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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 to our community, @Wout Moerman, @Paul M, @sweensdv, @KenF, @ChandraB, @morrgan23, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! New Wiki Pages Wiki | Southern Waxmrytle THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki The following pages are open edit, you do not need to be logged in to edit. Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools Glossary of Woodworking Joints Glossary of Woodworking Machinery Glossary of Woodworking Terminology Green Woodworking Member Wiki Contributions Awhile back I put out a call to receive your projects made from Pecan wood. @Gerald came to the rescue with his wonderful pecan turnings. I've started uploading his files to our wiki and using them in our wiki page for Pecan, please see page, and thank you Gerald! Wiki | Pecan THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Mark Wilson has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Army Veteran Mark Wilson is one of The Patriot Woodworker's gold standard members, Mark is sight challenged, blind, and he works the wood with a passion and love for the art that is evident by his motivation and "never give up" attitude that made Mark a true soldier, and a great woodworker. Thank you Mark for sharing your work with us! Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image What is Green Woodworking? By Peter Follansbee "The ease of working green wood is one of the benefits of working this way; it cuts much easier than wood that has lost most of its moisture. As wood dries, it becomes tougher & tougher to cut. That green wood can be easily riven along its fibers is an additional benefit; with a carefully selected tree, you can produce your rough-dimensioned stock quickly & easily right from the log – with a good deal of careful practice. Once the log is on the ground, one person can reduce the log into working stock right where it was felled, if needed. Working just with wedges, maul, maybe a hatchet here & there, and a saw for some cross-cuts, splitting stock out is very appealing work. It’s very physical, gets you outdoors, working in the woodpile or woods, instead of inside the shop. The other day I was working some stock outside on the best type of New England day there is, cool fall weather, golden sunshine filtering through the last few leaves on the maples…" Quote by Peter Follansbee

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 to our community, @Daniel, @Heigert, @TimBramer, @DavidSchutt, @49663, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! New Wiki Pages Green Woodworking Jennie Alexander The following pages are open edit, you do not need to be logged in to edit. Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools Glossary of Woodworking Joints Glossary of Woodworking Machinery Glossary of Woodworking Terminology Green Woodworking Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Woodbutcherbynight has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image The Folks School of Fairbanks Alaska People lead busy lives. Often we find ourselves without enough time to make a meal by hand, let alone eat it together. But there is something about sharing a kitchen and a meal that makes us feel entire. The Folk School is a place that protects time for families to make things together. The unhurried pace of creating something alongside a daughter or grandson is the white space that sometimes allows us to see what is really written on the pages of our lives. Source: About Us, The Folks School

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! My own weekend was eventful, besides our own daughter making the leap into joining the Army, I also got in the shop with my son this weekend and started a homework desk project for his upcoming school year, each weekend we should have a new entry, so stay tuned! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Hillaryscott, @Julie, @misattestion, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Today we don't have any new featured files to brag about, but you can help us with that, if you have a file you'd like to share with the community, please upload it to our files department. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image Sawing board in woodworking shop. Community service center, Centerville, Arkansas. Faulkner County (1940) Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

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 to our community, @Allen Knowles, @densitometer, @robin.jansson85, @sherrycnc, @TPDugan, @Luke Wesley, @Kim Michael, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project financial debrief can be found at: Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Bundoman has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image The Northmen Guild Shop. Source: Northmen Guild of Master Craftsmen

