Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! February 25, 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, @junglejohn, @raymond, @amcelveen, @Linda Suttee, @doublej, @Sconner, @Tony2, @AnotherJim, @amyswhimzyfl, @Redleg1sg, @Rick, @alexckeplar, @Belg, 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

Sierra Juniper

The Sierra Juniper, long known as Western Juniper, or merely Juniper, is, when not suppressed by environment, bent or twisted on rocks and steep mountain sides, a sturdy grizzly of the high altitudes ranging in size from 40 to 80 feet high with a trunk diameter of from 16 to 40 inches. It is a slow-growing, long-lived tree. The crown is open and well-rounded but the limbs may extend almost to the ground. The trunk is chunky with straight grooves and ridges, is sometimes twisted and bent, has long strong roots, and frequently divides into huge upright limbs a few feet from the base. Read more...

 

California Juniper

The California Juniper is a low open, bushy, broad round-topped shrub or tree 15 to 30 feet tall with a short, thick thrunk 10 to 24 inches in diameter and deeply infolded or fluted. It is a shaggy looking tree, generally with greatly distorted heavy branches.The foliage is cedar-like; bristly, scaly, rigid and sharp-pointed, and a pale yellowish-green color. The juniper berries, which likewise mature in the second year, are a light-reddish-brown covered by a bluish-white bloom, larger than those of most of the other junipers. Read more...

 

Last but not least, the wiki page Glossary of Woodworking Terminology has been updated with new terms and is still an open edit page ready for you to edit, add, and even correct text or spelling errors.

 

Featured Topic

Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see.

 

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Featured Image

Kevin Watt, Wood Craft Center manager, and the wood-working camp participants pose for a photo after making their cutting boards at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, Aug. 11, 2017. The Youth Center partnered with the Wood Craft Center to host a total of two, week-long wood working camps to offer the classes to more kids. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño)

Source: Youth Center hosts first-ever woodworking camp

[lew]

Kids look like they had a great time!

 

Way to go @Gerald for the "Our Picks" nod!

[Stick486]

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

 

Featured Image

KUDOS to the kids...

[Stick486]

[HandyDan]

Doing some more reorganizing.  I want to do a couple bowls but haven't got myself resigned to it yet.

[Stick486]

5 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

I want to do a couple bowls

that's why those special containers...

 

[Gene Howe]

Waiting for the ice to melt off the roads so I can go to town to pick up a pkg. Hope it's my router bits and not another cross stitch pattern or quilting book.

[Harry Brink]

It's been snowing all weekend so no wood wood working. -2* now.

Over the weekend had 2 water main breaks about a block from us. Water from the first one came roaring down the alley and collected along the basement wall. Had about 1/2" that I used the shop vac on and moved stuff to higher ground.

Early Sunday morning it broke again but closer this time! More water but most everything was already moved.

It came thru the neighbors yard, down the stairs and a bigger area this time! Had a 3" water mark on the garage door and the wheels on the car was up to the rim!

The garage is a sheet of ice. Haven't gone in yet to check it out but the dog tried and slid out. The only thing on the floor is some wood.

Insurance company and the city have been contacted so we'll see what happens.

[Stick486]

17 minutes ago, Harry Brink said:

2 water main breaks about a block from us.

OUCH!!!

[HandyDan]

Not good Harry.  I hope they don't hand you that "Act of God" crap.

[HARO50]

Too windy to stand up outside, but tomorrow will probably look like this again!

When I decide to finish, I do it in a BIG way! That WILL be the last coat, though!

John

[doublej]

Two feet of snow dumped here last night "Central Oregon" more to come. Need to get out and dig a path to the woodshop.

[Ron Dudelston]

It was windy as all get out yesterday but has subsided and turned cold.  I’m completing a pair of oak and walnut flag cases and just started a California king bed for a customer.  Trying to figure out how I’ll make faux shiplap on the headboard and foot.  Any ideas?

[doublej]

John about your post on the Western Juniper, I live in Central Oregon where this tree is very common. It's a soft wood with a lot of character that I'll turn with. Our local Government has many of them cut down citing that one plant can suck up to 40 gallons of water a day while drying out surrounding vegetation. "The goal is to nudge parts of the high desert back into a sagebrush-dominated ecosystem that provides habitat for sage grouse and room for quaking aspen, bitterbrush, mountain mahogany and other species that juniper has elbowed out." Quote from The Oregonian. Just a little of of whats happening to the Western Juniper here.

[Gene Howe]

Got to town to pick up the pkg. It wasn't sewing patterns, nor was it my router bits. It was a generous gift from a good friend. 

The road to town was clear. But, our drive...and the rest of the acreage still has a good 10" of un melted snow. When I got back to our gate I put the truck in 4WD. Got within 100 feet of the house and, got stuck. Had to lock the front hubs and, even then it was iffy. Shoulda stayed in the tracks I made going out. But, what's the fun in that?

[Dadio]

So it really does Snow in Snowflake!!!!!! I bet the sun shining on the snow is blinding.

Just saying,

Herb

[Gerald]

Thanks for the nod John. Is this furniture place run by Monks? Seems Wood had a piece many years ago about Monks making coffins .

[Dadio]

1 hour ago, doublej said:

John about your post on the Western Juniper, I live in Central Oregon where this tree is very common. It's a soft wood with a lot of character that I'll turn with. Our local Government has many of them cut down citing that one plant can suck up to 40 gallons of water a day while drying out surrounding vegetation. "The goal is to nudge parts of the high desert back into a sagebrush-dominated ecosystem that provides habitat for sage grouse and room for quaking aspen, bitterbrush, mountain mahogany and other species that juniper has elbowed out." Quote from The Oregonian. Just a little of of whats happening to the Western Juniper here.

SO the Idiots are going to cut down the trees to save water HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

I remember in 1954, driving down from WA to Bend OR on a fishing trip to Lake Paulina, we smelled cat pee for miles before we hit Bend Ore. Found out it was all the junipers along the road.LMAO.

Herb

[doublej]

I'll take all that free wood I can get thank you. Cat pee that smell was roses! You guys got hit pretty hard with this weather also didn't you?

[Dadio]

1 minute ago, doublej said:

I'll take all that free wood I can get thank you. Cat pee that smell was roses! You guys got hit pretty hard with this weather also didn't you?

You will have to go west to Portland to smell the roses. heehee

Herb