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• Gift from a Lumberjock #2: Crown Royal Pen from LJ - MJR - 06-16-2020 03:16 PM | 8 comments

  Today I opened my new pen from a swap with Lumberjock MJR from New Jersy!. Thank you so much Mic...

• Gauges in the Shop #1: Go - No Go gauge for Lathe Chuck - 05-28-2019 01:05 PM | 10 comments

  I use this gauge a lot so I thought I’d share it with fellow Lumberjocks that turn on the l...

• Gifts #2: Gift of a Child's Rocking Chair for my Great Grandaughter - 05-14-2019 11:49 AM | 15 comments

  This is a gift to my great granddaughter from LJ Doug Scott. Thank you very much, Doug. This is a...

• Hollowing Tool #1: Jakosh Hybrid Hollowing System - 12-10-2018 03:15 AM | 18 comments

  This is a project, but it is not made of wood…....... it is made FOR wood.Our past guild p...

• Student projecta at a East Kentwood High School #1: Base ball bats made by students - 11-12-2018 05:16 PM | 14 comments

  Today I remembered to bring my camera to school to show two of the students who made ash baseball...

• Gifts #1: Hand Carved Bluejay! - 09-29-2018 11:31 PM | 19 comments

  A while back I talked to friend at church who is a good wood carver and told him that I wanted to...

• Spring Bench #1: Building a bench around an 1800's wagon spring - 06-30-2018 03:26 PM | 20 comments

  My friend Leon Kytle in Idaho Falls gave me this old spring from a wagon seat from the 1800R...

• Flipping Images in Word 2010 #1: Making Mirror Image of text or Photo in Word to transfer to wood - 11-05-2017 01:08 AM | 25 comments

  This is a follow up to Joe Lyddon’s forum topic about transferring images to wood: http...

• Grizzly G0555 #1: Drive Wheel Bearing Replacement - 12-23-2016 02:23 PM | 11 comments

  My Grizzly 14” band saw has been making a clunking noise when running for a while now so wh...

• Yin and Yang #1: My process for cutting a Yin and Yang pattern. - 12-19-2016 02:12 AM | 20 comments

  I use maple and walnut and start with the maple stacked on a piece of walnut because the pattern ...

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