Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! August 8th, 2022

[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!

 

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Mid Year Fundraiser is Wrapped Up! 

If you have not already, visit the project and see our prize recipients! Thank you all once again for all your support, without you and our generous sponsors, we would not exist as a woodworking community, thank you!

 

Featured topic

@aaronc has made some progress on his powder horn!

 

Featured link

Our own Patriot Woodworker @4DThinker has a wonderful blog, please check it out.

 

Featured download

By Workbench Magazine's November-December 1967 issue, still stylish today.

 

Featured video

Just a really neat and quick video on making "A Box", by Tom Fidgen.

 

[lew]

Funerals this week.

Edited August 8, 2022 by lew

[Grandpadave52]

Managed to get 95% of yard mowed, some of roadsides. Still need to finish fence rows and part of roadside ditches. Gotta cool some. Mrs. is home today thus today's plans TBD. Online auction PU tomorrow; only about 5 miles away...no tools in this one. Church business meetings Tuesday & Wednesday evenings.

 

Rear shocks to replace on oldest granddaughters car, various other projects to choose from. Still working on revamping all the to-do lists. So far, I've created several new lists establishing the sequence and priority to attack the current lists. Very exhausting process.

[Gunny]

Busy as usual.  Fixing roof on this extra storage building.  Tree dropped a branch through it. It landed in such a way you could not see it from ground. Found floor wet yesterday morning.  Yeah fun stuff.

 

[kmealy]

Helped a friend put together a base for a "wishing well" for his front yard.  Basically, two "donuts" of PT 3/4" plywood and 12 PT 1x2 slats going between them.  Would have been a lot easier if the plywood was a little drier and not like a Pringle after we got it cut.  But we got it wrestled into position.  He'd changed the outside diameter on me and another 1/16" of an inch and it would not have fit out the door.  Just got it loaded and it started pouring rain.

[Larry Buskirk]

Monday 

 

 I'll have to think about that, might have an answer for you tomorrow. 

 

[Grandpadave52]

2 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Monday 

 

 I'll have to think about that, might have an answer for you tomorrow. 

 

Procrastinating will not reduce the pain of Monday...FWIW, neither will booze...still feel miserable come Tuesday morning.

[Larry Buskirk]

1 minute ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Procrastinating will not reduce the pain of Monday...FWIW, neither will booze...still feel miserable come Tuesday morning.

 

One Tequila, Two Tequilas, Three Tequilas, FLOOR.

[HARO50]

4 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Procrastinating will not reduce the pain of Monday...FWIW, neither will booze...still feel miserable come Tuesday morning.

VOE?

[Grandpadave52]

1 hour ago, HARO50 said:

VOE?

I can't seem to recall. Do you have a 5th Ammendment up there? We do so I'm invoking my right to plead it.

[HARO50]

1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I can't seem to recall. Do you have a 5th Ammendment up there? We do so I'm invoking my right to plead it.

If you took the whole fifth, no wonder you can't remember!

[Gerald]

37 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

If you took the whole fifth, no wonder you can't remember!

Now you know that Dave would share his fifth if that was all he had.

 

Bought a brace for the knee and that was an improvement on how it feels at least.

Edited August 9, 2022 by Gerald

[Grandpadave52]

19 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Now you  know that Dave would share his fifth if that was all he had.

22 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Bought a brace for the knee and that was an improvement on how it feels at least.

Have you ever tried THIS Gerald? My wife has tried many things but says this really helps her. She had both knees scoped many years ago and both were basically bone to bone then. There likely will be a time when replacement(s) is the final solution but she says she's holding out until there's no other alternative.

[Gerald]

2 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Have you ever tried THIS Gerald? My wife has tried many things but says this really helps her. She had both knees scoped many years ago and both were basically bone to bone then. There likely will be a time when replacement(s) is the final solution but she says she's holding out until there's no other alternative.

Have not yet but planned to get some when this brace did so much good might wait

[Cal]

I was called for (grand) jury duty yesterday and today.

Did get some yard mowed yesterday and should finish it up this evening unless we run late.  Small town, small county - we ought to finish up early

This is the first time I have served on any type of jury.  Have been called once for regular jury duty but the case was settled while we were sitting in the courtroom waiting to see who was actually selected, actually even before that - we hadn't even been questioned yet.

A young girl (mid 20's) sitting next to me yesterday, this was her third time being called up!

 

For those who might remember some of my earlier posts and know of my enjoyment and interests in old courthouses... our courthouse is "not much".  Peach County was the last county formed in Georgia, in 1924, #159.  The exterior is not much, the interior even less so.  An addition was added a few years back and it is even more plain.

 

For woodworking, I do have a small (and I mean small) project that I will share when completed.  A limited number of you may benefit from it...

[Grandpadave52]

2 hours ago, Cal said:

I was called for (grand) jury duty yesterday and today.

Did get some yard mowed yesterday and should finish it up this evening unless we run late.  Small town, small county - we ought to finish up early

This is the first time I have served on any type of jury.  Have been called once for regular jury duty but the case was settled while we were sitting in the courtroom waiting to see who was actually selected, actually even before that - we hadn't even been questioned yet.

A young girl (mid 20's) sitting next to me yesterday, this was her third time being called up!

Watching a rerun of Matlock right now. IIRC, he was from Atlanta. He never lost a case. Good luck.

[John Hechel]

this week I'm prepping for next weekend's show. and by prepping, I mean sanding until my arms fall off. This year has been a challenge for us as our sales have been great, but shop time limited with my wife going through chemo for breast cancer. Normally she does the majority of the sanding allowing me to build. what's keeping us going is the cancer is responding well to the treatment and shrinking. this is setting up nicely for surgery in November. just in time to be done as show season ends .

[Grandpadave52]

57 minutes ago, John Hechel said:

but shop time limited with my wife going through chemo for breast cancer. Normally she does the majority of the sanding allowing me to build. what's keeping us going is the cancer is responding well to the treatment and shrinking...

Prayers for you both John as well as the medical team providing her treatment and on-going care. Thankful to hear your sales are very good but mostly her treatments are responding well. We're here for you my friend!

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

Ditto what Dave said, hoping for the best for your wife!

[DAB]

working on a design for a "gun dump box", to be used in 2 and 3 gun matches.  place to either stage a gun, or discard a gun and switch to another gun.  should accommodate pistols, carbines, and shotguns.

 

stay tuned in the coming weeks.