A lot of changes in those years.

Some good and some bad.

The good is all of the experts with all of their talents that give us all a challenge to improve.

The bad has to do with the family that we had built up with just a few of us being around. We could look at each post and get a conversation going. Their wasn’t any messaging, it was all done on our blogs.

Now we still have some friendships but there is not the close knit group that we once had. I miss those days. But, I also look forward to the next unbelievable fantastic post.

Thanks one and all. Thanks Martin for your hard work and dedication to perfection. Now if you were just a woodworker we would also give joy for your making dust, but we are happy you are making electrons do their magic.

May we all be blessed in the coming years.

Started on Feb 26, 2006 Our seventh birthday.

Martin a great job and thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Karson

My portion of the program was starting at 1:13 and ending at 1:42.

You can see and hear about our woodworking clubs charity outreach.

The web page is Catchitlive.com

here is the article

This has got to be wood related.

Only in Northern Minnesota! .......

This guy raised an abandoned moose calf with his Horses, and believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber removal and other hauling tasks. Given the 2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and the splayed, grippy hooves, he claims it is the best work animal he has. He says the secret to keeping the moose around is a sweet salt lick, although, during the rut he disappears for a couple of weeks, but always comes home….
Impressive !!

Nice job.

Karson

Metropolitan of Art Web Site

If you click on the exhibitions link toward the top you can see some of their pieces.

Exhibit at the Met: cabinet makers of the 18th century

Roentgens used Caribbean mahogany, cherry and walnut to build furniture with moving and hidden parts.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is now exhibiting a collection of furniture by German cabinetmakers of the 18th century, according to the New York Times online.

Abraham Roentgen and his son David crafted dressing tables, clocks and writing desks for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Pope Pius VI, Catherine the Great and other nobles of Europe.

Using Caribbean mahogany, cherry and walnut, they decorated their pieces with embedded bits of wood or ivory to create chinoiserie and allegorical scenes. But what they were most renowned for was their use of secret drawers, moving parts and hidden music boxes, sometimes opened by the push of a button.

The exhibit, “Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens,” was organized by Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French curator in the museum’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
“They were more than cabinetmakers,” he told the New York Times. “They were artisans, they were designers, and David, especially, was a business genius.”

The son, according to Koeppe, was a clever salesman. He would work his way in to introduce himself to the nobles of France and Germany, then show them pieces that appealed to their tastes. Even Catherine the Great has a piece by the team, a writing desk with a knob in the shape of her favorite dog.

The show is on display until January 27.

Earlier maps had it going over my home about 30 miles from the ocean but now it coming ashore close to Atlantic City NJ and come across the upper tip of Delaware.

They are forecasting 74 MPH winds so I don’t know if the forests around my home will stand up strong to that wind.

At least 1/2 of the leaves are still on the trees but if I’m lucky they will blow off with a great gust of wind. The Holly trees will hold onto their leaves with much strength since they plan on keeping their leaves until spring.

The last snow storm that we had about 2 years ago took about 15 Holly trees on my property, because the leaves captured all of the snow. They are forecasting snow with this storm also but I think it’s further west in Pennsylvania, and north.

My family is planning to stick it out at home and I hope that the power stays on to make life bearable.

I hope all of my LumberJock buddies fare well in this storm.

Live safe and God bless.

But,. somewhere they still had my email address, and I still have that address as an active ID. (This is called e-mail forwarding, you just change the forwarding address to your current one – works great)

But I received this this email from them today.

I’m not selling anything nore am I making any money off this. But it is a great reference tool.

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The main link is here.

Things have sure gotten bigger from the early days.

Back then you had lots of time to view the posts on the pulse page. We sent messages back and forth on our blogs and projects because we didn’t have messaging.

Nobody thought about blocking anyone, we were all great cyber friends. Some of those friends have been lucky enough to get a visit from me.

I’ve thought about a blog series of the LumberJock shops I’ve visited. I might do that some day.

I’ve not visited as many as MsDebbie in her days of traveling around in her midnight visits to the unsuspecting shop owners but it was great.

Martin has developed a great site that has brought people from all over the world to share a common passion. And I thank him for it.

I also want to thank MsDebbie for all of her passion in keeping us informed with her newsletters and search topics. Thanks Debbie.

I also want to mention that I miss those Lumberjocks that were part of the banter on these pages, but, have been taken from us in body and sole but not in our hearts. We miss you and your daily part of our lives. May you rest in peace and may your families be ever blessed with the items that you made and shared with them and us.

Karson
5/7/2006 – 5/7/2012

http://www.irsauctions.com/index_lots.asp?pg=details&id=15869&flash=1

There is an auction for woodworking equipment closing March 30th. When you are there you can stop in and visit Lew.

http://www.irsauctions.com/index_lots.asp?pg=details&id=15830

Good luck.

Karson

On the back slip cover was this bit of history.

“In the spring of 1797, Count Nicholas Sheremetev welcomed Emperor Paul I, son of Catherine the Great to his country estate with a spectacular display. The Count stationed a serf next to every tree in the grove that led to the estate; each of the trees had been sawed nearly all the way through. As the emperor’s entourage made their way up the long drive, the trees fell away on signal.

To the visiting tsar, it was as if a curtain were opening, and there before him, set off by a tremendous fireworks display, stood the glories of Ostankino—- its church, pond, gardens, and the magnificent palace itself.”

I ran across some Freud blades for a skill type saw that are 7 1/4 wide and 1/16” thick. They were made for the battery skill saws where you don’t have a lot of power.

