62 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
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LJ member Dave Mitchell and his wife stopped by tonight.
Dave, also known as Splinters, lives in the far northwestern corner of Montana in West Glacier. That is at the western gate of Glacier National Park.
He and his wife are traveling to the midwest for a visit with family and they had to come right by my place in Billings, MT. Since I live just spittin’ distance off the freeway and the KOA is just down the street they decided to stop by.
Dave is a real Montana kind of guy, a...
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315 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
30 comments »
There is an ongoing debate about whether Lumberjocks should be the focus of a marketing plan by professional woodworkers. There are quite a few professionals on this site now, all of us trying to make a living.
I define “professional” as someone that makes all, or most of their income from their woodworking and craft work. Selling something once in a while from your hobby work really has nothing in common with “having” to sell something every day to buy food and s...
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498 days ago
by Betsy |
10 comments »
So you asked for it, so here it is—- a blog about Sketchup. Now the first thing you have to know is that I’m a complete novice and so this journey we are taking will be interesting. I’m looking forward to the challenge of bringing Sketchup to life for you and me! The other thing is that until Saturday I’m not going to be able to do much. My home internet is down until then when the repair guy comes, so I’m doing a little bit from work before the work day start...
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600 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
25 comments »
Yes, yes, today is my birthday… thanks for the post Debbie. And here’s my birthday gift to LumberJocks ;)
You know how easily you can share the youtube videos or photobucket pictures. You just copy the embed code and paste it to your posts on the Web. Now we have the same comfort here on LumberJocks – let me introduce the one and only LumberJocks Embeddable Project Cards!
Each project page now features the Embed This Project box at the sidebar:
As you can see i...
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939 days ago
by David |
30 comments »
Well, things have been busy at home and at work. I finally got back in the shop today to work on a cherry display shelf for some close friends in Central Oregon. I am using my Kreg Pocket Screw Jig for the joinery. I thought it would be fun to share my day with a small video. Hope you can bear with me as I show you this remarkable jig. I also have a Kreg Foreman, a semi-automatic production machine, but thought the small portable jig would be best for this project.
I use this jig a lot i...
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624 days ago
by Karson |
68 comments »
In Martins last change to the Lumberjock pages he changed the “Jock” button to “Members”.
Wait a minute this is not Lumbermembers it’s LumberJocks. I vote for putting the Jock name back on the button.
I don’t know of any Jock or Jockette who has complained about that name.
This message is all in good fun, but, I like to be known as Jock.
I mean my home page is http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Karson
What do you think?
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624 days ago
by joey |
9 comments »
This is the second part of my blog and in this blog I am going to talk about writing a business plan, and past mistake I have made in business.
Now this is the third shop I have started and if I have learned anything it is this, to be successful you need a plan! There it is. Now the first two times I did not write a business plan, I did not write a marketing plan. Really all I did was run into a guy who knew a guy who had a building to rent and the next thing I knew I had a shop and a whol...
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625 days ago
by Mike Lingenfelter |
10 comments »
This last weekend I was able to get all of the lumber milled up and I started to glue-up the top. Dorje and I did a pretty good job picking out the lumber. There were very few knots I had to deal with. The small ones you might see in the photo are very close to the surface. It’s likely they will be milled out when I flatten the top.Here is the first glue-up. It’s the front of the bench with the dog holes. I also got 2 other sections glued up.You might be asking what that whole is at the ...
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679 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
27 comments »
Inspired by Odie
Odie has been sharing some incredible information with the LJ group. There is more gold in there than many may even realize.
An Oblique View
Here is some information that does not seem directly related to woodworking success and is often dismissed. But one must understand is that it is about business, not woodworking. So that means the principles of business, marketing, and social psychology apply.
Go to the Small Business Administration. They will help you with s...
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637 days ago
by john |
16 comments »
Well it is finally nice to get back to work again .I had 10 birdhouses to build then it grew to 12 yesterday so in order to get them done in good time i decided to build 4 at a time.Six of them will be made from 80 year old barnwood and the wood will be planed down and the other six will be done with 120 year old natural barnwood.
I will be having plans made up for the most of the houses. I am also anxious to get these done so i can get back to building the large ones. lol
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