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Good Monday Morning! Patriot Woodworker, we have survived the weekend to move on to this warm June week. The weekend brought a bit of fulfillment and completion for me. My son and I can finally say, "The end is near!" The deconstruction of his property is complete and we built an 80 foot fence on Saturday. He has scheduled a local company to bring in 7 loads of top soil to fill in the hole from the house and level the yard. New Member A special and warm welcome goes out to our newest member Steve Williams. If you see him on site, give him a big welcome. Your Week: So gang, what's shaping up for your week?

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! Featured Topic @Steve Krumanaker finished a Maple Rock, it's incredible, in case you have missed the fireworks, please read on. Featured Image We all have seen the Studley Tool Chest, here is another close up of the masterfully planned and highly organized chest. The Patriot Woodwiki has as well started a wiki page for Henry Studley

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! New Members Please welcome the following members to our community. @BornToMe, @Roger Mark, @brianpoundingnails, @Brian Longshore, @Gramps for 18, @RussellOvemi To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. MWTCA June "What's It" (It's live!) Featured Image of the Week @Dale Felice making waves again with his wonderful chainsaw carvings!

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! Featured Topic Image Of the Week An amazing set of Irwins! Please see pToad's topic "Find of the Day (Week)"

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! Community News We have a new footer area at the bottom of our website, the old footer was outdated and non-functional from a maintenance stand point of view, and the original developer of the footer area upgraded the software to work with our core software upgrade that took place last week. You may see the new footer at the bottom, just scroll down, and view. At the very bottom I have placed some modules that show off who we are, along with a mission statement and a couple other articles, just click on the images to be taken to the full article. New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @DavidWS10, @wbast, @Docswoodworks, @Genie123, @uglyoldfatman To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Topic @Dadio has been working on his Sliding Router Table Upgrade, and he has made some wonderful mods and improvements to what used to be just a basic router table, has now been turned into a highly functional work station with storage, surf on over and make sure you see what Herbs been doing, and perhaps you may find some useful ideas within this project.

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @uglyoldfatman, @Bdavep, @Handypac To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Topic Jess, @Smallpatch, is in the midst of another artistic creation, we all know his clocks, but did you know he goes after tea pots as well? The Patriot Woodworker Community has featured Jess's topic on Facebook and Twitter and folks are interested, they are following along! Personally I cannot wait to see the finished work. If you have not seen the beginning stages yet, please read further. Featured Image Hans Wegner chair in Pompidou, Paris Attribution: By ninahale [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Source: http://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Works-Research-Portal

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Carlos A Lupercio Sr, @djr, @KaptnKarl, @Dargensson, @Stick Figure To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Gallery Wood Turning Forum Host Lew Kauffman works from a space below his home, and my what wonderful work he turns out! Take a mini tour of Lew's shop. Image of the Week Sam Maloof Double Rocking Chair Wiki page in progress: http://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Samuel-Solomon-Maloof Attribution: "Search | Smithsonian Institution." $site. April 30, 2018. $publisher, Web. April 30, 2018. <https://www.si.edu/sisearch?edan_q=sam%2Bmaloof>

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!

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @LisaPerez, @wilfredfontenot To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Gallery @Scottart installed some images of his work in a wonderful album featuring his CNC creations. Featured Image of the Week British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 British soldiers working with the new saw mill and cutting the first log. Amiens-Albert road, November 1916. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Army_on_the_Western_Front,_1914-1918_Q4607.jpg Attribution: John Warwick Brooke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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! As for me, I have a whole week off! Kids are on Spring Break and we have plans to see some sights. We'll be heading down to San Diego for a couple day trips, it's only 2 hrs away so we don't need to stay the night down there, and we'll visit some of our favorite places, The Cabrillo National Monument, Balboa Park, possibly the San Diego Zoo, and the beach of course, and we'll visit my old stomping grounds for some great food, but it'll be fun. I'll try to get some shop time in between it all, our kids are growing up so fast, I feel like I need to squeeze what remaining time I have left with them into a few short years anytime I have a day off. Our oldest is back to college, her Spring Break ended last week, so we'll just have our two youngest with us for this week off. Have a wonderful week ahead all! Who is behind The Patriot Woodworker? Of course our Forum Hosts and our Admins are! They run the joint around here, and without them we'd be in a world of hurt. Occasionally though I like to show off my family (the unseen heroes), who has supported my own efforts here on The Patriot Woodworker, with a ton of patience, and understanding for ol Dad. We take a few pictures once a year at this old picnic bench every Easter Morning after services. We have 17 years worth of images at this exact location in our backyard since we moved into our home, and it has become a family Easter Tradition. My wife and I have been married for 27 years, and we have lived in this home for 17 of those wonderful and at times challenging years. My very patient family seen below, my eyes look closed, they aren't though, I can actually see through them squinty eyes. I would like to officially and publicly thank my family for allowing Dad to be here, having fun with ya'll. (missing one more dog and a bunny rabbit, couldn't get them to cooperate for the pic) New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Scottart, @FastFred3 To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Also we are currently being hit by spammers. We are taking steps to reduce these spammer joins, for now when potential members join us, they must be reviewed by our admin staff before they are allowed to post. Featured Gallery @Wichman3 is killing it with his scroll work! Check out his basket montage and see the wonderful work he is doing! Featured Image of the Week Returned soldiers at vocational training in Queensland, 1920 Attribution: Contributor(s): Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866-1939) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_2_112008_Returned_soldiers_at_vocational_training_in_Queensland,_1920.jpg

