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, @Wout Moerman, @Paul M, @sweensdv, @KenF, @ChandraB, @morrgan23, 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

 

Wiki | Southern Waxmrytle

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The following pages are open edit, you do not need to be logged in to edit.

• Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools
• Glossary of Woodworking Joints
• Glossary of Woodworking Machinery
• Glossary of Woodworking Terminology
• Green Woodworking

 

Member Wiki Contributions

Awhile back I put out a call to receive your projects made from Pecan wood. @Gerald came to the rescue with his wonderful pecan turnings. I've started uploading his files to our wiki and using them in our wiki page for Pecan, please see page, and thank you Gerald!

 

Wiki | Pecan

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Our Featured topic by @Mark Wilson 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 for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see.

 

Army Veteran Mark Wilson is one of The Patriot Woodworker's gold standard members, Mark is sight challenged, blind, and he works the wood with a passion and love for the art that is evident by his motivation and "never give up" attitude that made Mark a true soldier, and a great woodworker. Thank you Mark for sharing your work with us!

 

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What is Green Woodworking? By Peter Follansbee

"The ease of working green wood is one of the benefits of working this way; it cuts much easier than wood that has lost most of its moisture. As wood dries, it becomes tougher & tougher to cut. That green wood can be easily riven along its fibers is an additional benefit; with a carefully selected tree, you can produce your rough-dimensioned stock quickly & easily right from the log – with a good deal of careful practice. Once the log is on the ground, one person can reduce the log into working stock right where it was felled, if needed. Working just with wedges, maul, maybe a hatchet here & there, and a saw for some cross-cuts, splitting stock out is very appealing work. It’s very physical, gets you outdoors, working in the woodpile or woods, instead of inside the shop. The other day I was working some stock outside on the best type of New England day there is, cool fall weather, golden sunshine filtering through the last few leaves on the maples…" Quote by Peter Follansbee

 

Thanks John. Got the folding display case done Friday and ready for paint. Woodturners meeting Saturday and just getting my gogo back. Today plan to start roughing out some platter blanks before they start cracking bad.

Overrun with relatives this week.

Did turn the lathe on for a few minutes to do some work on a spalted maple bowl that should have gone to the burn pile but I have too much time and CA invested to give up!

 

Found this on the inside, near the bottom, gonna have to be stabilized and filled-

I have 3 funerals this week.  Nuff said there.

Finished sink cabinet. Have some blanks to turn for my friend from Bosnia.

 

 

Managed to get about 6" of snlush cleaned up before the freeze.

Still in slow motion. 

Now need to fix 3 out of 4 snow blowers. 

Trying to get a box done....

Lid was cut to size, today...drawer is now in the clamps for a day..

 

I get to see the Kidney Doctor tomorrow afternoon...been being worst than a racehorse....and getting cramps from it....