Hello!
I stumbled upon LumberJocks a week ago while looking for woodworking tips. Looks like a cool place to hang out. However, I was so busy finishing my Christmas gifts that I didn’t have a chance to introduce myself. I found myself amazed at how many folks submitted nice comments on my arrival to LJ.
I started woodworking in 1998, but it took six years to finish the first project I started. I did finish a couple of others between though. For the last six years I’ve been cranking out one project after another. You can see a few samples here on my flicker woodworking collection:
There’s more but I get so busy building that I forget to take pictures. My latest project was to build my first miter boxes. I planned to build three to start with, one each for my two daughters, and one for my mother. When I found out it wasn’t too hard with the miter sled I built from an FWW article, I decided to build one for my wife too. Then my daughter’s mother-in-law called and said she’d be coming to visit in a week I decided to build a 5th box. So between the first week in December and Christmas Eve I was in the shop virtually daily to build these: (only 4 here as ma-in-law got hers already…)
Boxes of Canarywood, Birdseye Maple, Mesquite, and Cherry
(I’ll leave it to you to identify what’s what)
Anyway – I love woodworking and someday I hope to supplement my retirement income by selling my woodworking wares.
I look forward to learning from this community!
-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsmen can hide his mistakes!
8 comments so far
John Gray
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Your Walnut sofa table is great!!!! Thanks.
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PINKHANDCUFFFGIRL
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posted 331 days ago
Welcome to LJ. Your boxes are beautiful!!
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Scott Bryan
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posted 331 days ago
John, those are some really nice pieces of furniture. But you have my sympathy on being “forced” to spend nearly every day in the shop!!! :)
What a winning combination!! You got plenty of shop time, built some really nice boxes that were well received by the women in your life, I am sure and even did something nice for your daughter’s mother-in-law.
Thanks for the introduction.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Tomcat1066
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posted 331 days ago
You’ve got some really nice stuff there!
-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!
johngoes
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posted 331 days ago
Hello and thanks for the comments! I went to bed after I posted the intro because I’m a early-to-bed person.
On the Sofa Table – I saw a picture of it in the FWW gallery and decided to build one. I had a chunk of 8/8 walnut and decided to make it out of that instead of the original cherry. My I just guessed at the dimensions from the picture and went to town. My avatar picture is of me using a scraper for the first time to clean up the saw burn marks on that table.
-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsmen can hide his mistakes!
Karson
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posted 330 days ago
Nice work and welcome to LJ’s
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
matt garcia
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posted 330 days ago
Beautiful boxes!! Welcome to LJ’s!!
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MsDebbieP
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welcome to LJ :)
there are lots of box lovers here. These will definitely touch a few heart strings.
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