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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! 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! 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! 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

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, @Chris Bush, @Jlandin8251, @PParker, @Brown54 , 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 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!  New Members Please welcome to our community, @Michael ziems, @Bucknut, @WMarie, @aaronc , 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 Tech. Sgt. Nicholas, 432nd Maintenance Group Quality Assurance inspector, poses for a photo Dec. 18, 2016, at his home in Las Vegas, Nev. Nicholas shares his woodworking passion by making award plaques and shadow boxes for members of Creech Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christian Clausen/Released) See source

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 @Wildswoodworks, @eldonthemarine, @MSP162, @Kevin Smith, @Mijohnson1984, @Richarddeats, @ShoyebAhammad, @Anthony Watson, @Sid Matheny, @tony ennis, 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! Updated Wiki Pages Glossary of Woodworking Terminology has been updated with a few new terms and definitions, "Bodging" being one of them. Feel free to enter your terms as well! This wiki page is an open edit page for all to contribute too. 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 finished product after 8 long months. Everything is carved, including grasses. The snails is carved too. The fly was tied by me (Dale Felice) for the jumping brown trout. By Patriot Woodworker @Dale Felice. Please see his gallery here at Chainsaw Carving.

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 jacob and @frank j 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! Image of the Week We're all about our active and former service members here at TPW. Without them, the image of the week is impossible. Shop Happenings! Its a shorter holiday week. Do you have anything going on in your shops?

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, @stephany, @Kennybob, @deckiemma75, @wendy, @H260 Sailor, @Yeder, 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 Files 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 Woodworking shop in Old Town Kashgar, Xinjiang Source: deperstin

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, @gabtrac, @Sawdust703, @narkbrown, @Woodpeckah, @philsfog @CStanford, 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 Glossary of Woodworking Terminology has received a few more updates. Our glossary is building! Wiki | Glossary of Woodworking Terms THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki Featured Files 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 University of British Columbia has a wonderful display of artifacts from the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. This is a group of buildings and totem poles which have been erected in the grounds. Photo: Don Hitchcock 2012 Source: The First Nations of the Pacific Northwest

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, @waltpm, @keith long, @tdasilverfox, 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 A new wiki page was created for the Rocky Mountain Juniper. To read about this hardy Juniper click on the image to be taken to its own page. Featured Files 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 Seaman Taela Moye, a member of the First Coast Guard District, sands a boat at the Community Boat Building workshop in Boston, Tuesday, November 15, 2016. Coast Guard members volunteer at the workshop, where the staff run a program that offers children in low-income schools the opportunity to build a boat from start to finish as part of their core math curriculum. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cynthia Oldham) Source: https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/01/building-bright-futures-in-boston/

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 Kayden, @ericarmstrong, @Canoeman, @Bertha Seumanu, @c18669, @Tom Computer, 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 Files 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 Quote by member Big B "This one is turned, hollowed and extensively carved. Inspired by Mark Doolittle’s work. Measures approximately 12”x7.75” inches. Big B" Source: Big B Turnings

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, @teddyb839, @Rob 65, @Oldgrady, @aj43, @Nate, 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 Files 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 Sharif Adams turning a bowl on a spring pole lathe. Source: https://woodenway.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/woodlanders/

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, @Arthur Moebius, @jmzlato, @Rolandlocal, @chrishallsrq, @Vic, @chief77, 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 Files I've been getting back to basics around our community lately and have enjoyed it completely, it's been awhile since I dug into my beloved antique Workbench Magazines and scanned some plans for all to use. Please see a few of the plans I uploaded! 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 Hancock Shaker Village, Western Massachusetts, USA IMG_1946 Attribution: Richard Taylor from Australia [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

I completely forgot yesterday's weekly topic, I can't believe I did that, sorry guys! We had a very eventful weekend that had me completely whipped and dog tired and had a hard time waking up.

