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Dust Collector Retrofit Grizzly
GaryK posted a blog about trying to get his dust collector modified with a canister filter. I ...
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Eastern US - Mid Atlantic LumberJock Picnic Last call
This is a formal invite to the LumberJocks Picnic at Lee Jesbergers home / shop on Sat the 21th o...
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Resawing wood and veneers #1: The Laguna Driftmaster Fence System
Well I went ahead and did it. A woodworking e-mail blog stated that Laguna Driftmaster fence syst...
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Well the day has almost arrived, my 2nd anniversary to LumberJocks.
From a modest beginning, 5/9/2006, I signed in to a new web site www.lumberjocks.com. That was wh...
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Laguna Driftmaster Bandsaw fence
Woodworkers Journal eZine that I just received had a tool review for the new Driftmaster bandsaw ...
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Happy Anniversary Mark DeCou
Today is Mark’s second anniversary.731 days that 2 X 365 Plus 1 for leap year this year. ...
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New Deck #8: Finished the second bench
Well today I got to working on the second bench. I assembled it and brought it over to the dec...
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New Deck #7: The first bench is done
Well is was a good day for working outside. A little cloudy, a little sunny, a few drizzles, but ...
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New Deck #6: Finishing up the surface of the deck
Well I finally got the electric problems taken care of and so i screwed down the last two deck bo...
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New Deck #5: Treated wood.
Someone asked the question if I was going to treat the wood that I used on the posts. That was...
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New Deck #4: Continuing Day 5 and 6 of the deck build
Well Day 5 of the deck build had me starting on the Light poles. I made a wooden tube that was ab...
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New Deck #3: Day 4 of the build
Well day 4 was productive, just not on the deck. About 1 week ago I was in the office in the s...
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New Deck #2: Day 3 of the deck build
Well yesterday was a rain-out day, so today was a double-header. Well not really true. But the de...
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New Deck #1: Starting the new deck.
Well I was working on building the deck and I kept saying. Take some pictures. But, it didn’...
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Golden Mean, Golden ratio in constructing items.
The golden Mean or Golden Ratio is a number that people use when making items, buildings and furn...
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Greene and Greene Bookcase Challenge04
Posted as a blog entry, for the official contest. For the Challenge04 I decided to design a Gr...
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A modern Day "Who's on First"
A 21st Century ‘Who’s on first?’ If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive...
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Everybody send Mot a message and tell him to come back soon.
Mot has been on vacation and vacation from woodworking for a while. We miss his banter here. ...
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Classic Afril Fools jokes
Here is a site of Classic April Fool Jokes/Spoofs.
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LumberJock Poem, Need help
My duaghter gave me a wall plaque to put up on my shop wall. May my circular saw be sharpMy ch...
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Comment 150,000 has just been posted on LumberJocks
Comment 150,000 has just been posted. Congratulations Martin. And all Lumberjocks for makin...
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A visit with a LumberJock - Workshop of Charles Neil
You might be a LumberJock if you visit the shop of a LumberJock and you fail to take any pictures...
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The Dulles Woodworking show.
I went to the Chantilly Woodworking Show, in the area of Dulles Airport near Washington DC today....
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Looking for Jock input.
In Martins last change to the Lumberjock pages he changed the “Jock” button to “...
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Fine Woodworking E- Newsletter. Review of Ezee-feed
I just received an E-mail Newsletter from Fine Woodworking. They have a review of Lee’s Eze...
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Anyone going to the Chantilly MD, Dullas Woodworking Show March 14-16 2008
I plan to go to the Chantilly Woodworking show on Friday March 14th I was going to go the 15th bu...
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Another free plan from Popular Woodworking
Popular Woodworking w-News has another free plan. http://popularwoodworking.com/articledispla...
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Mid-America LumberJock Picnic #1: A get together
I first met Steamdonkey when he signed on to LumberJocks. I grew up in the Kansas City area as a ...
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An Obscure Musical Instrument, but it's got a case of wood.
An obscure musical instrument. The Theremin. My brother-in-law sent this to me, and it is trul...
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What makes a good mallet?
People post blogs and projects about mallets. I don’t have one but I’d like to mak...
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Valentine Day One-liners
Valentine’s Day Oneliners What do farmers give their wives on Valentine’s Day?Hogs...
