| Blog series by Martin Sojka | updated 848 days ago | 5 parts | 13833 reads | 169 comments total |
Part 1: Announcement
Thanks to the creativity and hard work of Karson, Mark and Michael we are starting our first unique Woodworking Challenge! Karson sent the proposal to Glen Huey, Senior Editor of Popular Woodworking and asked him for their support in this challenge. Glen whole heartily agreed. Karson's proposal was to use the cover project from February 2007 issue #160 of Popular Woodworking - Thorsen House Side Table - as our challenge. When we have the Summer and Winter Awards everyone builds their o...
Part 2: And the Creative Juices are Flowing
So let’s see who is already sharing ideas and lessons in our Thorsen Side Table Challenge: gizmodyne’s progress series Debbie’s progress series Karson’s progress series Paul’s progress series JonH’s progress series dennis’s progress series Scott’s progress series John’s progress series Dick’s progress series Oscorner’s progress series Fred’s progress series Roger’s progress series O...
Part 3: Last Day Reminder
As you know this is the last day (in CDT time) to submit your entry into the Thorsen Table Challenge. I’d like to remind you of the proper way to submit the project. The most important thing is to submit your entry as the project and not as the blog entry. Many of you have tracked your progress in the exciting blog series. But at the end you must add your table as the project too (and don’t forget to link back to your blog series from the project story to make it easy for other...
Part 4: Winner Announcement
Popular Woodworking has announced the winner of the Thorsen Table Challenge. Before we get to that, I want to congratulate all of the winners—everyone who took part in the challenge and enjoyed the process, the laughter, the teasing, and the inspiration that we have shared over the past three months. I would again like to thank Karson and Obi for this great idea. It has really been a lot of fun and we have met many more LumberJocks because of it! Thank you. And now for the ...
Part 5: Wrapping Up the Challenge
Glen Huey has just wrapped up our Spring Thorsen Table Challenge in great blog article. He even revealed some background information about their judging process. Don’t forget to post some comments there if you like the article ;) Once again, congratulations to Popular Woodworking and the entire LumberJocks community!


