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @smitty10101! Thanks for joining us Smitty! Also we are currently being hit by spammers. We are taking steps to reduce these spammer joins, for now when potential members join us, they must be reviewed by our admin staff before they are allowed to post. Featured Gallery @Mike Mathieu used to be a regular here and we loved his Intarsia work he shared with us, we sure wish he'd make it back, if he's healthy enough! For now though we can enjoy world class work he left behind. Featured image of the week Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K-Buc_Workshop_(7463651316).jpg Attribution: By Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia (K-Buc Workshop) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Why does a week always have to start with a Monday? Shop is usually closed on Mondays.....so why not start the week on Tuesday? Anything getting done, out there? Needs a door and a small drawer, then the finish....maybe by next weekend?

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @erik1, @The Society of Wood & Tech, @Woody, @Joeysonnier, @pvaefz, @John the Handyman To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Gallery @lew is famous for his Celtic Knot Rolling Pins, in case you all missed it, he inserted a wonderful gallery showing some of the steps to build a Celtic Knot Rolling Pin. Great job Lew! In the news Do you need some targeted feedback from our community for your next big tool purchase? Or how would you like to know what the most preferred method for finishing casework is? Spray or brush? Well now you can, we have a new function in our community that allows you to create polls. See the following link that shows you how to create a poll. Create a Topic With a Poll Thanks to @Cal idea regarding having a single location for past "What's It" topics images for our sleuths to be able to back track through the What's It projects and see if they can still solve them, and for our future detectives as well. Cal wanted a way to do this without having to open each topic and see what the item was for that month. So I turned our winners board into an image center as well with links to the topic. Now you can access all the What's It primary images in one place, for each year. Please see the following links. The MWTCA Project Winners Board 2017, and The MWTCA Project Winners Board 2018. We are working on a series of forms for you to create review for a tools, machinery, finishing, supplies, product review. The first form we are starting off with is a "Table Saw" review form. We will have a form with a variety of text fields prompting you with questions about the table saw you are writing about, once submitted, a dedicated page will have your complete review embedded within. We chose the Table Saw to start with, because it is typically the biggest, and first purchase folks make when starting their own shops, or replacing their existing Table Saw. If you'd like to participate in the form building process, please leave your feedback at this topic "Table Saw Review Form" We also temporarily opened up a project I have been developing for some time now. Please see the following topic at: Featured image of the week Illustration from the book "China and Its People" https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3441004 Image contains Chinese carpenters or woodsmen, they are performing pit saw activities for ripping boards from a log. Pre 1890's Attribution: John Thomson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASAWYERS_AT_WORK.jpg

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Wood whacker, @TomQzo, @derekcohen, @Gene, @leotis, @chouseknecht, @Dejohnst To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Gallery Reviving Steven Newman's Table of Leftovers, I was perusing our galleries and this oldie caught my eye, posted to our gallery in 2015, our community neanderthal builder made a wonderful table. Featured Image of the Week Shaker workshop at the Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, https://shakerml.org/ Source:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AShaker_style_pantry_boxes_on_desk.JPG Attribution: By Doug Coldwell (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Good Monday Morning! Short and sweet this morning folks, I apologize! 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!

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Denni_87, @Matt47, @John Sawyer, @celi mich, @OC3, @Dejohnst, @chouseknecht To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured Gallery One of our newest members @OC3 joined us and hit the road running by creating his first gallery of his work, and my my what beautiful work it is! Glenn is a master at traditional case work and joinery, please view his gallery and leave your comments there to cheer him on, we want to see more work by OC3!! Featured video of the week Source: Curtis Buchanan, chair maker - https://www.curtisbuchananchairmaker.com/

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! What's It Our February "What's It" is live and well, go see our current months project at Featured image of the week A master woodworker in his own right and profession, Antonio Stradivari. Antonio Stradivari Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo stradiˈvaːri]; (1644 – December 18, 1737) was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant and greatest artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial "Strad" are terms often used to refer to his instruments. It is estimated that Stradivari produced 1,116 instruments, 960 of which were violins. Around 650 instruments survived, including 450 to 512 violins. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari