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LumberJocks, The Community Creates a Memorial in Mark's memory #2: Making the shadow box frame
Well Dusty and I talked about the broken and fractured stained glass panel. The panel was insured...
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I want this driver
Has anyone bought this driver . I want one. And another one.
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Free Subscription to remodeling Magazine
Remodeling Magazine is offering a free subscription. You have to fill in the qualification for...
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Wood magazine has a free Sanding Supply Cabinet plan
Wood magazine has a free Sanding Supply Cabinet plan free for downloading this month.. It is d...
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What are you doing reading this: The Super Bowel XLII is getting ready to start.
Time for all of the commercials.
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I just received an e-mail about a Steel City Jointer 6"
I received an e-mail about a Steel CIty 6” jointer 499.00 and free shipping. Woodworkers...
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Bandsawn Box #1 #2: My First Bandsawn Box
Well I started getting the wood ready. and I now needed to cut the core out of the center section...
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LumberJocks, The Community Creates a Memorial in Mark's memory #1: I'm starting out on my part
Well I’d been talking to Dusty it seems like for a week. He stated that he had this idea for a me...
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Web based videos. MLCS has three Web based videos free
MLCS has three web based videos 1 Lock 45 deg cutting2 Edge banding3 Box joint router bits.
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Dusty's father is back in the hospital
Dusty’s father was placed back in the hospital again. The original blog is here He place...
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I have to report a Scumbag, Please read.
I received a message today from Oscomer’s wife (Name not shown). She had someone come to he...
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Wood Magazine revised there review of the Table Saw Blade reviewed Dec/Jan 2008.
Wood magazine stated that they saw problems in their reviews of saw blades that they tested in th...
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Woodworkers Journal is posting three free plans, updated with Wood Link and Popular Woodworking link
Woodworkers journal is posting three free plans on their web site. Revised Wood Magazine is...
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Hansen Wagon e-mail
I just received an e-mail from Hansen wagon. It was their 2008 newsletter or so. I ran across the...
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New arrival at the house A burl
I got home taday at lunch time and I saw this in the middle of the driveway. It’s a ...
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Dusty's father was hurt while raking snow.
Dusty’s father was hurt while raking snow. Dusty’s message to me: “He is 82 ...
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This really is Woodworking read # 24.
STUDENT ANALOGIES AND METAPHORS For all you writers: Every year, English teachers from across the...
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400 screens of projects, blogs and forums
I just noticed at the bottom of the page that we now have 400 screens worth of projects, blogs an...
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I received a message from Mark's wife XXXXXXXXX
I received the following message from Mark (oscorner) wife. I had asked if she would like any ...
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Bandsawn Box #1 #1: Getting the wood ready
Well I went to the attic, actually surface area of the wood rack in the workshop and picked up a ...
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It's 12:05 2008
Happy New Year All you LumberJocks. May you have the best and blessed New Year. May it be the ...
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"Wow", 601 days a member
It’s hard to believe that I hit another milestone. 600 days a member of LumberJocks. Wha...
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Mark (Osconer). I talked to his wife.
I received a call from XXXXXX XXXX tonight. She is Mark’s wife. I left a message on Mark...
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Toy Giveaway was published #2
I sent an e-mail to the published of the Seaford Star newspaper asking if he could provide a copy...
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Toy Giveaway was published.
The toy giveaway for the Mason – Dixon Woodworkers Club / Toy Workshop was published today ...
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Hall table #2: Finishing up the Thorsen Hall table
The continuation of my Thorsen Hall table. The beginning is here My wife is happy with what is h...
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Number 7000
Well this is post number 7000 in 585 days. But, I still can’t catch MsDebbie. This is a ...
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Hall table #1: A Hall table for my wife - Thorsen Variety
My wife was starting to get ready for some Christmas decorations. She notified me that she’d like...
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Cool pictures of Fleet Week in San Francisco.
It will take a while to load, a lot of great pictures. Don’t try it on dial-up. I didn&#...
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Catskill New York and surrounding areas. Sawmills etc
I received an email and as I clicked through some of the information. I ran across this page. It&...
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Class with a Woodworking Legend Frank Klausz
I got a phone call Thursday night that Frank Klausz was in town, (really next town over but 15 mi...
