17 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
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LumberJocks, can you get tough?
LumberJocks.com is proudly hosting the Gorilla Glue Challenge. This is a fun and creative event for all woodworkers, but be careful; this may be a sticky challenge!
Bond with your wood and the great outdoors while competing in this challenge to win some great Gorilla Glue products. Gorilla Glue is challenging you to build anything for enjoying the great outdoors. You must use two materials, one must be wood and any other material of your choice. You m...
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109 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
10 comments »
6 great videos have been posted in our Woodworking Safety Video Challenge in partnership with The Wood Whisperer.
And here are three random winners:
teenagewoodworker
Woodshopfreak
Eric
Each one will receive LJ shirt, TWW shirt, TWW Finishing DVD and $50 gift certificate to Cooper Safety. Congratulations!
Thanks for posting and watching.
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121 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
9 comments »
The Wood Whisperer has recently announced the first annual Woodworker's Safety Week: May 5 – May 9. He’d like to think of this week as “a refresher course on safety”.
Many woodworking sites have decided to participate in this event and LumberJocks are joining with another cool challenge prepared in cooperation with Marc. And since Marc is the famous video star, this challenge is about your own videos again. Remember the success of our first LJ/TWW workshop video...
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125 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
37 comments »
LumberJocks raised the bar again with over 50 entries in our Bookcase Challenge. You proved that it’s possible to be very creative even with such a common project and you made the judging process extremely tough for the editors of the Popular Woodworking.
Here’s the summary of the event as well as the announcement of the winner and runner-ups by Glen Huey, Senior Editor of PW:
“Congratulations everyone. The LumberJocks excelled at designing great looking, buildable...
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133 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
6 comments »
Don’t forget that the entry deadline of our Bookcase Challenge is on Sunday.. so there are just 4 days to go.
I suggest to read the rules carefully before posting your polished entry. Here they are again:
HOW TO ENTER / OFFICIAL RULES
The primary function of the entry is as a bookcase. You won’t gain points if the piece is a dining table with shelves located below the apron ;) Plus it must be able to be built in the real world – not just in the computer program.
Desig...
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148 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
8 comments »
Here are the frequently asked questions answered by Glen Huey, Senior Editor of Popular Woodworking.
Can we enter an original design that we’ve recently executed and already built?Yes, as long you’re willing to build the unit again or work with us as we build it to your winning plan.
How detailed does initial design need to be? A set of plans, or just a rough sketch?This is, to a large extent, up to the you. We must to be able to determine from the drawings that the design is able...
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151 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
18 comments »
This is so exciting – New era at LumberJocks.com begins right now – the era of video tutorials. I just finished our first video tutorial screencast titled ”How to submit entry into the Bookcase Design Challenge”. It outlines all of the steps in posting the blog entry, embedding the pictures as well as the final project file and then submitting it properly to the Challenge.
Any feedback is much appreciated since I want to replace our wordy help section with this kind...
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156 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
47 comments »
Ever wondered how to become published? How to see your unique creation on the pages of your favorite woodworking magazine? Well, now is your chance to achieve just that! We’ve partnered with Popular Woodworking magazine again to present a new, exciting challenge for all members of LumberJocks.com. (If you’re not a member, now is the time to join us!)
This time it’s all about the bookcases. Everyone needs them. Are you ready to design a bookcase that catches the eyes of Popu...
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163 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
42 comments »
We’re at it again – it’s Challenge time!! And we’re raising the bar again ;)
I know – you are so excited and want to know the details. You will have to wait until next week to read all about it but I can give you a sneak peek into what is going to be happening! Remember our Thorsen Table and Virtual Dining Table Challenges from last year? Well, we partnered with Popular Woodworking magazine again to bring your the best challenge ever.
This time it’...
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178 days ago
by Martin Sojka |
10 comments »
Wow, this short challenge far exceeded my expectations – almost 100 new product reviews have been posted after the announcement! My thanks goes to all who posted at least one review.
And we have following four winners of the $29 gift certificate:
hops
sIKE
gizmodyne
rikkor
And special thanks goes to Hawgnutz for posting 19 great reviews total – I bet you agree that he deserves the LJ shirt ;)
Congrats to all!I hope you enjoyed this event… and keep posti...
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