Help Us Keep the Lights On

Server fees, licensing fees, maintenance and misc costs.

If you have fun here, love the camaraderie, like interacting with fellow woodworkers, if you have benefited at all by being a part of this free online community, please consider donating to our annual Summer Fundraiser Raffle.

We are an all volunteer force, myself, our admins, and our forum hosts receive zero payment or monies by coming here every day and volunteering our time, and we love it! But we do need a little help.

We rely strictly on the generosity of our sponsor Easy Wood Tools, and you.

Your experience here is AD FREE. There is no profit generated by operating this community. There are no annoying pop up ads either!

So with that, please consider helping us keep the lights on, and donate today! Thank you and thank you to all members for making this community what it is today!

Introduction

We are having a fundraiser! Presented to you are some wonderful prizes donated by our members for the purpose of raising funds for our woodworking community.

Help us stay live! We need you to help us offset the costs that go along with running our community. The monies collected during this fundraiser will be used to pay server dues, software licensing, maintenance, etc.

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 June 22, 2026 and end on August 1, 2025 when the names will be drawn to receive the fabulous items donated by our generous members.

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!

Drawing

Items will be assigned to the winners drawn in the following order.

Turned Celtic Knot Rolling pin (Donated by Lewis Kauffman)

Ramelson Carving Chisel Set (Donated by Illeene Kranks)

6 Piece Woodriver Bench Chisel set (Donated by Dan Hunkele)

If members would like to donate additional items to sweeten the pot for our raffle winners, we'd love it, new or used! You can PM myself or @Ron Dudelston or @lew, or you can leave a note here in this topic and let us know what ya got that you'd like to put up for the raffle, your contributions are greatly appreciated!