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Worlds largest tree destroyed.
I received this email from a friend and this is what he said. These pictures were taken during...
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Another Wood show anyone going
Dubai Woodshow Looks All Set For a Sell Out 6 Months Prior to the Event Dubai Woodshow, the re...
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Toy Giveaway Day Christmas 2007
Today Dec 1, 2007 was the toy giveaway day for the Mason-Dixon Woodworkers Club Toy Workshop. ...
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Anyone going to the Baltimore Show on Jan 5-6th
Let me know if you will be going to the Balitmore woodworking show on Jan 4-6
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Fine Woodworking Glue Tube
Fine woodworking has started a thing called Glue Tube. Woodworking videos, Here is one from pr...
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Holiday banquet or small LumberJock Banquet. Christmas Toys
Tonight Nov 15, 2007 The Mason Dixon Woodworkers Club held it’s Holiday Banquet. We even in...
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What is a Hill-billy
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One thing to do, that you never thought about.
This weekend the World Chanpionship Punkin Chunkin is taking place about 1/2 a mile from where I ...
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A feel good video - A story about a bagger at a grocery store.
I got this today in an e-mail and I wanted to share it with you. If you want. Johnny
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Oh! My Ackey, Breakey Heart - It's firewood
A couple of years ago my wife met a lady who lived 10 miles from us and she said her husband owne...
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What should I do, What should I do?
Life decisions that people have to make are never simple. The importance of the initial decision ...
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Wood Movement Calculator
There has been a lot of discussion on this site and probably others about wood movement. How m...
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Gail O'Rourke an LJ'er is written up in CabinetMaker Magazine
Gail O'Rourke is on the cover and written up in CabinetMaker magazine Issue September 2007 Her...
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Announcement, Announcement Special Olympics Winner
I wanted to announce that my son, LJ id Dave won a gold medal today at a Special Olympics event o...
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Karson's Workshop (revised)
I revised my workshop and added additional pictures
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Mr Potato Head
I hope this isn’t our own Mot (Tom) at the bottom of this outlandish scheme. here
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Well # 5000. Posts. _ Now #6000 _ Really #8000
I finally hit my 5000 posts. Well behind MsDebbie. I hope Martin sends me the same amount of s...
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General Announcement for Picnic at Lee Jesbergers Home / Shop
I’ve made an announcement previously and I received some positive replies. If you didn&#...
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480,000 BD Ft of lumber up for auction.
Hooker Furniture in Martinsville, VA is going out of business and over 480,000 BD Ft of lumber is...
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Congratulations to our Rodger Starutman
Rodger congratulations for your Apostles Creed from Woodcraft. a $100.00 Woodcraft gift card.
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Announcing a Picnic at Lee Jesbergers home / shop. Plan to attend.
This is announce a Picnic at Lee Jesberger’s home / shop in Sewell, N.J Across the river fr...
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LumberJock Picnic at Mark DeCou's home
Well I’ve finally got everything together to report on the LumberJock Picnic held at Mark DeCou’s...
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Better File handles
Better File Handles – An article by Bob Patrick in December 1989 Vol. 2, Number 6 – Project...
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Free Woodworking Plans
I received this post today from a web site the I get periodic mail from. Greetings all,I am ex...
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Lathe Turners and wanna-bees
I just received this e-mail from Ernie Conover. I’ve never taken any of his classes I had j...
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Training Class was held on Raised Panels with Bob (Lance)
OK Bob and I got together today to have a training class on Raised Panel construction. See Bob...
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Circle sanding jig.
Today at the Mason – Dixon Woodworking Toy workshop I was making the plastic windows for ou...
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Summer Contest Good Luck to all entries.
We have completed the entry phase of the Summer Contest 27 Entries have been entered into the ...
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Summer Joinery Entry Shaker Cabinet #4: Almost Done - Well really its done now,
Almost Done> As I was reading the previous posted blogs on the construction of the Summer 2007...
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Summer Joinery Entry Shaker Cabinet #3: The quest continues, Were getting close now.
Time to turn my attention to the back. The locking mortise and tenon had been designed and it was...
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Summer Joinery Entry Shaker Cabinet #2: Continuing with the construction
One thing nice about not being allowed to use glue, No glue clean up and you can pre-finish all o...