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 @Gleen, @dmypub, @Nickstools, 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! Updated Wiki Pages Our Wiki Home Page was updated, just some simple layout items and graphical items, visit our wiki home page at https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/HomePage 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 Canoes of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Don's Maps is a website I frequent often, weekly if not several times a week, this man has traveled! And he has some wonderful images and research of things worldly. The canoe below was carved from a single cedar log. See the rest of the story here at https://www.donsmaps.com/canoesnwc.html Back to Don's website, his work is completely open source, free to share and distribute at will to all parties to use and I use it often for images and research for our wiki. I love sites like this where a person has put a ton of work into it, and does not feel the need to copyright everything, the spirit of the internet is sharing, collaboration, and learning and Don's Maps has captured that spirit in this open source project. Additional related link for canoe: https://www.donsmaps.com/canoedesigns.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 Chat, try it out! The Woodshed has returned, in its most basic state as a trial only. If enough interest is shown in our chat area we'll develop it further to be more accessible and visually more stimulating. You can try it out at https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/chatbox/ Or click on the graphic as seen below and at the right column on desktop screens below our sponsors area. New Members Please welcome to our community @Lourens620, @ScottyM, @Joshuatreebiz, @asoelberg, 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! Updated Wiki Pages No updated or new pages, been busy with other things. 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 Man with pipe in his mouth, undercutting a larch tree to keep from splitting when cut through. 1910. Huron H. Smith Expedition to Oregon Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Undercutting_a_larch_tree_(4586894979).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!  Theme News So far I don't have a fix for bringing back our theme, but I am working on it. If I don't see any headway being made this week we'll explore other themes based on your input, or tweak our current default theme to suit our needs. Thank you for your patience. New Members Please welcome to our community, @Jrmyhr, @johnker1947@gmail.com, @Dennis Gaya, @Fred, @richk52, 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! Updated Wiki Pages No updated or new pages, been busy with other things. 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 Colonial Williamsburg Anthony Haye's Cabinet Shop https://anthonyhaycabinetmaker.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/were-workin-on-it/

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!  Theme News As many of you know by now, our theme or appearance looks quite different right now, what you are seeing is the default theme for our software without customization. Since our upgrade and after upgrading the custom theme to follow along, we were experiencing errors being thrown with each page visit by users of our community, creating a strain on our network. I am working on this issue within my spare time, unfortunately now that the new work week has begun we are more than likely going to have to use this default theme until the weekend comes along again and I can sit down and dig in. Thank you all for your patience. New Members Please welcome to our community, @1fizgig, @camargo, @woodenbrain, @SteveG, @Bob Lang, 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! Updated Wiki Pages Well, not really an interesting wiki page but I updated our "Copyright" page for the wiki, showing off our "Creative Commons Sharealike" license that allows anyone to use our wiki at their pleasure and to be able to copy and reproduce our wiki as they see fit, open source, open web, just the way I like it. 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 Jim Coleman, a framing and woodworking specialist, groups photos for ideas of a shadow box at the Arts and Crafts Center Jan. 28, 2009, at RAF Mildenhall, England. Mr. Coleman is able to create a wide variety of custom pieces for almost any occasion. Source: https://www.mildenhall.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000623487/

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 Saturday my wife loaded me up into our car and we drove to a surprise location, the Sam Maloof residence and work shop tour. We had our anniversary on March 2nd, 28 wonderful years of marriage, I gave her my gift, and her gift had to wait as it was raining really hard and part of the tour was outside. So she and the kids kept a secret for another whole week and we went this past Saturday. I had no idea where we were going till we virtually pulled up on the compound. What a cool anniversary gift! We could not take pictures inside the residence, there was much artwork and frankly to have a tour with a bunch of cameras pointing all over the place would have taken away from the experience, so I thank the foundation for that rule. But we could take pictures in other areas of the compound, and here are a just a few in my gallery of the tour. I'll have more images once I get my wife's camera downloaded too. New Members Please welcome to our community, @Lewis, @mijohnson653, @sreilly24590, @WoodWorkBooty, @Bob Cleek, @Harland, 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! Updated 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 - 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. The oldest known use dates from the Early Neolithic Linear Pottery culture, where it was used in the constructing of the wooden lining of water wells. Read more... Wedge tenons for a foundation beam of a home in France 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 Master Sgt. Bruce Stohlman Jr. shows several finished eagle head canes Oct. 7, 2009, at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Sergeant Stohlman volunteers his woodworking skills hand-carving canes for wounded veterans with the Northern Virginia Woodcarvers as part of the Eagle Cane Project. Source: https://www.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/143103/woodcarvers-give-veterans-support-through-eagle-cane-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 to our community, @Sawdust74, @EliseMorgan, @grenadier42, 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 United States of America State Trees For the United States of America, the state trees are symbols of pride from the West Coast to the East Coast and from the southern coastal shores and borders of the south to the northern border along the country of Canada, and to the Hawaiian Islands. The concept of State Trees originated in 1893 as states were a relatively fresh idea. While at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago a women's congress suggested a "National Garland of Flowers" made of flowers representing each state. Read more... American Woods Project And don't forget to check out our American Woods Project, a direct transfer of information from US Forester and Author Shelley E. Schoonover. You can view the lineup of Conifers in a structured format, we only have a few more Conifers to transfer over from her book, then we can move on to the Hard Woods! See our project at https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/The-American-Woods-Project 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 Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "Junior high school shop." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