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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Robert Lutz, @Electric scotty, @RufusL, @Tyranny1, @Gary Guilliams, @Tom Hawks, @Terri Littlefield Miller To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. Featured image of the week U.S. Army Warrant Officer 1 Randy Jones uses a drill to add wooden letters to a project in the 489th Engineer Battalion’s wood shop on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan ,Feb. 15, 2014. Attribution: Army photo by Spc. Aaron Ellerman/Released) Source: http://www.dodlive.mil/2014/03/05/u-s-soldiers-hone-woodworking-craft/

Short and Sweet Running late for work this morning folks, so sorry. But we still gotta ask, what did you get done over the weekend and what have you planned for the week ahead!!! And please don't forget to welcome our newest members to the fold! Be safe in all you do, we need you back here to contribute and share. Featured Image I could not take the time to surf the net to find a featured image, so I just quickly opened up my desktop folder of pictures and dragged this one in. Our youngest daughter Tiffany at her weekly riding lesson, grandpa Jack center, and me the knucklehead on the far right, dad came off the mountain for a day with us, and hung out and made it to one of our kids riding lessons. Dad taught me to woodwork starting around the age of 9 or 10. Just thought I'd share a bit of my family, to you. Peace and love to all! Happy Monday!

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! Happy New Year! 2018 has been a wonderful year for The Patriot Woodworkers, and the reason is you. You, the member, the guest, the forum host, our sponsors, the admins, everyone who touches this community in some way or form contributes to the success of this online community. And we thank you! To our members, thank you for being here, day in and day out, contributing, learning, mentoring, collaborating, and for passionately supporting the men and women who serve our nation through our fundraisers and projects. To our guests, thank you for being here and visiting our community, you are a very important part of our growing online community, you visit, you read, and you share with others thus in turn attracting more folks to visit us. When you are ready, we would love to have you here, so please consider Signing Up and connecting with some wonderful folks and woodworkers! To our sponsors, thank you Woodcraft, Laguna Tools and Easy Wood Tools, for your support of our community and our veterans and military projects we are involved in throughout the year. You are completely appreciated, and you are not taken for granted, our economy can roll up and down and sideways, and we completely understand that financial support of our community can dry up in a heartbeat with the tough business decisions you have to make. So we thank you sponsors, from the bottom of our hearts, for financing this online community. NOTE: We currently have three sponsors of our woodworking community, between them we raise around $3400.00 for the entire year, that is our gross income for The Patriot Woodworker, our sponsors funds help pay our hosting fees, software licensing fees, outside development fees, and we manage to have enough left over to help a few very deserving veterans in need with woodworking tools, supplies and assistance. By the end of the year, we are pretty much zeroed out, with a few dollars left in our account. If you would like to sponsor our woodworking community, or if you have connections with a retailer (who will not conflict with our current sponsors) we would love to bring you or them aboard! Ok, that was my shameless plug for the year! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @SPrada, @Scott Kaser, @Turbov6camaro, @Mark Goldspiel To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. What's It Our December "What's It" is closing tonight, so far we do not have a clear subject answer with references, we still have a beautiful Woodriver Low Angle hand plane that will go to the winner of the current months "What's It". Please visit the topic and provide your answer! Featured image of the week These types of chairs (Pinnstol in Swedish) are manufactured in great numbers in the w:Småland province; and even more so a hundred years ago. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASwedish_Windsor_Chairs.jpg

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday 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! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to all Patriot Woodworkers and guests alike. So, here we are, a day after Christmas and I completely forgot to get our Monday topic live, as I do weekly. I also did not get our Monday topic up the last two weeks as I have been very ill, I have finally dug out of the flu fog the last few days and I actually felt great for Christmas. I'd like to say thank you to all for being here, and sharing your lives and shops with us, we are forever grateful for the folks who keep our forums live and interesting. And we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! Under the Christmas Tree So Patriot Woodworkers, what did you all get under the tree this Christmas, I'll go ahead and kick it off! My family purchased this wonderful restored fully usable set and sharpened Warranted Superior saw for me, this is a beaut! I love it. They also presented me with this wonderful old book all about North American woods and trees, and their use in the trades and crafts woodworking industry. I love these old books, I use them as a resource for our Patriot Woodwiki that we have been building, and the family knows I love to read these books. I can't get enough of them. This books was copyright is 1951 and it is still viable today, why wouldn't it be, trees have not changed in the last 60 years have they? The book is called American Woods, and was written by Shelley E. Schoonover (Regional Fiscal Agent (retired) United States Forest Service). So that was my haul of the day, what did Santa bring you all! Cover: Sample page: New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @tim gilmer, @eazygeezer, @Gene Thomas, @SANYIndia, @tarasmith, @ecadriel, @AshleyJ, @Duane Bledsoe, @Ksvet06, @Richard Hurwitz, @JARED ADAMS, and last but certainly not least, @Revuaf ! To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. News We acquired our 2000th member this month! Welcome them by clicking on the topic preview below. We do have a door prize for @Ksvet06! Stay tuned for what it is! The call was announced, and The Patriot Woodworker's stepped up! Thank you all for your support of our Christmas Project! We raised $2175 for this family, and they are now enjoying your contributions, thank you Patriot Woodworkers!!!! In case you missed it please see "Winners Announced". A full financial accountability report will be submitted to our community very soon. What's It Our December "What's It" still needs an answer, there have been some really good suggestions put in place by you all, but we still need some references to the answer in order to call anyone a winner of this months project. Featured image of the week Attribution: “Exhibit Experience.” The H. O. Studley Tool Chest & Workbench, 12 Apr. 2014, http://new.studleytoolchestexhibit.com/exhibit-experience/. Source: http://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Material-Processing-Research-Portal

