ACW Hat Winners

Congrats!

Congrats once again, to the winners of the LJ Summer Woodworking Contest.

It was great to see the level of projects submitted and the participation in voting on the projects.

Since LJ is where I started blogging and still my favorite site, I wanted to support the community and Martin for all of his hard work by donating some ACW baseball hats to be given away.

It's in the mail...

These hats went to 3 lucky winners drawn from the pool of participating voters. The winners were Cool Davion, ChefMegan, and HolzundGeschichte41.

I have been in contact with all of them and the hats have all been shipped out over the last couple of days. Soon they will be sporting official American Craftsman Workshop baseball caps.

I am excited for them to receive the hats, they are among the very first people ever to receive these as I have not publicly released them yet. I have some things to work out with a supplier and site page for sales so I have a limited quantity as of yet. I am anxious for feedback from them on the style and quality as well.

This is just one way I plan to help encourage and excite the woodworking community.

I better get back to the shop, clients are wanting their projects:)

Your friend in the shop,

Todd A. Clippinger

Peace, Love, & Woodworking

Vote At LJ & Win An ACW Hat

Cast Your Vote!

It’s time to cast your vote in the 2010 LJ Summer Woodworking Contest. There are 77 great expressions of LumberJock creativity to choose from and you can pick your top 5. The theme was “Fluidity” and there are some great interpretations of this in the wood medium.

Voting ends Aug 7, 2010 at 3pm CDT. Martin will be announcing winners on Aug 8th for the woodworking entries.

You Can Win Just For Voting!

The woodworkers with the most votes are not the only ones that will win prizes.

To help support the LJ community and Martin for all of his hard work, I am donating 3 hats from the American Craftsman Workshop as prizes to the participating voters.

LumberJocks are seeing these first as they have yet to be released even here at my own site. I am offering these up as prizes at LJ first because I still consider it my home for sharing with woodworkers.

Simply casting your vote on the projects enters your name into the drawing to win one of the American Craftsman Workshop hats! You could be one of the first to be sporting the new American Craftsman Workshop baseball caps.

Names will be drawn from the pool of voters and announced after the voting has closed.

Sportin' American Craftsman Quality

In an effort to encourage woodworkers to do their best, I had to pick a nice hat (I have a reputation at stake here.) These are high-quality baseball caps with a low profile. They have an adjustable strap as a “one size fits most” so they will fit everyone without a problem.

So be sure to vote for your favorite top 5 entries and automatically be entered to win! After Martin announces the winners I will be contacting them by private message to get the vital shipping information.

Here are some images of the hats you can win, there are 4 colors to choose from. Click on each image to enlarge for better detail.

 

That is all for now…so go over to LumberJocks to vote on the entries and get a chance to win an ACW hat for yourself!

Your friend in the shop,
Todd A. Clippinger

Share the Love~Share the Knowledge:)

Coming Around...

A Dilemma

OK, so this year I went from famine to feast. Between cramming too many jobs together (even though they were "smaller") and due to events that were out of my control, my schedule turned into a train wreck. 

While I was pondering the solution to my dilemma, a job offer fell into my lap. This job was appealing for reasons that many take for granted - controlled work hours. 

I have other ambitions than just remodeling, I have a lot to offer the woodworkers and I am putting some things together. I could work on these things when work was slow, but as I got in over my head with remodel work I had ZERO time to develop my ideas. 

The Solution

The solution was to get help or take the job. I took the job. I am afraid that if I got help, I would just take on more work anyway and not use it to my advantage to get my hours under control. 

I see my schedule loosening up and I will get back to blog entries with information that woodworkers crave. Until then you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter.

Don't Be Hatin'!

Now, I know that many of you don't like the social sites like FB and Twitter, but they have become very important for me lately. They have become the means by which I have been able to feed my need to share. The things that I post may change your mind about Facebook and Twitter. In my case, Twitter is cross-linked to FB and so what you see there came from Twitter anyway.

I am sharing mostly from my phone and I am sharing a lot of snapshots from jobsites and the shop. The entries are little snippets of real life from a real pro in the field and in the shop.

For a sample of the images and information that you will see, visit my Twitpic album.  I am posting images DAILY!

I also figured out how to record and post video from my phone so you will see videos occasionally. You can check one of them out at YFrog. Videos are from my phone and only 1 minute or less in length but are fun to grab tidbits of info from.

So thanks for hanging in there. I will get back to more substantial entries, editing unfinished video, and updating you on some projects that I kept. Having a job means TIME for the woodworkers.

Your Friend in the Shop,

Todd A. Clippinger

Trying to Share the Love & Share the Knowledge