shapeshifter

Welcome to LumberJocks. Glad to have you aboard.

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

welcome. hope you enjoy all the benifits of this site. their is a lot of knowledge heer, and lumberjocks dont mind sharing it.

Bryan

-- bryano

Glad to see that you have made Lumberjocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome…

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

thanks everyone!

the challenge now it seems, is reading up on what all of you have been up to.
where the heck have i been?
nowhere… that’s for sure.

well, i’m here now.

-- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing.

Welcome to LumberJocks. Enjoy the community.

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

Welcome to the one and the only LumberJocks website. Enjoy your time spent here. Should you have any woodworking questions do not hesitate to ask…Somebody will know the right answer.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

what a grand welcome this is turning out to be! it humbles me to see such a great crew so eager to bring a new member into the fold. i look forward to introducing some of my friends and program instructors to this forum so that they too can find other’s with such enthusiasm for the craft. should one of our apprentices enter this arena, it would be quite the accomplishment because this would assure me that they would be well on their way to finding their own path to knowledge.

-- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing.

Welcome to Lumberjocks!

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

It’s nice to meet you, welcome!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Hello Alan,

Welcome aboard…..I just got back from a long weekend of no web and I’m catching up here and at Standup Zone. You are going to really enjoy your time here. Lots of great folks as you can already see.

The boss is calling me to come unpack my stuff…...I’m so stoked to talk…..I’ll catch up later.

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

Welcome Aboard. We are looking forward to seeing those “old/new” projects you are working on.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

thanks everyone… i really appreciate everything about this forum, with bob’s tutorials as an incentive i’ve embarked on learning the wonderful world of (s)ketchup!

pictured here is a skateboard deck vacuum laminated from several layers of .02 mm bamboo veneer, fiberglass, and carbon fiber. it has a complex pediform which provides an asymmetrical foot position (front toes raised/heal lowered – rear toes lowered/heal raised) for both goofy (right foot in front) and regular (left foot in front) stances on a singular platform… the manta skateboard deck has an s-cambre shape with a scooped nose going into a w-concave flowing into a convex then bending up at the corners to form a tri-tail. the consistent flex pattern is derived from the shape which is 3d in the sense that neither the top nor the bottom surfaces form parallel planes. since it is a hollow structure i used nature’s senetic architecture to form the internal arched supports within the flattened bamboo culm design.

the outcome is a very light platform that could handle the excessive stress of slalom racing and even performed nicely when ridden on vertical transitions. as you can imagine, from the outside it just looks like a bent piece of wood… only when dissected can the beauty in it’s internal structure be revealed.

-- whoever invented the hole... knew nothing.

Congratulations on your upcoming 2 year anniversary being a Lumber Jock.

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!