New Members

Please welcome to our community, @Mark King, @Woodnut, @mtstew123, @SLOWURROLL, @Hammersnchisels, @b_neum, 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!

 

New Wiki Pages

• Eastern Redcedar: Eastern Redcedar is usually a medium sized tree from 20 to 50 feet high with a short trunk one to two feet in diameter. Some trees have been found 120 feet high and four feet in diameter. The tree grows rather slowly. The bark is very thin, light-reddish-brown, and from one-eighth to one-quarter inch thick. It is shreddy and peels off in narrow shaggy strips. Because of its reddish bark and wood the Canadian French called the Eastern Redcedar “baton rouge,” meaning red stick, (read more...)

Note: The wiki page Eastern Redcedar contains for the first time within our wiki, a Patriot Woodworkers image of their own work to demonstrate the "wood" of this species! @John Moody as we all know makes his Green Egg Tables from Eastern Red Cedar, so we featured his work within the wiki page. Neat!

• United States of America (State Trees) is a sortable table of our nations adopted trees by state. This page is under construction, so it's a tad ugly, but if you ever wanted to know the state trees, well here they are! To sort, just click on the heading of each column to sort by. (read more...)

 

Featured Topic

 

Featured Image

Harpers Ferry Armory gunsmith shop had machines for production of the lock, the stock and the barrel. The machines are from 1850's and are all powered by water. The power is transmitted to the machine by a set of pulleys and leather belts. This machine is a Duplicating or Blanchard lathe used to create stock identical to a pattern.

Attribution: Jarek Tuszyński [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

 

[Gene Howe]

I always wondered how Baton Rouge, LA got it's name. Even the natives I asked didn't know. 

[lew]

@John Morris I was wondering if the Wiki pages were getting any hits. I see you have posted links on social media.

[Gene Howe]

After using @hatuffej's posted calculator, I think I'd better shake a leg and get this coping sled done before my time is up. Done with all the measuring and cutting and re measuring and re cutting. Dry fit went well. Some glue up to do then, some holes to bore and, final assembly before it's maiden voyage. Pics to come...if I remember.

[Stick486]

15 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

After using @hatuffej's posted calculator,

after finding out I persevered 3,745 Mondays...

what's one more...

[Gary Hanscom]

Just about ready to start the finishing process on my daughters kitchen island. Got all the major assembly done, doors and butcher block done and all with final sanding. Hardware in hand and tested. Thinking of a couple of shellac coats on the cabinet part followed by water based poly...never used that before. Mineral oil for the top to be the last step. 

Gary

[HandyDan]

Spent some time with my brother Saturday and then played around with some .30-06 shells and Zebra pens.  Check them out here.

 

 

[DAB]

3 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Spent some time with my brother Saturday and then played around with some .30-06 shells and Zebra pens.  Check them out here.

 

 

i was reloading some 30-06 ammo last week, came across about 40 cases that had crimped primers and red lacquer sealant on the primers.  tried to de-cap one, bent the decapping pin, gave up on those.  they are destined for the scrap bin.  old military cases.  not worth the hassle and extra decapping pins.

[Stick486]

17 minutes ago, DAB said:

i was reloading some 30-06 ammo last week, came across about 40 cases that had crimped primers and red lacquer sealant on the primers.  tried to de-cap one, bent the decapping pin, gave up on those.  they are destined for the scrap bin.  old military cases.  not worth the hassle and extra decapping pins.

maybe Dan could use them???

[HandyDan]

21 minutes ago, DAB said:

i was reloading some 30-06 ammo last week, came across about 40 cases that had crimped primers and red lacquer sealant on the primers.  tried to de-cap one, bent the decapping pin, gave up on those.  they are destined for the scrap bin.  old military cases.  not worth the hassle and extra decapping pins.

 

I drill the top out to a 5/16 hole so if maybe we could make a deal as long as they are not dinged up.  Small scratches can be sanded out.  Or maybe you want to make some.  I can give you the particulars.

Edited February 4, 2019 by HandyDan

[DAB]

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

 

I drill the top out to a 5/16 hole so if maybe we could make a deal as long as they are not dinged up.  Small scratches can be sanded out.  Or maybe you want to make some.  I can give you the particulars.

let me go take a look at them.  if you'll cover shipping, you can have them.  i have several hundred loaded rounds, these were the last to get reloaded, as i suspected they would be problem children.  BRB....

[HandyDan]

1 minute ago, DAB said:

let me go take a look at them.  if you'll cover shipping, you can have them.  i have several hundred loaded rounds, these were the last to get reloaded, as i suspected they would be problem children.  BRB....

