November/December 2007 Archives - Woodworking | Blog | Videos | Plans | How To https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/magazine-issue/novemberdecember-2007/ America's Leading Woodworking Authority Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:56:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 Fort Snelling Turned Flagpole https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/fort-snelling-turned-flagpole/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:02:10 +0000 http://wwj-dev.windmilldesignworks.net/?p=5620 A very big flagpole for a very old fort.

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]]> Ship masting techniques, and the biggest lathe you ever saw, were used in the building of a new 85-foot flagpole at historic Fort Snelling inWoodworker’s Journal’s home state of Minnesota.

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We sent WJ staffers George Vondriska and editor in chief Rob Johnstone over to see what was going on at various stages of the process. Rob even shot some video of the process.

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From beginning to installation, the project took a little over 10 years – including the search for a couple of really big logs, since the flagpole was designed to be built in two sections like old-fashioned ship masts. Eventually, the builders used utility poles.

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Dan Gates, one of the woodworkers hired to build the pole, also had to build the lathe to turn it on.

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He, Mark Cutter and Charlie Nielsen completed the flag, then it was installed at the fort in time for the flag to fly on Memorial Day.

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]]> San Diego Fine Woodworkers’ Association 2007 Design in Wood Show Winners https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/2007-design-wood-show-winners/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:44:29 +0000 http://wwj-dev.windmilldesignworks.net/?p=5682 You saw some of the winners of the San Diego Fine Woodworker Association's 2007 Design in Wood show in the November/December issue of Woodworker's Journal magazine - and you can see more of them here.

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]]> You saw some of the winners of the San Diego Fine Woodworker Association’s 2007 Design in Wood show in the November/December issue of Woodworker’s Journal magazine – and you can see more of them here.

Among the prizes winning woodworkers receive at the show are subscriptions to Woodworker’s Journal.

(Photos courtesy of Andrew E. Patterson)

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