2024 Golden Mallet Award

[rcarmac]

Once again it is time to nominate members for the Golden Mallet award. This annual award will be presented to the member(s) selected as the best representative of the spirit of NCWW, the friendliest and most helpful woodworking site on the internet.

Nominations should be posted to this thread (current board members excluded). The nomination period shall run from March 13 until March 31. Voting will run from April 1 to until April 14.

The award will be presented at the Annual Picnic on May 18th.

The Golden Mallet award is presented to the person that in the opinion of the membership "Most represents the goals and spirit of NCWW".
Rules:

Previous winners are not eligible.

• Current Board members are not eligible, i.e., (bowman, Dee2, Graywolf, Hmerkle, Mrfixit71, rcarmac, mpholway) .

Previous winners
2013 - Mike Davis
2014 - Bill Clemmons
2015 - b4man and Charlie
2016 - Ethan Poole
2017 - PhilS
2018 - Bruce Swanson
2019 - Skymaster
2020 - Berta and Richard (Graywolf)
2021 - Hank Merkle (Hmerkle) and Scott Miller (ScottM)
2022 - Neal Bowman
2023 – Mike (pop-pop)

The goal of www.ncwoodworker.net is to provide a welcoming atmosphere that fosters a unique sense of community for any North Carolina woodworker who wishes to either participate or lurk. The main aspects to meeting these goals are:

1. Guests and members surfing our site should feel that they are welcome and that participating in our site is a worthwhile and pleasant experience. We strive to maintain a polite and helpful tone in our posts, replies, and questions.
2. We seek to ensure that guests and members of their families are comfortable viewing site content.
3. Members may post threads, comments, replies, questions, and make suggestions without fear of abuse from other members or staff.
4. We wish to create an atmosphere that fosters attitudes about other members that are conducive to a desire to meet others in person and help each other both on the site and in person.

Please add your nominations to this thread.

 

[mdbuntyn]

I nominate @bob vaughan

 

[Mike Davis]

Oh, great choice!

 

[Wilsoncb]

I would like to nominate @creasman. He has many helpful posts with detailed instructions on “how to“ do a variety of woodworking projects. These posts are always high quality and include basic woodworking, fixtures and tools required to do the job.

 

[ScottM]

I would like to nominate Matt aka MDBUNTYN for his behind the scenes work as an Moderator/Admin on the forum.

 

[mpholway]

I would like to nominate Mike Mathews. He is always willing to help anyone who asks from tuning some equipment to helping out at events.

 

[Hmerkle]

I would like to nominate Mark Fogelman @Tarhead The tireless work he has done on the FB page should be lauded!

 

[rcarmac]

Bump

 

[Bas]

I would like to nominate Mark Fogelman @Tarhead The tireless work he has done on the FB page should be lauded!

I second that! It's been great to see how many of the people who joined the FB group have come over to the main NCWW site as well - all thanks to Mark's tireless work

 

[Oka]

Second that !

I nominate @bob vaughan

 

[Artisan Pirate]

I second and nominate Mike Mathews, hes awesome and a great teacher

 

[Artisan Pirate]

I'd also like to nominate if possible @Sam Knight
Sam encouraged me to join the NC Woodworkers Page in late in 2022 and after hearing all he had learned, I joined and have been posting regularly since, I Love this community that is separate from the major social media sites where like minded individuals can mingle and share knowledge and work.
Same also kindly traveled to my place in Burlington from his place in Roxboro to teach me the lightburn software so I could use my laser to its fullest potential and on another visit he taught me how to turn small bowls on the lathe as well as refine my lathe techniques.
Just wanted to throw Sam's name in the mix if I'm able to. he is truly one amazing Human and Friend

 

[rcarmac]

Nominations Close on Sunday. Please add your Nomination