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! The Morris home has been busy and not so busy at the same time. Our youngest girl came home from Army Basic Training for Christmas, she arrived on the 19th of Dec and she is leaving January 2nd. Apparently these days the Military sends home trainees for Christmas, and the staff for two weeks, whether they are in Basic or AIT (school). So we got to have our baby girl home for Christmas. She has been dealing with some challenges, she was injured and had to be recycled through basic training, she fractured her pelvic bone, and has been marching on it for weeks, so she has had some time to just sit still, relax, and get it on the mend while home, unfortunately it will not be completely healed when she returns but she has vowed (against our wishes) to keep on through the pain, and complete basic training, and when she reports into the school, she'll see medical staff and get healed. But we've had her here at home, and it was one of the best Christmas's ever, there is a special feeling when a child comes home from the military for the Holidays, I know some of you here experience this often. All I can say is, we waited on her hand and foot, and her brother and sister were right in there with us helping her out, and making her stay with us comfortable and happy. Image at left (mama, daughter, me dad) is the night her mama and siblings drove down to San Diego and brought her back from the airport, she flew in from Ft. Jackson SC, she'd been up for a day and half processing out for the trip and traveling! I came home from work to an empty home, and I got her favorite "Dad Meal" ready for her (chili and cornbread) while they made their way home. When she arrived the dinner was ready, the fireplace was going, and the dogs were happy to see her home, and she ate, and ate, her first home cooked meal by me, and she talked and talked, and we just enjoyed the first night with our daughter completely. So that was our Christmas, we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well, and you'll roll onto a wonderful New Year as well! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Kurtaegos, @Ginger, @Boxsully, @Greg, @joejimmun, @CDave, @Brall1973, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project was a great success! After all the smoke has settled, we'll have a debrief installed showing the gifts we purchased and the financial breakdown of funding received and how it was used, I plan on having this ready for your viewing this coming weekend. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @lew has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image Student with modified violin built at the woodworking program, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth. Source: Woodworking Workshop

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 to our community, @Dan P, @Matt Owens, @Stike, @Smitty, @Dave M., please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project was a great success! Thanks to you all, we raised over our goal and our adopted family is going to be busy Christmas morning! All the gifts have arrived, and I am sure mama is shopping for the Christmas dinner by now. You should all give yourselves a great huge pat on the back, and I personally want to thank each and everyone of you for your support, you went above and beyond. Thank you! Woodworking icon Charles Neil has passed away, our Patriot Woodworker Woodworking Community is saddened for the loss of a good man, and a wonderful steward of our craft. Please see our discussion at: Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Woodbutcherbynight has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory"

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 to our community @Eric, @jim.bramblett@att.net, @Genetrix, @owenpga, @PaulH, @Fazzina, @waresohio, @Carl Heimiller, @syed muktar ahmed, @HutchinMike, @Thomas_Z, @SophieFadler, @MIKERONK, @Scott Witter, @Crafts12, @Ron Joyce, @Propmaker, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live folks! Not only is a great cause, but you'll also have a chance to bring home some wonderful prizes for your contributions. Please see our project page at the following. We have gotten some great participation in this project! Keep up the great work folks! Featured Image Why do I make spoons by Peter Follansbee Source: Why Do I Make Spoons

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... New Members Please welcome to our community, @Carl Heimiller, @waresohio, @owenpga, @paulH, @Fazzina, @Genetrix Please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live folks! Not only is a great cause, but you'll also have a chance to bring home some wonderful prizes for your contributions. Please see our project page at the following. We have gotten some great participation in this project! Keep up the great work folks! Stay Safe!! As the holidays approach, everyone is vying for your time. Just a reminder to stay safe and don't take any shortcuts!

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 to our community, @John Rag, @nimedic, @Masonsailor, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live folks! Not only is a great cause, but you'll also have a chance to bring home some wonderful prizes for your contributions. Please see our project page at the following. We have gotten some great participation in this project! Keep up the great work folks! Wiki News Do you have any projects made from Pecan you'd like to share with the world? Not pie, but woodworking! Please to to the topic "Wiki Pecan Projects Needed" and share your Pecan projects. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @MountainGaurdian has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image Amish woodworking shop, source article at Amish Woodworkers Build Lasting Furniture — and Community

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 to our community, @brandon norman, @RootBeer101, @Rootbeer7, @marshall, @MountainGaurdian, @Ivan, @Cocotte, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live folks! Not only is a great cause, but you'll also have a chance to bring home some wonderful prizes for your contributions. Please see our project page at the following. We have gotten some great participation in this project! Keep up the great work folks! Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @FrederickH has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Blog @Smallpatch shows us how to make a snowflake go from a design to a Christmas hanging for your home. Featured Image Woodworking at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Robstown, Texas. 1942 Photographer: Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer Source: Library of Congress