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday 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! On a personal front I was able to dig out my shop from under the mess of the last few months between life happenings, home repairs, and I just may start to do some real woodworking very soon here! New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @Lesley Mcgrath, @Jxdubbs, @woncoolone, @William Spier, and the return of our old timey Patriot Woodworker @Shane Whitlock! To our new members, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on their names above and shoot them a welcome message. News We want to thank those who have participated in this project, we have thus far reached 93% of our 1500.00 dollar goal! Please GO HERE to see how you can help! Please help us help this Gold Star Family, and you could win some great prizes too! Art for sale To benefit our adopted Gold Star family for the Holidays, John Mordus has donated two wonderful dedications to our U.S. Military. All the proceeds from the purchases of these carvings will be given to the Merlo Family project for their Christmas dinner. Thank you @honesttjohn!!!!! What's It Our November "What's It" has a winner, and his name is Gene Howe! Since the What's It was not properly identified through referenced subject material we had to go to a random draw, and Gene's name floated to the top. Congrats Gene, you are now a member of the MWTCA and all it's benefits courtesy of The Patriot Woodworker Community! Our December What's It will be up and live shortly, thank you for your patience! Featured image of the week Patriot Woodworker @Mike Mathieu is an Intarsia Artist, his work is incredible, a true craftsman in this discipline. To see more of Mike's work see his album at Intarsia Art by Mike Mathieu Monticello, by Mike Mathieu.

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday 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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community! @Terry R. VanDyke, @sdkid, @DonnaSanders News Well of course the biggest news of all, in case y'all have not heard, we have kicked off our annual tradition of supporting a warrior family for the Holidays! Please GO HERE to see how you can help! Please help us help this Gold Star Family, and you could win some great prizes too! What's It Our November "What's It" is here! We have a beautiful Woodriver Hand Plane by our supporters Woodcraft, up for grabs to the one who correctly identifies the item. Featured image of the week Français : Bicyclette à cadre en bois courbé La Souplette, fabriquée à Paris en 1897. Département des Cycles au Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Étienne. English: Bentwood frame Bicycle The Souplette, made in Paris in 1897. Cycles' Department in Saint-Étienne, Museum of Art and Industry. Attribution: By Hélène Rival (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday 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! New members Please welcome the following members to our community! @adenahaley, @Philipadzy, @Danman1957, @beamanndavid, @macfil20 News No news, all is well and steady as she rolls! What's It Our October "What's It" is coming to an end with absolutely no solid answers to the mystery tool. This is a tough one indeed, surf on over to the What's It and give it another try before our October project closes out. We have a beautiful Woodriver Hand Plane up for grabs to the one who correctly identifies the item. Featured image of the week Wheel wrights tools By No machine-readable author provided. B Askholm assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1098696

Typically our Monday morning topic is filled with questions on what we all did over the weekend, what we have planned for the week ahead, and we will welcome our new members and share stories. But I woke up to come on here before I head off to work for the day, and upon turning on the morning news, I learned about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. So I am here writing now, and I cannot find the heart nor the words to start off our typical Monday Morning topic with words of cheer and happiness. But, that does not mean you cannot participate in this topic, to let us know what you did over the weekend, and what you have planned for the week ahead. Actually, I hope you do, perhaps I can turn to our membership for some cheer and uplifting remarks in this time of darkness for our nation. I am saddened, and hurt. The sounds of the gunfire coming from the building above the concert crowd, will forever be in my mind, knowing that the bullets were striking innocents below. So I'll turn this topic over to you my friends, and I'll head off to work in a few minutes, just like any "normal day", meanwhile the lives of many have been changed forever in our nation, as a result of the largest mass shooting in our nations history. May God shine His grace on all those affected by this tragic event and may He take those who's lives have ended, into His arms.