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Summer Joinery Entry Shaker Cabinet #1: How I got started
After Martin announced the Summer Contest and the Themes Garden Project and Wood Joinery I starte...
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Belated LumberJocks Picnic Alias Mason - Dixon Woodworkers Club Picnic
On July 22 – 2007 The Mason Dixon woodworkers Club had their summer picnic. I used that opp...
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What I did on 7-22-2007
One of the members of the Mason Dixon Woodworkers Club needed to take his boat from where it was ...
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Bandsaw Modifications
My bandsaw is an 18” Taiwan version. Grizzly had a similar version a few years ago. The ...
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What time is it?
What Time Is It? On some air bases, the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian air...
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Circle Drilling Jig
Circle Drilling Jig I did not design this jig. I didn’t make this jig. But I’ve been using it ...
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Some things that I've learned about finishing. Some of them I also use. #3: Wood filling and finishing
The continuation of the Pumice and rottenstone as wood fillers. I let the BLO (Boiled Linseed ...
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Free Patriotic intarsia flag
Wood magazine sent a link for an Intarsia Flag for The 4 of July. It also has an Canadian version...
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Blueberry Picking.
We went picking blueberries yesterday.It was a nice sunny day. The humidity was less than it had ...
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Some things that I've learned about finishing. Some of them I also use. #2: Home made wood fillers, Pumice and Rottenstone.
Pumice and Rottenstone as wood filler. When you go through the catalogs and look at all of the...
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Some things that I've learned about finishing. Some of them I also use. #1: Using Scrapers
Sharpening and using a scraper. When I suggest that you should use a scraper in your woodworki...
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Contact with Chip. He's been out of touch for a while
I gave a call to Chip last night to see what he’s been up to. He’s been missing on LJ...
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For LumberJocks wanting to relocate
He is an advertisement for some commercial property with cabinets shop in Lost Nation Iowa. Shop,...
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Happy Father's day
Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers out there and for the mothers Happy June 17th. We ...
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Veneering a table top chess table #2: Putting the Apron on the chess surface
Placing the apron on the veneered chess surface.First you sand the edge of the chess surface to m...
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Veneering a table top chess table #1: Making the Veneered surface
The making of a chess board with veneer. Mark made a comment earlier this week about a chess boar...
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The Summer Contest has been published
The summer lumberJock contest has been published in About.com / Woodworking More people coming.
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LumberJock 1000
Well we have lumberjock 1000 . Congratulations Martin. Now on to 2000.
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Since we are woodworkers and doing some construction, I thought I'd post this
Here’s a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl an...
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Kitchen Remodel #5: Vacuum Veneering for the Buffet / Hutch
Well it’s been a weekend, not a lot of work done, but enough to make you think that you’ve accomp...
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Report on Greg3G
I just got off the phone with Greg. The surgery went find. They took his cartilage that was to...
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Sliding Table for table Saw.
In a couple of my Blogs or Projects I’ve mentioned my Sliding Table. I thought I’d give you a vie...
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Kitchen Remodel #4: Cutting the Tenons for the Stiles and Rails
Cutting the tenons and fixing the mortises. In an earlier blog I was talking about story stick...
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Kitchen Remodel #3: Buffet / Hutch Cutting the Stiles and Rails
The continuation of the Buffet / Hutch build. Today was a busy day, just not in the shop. Lunch w...
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Hardwood lumber grading.
I’ve been trying to find the formula for grading hardwood for Select and #1 Common and #2 C...
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Kitchen Remodel #2: Making the legs.
Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don’t get started I won’t have anything to say without ge...
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Kitchen Remodel #1: Buffet and Hutch
My wife says I can’t do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her ha...
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Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson #5: The second of the twins. The Popular table.
In my blog I started to talk about my next set of Thorsen Greene and Greene Tables. I called them...
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It's Woodworking I guess.
I went out to lunch today and this was beside me in the parking lot. I thought that since this...
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Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson #4: A jig I made for use in the Thorsen table
I wanted to show the jig that I used for making the Thorsen Greene & Greene table Aprons. ...
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Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson #3: My Holly Thorsen Greene and Greene Table.