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 to our community, @Windsor Heritage, @Willmartinez, @Shenaz, @Gary O’Neal, @grampa sawdust, @Dwayne, @Adam Grill, @hictheofe, @TomO411, @Moldmaker, @norbert, @BaretBats3, @Dexter, @JayKat, @Matt Banks, @406woodworker, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live folks! Not only is a great cause, but you'll also have a chance to bring home some wonderful prizes for your contributions. Please see our project page at the following. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Blog @lew republished his popular blog series for making a French Rolling Pin. Cleaned up and organized for the reader, it's a blog not too miss! Featured Image David E. Graves repair-woodworking shop. U.S. Capitol, [Washington, D.C.] Mr. Graves repairing chair at the Washington DC US Capitol woodworking repair shop, responsible for the maintenance and repairs and preservation of wood items, furniture, and architectural interior wood surfaces. [between 1937 and 1939] Source: Library of Congress

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 to our community, @Vic67, @mark, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Wiki News Our hardwoods category is growing legs now, we have two entries in the hardwoods/broad-leafs section of our "American Woods" project. The latest entry is our beloved Black Walnut, native to our own nation, and world renowned, it's the darling of the woodworker and the choice for gun-makers. I am looking for examples of projects made with Black Walnut, to enter into our wiki page for this species. If you have any Black Walnut project photos, and would like to share them with our wiki and the world, please PM me the images or you can share them here in this topic and I'll download them for our wiki. Wiki | Black Walnut THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Blog @Gerald fired up a blog about his beloved workbench that he built, it's a piece of art really and it looks like he may walk us through some of the build at some point in the blog, I am looking forward to future entries! Featured Image A class in sloyd [woodworking] Young African American women training in woodworking at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia Attribution: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Source: Library of Congress, A class in Sloyd.

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 to our community, @chassis, @bradleyheathhays, @parrish, @pritom029, @woodman, @Gerard's, @Allen Bourassa, @Manuretea, @Steven Ribeiro, @Sharon alee, @LaBooCA, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Recently we had a nice influx of monetary donations by our members, I am happy to announce that we have used those funds to purchase a larger server for our community and we have a little bit of cushion leftover that we'll pump back into our community and to set aside for that emergency situation when someone in need, needs a hand up in life with their shop tooling and materials. In a separate topic, I'll go into the details of how we used your generous funding. Our future in this community has been secured by purchasing the larger server, we now have a ton of space and more memory, and you may even notice a smoother and quicker web browsing experience in the last few days. Wiki Images Request Would you like your Butternut images displayed in our wiki? Well look no further than this topic, and send us your images! And thank you @lew for your contribution! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image K through 8th grade Sebastopol Charter School located at 1111 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, California, focuses on not only academics but the arts. Here in this image are students of the school learning the craft of green woodworking and using the shave horse, and related green woodworking tools. Source: Sebastopol Charter School curriculum of Woodworking

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 to our communit, @Joshvogt2000, @Rob T, @NedR, @Boxsully, @Tom421, @LaBooCA, @Sharon alee, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Our wiki Glossary pages are now open to all for editing. You do not have to be logged in to enter your terminology and definitions, feel free to head on over and make your mark in our wiki! Wiki | Glossary THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image @Smallpatch is always building creative works, see his latest creation below.

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! Here we are, Tuesday, I completely forgot the Monday topic! I had a government holiday off yesterday, thought yesterday was Sunday. Composing this short topic from the cab of my work truck. How y'all doing today! And good morning!

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 to our community,@FrederickH, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! News Did you know that we have a new area in our community that I am working on, it's a video display section of our favorite YouTube and Vimeo videos, and we are building sections for our sponsor videos by Laguna Tools, Easy Wood Tools and Woodcraft. To find your own way to these pages simply hover over "Browse" in our navigation menu then click on the last links to our video pages. This location will change in the future as we find a permanent home for them and build new pages for our sponsors. But the concept is in place, and I am quite happy with the results. Patriot Woodworker's Favorite Video Channels Easy Wood Tools Video Channel Also, if you picked up a Harbor Freight Pocket Knife in the last couple years, beware of this recall. Recall alert: 1.1 million pocketknives recalled for posing 'laceration hazard' WWW.USATODAY.COM About 1.1 million Gordon Folding Knives are being recalled for "posing a laceration hazard." The knives were sold at Harbor... Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image Newton, Nonantum, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [ca. 1906] The Nonantum Vacation School - woodworking for boys.

