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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!  Community News Our Annual Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live! I want to thank those who have contributed thus far! One week into the project and we are half of the way to meeting our goal! Please see our project at: Latest Wiki Pages Mortise and Tenon This is an ancient joint dating back 7,000 years. The first examples, tusked joints, were found in a well near Leipzig, Germany - the world's oldest intact wooden architecture. It has also been found joining the wooden planks of the "Khufu ship", a 43.6 m long vessel sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex of the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC. Read more... I started to use some new technology to our wiki, though it's not new to the world of editing software, it's been around for a long time, but it's relatively new to our wiki, the hovering popup! I love it. I can highlight some text, and create a hover popup containing information that the reader may want to explore further. You'll see in the wiki page "Mortise and Tenon" in the first paragraph, two bold text areas, "well near Leigzig" and "Khufu ship". Hover your cursor over those items and you'll receive additional information on those items. Go ahead and try it! New Members Please welcome to our community, @MaDeuce, @Teaboy at M.POWER Tools, @Lars49, @Logos, @Al Lark and we have two pending we are approving at this moment before they can pass the gate, 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 Image Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947 Young Native Americans learning the trade. Kansas City 1947.

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 Our Annual Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project is live! I want to thank those who have contributed thus far! Two days into the project and we are a third of the way to meeting our goal! Please see our project at: New Members Please welcome to our community, @M.B. Cobb, @joey1749, @Bernard, @Commy_2, @Nicoleb, @Marvin, 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 Image Laurent Dupont of Minneapolis uses a hand plane to shave the bottom of a door in his house that is getting stuck because it's too low. Mrs. Dupont and daughter, Mary Kay, watch the process and hold the door steady. (1948) http://digitalcollections.hclib.org/cdm/ref/collection/MplsPhotos/id/27228

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 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas will be live soon, thank you all for your patience! A couple things have delayed the opening of our annual tradition project, firstly the timing of being selected, and my own time available to create the project, I am failing miserably these days with my time management and getting this project off the ground. Please forgive me, we are almost there, please stay tuned and thank you all for your inquiries regarding our adopted family! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Tina, @johnwan, @Sherri, @CliffordLadner, @kayakbuilder, 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 image Japanese American boys working in a tool room for an educational wood shop while interned during WWII. Source:Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

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 finally have been assigned our Adopted Family for Christmas by Operation Ward 57! I am currently working on creating our event, and making it live soon, we have only a short time to raise funding for our family through our traditional raffle, stand by folks! Latest Wiki Entries Redwood Lie Nielsen No. 1 Lie Nielsen No. 6  Glossary of Woodworking Terms (Currently editable by the general public - no login necessary) Regarding the two entries for the Lie Nielsen hand planes, those are somewhat of a test. I created a Bench Plane entry easy to use form for our members to use. You will be able to activate the form and fill it in with simple to use easy steps, and click on "Save", and your hand plane page is created. You will be able to take images of your own hand planes in your shop, and add them to our wiki with factual data and information about your hand plane. Future forms will be created for all types of tools and machinery and other woodworking related data. Form screen shot below, the drop down menus have choices such as "Common Name", when the down arrow is clicked a drop down menu of choices - Smoothing - Jack - Fore - Jointer, are shown as a selection. Click on the "Save" button and a wiki page is automatically created with all the information you entered in this form. At this time, this form is for Bench Planes only, not specialty planes, there will be additional forms to cover the specialty classifications of hand planes. New Members Please welcome to our community, @vaporleaf, @Tom Lee, @Larry K, @Andrew, @Lorry, 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 image Credit: https://www.donsmaps.com/pacificnwclothingmasks.html Naas shagi yeil s'aaxw (Raven at the Headwaters of Nass hat) Attributed to Kadyisdu.axch', Tlingit, Kiks.ádi clan, active late 18th – early 19th century. Description: Ceremonial hat Date: ca 1810; photo 2010-12-18 Medium : Maple, paint, shell, hair, baleen Notes: There are human figures crouching within Raven's ears.