OK, you have been asking. What I’ve been up to on the Thorsen G & G tables.So here are some m...
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Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson #2: Some of the misc parts of my Goncalo Alves Thorsen Greene & Greene table
OK, you have been asking. What I’ve been up to on the Thorsen G & G tables.So here are some m...
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Its Party time, Obi's opening his new workshop
It’s time for a LumberJocks Party. Obi’s opening his new workshop tomorrow Monday Apr...
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Presentation to the Delaware Woodworking Guild.
Ethan made a comment awhile back that if you get a chance you should join a Woodworking Guild. ...
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Free article on dovetails using a scroll saw.
This article is courtesy of Woodcraft Magazine on their e-mail advertisement. The article came fr...
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Mortising Chisels on sale
In the Spring 2007 Woodworking Magazine they did a review of mortise bits from the 34.99 to the ...
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Cradle / Glider #1: Cradle / Glider Construction assists
Don had asked that I provide some additional pictures and notes on the construction of the Cradle...
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Happy Easter
May I and my Family Karson, Linda, Daniel and David wish you a blessed Resurrection Sunday. Ma...
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Scratch-n-Sniff Blog
Over the past week or so, different people are starting to put different things in their Blogs. W...
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I just talked to Shelli DeCou
I just talked to Shelli about their daughter Rachel. They have not been to any new Dr.s since the...
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Rockler Professional
I just realized as I was starting to look for some bed hardware on Rockler.com that some of you m...
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Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson #1: My restart of the LJ / PW Challenge
Thorsen Side table Challenge. March 22, 2007. I’ve been thinking about the making of the side...
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Update on Mark DeCou
I just got off the phone with Mark and he still has pain. A couple of time as we were talking he ...
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I just talked with Mark DeCou
I just spent the last hour talking with Mark. He has a little (OK maybe more) pain. The surger...
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I talked to Mark's wife after his surgery
I just got off the phone with Shelli DeCou, Mark’s wife. The surgery went fine and he is st...
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An e-mail from Conovers Workshop
I got an e-mail from Conovers workshop about a new woodworking show. The e-mail follows: Conov...
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Public Service www.donotcall.gov
I understand that cell phones numbers are being released to Telemarketers. You can set up your ce...
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Our Wood Whisperer is famous again
The latest eNews from Fine Woodworking has a little writeup on the wood whisperer with links to h...
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Happy Birthday to me.
In celebration of my birthday I’d like to buy you all a cup of coffee and a bagel. Enjoy...
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My Sharpening Station Copyright 2-11-2007 Karson Morrison
I’ve noticed some Blogs and questions about sharpening chisels and I thought I give you my experi...
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This is to show Frank "My Turtle" Revised 2/11/2007
Frank: since you seem to be the wood guru for seeing into the inner working of wood and the mind,...
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Conversion chart for decimal / fraction of an inch / metric
Here is a conversion chart that I found on the web. here
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I can't let Marc have all the "GLORY"
Congratulation to Marc on the cover of Wooodcraft. But LumberJocks should be proud also. TWO (2) ...
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I wonder if you could make this out of wood.
Can this be made out of wood
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Enhancements for Martin:
Martin we are getting so much good info on these pages. We now need a Google search of the Lumber...
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Joke of the day
One of the web sites that I am a member of is Good Clean Funnies. it is at www.gcfl.net. here ...
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Lets update the Workshop pages for all LumberJocks
It looks to me that the only way you get a little arrow on the map, is if you make a workshop pro...
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The throw away society
I just bought a new HP Color Laser printer for Christmas. To print off all of the color woodworki...
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Blog Series
- Bandsawn Box #1 - 2 parts
- Cradle / Glider - 1 part
- Hall table - 2 parts
- Kitchen Remodel - 5 parts
- LumberJocks, The Community Creates a Memorial in Mark's memory - 2 parts
- Mid-America LumberJock Picnic - 1 part
- New Deck - 8 parts
- Resawing Lumber - 0 parts
- Resawing wood and veneers - 1 part
- Some things that I've learned about finishing. Some of them I also use. - 3 parts
- Summer Joinery Entry Shaker Cabinet - 4 parts
- Thorsen Side by Side LJ / PW Challenge Karson - 5 parts
- Veneering a table top chess table - 2 parts
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