I haven’t been very active here in a while, life seems to have gotten in the way of my shop time for several months now. However, I haven’t forgotten about this wonderful community and when I saw this great new product from DeWalt I KNEW I had to share it with all my Lumberjock friends.

If any of you have this already, let us know how it works! :-)

New Nail Gun, made by DeWALT
It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2 X 4 at 200 yards.

This makes construction a breeze, you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Just get your wife or mother to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back, relax with a cold drink and when she has the board in the right place, just fire away.
With the hundred round magazine, you can build the fence with a minimum of reloading.
After a day of fence building with the new DeWalt Rapid fire nail gun, the wife or your mother will not ask you to build or fix anything else, probably, ever again.

We’ve been all over the United States – DE, VA, FL, GA, KY, IL, MD, PA, NY, NH (whew!), MN, WA, CA and TN! Plus… a trip into Canada with a stop in Ontario.
- We’ve been in the hands of 17 Lumberjocks.
- WOW! Our goodies box has traveled over 8,600 miles!
- The pen box was ‘on tour’ for 165 days in Round 3. (as of 03/28/09)
- What started as 5 blanks, 5 pens and 5 kits brought us…
—140 miscellaneous blanks including wood from around the continent, antler, shell casings, corian
—13 finished pens
—17 pen kits

For comparison, here’s a link to the blog with the goodies from the first swap. Pen Trade Round #1

Here are some pictures of what made it back to me:

The blanks are tired of traveling! They’ve tried to escape on the last 2 stops! ;-)

The box is PACKED with good stuff, the lid was bulging.

Here are 2 pics showing all the blanks and other materials.

And here’s a pic of all the finished work and kits.

Here’s a pic of the great stuff that I’m taking out of this round.

A HUGE THANKS to all the awesome Lumberjocks who joined in the trade and those that just watched our travels.

Now… stay tuned because we’re not quite done. We still have the Challenge blanks from Karson and Steve (391 & 391b Challenge) that we need to get turned and posted up.

Thanks again everybody. Time to take a bit of a break and… TURN SOME PENS!

~ Das Map

After Jeff the box comes back to ME! Woo-hoo! ;-) I can’t wait to get this in and dig through this treasure chest. I looked back and saw the first post was 160 days ago – we’ve been ‘on tour’ for almost 6 months! Pretty cool.

~ STAY TUNED TO THE BLOG FOR MORE INFO ON UPCOMING SWAPS AND SWAP-RELATED EVENTS! ~

If you have no idea what all of us crazy pen turners are up to but want to know more then check out:
What is the Pen Turners' Swap and how does it work???

He did a great write up on his takes and puts as well as some projects he did for the swap. If you missed it check that out here. I’m looking forward to getting my grubby hands on some of the wine barrel wood, I really enjoy turning wood with a story to it!

~ Le Map ~

For those counting the dots, we didn’t miss one… bigguy had to drop out due to some other commitments. We’re on to jeffthewoodwhacker next and then back to ME! Woo-hoo!

Hmm, is there enough interest for a Round 4? Let me know!

~ El Mapo ~

After that we drop down into wine country to visit Napaman, then to rb765 in SoCal before heading beck East to jeffthewoodwhacker and dropping back to Atlanta! We’ll get this thing completed after all. :-)

Here’s the map!

PLEASE READ Since this trade is taking a while we have had some Jocks that have had to step out. We may have others that are no longer active so when you’re turn is up please send a PM to the person you are sending to before shipping the box. We may need to make some minor adjustments. If I know for sure that someone is stepping down then I’ll PM the person that would have shipped to that person.

THANKS!

And here’s our latest map:

We’re all glad to see the box back in action and even more so that things are mostly OK for Ned. Make sure to keep him in your thoughts and prayers!

The map!

Canada Post told Bruce he should make it over to Rikkor in about 8 days, that’s not too bad at all and gives him some time drool in anticipation!

Thanks again everyone – her we go!!!!

No pen trade box has make it to CanadianWoodChuck.
35 days ago NedB said he’d ship the box out the next day.
NedB hasn’t been on LJ in 27 days.
I’ve emailed, PM’d and left a voicemail for NedB with no response.

Last time we sent a box to Canada it took a while, over 3 weeks if I recall. However we are now over a month on this and we’ve not seen it in Canada yet. I assume the box is history but will wait until the end of January to call it as such. I PM’d Ned again today, hopefully I’ll hear back – I do hope everything is OK with Ned.

Thanks for participating everyone – I’ll update again if I hear anything or at the beginning of next week if I don’t.

Man, I really got discombobulated on this last trip, The box made it from Scott to Ned without me updating the blog and then I forgot to tag the last entry as part of the series so you can see Ned’s update here.

Now, the box should be on it’s way to CanadianWoodChuck, in Canada, of course! I think the timing on this couldn’t have been better as I know we’ll all be busy around Christmas and the New Year so it’s a great time to send this across the border.

Here’s the map:

Thanks again for everyone’s participation. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and is able to spend some time away from the commercialization to reflect on the true reason and meaning of Christmas. However, I’m sure that will all be forgotten after enjoying the true meaning of New Year’s Eve. :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!