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!  Latest Wiki Entries Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools is being updated at light speed thanks to the great open source book Principles of Woodworking by Herman Hjorth. Also, the Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools has made it into our main navigation tab under "Wiki" at the top nav bar of our community. Just hover your cursor over "Wiki" for the drop down. As you all know by now, the wiki page for Glossary of Woodworking Terms is open for editing. Just visit the page, do not log in, it's not necessary, and hover your cursor over the down carrot symbol and click on "Edit", the page will then open for edit. Once you complete your edit, you'll be asked for a short description of what you did, simply enter into the field short terms such as "edit text", "added chisel", "corrected spelling", then you'll fill in the simple captcha anti spam robot field and submit, and your edit is recorded! Editing our Wiki Folks may be apprehensive about editing our wiki, I must admit when you open the page for edit it looks a tad strange. Just use the examples that are already there and you'll be fine. At this point we are using "wiki syntax". Soon I will open up the wiki with a standard windows style editor, but for now I am hoping folks will give the "wiki syntax" a chance as it's much more reliable because it's all "plain text" entries. Not too mention once you get used to it, it's quite fast too, since you are relying on text to create fonts, and bold lettering and underlines, it's actually much faster than having to highlite your word, and click on a formatting button as you do here in this forum. Here are a few examples of plain text entries for our wiki, and what those entries generate. The "Desired Formatting" is what you would like to see in your text, the "Syntax" is what you type, the "Result" is what you'll see once the page is saved. The Golden Rules of Editing our Wiki Really there are only two Golden Rules in wiki'ing. Be Bold! Be bold in your editing, be bold in your page creation, be bold in accepting others editing of your own personal work, and be bold in referencing and checking the facts. Be Creative! Don't be shy, and don't let the standards of wiki'ng stop you from editing or creating. Wiki's rely on research and references, in order to create content that is factually based. Our wiki should not contain content based on personal opinions, nor biased writings, but the wiki should be a source that readers can count on for factual statements about any given subject. Enter your content, enter you knowledge openly and freely, don't worry about the reference or research details if you don't have them, we can always come back and edit in those details later, so edit without fear! Creating and editing a wiki should be fun, since you cannot really damage a wiki page you should not worry if you are going to make a mistake or erroneously delete something that cannot be retrieved. The reason is that all wiki pages have a history, a history of edits and changes that can be recalled and re-established as a page. So if you accidentally destroy a wiki page, no worries! We can simply revert the prior page back to its former glory. So, create, edit, and just have fun! New Members Please welcome to our community, @therealwahnsinn, @AudioChris, @Harold Phair, @Skip Ellis, @MadJester, 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 image Clarence Goddard, student from Lamar, Nebraska with deafblindness at Perkins Institution on the Glover Scholarship Fund. A class in Sloyd woodworking. Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA (1928) Ref: Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kh04dw97q>

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! This Monday morning topic is short and sweet folks, gotta run! And thank you for being here! Congratulations Boston! Source: By Turner Chris Ramsey

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!  Adopt a Warrior Family for the Holidays We are still awaiting our family, they should be assigned to us any day now, for our new members who may not be familiar with this project, every year we adopt a warrior family for Christmas, we fund raise through a raffle, and the proceeds are used to provide a Christmas for our assigned family through Operation Ward 57. Latest Wiki Entries Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools Glossary of Woodworking Machinery Glossary of Woodworking Joints Soon the above pages will be open for your contributions in editing, as a reminder, our Glossary of Woodworking Terms are open for your editing, so feel free to edit, spell correct, and insert new entries to that page. New Members Please welcome to our community, @MadJester, @Dan, @Av8tor, @Monkey Paws, @TwoByFour, 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 image Woodworking Shop, no information on location. Lafayette Studios. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7b5m625z73_6_436>.

