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2011 MMWG Christmas Dinner

Each year during our December meeting the Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild puts together a Christmas dinner/fund raiser.  We use this opportunity  to raise money to donate  to a local charity.  The club provides the food, drinks and members

Review ToolSelect.com …part 3

Part 2  concluded with  links to two videos produced by ToolSelect.com.  The reviews, Jet Drill Press -JDP-12 and the Jet Mortiser-JBM-5 were published shortly before I wrote part 1 & 2.  The third tool review video, Jet  Oscillating Edge Sander-JET 708447 OES-80CS, was not published at that time. I found three  issues with

Oak Flag Box

This project has been in the making for over two years.  I was given two short oak logs from my Uncle Bob.  He salvaged the logs from

Review ToolSelect.com… part 1

Who or what is ToolSelect.com?  Here is a quote from ToolSelect.com’s website: “ToolSelect.com is an unbiased power tool comparison website that offers our users a wide range of resources and information to assist

Review ToolSelect.com… part 2

The day has arrived and it’s time for me to make the 75 mile trip to ToolSelect.com’s studio.  I arrived shortly after 8:00 a.m. to find a crew ready to unload the tools and show me to the studio.  The studio was much larger

Thanks ToolSelect.com

I would like to send out a “Thank You” to ToolSelect.com for sending a nice tool bag.  I have had smaller tool bags in the past.  The smaller bags never held all the tools needed so I would put some tools in the bag and the rest went into boxes. Then when I needed a [...]

Woodworkers Swap Meet

Woodworkers Swap Meet Date: Saturday, May, 21, 2011 Time: Noon to 4 PM Location: 563 North Cochran Avenue Charlotte, MI 48813 A great time to buy, sell or trade some of the items from your shop that have been collecting dust. The Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild is teaming up with the LumberJocks to present this Woodworkers [...]

MMWG Christmas Fund Raiser

The Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild held their annual Christmas dinner/ fund raiser at the Dewitt Memorial Building on  December 1st. This year funds were raised to support a toy project for the SIREN/Eaton Shelter. Each year MMWG solicits  local and national companies for

Wood Data Base

Has this ever happened to you? You’re  in the lumber store and run across a beautiful plank of _ _ _ _ (you fill in the blank) It has a funny name that you have never heard before but the grain, color, texture and smell , it’s true, we do smell wood as part of [...]

“Custom Woodworking”, What does it mean?

Recently, I was working on a new header for my web site. Well, I don’t mean working on the site itself, my son Michael does the technical part. www.mikejuly.com . I was putting together a few ideas for him to incorporate into the new look and to make my web site more

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