Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! June 23, 2025

[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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Summer Fundraiser

We'd like to thank all or donors thus far! We are running short of our goal this year, and what is that goal you ask? Well I'll tally up the costs of what we'll need to finish the year out and perhaps our members and guests who have not already contributed may step up and fill the void. So look for that number in our Fundraiser Topic soon!

And thank you to all who are here and contributing content and keeping us lively!

 

Let's make our goal!

Goal: $1800

Donated: $1000

 

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@Handfoolery is making progress on his Guitar build, join in the fun and see where he's at today.

 

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I know it's just the beginning of summer, but if you fit it in now you may have it ready for the grands or your own children by first icing!

 

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[steven newman]

Kidney Doctor, said see you in 6 months....seems I be "distressingly healthy"...

 

That Monday thing, again....Table is done....taking a break to "size up 3 Ash slabs"...and see about something to build in July?

[John Morris]

24 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Kidney Doctor, said see you in 6 months....seems I be "distressingly healthy"...

Congrats Steve! 

[lew]

It finally stopped raining but now we are at the gates of Hades. 100° yesterday's high. It's almost 1pm now and the temperature is 97°. Extreme heat warning thru Wednesday.

Basement shop looks mighty good right now!

[John Morris]

9 minutes ago, lew said:

It finally stopped raining but now we are at the gates of Hades. 100° yesterday's high. It's almost 1pm now and the temperature is 97°. Extreme heat warning thru Wednesday.

Basement shop looks mighty good right now!

How's the humi-ditty Lew?

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

The heat kept me in the shop or house for most of the weekend.....and much of this week I guess. I'm working on a small case to store Marie's CDs. Being trapped indoors i might get it done this week.

[John Morris]

44 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

The heat kept me in the shop or house for most of the weekend

Yawl have AC in your shops?

[lew]

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

How's the humi-ditty Lew?

It's now 100° on the back deck.

 

This is from the Hagerstown regional Airport- 20 miles away-

Humidity46%

Wind Speed W 7 G 16 mph

Barometer 30.17 in (1021.6 mb)

Dewpoint 71°F (22°C)

Visibility 10.00 mi

Heat Index 103°F (39°C)

Last update 23 Jun 1:53 pm EDT

[lew]

22 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Yawl have AC in your shops?

 

Basement stays cool with just the dehumidifier running.

[Larry Buskirk]

 Wait a minute, Monday  wonder how that happened. 

 

 AC must be Alternate Climate 

 

It's came down a bit from 96° to 94° Real Feel 100° DP 71° RH 48% BP 30.04 here. 

[steven newman]

No A/C..just a lot of fans set on high....Currently 92 degrees outside.

[John Morris]

Tell ya what, during the summer our electric bill to cool our 1600 sft home down to 78 degrees is between 350 and 500 per month, depending on what I don't know!

 

Visiting our friends back in Aiken South Carolina a few weeks ago, we were talking utility bills, in the summer they run their AC 24/7 to cool their home about the same size as ours, and they cool it down to 72 and their bill never exceeds 180 bucks a month! And I'm thinking shoooo, with that low of a bill, I can cool my future shop down in addition to our home during the summer out there and not worry too much about the power bill.

 

Kalifornia, did y'all know we literally produce 70-80% of our nations Fruits and Nuts? No kidding, look it up!

[kmealy]

Got the a/c serviced and working again.  Yippee!\

 

Working on the phases of 3 picture frames.  One of the pieces of glass was a "some days the bear eats you."   I could not get a straight line trying to cut the piece to size.  Must have had some weak spots, or at least that's my story.  Six cuts went fine.  Next two on the next piece were a disaster.

 

On another note, one of my sons-in-law is the CTO for a small company making ion thrusters for satellites. The first commercially sold one  was on a payload just launched from CA.

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

47 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Kalifornia, did y'all know we literally produce 70-80% of our nations Fruits and Nuts? No kidding, look it up!

 There was never a doubt in my mind about that! You also put most of them into public office!

 

I have a window AC in my shop (detached) that could probably be one size larger (It's 10K BTU) but it works well enough I can work out there without discomfort. I also run a dehumidifier, it's on all the time in the summer, the AC runs only when I'm in there.

Edited June 23 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

[Larry Buskirk]

 The heat/humidity here goes down when Mother Nature says it does. 

[Handfoolery]

Heat wave all week. Today's heat index was 108. Needless to say I won't be in the shop again until I can do so without stroking out. 

[John Morris]

If you guys don't mind me asking, anyone want to share their electric bills? 

I'm really curious what you guys pay for AC in fly over country and in the east.

[kmealy]

Here, we're sort of in the middle belt, not too cold, not too hot.  

 

I just re-evaluated our electric supplier.  Since we have a heat pump, we get a discounted rate 8 months of the year (colder weather).  It turned out that for us, that worked a better than a cheaper rate that was not discounted.   But to answer your question, we have a roughly 1700 sq. ft. single story and spend about $100-150 a month for everything including hot water, electric dryer, chest freezer, and household appliances.

[Gerald]

7 hours ago, John Morris said:

Yawl have AC in your shops?

Doesn't everybody? No shop time here w/o A/C. Temp 94 today with heat index 104.  Have been working at the ranch and when I come home look like I just got out of the pool. Worked on drilling holes for shelf pegs in side for new shop cabinets

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

We're paying about 16¢/KHW, which is a steep increase over what we paid when we moved into this house 7 years ago. Since we average about 1800 KWH monthly over the year, the average is almost $300. We are totally electric, including the water (well). Our heat is also heat pump, but it is a ground source. We do have a gas cooktop (and furnace, which hardly ever runs).