Thorsen Side Table Challenge #4: Winner Announcement

Congratulations to our winners!!! How exciting.

I too was a winner!! I was challenged to move beyond a 4-sided box and create my first piece of furniture.
WOO WOOO I’m a winner :D
Thank you Martin, (Karson & Obi) for this wonderful challenge and opportunity.

It definitely has been a lot of fun and can’t wait till things start to get moving on the Summer Awards.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Fantastic work by one and all who entered. Congratulations to the winners. All of the entrants are infact winners!

Next year you’ll have me to contend with!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

next year?? What about this summer ?

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Congratulations must go out to all participants for taking this challenge on. Congratulations also to the top three winners for following the guidelines and making sure quality pieces.

-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"

Still fixing my garage right now. Updating electrical, new garage doors (2), insulate and finish walls, etc. I am doing this. Next is a roof (tear-off and install), guttering and overhang job for the entire home, breezeway and the garage. Hiring this done, thank goodness. Old house has problems! This $Xx,xxx.00 project is killing my woodworking time! (Everything but the lathe is in storage.) I think it would have been cheaper to bull doze it. Luckily my wife has a great job!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Congratulations to the Top Three! Great work guys. I was very impressed by all of the entries. We have very talented members and it showed.

Martin, any idea how big the article will be in the print Mag? I was wondering if they were going to show any of the other entries or just these three. There were so many good entries that deserve at least a small photo as “also ran” Perhaps we can put their final ranking in our emag. I’m sure everyone would like to know where they landed in the ranking.

Karson, Obi, Thanks again for driving this opportunity. It was a great challenge. I look forward to the next challenge like this. It shows so much about how we all can see the same project in such a different perspective.

Martin again, you have out done yourself. I honestly believe you have created a very special place in the internet world. I’m sure you never envisioned we would be where we are now. I look forward to the “guilds /groups” you mentioned. Each of us has our own area of interest, subjects from turning to carving and tables and chairs. You have done a great thing here.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

I thought this was going to be a breeze, but just to get it semi-finished in time was a major endeavor.

CONGRATULATIONS FURNITOLOGIST, JACK AND SCHROEDER.

It was a privelage to participate with all Y’all. I didn’t do this because it was a challenge, I wanted to do this because it was a challenge.

What’s next?

I’m looking forward to the “FALL CHALLENGE”

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

And the article ought to be out in time for our first free issue. Weeeeeeee !!!!

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

Congratulations to everyone that submitted an entry!

Following the blog entries of all the tables was so enjoyable and inspiring. It was a pleasure to see LJ learning from each other and passing on advice regarding joinery and “those pesky pegs” as the assembled their tables.

A special congratulations to Neil Lamens of Furnitology fame! Hopefully we will see more of his work and benefit from his comments.

Congratulations to the runners-up Jack and schroeder! I was especially proud of Schroeder for representing the Oregon crowd!

Thanks to Karson and Obi for suggesting this wonderful challenge.

And of course, where would we be without Martin! Thank you Martin!

I agree with Greg that the complete entry set wiuld be a great feature in the next issue of the eMag.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

next??? Joinery without glue—as if I’ve mastered putting two boards together with screws!!!!
Oh wait… with DOWELS—got that mastered, well conquered at least, well,.. I can do it! :)
lol

Greg, I’m not sure if they ranked them. My guess is that they just picked their winners.

re: showing all rankings for our own contests we had this discussion before. I can’t remember how it turned out. It was either going to be that all were posted or only the winners. We didn’t want to get into anything too complicated for Martin.

Obi, I can’t agree with you more re: the challenge.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m glad I wasn’t judging this challenge. All of the tables were wonderful. The challenges are a GREAT idea, and the shop tour challenge was what brought me to lumberjocks. I look forward to participating in every challenge that is practically possible for me.

Just great!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Whew-hew! What a lot of fun! – Thanks for the challenge and the great idea!

-- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe

I congratulate the final three in Challenge01.

I think everyone that entered is a winner, so I congratulate all of you.

I had a chance to try some new things that I’d never done before that made it a pleasant experience, plus we have a new piece of furniture in our home.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

oh yah.. I forgot that part !!!
I have a beautiful new plant stand :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Congrats to the winners! Great choices by the judges!

The challenge and conversation was great fun! Now, I’m looking for a book with illustrations of Chinese glueless joinery to come through inter-library loan. Hopefully one of the five libraries in Texas that has a copy will trust me and send it to small town America. Challenges force you to study and learn! Isn’t it great?!

I’m studying hard right now (two books in hand, two more coming) before I dive into repairing and reupholstering a stack of Victorian Parlor furniture (two chairs, a settee and footstool) sitting in my shop right now.

