LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #1: Announcement

Thank you Martin;
—-yes thanks for all your time and effort in bringing us here at LumberJocks the fruit of all your labors and let the show begin….time to roll up our sleeves and get our building started.

Oh yes; I’m sure Don and Gary are getting ready for this one….best wishes and good building to all!!!

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://rusticwoodart.tumblr.com/

Just curious – can you build the box out of one 2×4 and enter it in both?

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

Hello Gary;
—-glad to see you around and maybe this will help. If you will follow the Awards pages link up above; you will come to this statement; ”Rules
1. You may enter one project per category and you may enter the same project into multiple categories.”.

Hope this helps….
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://rusticwoodart.tumblr.com/

Wow…that is an awesome first prize…

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Cool.
Can you cherry pick out of several 2×4s to get nice grain as long as the total used is equal to 2×4x8?

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Grand prize: pretty exciting, isn’t i?? !!!

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

“Entries for this category are to be boxes with dimensions (height, width, depth) not to exceed 18 inches / 45.72 centimeters.” Does that mean each of the three dimensions, or the sum of the three dimensions (9”w + 5”d + 4”h = 18”) must be less than 18”?

Should this question be posted on the forum instead of here??

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each of the dimensions… keep the box smaller than 18”.

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

“Ho-tay!” – Buckwheat

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Time to work.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Looks like the fun is about to begin!

-- Paul, Texas

I think cherry picking out several 2×4’s to come up with a knotless perfect 8’ 2×4 would, perhaps, not be in the spirit of the challenge. :)

Yup, time to get at it!

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

What about cutting a 2×4 out of a larger piece of lumber and starting with that?
Also what if that piece measured an actual 2×4 and not 1 1/2×3 1/2?
What if you started with a old piece of lumber that was really 2×4?

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

the rules state that “2×4” stands for the typical stud, whatever means to you and does not necessarily stand for the measurements.

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

But if you happen to have a 2×4 that is actually 2×4 then it sounds acceptable to me.

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