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 to our community, @Larry Blighton, @LES97801 @JasonRose, @Tim Goins, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image USMC Veteran Erik Florip is a tool maker, a fine tool maker of hand saws, and marking gauges. "I started woodworking in 2012 while active duty in the US Marine Corps. Not long after getting the woodworking bug I started shopping for a handsaw to give dovetails a shot. I found a lot of high price options, being a hobbyist, I couldn’t justify spending a lot of money on a new handsaw. I opted for an old Disston found at an estate sale. I learned how to sharpen on this saw and was a good user after the restoration. After this I got the idea to try building my own saw…it wasn’t pretty but it worked. I was hooked on tool making." Read more.... See a great interview of Eric Florip by Joshua Farnsworth at this page with more images. "Affordable High End Dovetail Saw".

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 to our community, @JB1012, @Kevin Beitz, @Deluxe64, @Jason Buresh, @PReence, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image Jögge Sundqvist, or surolle as he’s known, is a craftsman through and through. As a wood worker and woodcarving artist he has become famous for his impressive ornaments and beautiful carved objects. He chisels out stools, chairs, knives, cupboards, spoons and trays, tablets, sculptures and word boards. Image credit: SLOJD with Jogge Text credit: MoraKniv

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 to our community, @Tim Shaunty, @Tim B, @Jamey H., please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News You now have the ability to review your favorite books with our new book review application. Currently we have the application live in the General Woodworking Forum and the Wood Turners Forum. https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/forum/74-woodworking-book-reviews/ https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/forum/78-wood-turning-book-reviews/ Make sure to watch the video on how to use this new feature, the video can be found pinned to the top as a topic in those respective forums. We will install the book review feature in all major categories of the forum, such as scrolling, carving, hand tools, etc. Donations Also, some of our members were just made aware of our donation page, and started to use it. This is a welcome source of funding for our community. We usually have a fundraiser raffle during the summer to help pay for our community, but my health took a dive this summer, and I never had the time nor the mind to organize our annual summer fundraiser, so we are falling short of our budgetary obligations. We will be very tight. If you are able to donate to our community, a dollar on up, it all helps. I'd like to thank the following members for their very generous donation thus far, thank you! @p_toad @Fred W. Hargis Jr @Gene Howe @Woodbutcherbynight If you'd like to donate to our community, please see this page at https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/clients/donations/ Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see.

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! Hey crew, I completely flaked on today's Monday topic! I have today off, Labor Day, and it felt like it was still Sunday to me. Better late than never I guess! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Ronny, @Jessica M Turek, @RedMGB, @TheBoyWill, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News We have a new feature, or a returning feature, the footer block. It is a work in progress, but if you view the very bottom of our website, you'll see a big footer block with convenient links and soon there will be more items of convenience as well for you to use. The last footer block we had put a strain on the community, and it slowed down the viewers browsing experience, this footer is not a third party app like the last one is, this footer is part of our core software now, and will not strain assets. Enjoy! A Patriot Woodwiki Milestone Last week I entered in the last Conifer tree in our softwoods category at The Patriot Woodwiki. The Pacific Yew. Wiki | Pacific Yew THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Please see my announcement of this wonderful event! I know I know, it's just a wiki, but boy was it a lot of work! The conifers category consisted of 41 trees, and a whole lot of scanning and typing and searching for open source images to bolster the pages. Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Blog We have a new "Featured" section of our Monday topic, our Blogs are getting some action once again! Please see the latest efforts in blogging by @Gerald and his fine blog in the world of Dust Collection. Featured Image Schmahmann’s Bureau of Bureaucracy re-interprets the sixteenth-century European “cabinet of curiosities,” used to house wondrous, exotic objects. Instead of rare stones and fossils, this cabinet holds certificates, diplomas, licenses, medical reports, and financial statements, bureaucratic documents that reflect and define our lives in contemporary society. Behind the functional exterior of this piece lies a surreal array of inverted perspectives, false drawers, and hidden compartments—the artist’s subtle commentary on the true nature of bureaucracies. Kim Schmahmann, Bureau of Bureaucracy, 1993-1999, various hardwoods, veneers, marquetry, mother of pearl, gold leaf, and brass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor, 2000.48A-H, © 1993, Kim S. Schmahmann Source: Bureau of Bureaucracy