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 shop In my shop, not much in the way of projects but I am having fun collecting tools I'll need to round out my inventory of chair making implements and tools. One of the last tools I purchased from a seller on eBay is this wonderful frame saw with a couple blades. I was in search for a turning saw, they are a tad shorter than this saw, but this saw should do well for cutting radius's, it appears this specific frame saw was made as a turning saw considering the blade installed and the blades that come with it and the tiny set screw and post to hold the blade. It should be on my bench tonight when I come home from work, I can't wait! By the way, I stole this beaut for 75 bucks, I am very happy. So that's it in my shop, hope you all have a wonderful week ahead, and stay safe, and be well! Turning saw by S. Johnson Turning saw handle Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Giant Sequoia Giant Sequoia or Bigtree is the mightiest and oldest of all living things. The valid scientific name under the present International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature for this king of the forest is Sequoia Wellingtonia. This giant guardian sometimes reaches a height of 250 feet and an almost unbelievable diameter of 80 feet or more, with a root system sometimes covering an area of two acres. Read more... Noble Fir In the deep forests, Noble Fir is a magnificent, majestic and symmetrically formed “tree fir” having a straight clear trunk frequently for 100 feet or more. It towers to a height of from 150 to 200 or more feet, and has a trunk diameter of two to five feet. Read more... New Members Please welcome @Mr. Measure Twice, and @Pro Patria to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Note: To leave a welcome message, simply click on their names, and at their profile page you can let them know how happy you are they are here! Image of the week Farm table by Admin Ron Dudelston. Source: The Farm House Table

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! Patriot News Operation Ward 57 has chosen us again to Adopt a Warrior Family for the Holidays. Now we wait, to find out who our new family is. Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Balsam Fir Balsam Fir, one of the ten firs native to the United States, is a medium-sized and short-lived tree but an important one, nonetheless, in both the United States and Canada. Read more... Grand Fir The Grand Fir is a stately tree 80 to 125 feet high and one and one half to two and one-half feet in diameter. On rich bottom lands it may reach 200 to 250 feet in height and three to four feet in diameter. Read more... White Fir White Fir, so called because of the ashy hue of its bark, is one of ten native firs in the United States. It is considered the most important. It is a massive, low-branched, heavily-foliaged tree, 100 to 150 feet high with a diameter of 20 to 40 inches. Read more... State Trees Updated with links back to trees within the wiki. New Members None! But you can help us change that, by inviting your friends to our little corner of paradise here at The Patriot Woodworker. Thank you! Image of the week It's not often (actually never have) featured one of my own images here in this section, but I thought I'd share a neat picture I took with just my cell phone. I recently purchased a Stanley No. 49 Auger Depth Stop, and I took a couple pictures of it in action, and one of them I thought was just really neat, very clear, with the background items blurred out a little to bring focus to the foreground. I was impressed with my Motorola cell phone camera, I have had this cell phone for about 4 years and I am just now learning about all the imaging capabilities it has. Thanks for viewing!

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! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Western Hemlock An excellent choice for architectural designs and interior flooring and wall panelings, with it's warm amber glow, the Western Hemlock has found its way into may homes and office spaces. Read more... Douglas Fir Douglas Fir, the darling of the construction and woodworking industry, used in everything from the framing of structures to temporary supports in bridge construction, to the most modest arts and crafts projects, this wood species has gained a reputation of being both reliable and cost effective. Read more... Grains and Figures in Wood Burls, knots, medullary rays, annual growth rings, grains in the lumber such as wavy grain and cross grain, variations in the coloring matter irregularly distributed in the wood, or other distortion formed in the tree either from injury or the hazards of nature, form different patterns or figures in wood. Read more... New Members Please welcome @Glenn, @pdexter, @Tas to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Note: To leave a welcome message, simply click on their names, and at their profile page you can let them know how happy you are they are here! Featured Topic @Smallpatch (Jess) has a wonderful topic up regarding his choices for power carving attachments and tools. Great job Jess! Featured Image of the Week Korean woodworkers

