With the Summer Woodworking Challenge upon us it is time to get out in the shop and start making sawdust!
Need a tool for those tricky and challenging joints?
Want to try a tool out before making a purchase?
Well now is your chance with a new and exclusive LumberJocks.com feature. How Martin did this is still a mystery! Look for the new CTS button on your LumerJocks browser and with a click of a button you can visit the shop of a LumberJock buddy and borrow a tool. Remember this is an honor system so you need to return the tool in the same or better condition. This is a two-way street, so open up your shop for some CyberToolSharing and get going on that summer challenge project! Creativity has never been a problem for LumberJocks and now tool access is also no problem!
Follow me as I explore Mot’s Shop and get my hands on that Festool Domino!
This is a joint Canadian – US project from MAD Productions (Mot and David)


























46 comments so far
gizmodyne
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posted 883 days ago
Nice Collaboration.
-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne
frank
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posted 883 days ago
Hi David;
—-maybe I’m lost in the wood here, what do you mean by LJ browser? I cannot find the ‘box’ or ‘cyber tool share’.....
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
Bob Babcock
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posted 883 days ago
LOL…...OK….who has my new bandsaw?
-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org
frank
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posted 883 days ago
—-you can always blame the returning of, or failure to return tool as….Lost In Cyber Space!!!
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
Obi
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posted 883 days ago
Bill? Need to use anything?
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MsDebbieP
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posted 883 days ago
Martin—- we forgot to announce this in our first issue of the LJ eMag!!!!
MaD, MaD, MaD….
Tom, pretty nice of you to send down the power cord. What great friends we have here at LJ.
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
Diane
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posted 883 days ago
Pretty nice presentation.
Diane
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doug
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posted 883 days ago
I have a need for an old world work bench front vice but rather than a loan I would like to purchase.
In the back of my mind I was considering the possibility of LJ Trade, Barter,or Sell added to the tool share. This of corse would require some refinement.
The cost of shipping could be prohibitive on a loan basses I would think.
Doug.
-- doug, Hudson Florida, www. dougandjudy@tampabay.rr.com
scottb
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posted 883 days ago
NICE!
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
WayneC
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posted 883 days ago
LOL – Now that is funny.
I’m guessing momma knows you have a new tool David.
-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov
David
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posted 883 days ago
She knows!
-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com
Karson
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posted 883 days ago
I have some scrap wood, returns not necessary, unless it’s to return an exotic to replace the pine that was taken.
This does save shipping.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
mot
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posted 883 days ago
I’m just glad that Debbie bought her Dowelmax before THAT dissappeared from my shop! LOL
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
miles125
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posted 883 days ago
Does this mean i can loan out my power tools with that nagging power cord short and i’ll get them back repaired? Hmmmmmmmm
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
mot
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posted 883 days ago
Repaired? Yes. Repaired well? That’s another story!
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
rentman
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posted 883 days ago
when will this start
-- Phil, Chattanooga,TN
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 883 days ago
I bought an old chain saw from a friend, & do you know what he told me?
”Take care of this saw the same as you’d take care of your Wife, don’t loan it out to anyone, & it will last a long time.”
I feel the same about the rest of my tools.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
mot
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posted 883 days ago
Just checking to make sure everyone knows this is a joke, right? Maybe we should change the name from MaD Productions to Knucklehead Productions. :)
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
frank
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posted 883 days ago
—-Ha!....maybe the joke got lost in cyber space….Stay tuned for our next version of ‘Lost In Cyber Space!’
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
dennis mitchell
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posted 882 days ago
Now I know how to get my chisels sharpened!
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Tony
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posted 882 days ago
You got me too – I looked for the CTS button, whilst I wasing for the Video to download. Excellent spoof – I wonder what they wil do for April 1st!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)
MsDebbieP
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posted 882 days ago
hey Tom, have you SEEN your dowelmax recently ??? :D :D :D
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
David
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posted 882 days ago
Very cool comments from our fellow LumberJocks! Hope everyone doen’t converge on Tom’s shop!