-- Paul, Texas

Well isn’t that a blast!!!!!!....................I just think this forum is what on-line woodworking is supposed to be. Very positive, universal support, and the idea of a “community build” to share creativity is the best part. Humming Birds, Poplar as a featured wood, different approaches to making those daw-gone pegs, the excitement of the deadline, then seeing who was there, all “good stuff”. I simply had FUN!!!!

At our young age…............(and I know there are some younger youngsters out there)..........we’ve pretty much wrapped up our winning and its more about sharing and being a part of worthy endeavors.

I salute the forum for a job well done and I’m very very appreciative, to be a part of this woodworking community.

Thank you all…................Neil

Well done everybody. I really enjoyed all of the learning I got from everyone. Inspires me to try my hand in one of the summer challenges.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Congratulation to all who participated. It started as a challenge between Obi and myself, and ended up with all of us being challenged. My thanks to all who participated and to all those who at least thought about it and didn’t have the time to get something completed.

Martin the LumberJock web site has been a great place in the Internet world for Jocks to come together and to share ideas and give and receive support. We have become a big family. We may know more about one another in ways that even our families don’t know.

God bless each and all in your woodworking endeavours. Work safe, and share the knowledge with those you know and love.

Thanks to Popular Woodworking and Glen Huey for their support in this challenge. When I proposed it to him, an instant return e-mail was an immediate “Yes” with offers of free prizes to all who completed.

They modified the Greene and Greene Plant Stand that is in the Thorsten House and presented into their magazine. How many people build something from their plans are unknown. But, probably never before have so many versions been built from the date of the magazine being printed.

It’s been fun, I have two children fighting over one of the tables that I made, so I guess it was a success in that it was something that they saw as being valualabe in their lives. So even though I made 3 and assisted on 3 more. I’ll probably have to make a couple of more Black Popular versions, just to keep peace in the family.

Thanks for thanking Obi and myself for starting this challenge. And my thanks to you all for completing it.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who completed the challenge. I enjoyed looking at every single entry. Congratulations again. To me, at this stage in my woodworking hobby, this was the most difficult project I have completed to date. Also it was my first table.

-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Congratualtions to the top three! All the tables posted were an inspiration to me and others. I want everyone that took on this challenge to know how much I apprecitate them and their designs and entries. I don’t know how they did it…pick the winners that is…all tables were beautiful.

-- Jesus is Lord!

It was fun. Like Fred . . . this project has been my most technically difficult to date. But with this under my belt and all the encouraging comments from the Jocks . . . I will be doing more.

Oh . . . congrats guys !! I cant wait to get my next issue of PW to see the tables.

With respect to PW . . . I recenlty subscribed and I have learned valuable things each issue.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I just want to tell you guys why you won and not me.

I just got an e-mail from Glen Huey of Popular Woodworking Magazine
It stated:

As we’ve been studying the entries for the challenge we noticed that there are four entries all pictured on the same carpet, in the same house and in front of the same chair. One of the entries has your name on it.

I seem to remember reading in one of your blogs that you built four tables.
Did you just pass around the pictures for others to send in as their entry?
Now what are we suppose to do about this? Kind of violates the rules of the game as well as makes it difficult for us to pick a winner.

So I sent him an answer. LOL

He is a great Guy. and I appreciate his talents.

Karson

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karrrr-sssssson … were you cheating?!!! :)
hehehe

:)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

No- NO NOOO

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson wasn’t cheating. He was selling his homework. LOL

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I’d have never made this table if not for this contest. What a great learning (and sharing) experience. Plus I was able to make use of things that have been cluttering up my shed and basement for years now. So happy with how my table came out, I’m contemplating a matching coffee table.

Imaging going from one project that I’d never have made, to a suite of living room furniture! (if only the rest of the pieces can be free as well. Don’t think my wife will let me remove more doors for the cause ;)

Congratulations to Neil, Jack and Schroeder!

Congratulations to everyone who stepped up to take the challenge. So glad I wasn’t a judge. Great work by all!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Congrats Neil, Jack and Schroeder…great job! Great job to all. Thanks to Obi, Karson, Martin, et al for getting it going.

OK…on to the summer challlenge.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

congratulations to ALL…I did not enter and I enjoyed the process…watching the entries come in and looking at all the desiign…once again the COMMNUNITY wins…peace to all…and get ready…my garden project is going to happen…this weekend I tore down a shed…cut down an ugly yucca…and my garden will be coming…with some side time for garden woodworking…

Congrats to all…I love the energy here…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...