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    My husband, Charles Dunn, Hulluvawreck, passed away om May 22, 2023. He suffered with dementia for three years prior to his death. He loved to post on this site and did for years. He so enjoyed meeting other woodworkers and seeing their work. Thank you to all who knew him and contributing to his joy of woodworking and woodworkers. God Bless You! Claire Dunn

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    Just wanted to check in with ya Charles. It's been almost a year since your last post. Hope you're doing okay.

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    THanks for putting in a kind word on most everybody's projects and posts, Chales! I think more people need to have a little more affirmation like you are good at giving!

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    I'm in Ga too my dad was a master carpenter for gptv for 29 years I've inherit
    Ed tons of workbench magazinesall of them produced from 58-92 plus other woodworking magazines fromthe 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s you know where to sale them around Ga fast?

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    Ben L: promoting your website on here by posting on every project is annoying

    I sure am sorry for having annoyed you, Ben. I'm not aware that I have broken any rules on Lumberjocks. Yes, I think that your post was a little rude. However, I suppose that I have made a rude post occasionally on Lumberjacks but not very often. So I'm just going to overlook your rude post. Your rude post has been a mild one so it's not a big deal. Most of my rude posts have been mild ones as well.

    To answer the questions that you have brought up:

    I'm sorry if I haven't posted enough projects to suit you. I don't know of any rules about how often you are suppose to post projects on Lumberjocks. I've never claimed to be a craftsman so maybe I don't particularly think anything that I have done is all that great anyways. However, if you would like you can thumb through my blogs and see some of my projects. Some of my blogs are actually about projects. You can also look through my blog about my shop. There are quite a few pieces in my shop that I suppose I could put on my project pages. Again, I don't think any pieces of my shop furniture are all that great. I've never really had time to build any fancy shop furniture. Shop furniture is just utilitarian for me. I have seen some worse here on Lumberjocks and some better. I guess that means my shop furniture is just average. Again, I never claimed to be a craftsman.

    I have made a few dozen boxes over the last few years. Maybe I'll get around to posting some of them around the corner. After all I plan on selling some boxes in my store that I'll be setting up. I'm past due on my store but it should be up soon.

    So far as my website goes, other people put a link to a website in their posts so I don't know why I can't put a link to mine. I agree that it needs to be updated and it's another thing that I just haven't had time to do. However, I have had a lot of things happen to me in the last three years that have eaten up a lot of my time.

    Three years ago this coming August my brother, his wife and I lost our molding plant that took us 45 years of hard work to end up with. It took us a number of months to get any kind of settlement on that. The worst thing of all was that we lost all of our income. I knew that I was going to have to have a decent shop to make ends meet. It took me till February to find a home in the country where we could build a shop. It was August before we started building my shop and it wasn't finished until a week or so before Thanksgiving. I had a hard time deciding on the size, etc.

    The week of Thanksgiving my wife found out that she had breast cancer. She had a double mastechtomy just after New years, 2014. That put a big damper on me so far as getting my shop setup because she had a lot of complications and had two more surgurys. Then she went through chemotherapy which was harder on her than what it is for most people because of her complications.

    I suppose that I finished setting up my shop about the middle of May. I made a couple of batches of boxes. However, I really wasn't sure what I was going to make to sell. After much thought I decided that when the machinery show came to Atlanta in August I was going to look into getting a laser engraver because to me that is something that I could get going quicker than anything that I knew of.

    I bought my engraver in August and got it in November. In the meantime I added a room onto my shop for my laser engraving. My addition didn't get finished until about mid December 2014. I had to put my engraver in the same room with my woodworking so at that point woodworking stopped because you don't mix a laser engraver with sawdust. The new addition was ready to go by the first of January.

    Ever since January I have been working as fast as I can to get a line for my engraving to sell. I'm hoping to finally have it finished in a week or two. I have not had any problems with the engraving it's all of the artwork and everything else that takes time.

    I can honestly say that when I look back over the last 33 or 34 months I really don't think that I could have done it much better. I'm also trying to do the art work for my stuff myself. I have some artistic talent but just like not being a craftsman neither am I an artist. But I do what I can and am making some pretty good progress at teaching myself how to draw in my spare time. I've always drawn a little anyways. I can see that it will pay off.

    I can tell you that I have a hard time getting everything done that I am suppose to.

    Now as for my trying to post on every project. You say that in a way that implies that I don't really care about people's projects so much as I do promoting myself. I resent that because it is just not true. I love to see all of the projects and participate on Lumberjocks. I always have. However, I don't really have much time to do it. I try to come on here everyday for an hour or hour and a half. I am a fast reader and a surprisingly fast two fingered typist. I read every page that I post on and try to post something relative to the page and the person. I have always posted on some of the beginners projects to give them a word of encouragement and I've also tried to welcome people that I notice are newcomers. I have also tried to be polite for the most part and have tried to make my posts readable.

    If you will look at how long I have been here and at the number of posts that I have made you will see that I have averaged a little below 10 posts per day. I don't think that it is an unreasonable number of posts.

    Now, I hope that I have answered some of your questions and have also explained why I have not had a lot of time for the last 33 months to do anything as well as I would like to.

    helluvawreck aka Charles
    http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

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    Thanks for your comment on my shop, Charles. Yours is a heck of a shop, too! I'd like to come by to see it in person some time - as I travel to Hendersonville, TN to visit my son and his family a couple of times a year. Don't know when next time might be, but I'll send you a note well ahead to see if it would be convenient.

    Dave

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    That a beautiful Shop, well thought out, Lots of great tools and plenty of room to work. I drool over all of the great storage and work surfaces.

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    Hello,

    I just looked at your website and your tools and I am very impressed. Great shop and I really appreciate the organization. I love the train you posted, we have 2 nieces and 2 nephews and I have built them a project or two over the years.

    I am still in the early stages of building my hand tools, and appreciate your tools section. Thank you for the wonderful comments, and for sharing your shop and experience.

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    Another GA resident! Nice to meet ya sir, hope you are enjoying the slight drop in temps as much as I am.
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