Gladly cover the shipping.  Let me know.

[DAB]

43 is the count.  all once fired military as far as i can tell.  or in 3 cases, never fired (the primer is still unstruck).  various head stamps and dates, including LC72, IK, OJP58, LC69.

 

LC is Lake City Arsenal, i'm not familiar with the others.  Likely foreign head stamps.  a little googling should find them.

 

if you want them, and promise to reimburse for actual shipping costs (unknown at this time, we'll know when my wife comes back from the PO later in the week on her errand day).  less than $10,  you may have these and enjoy them.  PM your snail mail addy.  (sadly, you cannot email physical objects).

[FlGatorwood]

You may have to pin 3 before mailing them.  The 2 on the left and the one on the right should be fired so there is no possibility of a tiny fire or explosion.  Just saying.  They will ask you the question at the PO or UPS.  

[DAB]

38 minutes ago, FlGatorwood said:

You may have to pin 3 before mailing them.  The 2 on the left and the one on the right should be fired so there is no possibility of a tiny fire or explosion.  Just saying.  They will ask you the question at the PO or UPS.  

Yup. 

 

In a PM related that same plan. Will fire the 3 live ones tomorrow. 

[HandyDan]

Thanks Douglas.  I look forward to getting them.  Much appreciated. 

[Gerald]

14 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

I always wondered how Baton Rouge, LA got it's name. Even the natives I asked didn't know. 

Not so Gene.

How did Baton Rouge LA get its name?

The present name of the city, however, dates back to 1699, when French explorers noted a red cypress tree stripped of its bark that marked the boundary between Houma and Bayou Goula tribal hunting grounds. They called the tree "le baton rouge," or red stick. The native name for the site had been Istrouma.

Baton Rouge: History - French Settlers Found City, Capital City ...

 

www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-South/Baton-Rouge-History.html

[FlGatorwood]

Baton Rouge was once a part of the Florida territory.  When Alabama became a state in about 1825, they requested a piece of Florida territory to have access to the bay as the river drained into it and gave access to the Gulf.  Then Mississippi took another portion of Florida territory.  When the Native Americans wanted to unite with Florida territory, there was an uprising.  Many streets and roads in Baton Rouge bear Florida names.  This is what I remember from about 1959 and 1960 American history.  

[John Morris]

14 hours ago, lew said:

@John Morris I was wondering if the Wiki pages were getting any hits. I see you have posted links on social media.

Well Lew, just like any adventure that requires patience and hard work, it's very slow going. For example the pages listed above in the original topic received 96 hits today, 75% from the US, 12.5% from Switzerland, and 12.5% from Israel.

It's not the best numbers, but in all honesty to myself and no illusions on my part, the wiki itself is in a state of construction and will be for a long time, before folks decide that it actually contains value and knowledge they can benefit from. There are so many categories in the wiki that are empty, so when folks go to our wiki, they are met with a website lacking much information in many of the categories, but for the Wood category that I have been focusing on.

I suppose when I am finally able to stream line the editing process for casual users to contribute, then we'll hopefully see some excitement around it.

 

The bottom line is this, I don't worry about the numbers, just like I never did for The Patriot Woodworker, I am not a slave to the analytics of this community nor the wiki, I really don't care about numbers as far as visits go, or hits, or clicks, and the main reason is, I don't get paid for any of this work, between The Patriot Woodworker and The Patriot Woodwiki. Since I don't get paid, I don't stress over numbers, it's not a living, it's a mission, and one that I enjoy. That being said, from time to time on occasion, I will check into the analytics of our community and wiki, especially when I have to go to our sponsors once a year with hat in hand, and asking, begging for another year of sponsorship to pay for our software, licensing and hosting fees and much more in order to keep us viable and strong, so I need to report the official annual numbers to them, because pragmatically, their sponsorship must make sense for them, they love our mission and cause, but they also have a product to sell, along with employees and families to feed, and we respect that deeply.

 

I know folks who own websites and stress really bad over analytics and hits and clicks, all that advertising that creates money by folks clicking on the ads, those sites rely on income, and they are very anal over hits and clicks, but for us, my friend, we are just cruising along without a care, other than whether or not our friends here are happy and content with this community, and eventually our wiki. And as long as you all are happy, and as long as our sponsors are happy, and you all support our sponsors, then life is good.

 

I know you did not ask for this long winded explanation Lew, but I just felt like typing tonight.

Thanks for asking Lew.

[Gene Howe]

Thanks, @Gerald. That makes sense.