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, @junglejohn, @raymond, @amcelveen, @Linda Suttee, @doublej, @Sconner, @Tony2, @AnotherJim, @amyswhimzyfl, @Redleg1sg, @Rick, @alexckeplar, @Belg, 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 Sierra Juniper The Sierra Juniper, long known as Western Juniper, or merely Juniper, is, when not suppressed by environment, bent or twisted on rocks and steep mountain sides, a sturdy grizzly of the high altitudes ranging in size from 40 to 80 feet high with a trunk diameter of from 16 to 40 inches. It is a slow-growing, long-lived tree. The crown is open and well-rounded but the limbs may extend almost to the ground. The trunk is chunky with straight grooves and ridges, is sometimes twisted and bent, has long strong roots, and frequently divides into huge upright limbs a few feet from the base. Read more... California Juniper The California Juniper is a low open, bushy, broad round-topped shrub or tree 15 to 30 feet tall with a short, thick thrunk 10 to 24 inches in diameter and deeply infolded or fluted. It is a shaggy looking tree, generally with greatly distorted heavy branches.The foliage is cedar-like; bristly, scaly, rigid and sharp-pointed, and a pale yellowish-green color. The juniper berries, which likewise mature in the second year, are a light-reddish-brown covered by a bluish-white bloom, larger than those of most of the other junipers. Read more... Last but not least, the wiki page Glossary of Woodworking Terminology has been updated with new terms and is still an open edit page ready for you to edit, add, and even correct text or spelling errors. 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 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 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: 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!  New Members Please welcome to our community, @Thunder, @Bob McKee, @DavidC, @MarkW, @Chrism, @RaymondDijkstra, @Thad, @smithwarner, 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 Page The Shakers: A section of our wiki that will be dedicated to the Shakers and the work they performed within the realm of woodworking. The page is in its infancy and is only an introduction to the society of Shakers at this point. Soon the page will be a representation of their work in wood and the Shaker members involved in that work. There will be images of the work, and biographies of the creators of that work. New Enfield Shaker Village, NH The Shakers ~ The Protestant Reformation and technological advances led to new Christian sects outside of the Catholic Church and mainstream Protestant denominations into the 17th and 18th centuries. The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, was a Protestant sect founded in England in 1747. The French Camisards and the Quakers, two Protestant denominations, both contributed to the formation of Shaker beliefs. Read more... Society Research Portal is a new portal of our wiki that was created over the weekend to share the people's around the world who perform woodworking, this portal will focus on entire societies that engage in the art, trade and craft that is woodworking, such as "The Shakers". We could also explore the Chinese Dynasties in woodwork for example, or the work of the American Native non-contigious tribe of the Paiute. Our world is the limit! Featured Topic Featured Image Adze's by Kestrel Tool, a group of hand made adze's created in the Pacific Northwest Native American tradition. These tools are used for the same purpose the regular European hand adze, and the following of users love them. You can see the maker at http://www.kestreltool.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!  New Members Please welcome to our community, @Mark King, @Woodnut, @mtstew123, @SLOWURROLL, @Hammersnchisels, @b_neum, 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 Eastern Redcedar: Eastern Redcedar is usually a medium sized tree from 20 to 50 feet high with a short trunk one to two feet in diameter. Some trees have been found 120 feet high and four feet in diameter. The tree grows rather slowly. The bark is very thin, light-reddish-brown, and from one-eighth to one-quarter inch thick. It is shreddy and peels off in narrow shaggy strips. Because of its reddish bark and wood the Canadian French called the Eastern Redcedar “baton rouge,” meaning red stick, (read more...) Note: The wiki page Eastern Redcedar contains for the first time within our wiki, a Patriot Woodworkers image of their own work to demonstrate the "wood" of this species! @John Moody as we all know makes his Green Egg Tables from Eastern Red Cedar, so we featured his work within the wiki page. Neat! United States of America (State Trees) is a sortable table of our nations adopted trees by state. This page is under construction, so it's a tad ugly, but if you ever wanted to know the state trees, well here they are! To sort, just click on the heading of each column to sort by. (read more...) Featured Topic Featured Image Harpers Ferry Armory gunsmith shop had machines for production of the lock, the stock and the barrel. The machines are from 1850's and are all powered by water. The power is transmitted to the machine by a set of pulleys and leather belts. This machine is a Duplicating or Blanchard lathe used to create stock identical to a pattern. Attribution: Jarek Tuszyński [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons