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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! Our family was very busy this past weekend, had to take our 9 year old doggy to the Emergency Vet, turns out she is very anemic, which typically doesn't turn out too well for dogs, she is on steroids to suppress her immune system in order to let the red blood cells come up, she seems improved, but I feel we are only delaying the inevitable. We will take her in to our family vet and see what he has to say. It's always hard. Little sleep the last few nights, we kind of take turns watching her or being alert as we sleep, if she does take a turn for the worse, we don't want her to deal with her remaining time on earth alone while we are sleeping. If she starts to demonstrate other symptoms of failure, we'll have to take her in and put her down. Life, don't we love it! Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Gerald 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 download Featured image Brooklyn-based woodworker Kate Casey of Peg Woodworking is what you would call an anomaly in her field. Even though her industry is primarily dominated by men, this hasn’t stopped her from making a name for herself in the design world. We discovered her work while perusing the Architectural Digest Show last year and were immediately transfixed by her sculptural wood pieces and detailed woven patterns that are transposed onto chairs, stools and benches. We were excited to include the company’s totems in our cover shoot with Julia Stiles. We stepped into the Peg Woodworking world to find Kate and her two assistants, Sally and Catherine, hard at work polishing, sanding and creating at their studio in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. We also explored their design studio in Fort Greene. We were fascinated by the process and how you will be too. Read more....

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! Yesterday I took a couple hours and finished up a chest for our daughters room, the chest will sit in a window alcove and they'll put "things" in it, just more much needed storage for the girls. I used some really cool old hinges to secure the lid with. I purchased them off Ebay years ago, they are colonial reproduction hinges made in the 40's. There is no joinery on the chest to speak of, my girl wanted this chest this weekend, so I resorted to simple glued up but joints, with countersunk screws, and wood dowel plugs to hide the screws. Dovetails would have been nice, but that would have added another weekend onto the project. Flattened the panels of the chest, this is the lid of the chest. Installing the hinges. (That's me, for you new guys ) And one happy daughter. Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @AndrewB 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 download Featured image Source: Puget Sound Woodworker School

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @John Morris 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. We are now in the midst of our annual mid year fundraiser folks! Click on the topic below to see how you can help and to view the great prizes awaiting our winners.

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 was a bunch of errands for me, doc appointments all day Friday, then running around town Saturday with my daughter to pick up painting supplies for her room, and we helped grandma with moving a tv up to her front room, and Sunday I took a breather and got lazy, watched The Patriot with my son, and I viewed YouTube videos on Longrifle building. I did walk out to my shop and I went through the contents of a Kennedy machinists chest and it was filled with mainly watchmaker supplies. I have three of these chests that I inherited a couple years ago. The chest are really nice, high quality. The contents are interesting and I may be able to use quite a few of the relics in my upcoming gunsmithing agenda. Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @difalkner 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 download Featured image Source: Woodcraft - How To Air-Dry Lumber

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! Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Masonsailor as 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 download Featured image Carpenters Without Borders training young Honduran men how to build chairs using their forested resources nearby, and creating a living for themselves. Source: See Here

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! Welcome New Members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @difalkner 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 download Featured image Carpenters Without Borders helping to build the Blacksmith shop at the Mortise and Tenon Magazine head quarters. "have traveled around the world to build, using the old ways. With axe, saw, plumb bob, and chisel, this diverse group of skilled craftspeople restored a medieval bridge at a castle in France, built a new hewn-truss roof system on a blacksmith shop in Romania, and even ventured as far afield as China – but they had never before done a project in the United States." Read more...

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @John Morris 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 download

Well here it is Good Friday, and we've made it through another week of "Social Distancing". Here in Wisconsin the Governor has ordered the State Parks closed due to vandalism beginning today. People have been trashing the parks, stealing the Toilet Paper, and Hand Sanitizers from the public bathrooms. We also had to go out and vote on Tuesday due to the state legislature refusing to allow the voting date to be moved. We won't know the results of voting until Monday the 13th so the absentee ballots that were postmarked before midnight the 7th can get counted. Many people that requested absentee ballots didn't receive them in time to use them. We had a very nice day on Tuesday, and the poll workers really stepped up to insure those in the lines by 8:00 PM got to exercise their right to vote. My hat is off to them. Now we're back to colder than average weather with snow in the forecast Sunday night into Monday. My hat is also off to those of you that are still doing those essential jobs that help keep the rest of us going. It can't be easy dealing with some of the inconsiderate people out there. Thank You, and hopefully you will stay well. So how was your week, and what have you got planned for this Easter weekend?

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! My mind is always spinning with new ideas to have fun in the shop, lately I have been infatuated with the old American Longrifles, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc etc. I would love to build one, or many. Just for fun we ordered a plan for a Virginia Longrifle from Track of the Wolf and my son and I are anxious to do something with it, but for now we'll just watch YouTube videos of other people building and firing these majestic firearms of the past. I still have a ton of Honey Do's around the house to complete before I can get back on any extra curricular work. First on the list is our fence needs re-building! Image below, my son excited to get his hands on these full scale Virginia Longrifle plans, so was I! This rifle is to be built as a .50 cal. We got our plans here: Track of the Wolf - Muzzle Loading & Black Powder Guns Kits, Parts, Accoutrements, Rendezvous Gear & Primitive Americana WWW.TRACKOFTHEWOLF.COM Muzzle Loading & Black Powder Guns Kits, Parts, Accoutrements, Rendezvous Gear & Primitive Americana. Community news As you all know we are celebrating our 10 years anniversary this month, thank you all for making this community what it has become today! To participate in the 10th Birthday topic click on the preceding link. We have been contacted by a veteran in need of a hand up, if you'd like to participate in this project please read on at: As you all know, we have an informational wiki that is always on the move and being added to frequently. Help us build our wiki by editing the Glossaries section of the wiki. Click on any Glossary and edit, you don't need to be logged-in to edit the Glossary section of our wiki. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, we can revert back to any stage before the mistake was made, it's that easy. We are also working on a new section of our wiki for Green Woodworking. New Members Please welcome to our community, @bobmann, @edlew10, @Bruce, @Ron Sandstrom, @dgraham1995, @Purpleheartguy @Scott Angel, 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 by @Kevin Beitz, 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 download Featured Image Culture: Haida Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, BC Yellow and red cedar ca 1870 MOA purchase, 1960 (H.R. MacMillan Funds) A7103 a-b Great bentwood chests were considered heirlooms, treasured within families and often passed down through the generations. This unique chest, with its projecting bear snout and paws, was collected in the 1870s by the Reverend W.H. Collison while he was a missionary at Old Massett. Photo: Don Hitchcock 2012 Text: Display, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia This diagram shows what is necessary to get a tight fit, with no gaps. Notice that the profile of one side of the channel is curved, while the other is straight. Thus when the board is bent, the thin wood bends in an arc, which is supported by the corresponding arc on one side of the channel, leaving little or no gap to be filled with pitch or filler of some kind. This method will give a solid and long lasting, hard wearing corner. Source: Don's 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, @JamesPitts, @DeafJeff, @R Gaebe, @TrueNorth, 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 by @Bundoman, has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured download Featured Image Randy Werkheiser of southern Illinois files down a German Jaeger rifle Thursday, May 31, 2018, during a class at Western Kentucky University's Environmental Sciences and Technology Building. (Bac Totrong/photo@bgdailynews.com) Source: BGDaily News

Probably a "Stupid" question as we make our way through the Pandemic gripping the world today, but just had to ask. As to us here "Two Weeks From Anywhere" the wife had to go to the Doctor yesterday, no we don't have it, Don't want it. She started having breathing problems a couple of days ago, luckily she decided better get it checked before she ended up in the hospital where we know they do have it. Turns out her Bronchitis got triggered by the "Rust Dust Pollen" our Norway Spruce trees started dumping earlier this month when we got our first, and last 60° day. She's now on a couple of meds including the boss's @John Morris favorite.. Prednisone. This isn't going to be fun. Sure is strange going out with all the closed places. So how are Ya'll dealing with the sudden strangeness of the world around us today?

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What do you accomplish over the weekend? I'm filling in for the boss this morning. In this wacky , unpredictable world we all need a sanctuary like a shop to distract us, at least for a while. What have you built? I am a little curious about one thing. We are being advised to stay home and isolate ourselves from the public especially if you're over 60. Are you isolating? If so, how are you keeping busy? Please share your secrets. New Members Please welcome to our community,, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And welcome to our newest member, @AmyMNM. Welcome to your new community! Isolation Pictures Last week, my daughter called and asked if I'd conduct "shop" class for my three granddaughters. I really think mom needed a break. The girls are 19 (college freshman), 17 (high school junior) and 13 (8th grade) wanted to build either a bird house or a bird feeder. Here is a picture of the school session. Notice that there are no air tools, all fingers are in tact and I could keep safety glasses on at least two of them. Valerie got a letter grade cut. Post your isolation picture below folks!

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Jake, @Joseph, @Cantankerous, @Robby, 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 by @IrishWoodCarver 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 download Featured Image Our own Irishwoodcarver created this beautiful director's baton case for a friend. Drop dead beautiful work, by hand and by chisel for the lettering. Great job Irish! See the entire topic at Director Baton Case.

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, @PastorJohn, @Josh woodworking, @mattblast, 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 by @4DThinker 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 download Featured Image Kestrel Tool owner and maker Gregg Blomberg produces hand tools in the Pacific Northwest Native American style. His company and work has been featured in literature, videos and by interviews with woodworking greats such as Roy Underhill. Visit Kestrel Tool A Kestrel Adze, image below:

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Happy Anniversary Wife! Today is our 29th wedding anniversary, well one of them, we were married by the justice of the peace here in the USA, then married in Tonya's home country of Panama a few months later. Image is Mrs. Morris and I under the blue umbrella in our backyard, and us again by my yellow Dodge Power Wagon the day after we were married by the justice in 1991. I think we still look pretty good! So, Happy Anniversary my wife, I love you dearly! Next year is the big 30!

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! Wiki News The following pages are open edit, you do not need to be logged in to edit. Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools Glossary of Woodworking Joints Glossary of Woodworking Machinery Glossary of Woodworking Terminology Green Woodworking Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @aaronc 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. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image Image by @aaronc. Scrimshaw work in India Ink on powder horn. Source: Squirrel Hunting Horn

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 work week clock is off, we had today off from work for Presidents Day and I thought all day today was Sunday, I apologize for the late Monday topic! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Sheila, @HighSchoolWoodworker, @Kevin H, @Richard, @makerofwood, @boo4bie, @nevinc, 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 The following pages are open edit, you do not need to be logged in to edit. Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools Glossary of Woodworking Joints Glossary of Woodworking Machinery Glossary of Woodworking Terminology Green Woodworking Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @FrederickH has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. The work in Frederick's topic is amazing, from conceptual photo of the actual piece, to the finished carving, all by hand, with his vision, and his carving chisels, this gold leafed replica he created from one he photographed in Castelbuono Sicily, this is a wonderful example of an artisan at work. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured File Our Featured Files are files uploaded to our community by staff and members, please share your files at our Downloads Directory, for all to use, and download for free. Featured Image Image source: Don's Maps, Canoe designs of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Seagoing dugout canoe made in the Haida tradition. Photo: Andreas Mensert Date: 26 November 2006 Permission: GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Haida, Haida-speaking North American Indians of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada, and the southern part of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, U.S. The Alaskan Haida are called Kaigani. Haida culture is related to the cultures of the neighboring Tlingit and Tsimshian. Source: Haida People

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

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

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

Good Monday Morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! New Members Please welcome to our community, @Allen Knowles, @densitometer, @robin.jansson85, @sherrycnc, @TPDugan, @Luke Wesley, @Kim Michael, please click on their names and leave a message of welcome on their profile page. And to our new members, welcome to your new community folks! Community News Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for Christmas project financial debrief can be found at: Featured Topic Our Featured topic by @Bundoman has also been added to "Our Picks", this is a page for content that has stood out and been chosen for a special place in our community, and for a limited time showing on our Home Page for the world to see. Featured Link Our featured links are website links added by staff and members, add your favorite links today at "Links Directory" Featured Image The Northmen Guild Shop. Source: Northmen Guild of Master Craftsmen

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

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

So we have family relatives celebrating their 60’th anniversary in November. I decided to make them a heart with their names and the year 1959 on it. I haven’t finished it yet. Woodcraft had a nice wide piece of wood, so I bought it. It is Guanacaste, I think it is also known as Parota, I don’t like it. So far I have worked with Cherry, Poplar, and Baltic birch. This stuff doesn’t seem to cut cleanly, lots of fuzzies, I’m hoping I like it better after it’s finished. Don’t think I’m gonna buy any more. Guess it’s time to learn how to glue up boards.