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! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Eastern Hemlock: Eastern Hemlock is usually 60 to 80 feet tall and has a trunk diameter of two to three feet. Much larger trees are occasionally found. It has an irregular crown.... see more New Members Please welcome @Frank C, @Joshkaz, @Aleks, @Finne, @DrillRestorer to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Have a wonderful week ahead 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! Recent News Hey Patriot Woodworker's! Would like to show our sponsor Easy Wood Tools a little love? Well you can, please see the Announcement below! New Members Please welcome @Tas, @pdexter, @Glenn, @Crease_Monkey, to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured Image of the Week Japanese woman woodworker, date unknown. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman,_worker,_Japan_(10797406583).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! This past weekend I focused on my new addition to my shop, this fabulous workbench, oak base, with oak cabinets and walnut drawer pulls, with a 4" thick top made of Maple and Oak. It has an end vise that is very powerful. The top mounted vise is a really cool one too, it's an old Columbian, but I'll move it to another location in the shop. If anyone has been following my good fortune, I was contacted by some life long friends awhile back, and informed that their neighbor was looking for a recipient of her deceased husbands woodworking shop, he was a WWII and Korean War Navy Veteran, a very accomplished woodworker among other trades, a high school shop teacher since he came out of service for our nation, his name was Jim Eckler. Our friends recommended myself as the recipient, and here I am now. I sincerely believe it was Providence, that I have received this gift of a bench and many hand tools, as in my own life, I was ready to move to mainly a hand tool shop and downsize significantly, I was hesitating for awhile, then this happened, and this event touched me off to make the move. Over the past few weeks I have sold off all of my machinery but for one lunchbox planer, and I purchased a Shopsmith with a portion of the proceeds of my big sale, for the moments I really need power, and tucked it in a nice compact corner of our garage. This bench, will be the mainstay of my work space, I really love it, it's at least 40 or so years old, and it has a ton of character. The holdfasts I purchased off a young man from Ebay, he hand forges these holdfasts and they work very well, if you are in interested in the holdfasts let me know, I'll give you the contact information. I can't wait to get to work on my bench, and honor it appropriately. Raffle Winners Congratulations to the following winners of our annual community fundraiser! Thank you to all who participated in the raffle, your contributions help us stay live! Laguna Tools $500 gift certificate redeemable at Laguna Tools and Supermax Tools (WINNER! @It Was Al Easy Wood Tools Mid Size Micro Detailer ($120.00 value) (WINNER! @p_toad) Wood River 4 Piece Butt Chisel Set ($62.00 value) (WINNER! @Artie) Wood River 6 Piece Bench Chisel Set ($90.00 value) (WINNER! @DuckSoup) Short and sweet Monday topic guys, running late for work, be safe all, and have a wonderful week ahead!

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! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Sitka Spruce, another spruce in the (conifers) family, often growing upwards of 200' or more, with it's very prickly foliage, this majestic tree is also a favorite of woodworkers and luthiers alike, piano sounding boards are made from Sitka as well. Sitka was also used in the early days of flight, an airplanes structure was made from Sitka. Check out our newest addition to The American Woods category. Image properties New Members Please welcome @john768765 to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured Topic @Gerald has been getting creative with his laminated boxes, excellent! Featured Image of the Week Turning workshop in the Bomann Museum Celle Attribution: By Hajotthu [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from 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! Community News As discussed at our community raffle topic, please see this post Revised Raffle Draw Date We are pushing our raffle draw time up to September 15th. Please see linked post for details. Also, by suggestion made by @lew, a raffle announcement will be inserted into our home page of The Patriot Woodworker for the rest of the world to view, honestly this should have been done at the outset, but it was not, I apologize! And thanks Lew! MWTCA What's It Project The August What's It is under review, and a winner will be announced shortly, meanwhile we are working on September's What's It right now! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. White Spruce New Members Please welcome @Alicia Paul, @Woodbutcherbynight, @hawkeye10 to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Featured Gallery If you all been living under a rock you may not have known that a gathering of Patriot Woodworker's occurred last week! And here is the gallery album to prove it! Featured Image of the Week USAF Academy support squadron wood shop. Source: https://www.usafasupport.com/wood-shop.html

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 As you all know @Fred W. Hargis Jr hosted the first get together for Patriot Woodworkers in his home in the great state of Ohio. From the looks of it and the action reports, it was a good time by attendees. To see images of the get together, please see the topic at Still on Schedule. Right now the images and videos are kind of all over the place as they come in, soon we'll have a gallery dedicated to Fred's meeting, and our own Admin @Ron Dudelston has volunteered to move all the event images to the specified gallery, and add captions to the images as well. This way you all can view the happenings in one location. Thanks Ron! And again, thank you Fred for hosting a wonderful meet and greet! And we'd like to thank Woodcraft, Laguna Tools, and Easy Wood Tools for supplying some fun and wonderful swag items and gifts. New Members No new members folks, but you can help change that, get the word out to your friends, invite your email contacts list, invite your postman, your local high school shop teacher, invite em all! Featured Gallery By now you all should be aware of @Big B gallery for his turnings, he recently uploaded some wonderful images of his work, and can you believe it, he's been turning for only 4 years! Great job Big! Featured Image of the Week Kevin Watt, Wood Craft Center manager, and the wood-working camp participants pose for a photo after making their cutting boards at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, Aug. 11, 2017. The Youth Center partnered with the Wood Craft Center to host a total of two, week-long wood working camps to offer the classes to more kids. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño) Source: https://www.fairchild.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1278242/youth-center-hosts-first-ever-woodworking-camp/

