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Grand Prize We are proud to offer a Woodriver No. 63 Low Angle Jack Plane to this months "What's It" winner. This months "What's It" is sponsored by our supporter Woodcraft Supply. Originally advertised as a plane for heavy stock removal across the grain, the No. 62 has found a home as a smoother and is quite popular among collectors. The WoodRiver® No. 62 is faithful to the original design, but is almost a full pound heavier at approximately 4.6 lbs. It features a body cast from ductile iron, with a bed angle of 12°, a bubinga tote and front knob, and a high-carbon steel blade with a 25° bevel. The plane measures a little less than 14" in length x 2-7/16" in width and has a 2"-wide blade. (Value $205.00) .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;margin:0px auto;} .tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;} .tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-yzt1{background-color:#efefef;vertical-align:to October "What's It" Basic Rules Reminder (For a full run down on this project and rules please go to: "The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project") Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award. The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It". If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership". Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw. Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our October "What's it" live and ready! The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it! Project details No further information provided, what you see, is what you have. Remember, "What's It" is not always woodworking related!

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

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! New members Typically we post links to our new members pages here each week for you to welcome, but this past week we had none! Which means the Patriot Woodworkers are slackin! Get on out there and spread the word about us, invite your friends, and grab your neighbor! You can use our convenient "Invite" feature in the navigation bar at top of our website, the icon looks like a movie ticket. Click on it and follow the prompts to invite your friends, thanks! News It's that time of year already folks! Tis the season will be upon us in no time, and with that comes our annual project in partnership with Operation Ward 57. We will adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays! Our application has been sent, and it is under review now by Operation Ward 57, to receive our family for the 2017 Holidays. Stay tune, we'll be notified around the first week of November who our family is. For our new folks, please see the following links to find out what we do during the Christmas Season here on The Patriot Woodworker. Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays - 2016 Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays - 2016 UPDATE: We have our family! We have been assigned a Warrior Family for the Holidays. Just a brief run down before the official introduction, we will be providing a Christmas for a Gold Star widow and her 2 children. This is truly an honor that we have been chosen to help provide for this single mother of two, and in turn, to honor her husband who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Stay tuned, once the details of the project are ironed out, you will all be notified. What's It Our October "What's It" is live! Surf on over and see if you can tell us what it is through research and reference. And, win a beautiful Woodriver Hand Plane by our sponsors Woodcraft Supply! Featured image of the week A lathe for turning spirals, as commonly seen on table legs in the "Jacobean" or "Barley sugar" reproduction styles, particularly popular in the 1920s. Cutting is done by a small rotating cutter in a tilted head. As the work revolves slowly in the lathe, a leadscrew (as for a screwcutting lathe) or in this case a rack arrangement traverses the workpiece axially, beneath the fixed cutter. By Andy Dingley (scanner) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! New members Please drop by and give the following new members a grand welcome: @Benjamin Jones, @RonUK, @John Smith, @Donald Brinkley, @bundyal38, @Blocklayer, @Adrian McCullough, @Scott Timmins, @B's Tools. Thanks for joining folks! News It's that time of year already folks! Tis the season will be upon us in no time, and with that comes our annual project in partnership with Operation Ward 57. We will adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays! Our application has been sent, and it is under review now by Operation Ward 57, to receive our family for the 2017 Holidays. Stay tune, we'll be notified around the first week of November who our family is. For our new folks, please see the following links to find out what we do during the Christmas Season here on The Patriot Woodworker. Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays - 2016 Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays - 2016 The Patriot Woodwiki For now we have the links to our wiki live for all to see, you still cannot create research projects yet, but the wiki is taking on life. We hope to have this long overdue resource completely open to all for editing and collaboration, to impart your wisdom and research for others to benefit from now, and into the future. See the tabs above, at the top of our woodworking community, there is one tab called "Wiki" Click on Wiki or see the various categories that you can click on as well to be taken directly to that area. Here is a peek at just a few areas of our wiki. Material Processing Research Portal People Research Portal Woodworking Glossary What's It Our October "What's It" is live! Surf on over and see if you can tell us what it is through research and reference. And, win a beautiful Woodriver Hand Plane by our sponsors Woodcraft Supply! Featured image of the week Source: http://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Adze The traditional way to use an adze is to straddle the timber or log while holding the adze by its long handle and swing the adze up out in front and center to the users body, then swing the adze down to strike the timber or log. There are many ways to use a long handled adze and various stances or positions for the user to take as the work dictates. The foot adze is most commonly known as a shipbuilder’s or carpenter’s adze. They range in size from 00 to 5 being 3 1/4 to 4 3/4 pounds with the cutting edge 3 inches to 4 1/2 inches wide. On the modern steel adze the cutting edge may be flat for smoothing work to very rounded for hollowing work such as bowls, gutters and canoes. The shoulders or sides of an adze may be curved called a lipped adze, used for notching. The end away from the cutting edge is called the pole and can be of different shapes, generally flat or a pin pole.

