Help Us Keep the Lights On

Goal $1200.00

We are an all volunteer force 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 shown with wall hanger bracket. (Donated by Lewis Kauffman)

Ramelson Carving Chisel Set (Donated by Illeene Kranks)

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

Easy

Easy Wood Tools 3/8" Mandrel (Donated by Lewis Kauffman)

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!

We already received a couple donations! You know who you are! 😊

Thank you guys, appreciate it very much!

Our goal is $1200.00

Now our goal is 1160.00 after the donations, cheers and good luck to all participants!

Still holding at 1160.00 !! 😁

We received another donation today! THANK YOU!

This brings us down to $1110.00!

We've a slew of donations come in, and we are very grateful for your contributions! Our new balance is $830.67 to go!

Thank you folks for your generosity!

$733.39 to go folks!

Ya'll know who you are, thank you for your support!!

Hey guys, thank you so much! We have collected $575 dollars! Only $625 dollars to go!

I'd like to thank all the Patriot Woodworkers and guests who have donated thus far! We are very close to our goal! Only $210.00 to go!

THANK YOU!

Thank you once again to all who contributed! I think we have met our goal! I'll tally the final numbers today, and we'll have the big draw as well. The final email notifications went out today confirming donations and entries, and we'd like to thank all who call this community home. 😊

Names have been random drawn, and finalized, and we want to congratulate the following winners of this years Summer Fundraiser to help support our community and our causes, and to keep the lights on!

Donations

Our goal was $1200.00

Our donation are $1260.87

We are good for an entire year budget wise!

Thank you to all who participated! I wish all could receive a gift, because you all deserve it by keeping us live, and with great content and great support.

So, without further Adieu, please help us congratulate the following members!

1. @p_toad Turned Celtic Knot Rolling pin shown with wall hanger bracket. (Donated by Lewis Kauffman)

2. @Pauley Ramelson Carving Chisel Set (Donated by Illeene Kranks)

3. @Al B 6 Piece Woodriver Bench Chisel set (Donated by Dan Hunkele)

4. @JimM Easy Wood Tools 3/8" Mandrel (Donated by Lewis Kauffman)

And a special thanks goes out to our donors of the fantastic prizes, you guys pulled us through this one! Thank you!

To the winners, please provide me with your current shipping information by messaging me. Even if I have shipped to you before, I like to make sure and thank you!

For results and how names were chosen, you can message me and I'll provide a link to the software and draw.

Congrats to all the winners.

Congrats to all thee winners, and thanks to all who donated, and thanks/kudos/respect to all who keep this place running!

Congrats to the winners, since the goal was reached I think we’re all winners 😀

Gordon is absolutely correct. Thanks to all who gave.