This custom made Easy Wood Tools Rougher is one of many tools offered for this years project, this tool has been custom made by our sponsor EWT, specially for this years Christmas project, this is a very rare tool issued by EWT, please join our project and enter our raffle for a chance to win this very special issued turning tool.

 

Introduction

It's that time of year again folks! And it's time for us to step up to the plate and support the men and women and families who put it all on the line to keep our nation safe, the men and women of our Armed Forces!

We are very thankful that we are able to team up with Soldiers Angels.

Our Goal

This year, we will be doing the usual raffle, with 100% of the proceeds going to a Warrior Family for their Christmas! Through the application process, we have been teamed up with a wonderful Navy family! 

 

Our Adopted Family

Our adopted family has two children, and just to name a couple of their requests are a pair of headphones, some sneakers, a sweater and a gift card for Food Lion to help pay for their Christmas meal.

 

As usual, by the generosity of our members, we seem to do more than our adopted families ask, our Patriot Woodworkers and guests always rise above and beyond expectations, so I am in the process of asking the family if their kids would mind extending their Christmas list 🙂

Let's make this happen folks! 

 

A Privacy Note

You may have noticed in past Christmas fundraisers families have graciously shared their images and stories of service with our members, that was wonderful, by doing so they formed a visual connection with our Patriot Woodworker's and guests who donated to this project. 

More and more though, privacy has become a high concern for our military members, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition software and much more, we have to take precautions to protect our military families and their privacy these days. And organizations such as Soldiers Angels are honoring that by asking us, the donors, to not ask for any personal information beyond names and contact information and shipping addresses. This is a common theme across charitable platforms these days, and we'll honor their wish. 

If the family wishes to give out more information and images, of course we'll share with you, with their permission.

Please know, with or without a face, you are helping in a big way, and we want to thank you in advance for giving back, thank you!

 

How this works

If you donate $2.00 to our fundraiser, your name will be entered into our random draw 1 times.

If you donate $5.00 to our fundraiser project, your name will be entered into our random draw 3 times.

If you donate $10.00 to our fundraiser project, your name will be entered into our random draw 7 times.

The more you donate, the more chance you have of winning.

The project will start on November 17, 2025 and end on December 31, 2025 when the names will be drawn to receive the fabulous items donated by our sponsors.

 

Donation amounts and number of entries

• $2.00 enters your name 1 times

• $5.00 enters your name 3 times

• $10.00 enters your name 7 times

• $20.00 enters your name 15 times

• $50.00 enters your name 50 times

• $75.00 enters your name 80 times

• $100.00 enters your name 110 times

 

Enter the drawing

Click on the "DONATE" button!

Fill in your billing info at the secured PayPal server (we do not have access to your credit or debit card details, and you do not need a PayPal account), and you're done, and good luck!

 

Prizes

Items will be drawn with random draw software, and assigned to the winners in the following order.

Offered by our friends at Woodcraft

• WoodRiver No. 4 Bench Hand Plane - Smoothing Plane - V3 $230 value (Grandpa Dave)

• WoodRiverBench Chisel Set - 6 Piece $113 value (Dan Hunkele)

• Ramelson Woodcarving Knife Set - 5 pieces $82 value (Ileene Cranks)

 

Offered by our friends at Easy Wood Tools

• A drop dead beautiful Patriotic Custom Mid-Size Rougher with Standard Ci2 Cutter installed. Will also include a separate Ci2 Negative Rake Cutter to coordinate with this prize (please note this tool also accepts all 4 of our Beading Cutters, and a Radius Standard Cutter – not included) Value - Priceless 🙂 (Robert Prochak)

• 2 each for two prize recipients - Chuck Mounted 3/8” Mandrel. This is a brand-new product just released. Mounts directly to most 4-Jaw chucks. Used to mount small project turnings such as bottle stoppers and kit handles (Ron Dudelston)

 

Additional Prizes

These tools have been donated by prize recipients from past warrior projects and Summer fundraisers. We are very grateful for the contributions of our members and guests, they asked at the time of receiving these items they be donated back to The Patriot Woodworkers to pay it forward, thank you members!

 

• WoodRiver No. 4 Bench Smoothing Plane - V3 $230 value - donated by Peter Tomlinson (Peter Tomlinson)

• Pfeil / Intro Carving Tool Set - 4 Piece $100 value - donated by Peter Tomlinson (Albert Berube)

• Mini Rougher w/1 Beading Cutter $127 value - donated by Erwin Davis (Paul Bylin)

• Pinnacle Double Square $60 value - donated by Ronald Dudelston (Lew Kauffman)

• Easy Wood Tools Wire burning kit $54 value - donated by Larry Wolfe (Kevin Kronewitter)

 

Rules

• Fundraiser starts November 17, 2025 and ends December 31st 2025.