So I decided to put that blade on my table saw.

I measured the max cutting height with that blade and it’s 1 5/8” so I knew that if I used 3/4” ply for the base and depending how I made the side, I wouldn’t have any blade left for make a cut.

So I used 1/2” ply for the base and I cut a 45 deg cut on the sides and then used 45 deg blocks to glue it all together.

It does not have an end on either end of the jig so I’m not limited at to the box height. I used the slots in the table so that I didn’t have to use the fence and this way it is always in the same place. The blade always cuts in the same slot.

I then made the jig reversible so I can cut a straight spline and I can cut an angled spline, I just turn the jig around in the slots. I also did some testing and I felt that I liked 25 deg angle on the spline to be the best angle to cut.

I glued extra blocks between the two cuts so the the base would not fall out and also to be a protector for fingers holding the jig where the saw might cut.

I use a board in the inside that is held with clamps to align the box and register it in the same place for all cuts.

Here is a sample cut on an angle where I move the box 5/16 over and register off the opposite side of the blade.

These boxes will be given as Christmas presents next week at the family Christmas Party. So they will be posted in a different posting.

I double checked again and the cuts are actually being cut at 23 degrees. From when I did the first check and from when I set up the jig My set-up block changed.

However, the US Government has passed some legal requirements to insure that items made for children are safe. There has been lead and other heavy metals put in paint and metal parts of children jewlery. To insure safety, new requirements were enacted that required third party testing of a sample unit to insure that they were safe.

That testing was estimated at as much as $10,000 per item. For small batch manufacturers that was a business killer.

I’m not a manufacturer but a member of a toy making operation in the Mason Dixon Woodworkers.

I joined an organization that was part of a lobbying effort during the bill modification. The bill has now been finished and has an implemenation date of 1/1/2012 the CPSC – Consumer Product and Safety Commission is launching a registry for Small Batch Children’s Product Manufacturers.

The following is a copy of the email I received.
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The CPSC released its small batch registration procedures on Friday.
See http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12073.html . Follow the link to register your business. More info is at http://www.cpsc.gov/info/toysafety/smallbatch.html .
Remember, registration is required in order to be exempted from lead in substrate and ASTM toy safety testing.
We will do our best to support you regarding the registration process. Please feel free to post questions, comments and concerns on the forum. Also, email Neal Cohen, Small Business Ombudsman, directly for additional information (NCohen@cpsc.gov).

HTA Board
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If you feel that you are going to be impacted because of items that you make and sell or giveaway you should read about the requirements and make your own determination.

Some names puzzles that have been posted and some Shaker Boxes yet to be finished. (The family Christmas is mid January so still a little time)

I hope that your time in the shop will be fruitful and that you have much joy.

Work Safely and have a great time.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Karson and Family

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Congratulations Dennis.

The table top looked like this.

The gray stains were the syrup and it had gone below th surface because water wouldn’t clean it up. I was contemplating running it through the plainer again, but I opted for the sander first. Hitting it with 100 grit made it go away.

The original finish on the surface was my own danish oil as shown in the project posting and I didn’t want to make a second batch so I tried some WaterLox and it wasn’t quite the darkness of the original finish so I went to some Penofin, the hardwood version.

I poured the Penofin on the surface, maybe a teaspoon and spread it around with a sanding block with 400 grit wet and dry paper. A few more pours and I had the entire surface wet. I sanded the surface with the wet oil.

If you just use Penofin and let it soak in and dry it has a Matte finish, If you sand it while wet you can get a little higher gloss finish. I’ve used a ROS sander before, but this was the first time with a hand sand. It worked out quite well. I let it dry about 1/2 hr and then wiped the surface with a couple of paper towels to remove the sanding/oil slurry that was now stuck on the surface. A little more aggressive wiping and I got the surface smooth.

The upper left burl is where the dye stain was and the lower is where the syrup was stained.

I let it dry for 24 Hrs and then reassembled the table.

I’ve encountered one additional problem since this table was made, The left front leg has bowed. These legs were cut from a 4 X 8 and I guess that the one leg had some stress that didn’t come out before the final shaping. I’m still considering what to do with it. I’m considering a shelf that will pull all 4 legs into alignment.

The original soffit was about 12” high like the builders put up. I tore them out and made them shorter so the cabinets could be taller.

I did fine a couple of water pipes and a sink drain so I couldn’t make a totally flat ceiling but I ended up with a 4” soffit. Two 2X4’s and some drywall.

I then decided to cover the front of the soffit with the same veneer and wood that was used for the cabinets.

I glued veneer on 3/8” popular boards and nailed them to the 2X4. Then I came back and put the style and rails up with a micro pinner. Thew were held in place with tape as I installed them. The style and rails allowed me to cover any gaps between the ceiling and the veneered board. I also put a piece on the bottom of the soffit facing to go back over the drywall and cover any gaps there. The style and rail material was cut about1/16” thick. All of the design has sapwood at the tops of the doors and on the face of the doors and drawers and then heart wood on the sides and bottoms. The sapwood on all doors is two tome, white on the bottom and heartwood on the top. On the drawer fronts is was all sapwood. It was getting tougher to find pieces that were two toned.

All up.

If you notice one busted handle I guess I must have cracked it during installation. Need to install another support piece.

All the cabinets are done I need to put just a little edge on the spice rack drawers to keep items from wanting to fall out when the drawers are opened.