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Aubster
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posted 882 days ago
Anybody got an lathe I can barrow!
-- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time.
mot
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posted 882 days ago
Where do you live, Aubster. I’ve got one you can have! :)
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
MsDebbieP
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posted 882 days ago
David, why would we go to Tom’s shop? You have borrowed his toys!!! We’re coming to YOUR shop
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
scottb
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posted 882 days ago
If anyone wants to “borrow” any of the random bags and boxes of assorted “stuff”... keep what you need, and organize the rest, that’s cool with me!
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
Sawhorse
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posted 882 days ago
If it were only that easy….great video
-- Sawhorse - Sulphur Springs, TX - www.sawhorseworkshop.com
frank
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posted 882 days ago
—-Ha! sounds like a good way to also get rid of my sawdust!
Now where did you say that CTS button was, so I can send this garbage can full out into Cyber Space?
GODSPEED,
Frank
-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/
surplusdealdude
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posted 882 days ago
I can’t figure out how to fit my bandsaw through the screen…..
-- surplusdealdude
Jeff
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posted 881 days ago
Brilliant!
-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN
Bill
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posted 880 days ago
Ok, so is there a way to mark certain tools off limits from the CTS? Hahaha..great job guys.
-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com
MsDebbieP
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posted 880 days ago
hmm you might find a system that would work for most LumberJocks.. but I’d watch out for that David and Mot duo. I have a feeling that they are pretty sneaky, especially when in cahoots with each other
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
Bill
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posted 880 days ago
Now I know why Todd has two shops. He can keep his tools safe in his backup shop….
-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com
David
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posted 879 days ago
Tom made me do it . . . !
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MsDebbieP
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posted 879 days ago
uh huh.. he must have been holding a whip through the “share” monitor.
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
Bill
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posted 879 days ago
I am sure he had to twist your arm to try out that Domino…I know it was such an imposition on you to use it…hahaha
-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com
woodspar
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posted 865 days ago
Great video. If the woodworking thing doesn’t work out, maybe you guys have a future in entertainment! I think the funniest part was, when, off screen, Tom says …”every tool has a place,” ... Thanks for the laugh.
-- John
Shopsmithtom
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posted 865 days ago
My Shopsmith’s available, but I think the shipping would kill ya… although the weather is fine in Wisconsin this time of year if anyone wants to travel. -Shopsmithtom
-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you
Lip
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posted 855 days ago
Hahaha … ok, can I can stop lookin for the button now?
Dick’s got me all scared … thinkin’ my jointer is gonna run off with the mailman … leavin’ me with nothin’ but a pile of crooked boards and $1000 a month alimony payments!
Thanks for the Nightmares Dick!
-- Lip's Dysfuncational Firewood Farm, South Bend, IN
BillinDetroit
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posted 849 days ago
“As good or better”? Sounds like a knife swap to me.
Oh man … don’t be joking about this! A chance to try out multiple models of a planer or jointer, lathe, router, plane or bandsaw before plunking down for one of them would be something of a dream come true!
-- http://nmwoodworks.com (pens & bowls, mostly)
David
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posted 849 days ago
SST – we are working on expanding the CTS Portal size to accommodate larger tools such as a ShopSmith and even one of those fancy lathes . . . Martin has to increase the bandwidth for the project to move forward. ;-0
Lip – I think your jointer is safe until the portal is expanded. I did see a couple of smaller tools in your shop when I was exploring around a couple of nights ago . . . LOL
BillinDetroit – We are looking to share any tool or knife! :-)
-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com
jaspr
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posted 843 days ago
Please,please – anyone borrowing my tools – watch out for the voltage change – you’ll need some sort of transformer.
:-))
-- cheers, Claire (in Oz!)
DAN
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posted 772 days ago
my tools are really old. no one would want them.
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WayneC
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posted 772 days ago
It is about time this came back up.
-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov
David
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posted 772 days ago
I just hope Martin finds a way to increase the bandwith enough so I can sneak into Dan Walters’ shop and borrow some of his awesome Mission pieces . . . sure woul like to see how they are made! I’m also wondering if we will get a chance to use Dick’s new Rikon bandsaw.
-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com