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our October what's it live and ready! So far we are 0 for 4! We just can't figure out what these wonderful examples of tools are! The image(s) below is the current MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it! Remember, the first accurate answer wins a one year membership to the awesome organization MWTCA! For a run down on this project and the rules, please see this page at "The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project" So without further Adieu, "What's It!" Submit your answers (and fun commentary) in the reply box. And win a one year membership for MWTCA for your correct answer! Keep in mind, the MWTCA does not know what this item is either, the image was submitted by one of its members for us to research. Lets help MWTCA find an answer.

Good Morning All! What a glorious morning it is, and a wonderful Monday here on the west coast where temps feel more like fall, and I actually had to put a sweater on over the weekend! I love it. How have you been? What accomplishments can you brag about over the weekend? Anything is welcome here in this topic, woodworking, your team won over the weekend, a vacation you took? We are nosy, and we love pictures of your weekends. So feel free to drop us a note, and let us know how your weekend was, and what plans you may have for the week ahead, have a wonderful week Patriot Woodworker's! New feature for our community Please help us decide if we should keep the new "Forum Links" box above each forum category topic listing and posts listing. It's a quick way to get to another forum without having to back out of the current forum you are in. It is in Beta mode right now, testing and feeling if it's a good thing, or if too much is too much. Feel free to drop your feedback at Fast Jump. If we decide to keep it, we will remove the "Jump To" at the upper right area of our community. The quizzes are back! We asked Mr. Ralph Jones if he would come aboard and fire up his weekly woodworking quizzes, and he said he would! How cool is that? Since most of us are WOOD Forums leftovers, or migrators from back in the day (like myself) we are all familiar with Ralph's quizzes. Thank you Ralph for taking this job on, we appreciate you sir! Wounded warrior adopt a family project This year like last, we are embarking on a project to adopt our Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas. An organization we proudly support sponsors the Adopt a Family for Christmas project, and they reach out to us to provide a family of a Wounded Warrior the funds they need to have a Christmas. These families are in difficult times, and they need our help. We will fire this project up officially this week. There will be a raffle of some wonderful tools provided by our sponsors, and everyone is invited to participate, 100% of the proceeds will be sent to our adopted family. Follow this link to our Adopt a Family project from last year at Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Family so you can have an idea of how this works. (PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER THIS WEEK FOR DETAILS) Have a wonderful Monday folks, and keep up the great work, we are seeing some awesome work by you, and I'd like to personally thank you for helping us maintain such a warm and inviting community for all woodworkers, from all walks of life, without you, we could not be! Eye candy image of the week By Minnesota Historical Society [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Good morning, errr, good afternoon Patriot Woodworker's! A tad late today with this weekly topic. But better late than never in this case. What have you been up to this past weekend? What do you have planned for the week ahead? We want to know, we want images, and we want you to tell us what you got cooking! New Permanent Topic What's on Your Workbench? The above topic will be a permanent feature in our community, we would like to encourage all to snap a shot of your workbench, today, and everyday if you want, to show us what you have on your bench! Or what you don't have on your bench! Take a shot, load it up, no text, text, don't matter, we just want to see your bench! Speaking of benches Please drop by @Gerald's topic on his beautiful workbench build at BenchPIP. The Patriot Woodwiki Status: the current status of our wiki is in question at this point, we will have a wiki, but the time and energy involved in this project was not anticipated by yours truly, but rest assured, it will happen! I love open source information, and our wiki will be that, open source, for all to contribute, learn, share, and edit. If the subject has anything to do with wood, it can go in our wiki. Your patience is greatly appreciated! Please welcome our newest members As you were all welcomed to our community when you came aboard, so we should do with our newest members, please feel free to click on their profile links below, and welcome them! jttheclockman campasano Sush merya polar1 thepast08 budglo FlGatorwood The Patriots Pulse, please do not forget to visit your Patriots Pulse and submit your suggestions, ideas and gripes and kudos regarding The Patriot Woodworker community. Links Directory, you spoke and we implemented, so please head on over to the Links Directory and submit your links! If we are missing categories for your links, please notify us and we'll install the proper category for you. Have a wonderful week ahead! Eye candy image of the week By Andy Dingley (scanner) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 'Rack Saw-bench with Self-acting Top' Circular saw ripping sawbench. The saw in this case remains fixed, but the sliding table moves past it on rollers, carrying the log with it. Note the lack of splitter, not unusual for this period.

Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworker's! It's great to be alive, woke up this morn and found the same beautiful lady that's been next to me over the last 25 years, I still know what day it is, I counted the fingers on my hands, and I wiggled my toes, check, check and check, all is well! Time to get to work! So, what are you all up to this grand day? What have you done in your shops over the weekend? What did you do in life over the weekend? What are going to do during this coming week! We love to know, we love to keep tabs, and we also really love to see any images you may have produced over the weekend or anytime for that matter. Projects, honey-do's, heck, the ball game you went to! We'd love to see it all. So step up and show us what you have been doing. I was able to get in the shop for a spell and make some progress on a Claro Walnut Rocker, and I made pretty good progress. There is a topic for the rocker going on right now. And I spent much of the weekend getting my Professional Land Surveyors application started and on its way for me to sit for the exam in April 2017. It was a pretty busy weekend now that I think of it! Here are some happenings in your beloved TPW community. The October 2016 MWTCA What's It is Live Blogs Lets Talk Photography by Gerald Cosman Hand Tool Workshops Offers Free Lifetime Membership to Wounded Vets by Frank Byers Small Patch's Life Musings by Jess (Small Patch) Community improvements Test Your Content Entry Skill Topic (you can practice your entry skills in this topic, upload images, files, play with text layout, use editing features. This is a sandbox area for you to play and get accustomed to our editing and image uploading features. On and Offline indicator (You'll now see a green or gray dot next to the members name. Green is online, gray is offline.) Please let us know how you like it, or dislike it. Thank you Patriot Woodworker's for being here, and making our community what it is today. Have a fantastic week ahead, and be well, be safe, and be happy! Eye candy image of the week Switzerland: children at a woodwork class with their teacher. Photograph attributed to H. Schlegel, ca. 1925 See page for author [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

View File Workbench Magazine September-October 1965 Cobblers Candlestand This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. This is a wonderful project, from one of my favorite time periods, Colonial America. Just imagine making this project from maple, or better yet, curly maple and giving it a dark deep antique stain. As is with all these Workbench Magazine plans, they are more of a schematic than they are plans, giving you dimensions and scaled grids for your own templates. Submitter John Morris Submitted 08/27/2016 Category Furnishings  

View File Workbench Magazine September-October 1965 Cowboy Bookends This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. Here is a wonderful diagram for cutting out some classic book ends for your western literature collection. I love these, they remind me of a bygone era of a classic boys room, with these cool bookends on a shelf of the wall. This plan also has a great suggestion for using molten lead for added weight of the bookends. Note the piano wire that is used for the lasso, it appears that as the cowboy draws the lasso tight, the bookends are also being drawn in to tighten upon the books! Submitter John Morris Submitted 08/23/2016 Category Arts and Crafts  

View File Workbench Magazine September-October 1965 Clothes Valet This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. I love these modern era furnishings, the clothes valet, may be out dated, but if you are in a tight space, such as a studio apartment or small home, and lack sufficient closet space, this would be a great project that is both useful and fashionable, imagine this piece in Walnut! Have fun! Submitter John Morris Submitted 08/19/2016 Category Furnishings  

A couple of weeks ago I had the second surgery on my left hand due to the numbness since the first carpal tunnel surgery. I had not lost my feeling before having the first carpal tunnel surgery, but I was experiencing problems holding things and doing certain task with that hand. I knew it was time to get it corrected since I work at a keyboard all day everyday when I am not in the shop doing woodworking. So long story, after the first surgery my left hand was numb in my thumb, pointer and middle finger and across my palm. The only thing really working was my ring finger and pinky. after waiting six weeks for the feeling to return, I had the nerve tested and it was all good. The Dr. went back in to see what was causing the numbness and opened up the tunnel even further. When I came to and everything wore off, I was still numb in all the same places. So I have been off a bit as typing is difficult and several other task are also. But October was a busy month for us and my wife has turned into quite the woodworker. We have been making cutting boards, bread boards and cheese boards along with some other projects we have had. Not sure what i would do without her. Here are a few pictures of our outdoor booth at First Friday in October. We change the color and display of the tables with the seasons. Large End Grain Boards. We use a few of our picking items and antiques along with some of my planes for the display. It gets people to stop and them we get to talk to them. Medium boards and Edge grain boards. I found that piece of live edge in the shop and thought it was maple until I ran it through the planer. i think it is chestnut. Anyway, it was the first item to sell. Bread and Cheese boards I was at a show a few months back and these bracelets were the thing. I bought one for my wife from a woodworker that was setup. When I got back i got with a friend of mine that turns and told him he should do some of these, I didn't have time. So he did and we have sold a bunch of them. Those three pieces of walnut were cutoff pieces I was going to through away Beth saw them and ran them through the planer and sanded them, oiled and sold them right off. You just never know what will sell. The next day we setup in another location for Octoberfest. We went out before First Friday and setup our tent so it would be ready for 6:00 am Saturday morning. So now we are getting ready for the 27th Jack Daniels Championship BBQ Invitational cookoff that will be on the 24th of October. So October has so far been WOW!!!! I did work in building this Medieval Embroidery Frame for my physical therapist. Even though my hand is still numb, we have been really busy and getting some work out of the shop. Please keep my in your prayers that I will get my feeling back soon or that i just get my feeling back. As i said typing is very difficult right now as i am not used to one finger typing. But I am trying to remain positive and move forward.