• Everyone (guests, members, forum staff, and admins) is welcome to enter, except the owner of this website (John Morris) and his relatives, and their immediate relatives.

• Sorry, but only residents who reside in The United States/Alaska and Canada are eligible to participate. However, if you live offshore you can still donate to this project for our Warrior Families Christmas, but you won't be able to receive awards because of high shipping costs.

• Declined prizes will be used in our next fundraising project. (NEW RULE starting this year)

• Last but not least, have fun! And thank you for your support!

 

Alternative Method for Contributing

Some of us don't like using our credit card for things like this, that's ok, you can send a check for this project, and we'll enter your name into the hat for the draw!

 

Make check payable to:

The Patriot Woodworker

and send to:

The Patriot Woodworker

977 Sussex Rd

San Jacinto CA. 92583

 

In closing

Our entire community would love to thank our contributing sponsors. Woodcraft and Easy Wood Tools. They are staunch supporters of our woodworking community and most importantly, the men and women who serve our nation in the Armed Forces..

And we thank our members who donated the above items back to the cause, thank you!

 

   

Thank you folks for your support!

 

Just a heads up, links and images for the prizes will be provided later today, sorry I couldn't get that handled this morning.

 

Also, for our donors, I'd like to ask you a favor, as many of you know you are going to contribute to this fundraiser, and quite often we wait till it gets closer to the end of the project before we donate, given the time left to get the kids presents ordered and shipped before the deadline of the 15th of December, if you are able, would you mind helping us front load this fundraiser with funds? So if you plan on making a donation at some time during this project, would you consider donating soon?

This way we'll have the funding up front to get their items shipped.

Thanks!

 

PS, the project deadline goes past Christmas, any funds collected after the final shipping of presents, will be donated directly to the family in the form of cash or check, or gift card, it'll be their choice, so they'll have some fun money after New Years to do as they wish.

Im in John.  Thank you so much for doing this.

14 minutes ago, Pauley said:

Im in John.  Thank you so much for doing this.

oh man, thank you Pauley!

The list of tools to be awarded has been updated, see the photo album above in topic!

After I read what you posted about his family, it’s breaks a my heart to see a vets family that go through this.  God Bless them and the Patriot woodworkers. I did make another donation.

I want to thank all who have donated so far! 

At this point we have raised $592.64 !!! Way to go folks!

 

On 11/28/2025 at 12:55 PM, Pauley said:

I did make another donation.

Pauley, thank you!

Just finished sending out all the email donation confirmations to our donors, all caught up through today. Should be in your personal email inbox, thank you again folks!

I'd like to thank everyone for their donations thus far!

I am pulling the trigger and ordering gifts this moment! 

@John Morris, My apologies, this almost slipped my mind.  Hope my donation isn't too late.  

 

A few years ago, I was fortunate to win 8 quarts of General Finishes products.  I never thought I could use them all.  But projects come along and I've now used these outstanding products many times.  Thank you.

I am a bit late to the party, but did just donate.  Do we have an updated amount total? What a wonderful cause. Merry Christmas 🎄 

On 12/15/2025 at 1:50 PM, JimM said:

My apologies, this almost slipped my mind.  Hope my donation isn't too late.  

Thank you Jim and we have till the first of the year! 8 quarts! I remember that, glad you could get to use them 🙂 

1 hour ago, SigmundJake said:

I am a bit late to the party, but did just donate.  Do we have an updated amount total? What a wonderful cause. Merry Christmas 🎄 

Sigmund, thank you for your donation, we are at about 1300.00 right now, we are doing wonderful thanks to all you folks!

I'll be sending out donation confirmations today to catch up, thank you all!

Actually it is you we should be thanking for organizing this for our warrior in need.  We appreciate your commitment to those who “put their lives on the line to keep Americans safe”. God Bless! 🙏

 

 

 

@John Morris I know there is still time left to raise funds but were we able to meet our goal this year for Christmas?

2 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

@John Morris I know there is still time left to raise funds but were we able to meet our goal this year for Christmas?

Hey Bob, we didn't have a specific goal in mind, but we are over the 1500.00 dollar mark, about 700.00 have been spent on gifts and food for the family, and the rest will be distributed after the raffle to the family in cash, for something fun for their New Year.

So I'd say ya'll did pretty good!

 

Just added a little more to the pot.

Well we are coming down the home stretch folks! Thank you all thus far!

I have just sent out the last of the donation email confirmations to date, you should have your confirmation that you donated to the cause and how many entries you have in the raffle.

Thank you all once again!

Happy New Year folks!

Thank you all for your contributions to this wonderful event. Further contributions for the draw are closed, I'll be working on tallying up the entries today and performing the random draw with "Random Draw" software and awards will be announced later today.

@Grandpadave52 we got your contribution last night, you came in just under the wire 🙂 

Thank you all!