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 Changes We now have a forum for our Patriot Woodworker meetings around the nation. Thanks to @Fred W. Hargis Jr for firing up our first annual meet and greet, and spurring us to open up a forum for any members who wish to host a meet and greet and provide information and details about their meeting place. The new forum is at The Scrap Bin, please surf on over and check it out, and, if you've been living under a rock over the last 6 months, or if you are new here and have not heard about the Meet and Greet, and would like to attend Fred's shebang, please read those items in our new forum. Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Eastern Larch Western Larch New Members Please welcome @Robbie woods, @Scott Yarnall, @shawnbrad, @Rich, @Bill Schultz, and @JohnM to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And welcome to your new community folks! Featured Gallery One of our newest members @shawnbrad has already posted some beautiful and unique work for us to gawk at! See Shawn's work, great job Shawn! Featured Image of the Week @Gerald has a great tip regarding his version of a push stick. See his topic at the new General Woodworking "Tips" forum regarding the use of this device.

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 Changes Please visit the following topics, they may be of interest to you. Free For All Forum Changes Please Add Tags Also, we now have a column of information pertaining to our wiki. You may now view the latest wiki page changes by viewing the "Latest Wiki Pages" section at the right side of our community, just below the "Popular Contributors" section. Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Slash Pine (a beautiful pine, this is probably one of my favorite pines, elegant and shapely, I would love to have this in our front yard of our home) Longleaf Pine Jack Pine New Members Please welcome @BroderickBanks and @maria199 to our community, leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And welcome Broderick and Maria! MWTCA What's It Has ended for the month of July, and we'd like to congratulate @HandyDan for his successful research which in turn landed him a beautiful Rob Cosman Dovetail Saw! And, even though it appears our August What's It mystery is solved thanks to @p_toad, we still have the month of August left in front of us before we can officially announce the winner, so head on over there and give it a hard time! Thanks a lot Peter! Featured Gallery @Jari from down under has been busy with his Camphor Laurel turnings, they are absolutely beautiful! Featured Image A collage of "Wood" related subject images from our "Wood Research Category" of The Patriot Woodwiki. Attribution: Created by John Morris for The Patriot Woodwiki (8-11-2018)

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! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Ponderosa Pine Red Pine Shortleaf Pine Sugar Pine Virginia Pine Western White Pine Also, I'd like to congratulate @kmealy for jumping in and editing our Woodworking Glossary wiki page, Keith added several of his own entries, and made corrections to entries that were already there, Keith is now an official "Wikier"! Great job Keith! I think he'll tell ya it was pretty painless, actually quite easy right Keith? New Members No new members this past week, please help us get the word out about our woodworking community by using the "Invite" feature found at the top of our community second icon right from your name, it looks like an "event ticket". Click on it and follow the prompts. Or, just tell your neighbor, email your friends, anything helps. Thank you! MWTCA What's It Has ended for the month of July, we are holding our breath for @HandyDan answer, his research has been submitted and we are awaiting an answer! Featured Topic @difalkner hit a home run with his Command Chief Stripes plaque! Beautiful job! Featured Image Picture of a 356 wood shell used to shape out metal body work. This picture was taken at the Porsche museum in Gmünd, Austria, Summer 2006. Attribution: By The original uploader was BMan1113VR at English Wikipedia. (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], 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! Patriot Woodworker News The quick Status Update is now live. View the upper right corner of our community, above our supporters graphics. You can now enter a quick status for public viewing, once the status is entered, it is shown on your profile page. Status's are fun, it's a quick "Hit and Run" way to let folks know what you are up too, "Heading out the door to get some Oak!", or anything you have a burning desire to scream at the world, within reason of course! Have fun! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. Pinyon Pine Red Pine New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @DonHiggins Patriot Woodworkers, please drop them a status welcome at their home pages. Thanks! Featured Topic By @IrishWoodCarver, a beautiful South Bend lathe, see his topic below: Featured Image U.S. Army Spc. Eric Pack, a carpentry and masonry specialist assigned to the 760th Engineer Company, works on a project in the 489th Engineer Battalion’s wood shop on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Aaron Ellerman/Released) Source: http://www.dodlive.mil/2014/03/05/u-s-soldiers-hone-woodworking-craft/

