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!

 

Welcome new members

To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome.

 

House Cleaning

For images in our Gallery, please ensure per the community suggested guidelines in each gallery to name your images appropriately. Please avoid keeping the default image file name such as DSC5974kl.jpg or such names like it.

If you click on each gallery category you'll see our suggested method for uploading images, I'd like to see it become law, there are many reasons why an actual title to the image is beneficial to our community.

 

Here is a reminder:

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Image Uploading Suggestions

We appreciate your help in keeping our image gallery orderly and easy for others to research.

Please consider these suggestions while uploading your images.

 

• Name your images before uploading to our gallery, the generic camera file names just look so messy. "Walnut Desk" looks so much better than "DSC19467je69.jpg". You can also name your images after you upload them to our gallery for your convenience.
• After uploading your images, please consider adding a description so your viewers know what they are seeing and the wood used, the tools used, or even your inspiration for building the project.
• Please consider tagging your images so our members and guests will be able to successfully search for your image and related images. Tags can be inserted into the "Tags" field. An example of tags and their names should be related to your project. If your project images are of a Walnut Desk with dovetail joinery, than tag the image with "Walnut", "Desk", "Dovetail" etc.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Management

 

 

 

Featured Topic

@kreisdorph came aboard and introduced himself, and displayed some of his beautiful turnings, thanks for joining us Kent!

 

Featured Image

I knew all us woodworkers were a special group! Angels, all of us!

An engraving by Filippo Morghen from Delle antichità di Ercolano (1757-1779) of two putti sawing wood on an eight legged workbench, based on a fresco in the ruins of Herculaneum. According to Christopher Schwarz of Lost Art Press the now ruined fresco is of note as one of the earliest known images of a woodworking bench. Also visible is a holdfast being using to secure a piece of wood.

Attribution: Filippo Morghen, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsRoehl, Louis Michael, 1881-, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

 

 

Featured Video

A pretty good video by this young man, dispelling some ol fashioned rumors. Enjoy!

"If you're a beginner woodworker it can be really overwhelming sorting through all the advice and tips. So lets play a fun game of fact or fiction."

 

Is it Tuesday???

Just now, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Is it Tuesday???

Here in California it's Monday.

35 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Here in California it's Monday.

 

 One Day From Anywhere? 

Second Monday!

 

Needs assembly 

Camera-ooski has died...will not turn on...so....Learning to use the Camera IN my phone..

 

Will go Camera Shopping tomorrow..

Road Trip on a Monday....stopped in Brandt, OH....Junk Shop had this.. (Phone camera)

Price "tag"?

Said $5...got it for $4...

Appears to be a Stanley No. 60-1/2...colour of the "paint" is a Black glossy Japanning...

Had to go out to Wall E World last night..and buy a new cable..for between the Phone and the Computer..

Finally starting to come out of the haze induced world of what ever has been drifting around these parts. Maybe venture out into the world today and absorb some vitamin D.

As for that Block plane?   less than an hour of Rehab Shop..

Sitting beside the Stanley No. 60-1/2 Cordovan...Thicker sides..Stanley had yet to stamp a model number on the side...Black Japanning...solid Brass knob

Still learning HOW to use this phone camera...( Like the box?

Sole came out fairly nice..everything works.   Iron has the clipped corners box logo, with STANLEY inside...Depth adjuster knob has both a "STANLEY" and a Made in USA stamped in it...

For $4..MIGHT be a Keeper?

4 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Like the box?

Yes!!!

 

After surviving snowmageddon Feb. 2024 on Friday, spent part of the weekend rearranging snow then recuperating from said activity. Ran a few errands after church. Followed youngest granddaughter's conference swim meet. Not her best conference meet but she had one personal best and a couple season best times. Fortunately yesterday was a federal holiday so I had the day off; no need to walk to the mailbox so I mostly just monitored the snow melting.

 

Following an on-line auction close tonight. PU will be Thursday afternoon. Oldest grandson has a home wrestling meet Thursday night. In between domestic duty assignments. Might wander out to the garage to poke around some. 

Finally got a furnace guy out to the shop this morning, his diagnosis was the control board went bad. So now I wait for a replacement to come in. Meanwhile back in the house, the handicap shower we just had installed seems to leak water in use. It looks to me like it splashed out the bottom of the door where the seal doesn't completely close the opening. So now I've got to call that guy. But the fun doesn't stop there, Marie had (yet another) doctor visit yesterday about the newly developed grion pain she has...this guy was a hip specialist. In a visit that lasted all of 5 minutes he informed here the problem isn't with her hips, it's still in here back. This was after reviewing the many xrays/MRI/history she has...so his work may have been more than 5 minutes. Anyway, now she's referred back to the pain guy (who we just saw last Thursday for an epidural).

2 hours ago, steven newman said:

so....Learning to use the Camera IN my phone..

Looks like you're doing fine with it so far.

 

46 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Still learning HOW to use this phone camera...( Like the box?

Indeed...another great piece.

 

46 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Sole came out fairly nice..everything works.   Iron has the clipped corners box logo, with STANLEY inside...Depth adjuster knob has both a "STANLEY" and a Made in USA stamped in it...

For $4..MIGHT be a Keeper?

Another orphan rescued from a dire fate. Well done.

I agree Steven's pictures are better with phone than the last camera.

Got into the shop yesterday and cut some Sweet Gum into top blanks and got that in the Kiln.

Picked up a spalted Sweet gum blank at Saturday meeting and started turning it yesterday. Got the outside roughed but has some punky spots so got tearout. Managed to get about half hollowed.

Edited February 20, 20242 yr by Gerald

6 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 One Day From Anywhere? 

At least I got the date right.

11 minutes ago, Gerald said:

I agree Steven's pictures are better with phone than the last camera.

Got into the shop yesterday and cut some Sweet Gum into top blanks and got that in the Kiln.

Picked up a spalted Sweet gum blank at Saturday meeting and started turning it yesterday. Got the outside roughed but has some punky spots so got tearout. Managed to get about half hollowed.

That’s some pretty wood!  Glad you got sprung and into the shop. 

waiting for glue to dry.  then poly.

 

 

Edited February 20, 20242 yr by DAB
spelling is hard

Gotta see this crying glue. Pictures at 10?

crying, are you crying?  there's no crying in baseball!!!!

 

first coat of poly on, more tomorrow.

 

it's for knick knacks paddy whack, give the dog a bone.