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 to our community, @Adam Stratton, @Tyler E, @rebuild51, @Down East, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! New Patriot Woodwiki Pages Wiki | California Nutmeg THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Wiki | Alligator Juniper THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Today we don't have any new featured files to brag about, but you can help us with that, if you have a file you'd like to share with the community, please upload it to our files department. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image The shop is located in a partially renovated 1800’s barn. Renovations consisted mainly of the addition of an 1890’s base burner stove, some insulation, and patching enough holes to keep the sparrows out. John uses authentic tools whenever practical. He has a great collection of 1800s to early 1900s spoke shaves, hand drills, block planes, lathe tools, etc. When it isn’t appropriate to use an authentic tool (because of it’s fragility, value or rarity) he tries to use tools made by craftspeople like himself who make hand-made wood working tools in the traditional style. The only power tools in the shop are his lathe and the table saw, which is only used for breaking down large pieces of material so they can be managed. Source: Brighton Woodshop

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! My weekend Besides getting into the shop a little bit this weekend to work on my sons Cherry Desk, we also took a trip around the county with the family, me, mama and the kids all piled up in our car and headed out to the desert to consume some tasty Date Shakes, milk shakes made from dates of the palm. Our desert is full of farmers raising date palms and selling those tasty dates all over the world. We dropped by one of our favorite spots on the way home, Lake Hemet up in our local mountains and walked around talked, and just had an easy time. Our youngest daughter is heading off to the Army, I can't believe how fast time has gone by, it feels like I just never got enough time with her as she grew up so fast, I feel that way with all my kids, just not enough time, it's almost a guilty feeling inside that there is just so much more I want to do with them, but they have grown so fast. My youngest girl on my right is leaving for the Army by the end of next month, I am going to miss her dearly, my oldest girl is entering her last year of college this fall, and my boy is a big sophomore. Of course mama is behind the camera. New Members Please welcome to our community, @coxhaus, @Anshu41, @ALWMach1, @Foothills, @Forsense, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Today we don't have any new featured files to brag about, but you can help us with that, if you have a file you'd like to share with the community, please upload it to our files department. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image @derekcohen shared some of his fantastically beautiful work, showing off his high level of craftsmanship with wonderful joinery and pleasing selections of wood species. Derek's Harlequin Table: "The case is Hard Maple from the USA. The drawer fronts are Black Walnut, figured Hard Maple, and pink Jarrah (hence the name, Harlequin). The drawer sides are quartersawn Tasmanian Oak, and the drawer bottoms/slips were made from Tasmanian Blue Gum." ~Derek Cohen~ See additional work by Derek at "Some of My Furniture Builds".

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! I'd like to say to my own dad today, Happy Birthday! John H. Morris is 86 yrs young today! Me and the family headed up to his place yesterday, took up a bunch of Kentucky Fried Chicken and some birthday cake and we had lunch together and he blew out the candles on his cake. He had plenty of leftovers as we planned, so he should not have to cook dinner for two nights and he's got plenty of leftover birthday cake. So to all of you, have a wonderful week ahead, and be safe in all you do! Dad and I. He's holding his own! Don't look a year over 60 if you ask me!

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! Short topic this morning folks, sorry about that, running late for work! Be safe in all you do and watch that heat!

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 to our community, @george wil, @Keenan spiegel, @GregUlm, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured File To view all our files for your enjoyment and use, please go to "Files Downloads". You can also pick up the downloads at the Plans and Software Forum. Once uploaded to our server the plans auto populate at the forum. Today we don't have any new featured files to brag about, but you can help us with that, if you have a file you'd like to share with the community, please upload it to our files department. Featured Topic Our Featured topic has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory". Featured Image Artefacts of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest (Group of Northwest Coast wooden objects) This group comprises a bear holding a fish, a seal dish with bead and abalone inlay, a frog dish, a hollow, boat-shaped vessel finely carved on the exterior with form line decoration, possibly a weaving implement, a hawk-effigy spoon, a bear-effigy fork, and two model canoes, one with a paddle, both painted with totemic designs. height of bear 24 in, 61 cm, length of dishes 17 1/2 in, 44.5 cm, and 8 1/2 in, 21.5 cm, implement 13 1/4 in, 33.5 cm, spoon and fork 15 1/2 in, 39.5 cm each; canoes 17 1/2 in, 44.5 cm, and 12in, 30.5 cm. Source: Dons Maps