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! Patriot Woodworker News We are raising funds for our community, please see our fundraising topic by clicking on the prizes below! Latest Wiki Entries Straight from a wonderful book about "American Woods", by Shelley E. Schoonover, published in 1951, we are moving her out of print, out of copyright contents over to our wiki. There will be two categories for the trees of North America, The Softwoods, and The Hardwoods. See the latest entries at the links below. The main Wood Research Portal American Woods The Softwoods - (Conifers) Eastern White Pine Western White Pine Sugar Pine New members Please welcome the following members to our community. Jari Kilpi is back! Welcome him at @Down Under And the son of a buddy of mine at work, they just purchased a new scroll saw! Welcome @Shane04. @Duct Tape, is he the same as our @ductape? @Mario Batas, and @Angelus. Welcome folks! Patriot Woodworkers, please drop them a status welcome at their home pages. Thanks! Featured Topic Featured Image Stacking and drying, worker piling 2x6 red pine lumber for air drying in the yard of the Terreau portable sawmill, at present located near Squaw Lake, Minnesota. Source: https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Wood-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! Patriot Woodworker News The big news of the week, our fundraiser! Help us stay live and funded! See our fundraising page at: Featured Topic Steve Krumanaker's artistry continues to thrill folks, this topic was shared across our social media outlets, and featured here. Wonderful work Steve! Featured Tip Handy Dan has submitted one of the first tips in our new Tips subcategories for our main woodworking forums. Great tip Dan! Featured Image Back to basics: See legend at https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Cross-Section-of-Tree-Trunk

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! Patriot Woodworker News We are working on a new Home Page at https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/main/ This page will eventually be the main showcase page for our community, although our forums will always exist, at the current url you are accustomed too. The main page will be the first page our visitors and guests view upon arrival. We will keep you informed of the progress as we advance. Latest Wiki Seed Entry We are starting off with basics, and the "Hammer" is about as basic as you get, but the history is anything but! Our Featured Image below heads up our Hammer category page. These seed pages are incomplete, waiting for editors like you to dig in and add to and edit, and collaborate. We hope to have our wiki open for editing relatively soon. See us at https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Hammer New members Please welcome the following member to our community. @Nailset To our new member Nailset, thank you for joining us! To our existing members, please click on his name and shoot him a welcome message. Featured Topic If you have not been following along with @Smallpatch Jess's teapot adventure, well you been living under a rock! Check out Jess's finished teapots, all shiny and sittin in the home now, thank you for sharing your adventure with us Jess, it's been a real pleasure following along! Featured Image https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Hammer Basic types of stone tools: knives, axes, a hammer-axe and a hammer-stone. Neolithic or Copper Age. The City of Prague Museum. Reference: "File:Stone tools, Neolithic or Copper Age, City of Prague Museum, 175541.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 15 May 2017, 18:41 UTC. 28 Jun 2018, 03:55 .

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! Patriot Woodworker News We are working on a new Home Page at https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/main/ This page will eventually be the main showcase page for our community, although our forums will always exist, at the current url you are accustomed too. The main page will be the first page our visitors and guests view upon arrival. We will keep you informed of the progress as we advance. New members Please welcome the following members to our community. @William l. Boyce sr., @Francesberry, @JasperKrischock, @IrishWoodCarver, @steve williams. 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 @Dale Felice has been packing his gallery once more with some wonderful work by chainsaw. Featured Image Note: Boy at lower left appears to have made contact with poison oak. Boys at YMCA Camp Lichtman See more at https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Education-Research-Portal Camp 1 was used as Camp Lichtman for many years, hosting groups of African-American boys from the Twelfth Street YMCA in Washington, DC. This use resulted in a codification of local segregation practices with separate entrances for the black camps on the north side of the site and white camps on the south. However, Camp 1 provided new camping facilities laid out according to the latest ideas in recreational planning at a time when few options were available to African-American groups. By the 1960s, Camp 1 was used as co-ed and integrated Camp Goodwill by Family and Child Services of Washington, DC.

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?