The pattern includes number templates so you can customize for your favorite driver.
NASCAR is underway now and fans are ready for another exciting season. My wife has been a NASCAR fan for years. She grew up in a racing family. Her uncle was a NASCAR driver in the '50s and '60s. His name was Earl Balmer. She was/is a Jeff Gordon fan but now mostly pulls for Elliott. Chase if off to a decent start this season so she is happy. When she sees this post she will not be happy. I put the number 3 on the simulated car picture. She was not exactly an Earnhardt fan. :)
Earl Balmer
When the season starts my wife is busy most Saturdays and Sundays. Those days are reserved for racing. We go to the Kentucky race every year. We have also been to the Atlanta race. If she had her
way we would buy an RV and go to all the races. I enjoy racing but I am more of a casual fan to her fanatic fandom.
Wooden Nickel Giveaway Winner. $100 Gift Certificate from Bear Woods:
Click this link to see all the entries.
I have made the random drawing from all the entries and we have a winner of the $100 Bear Woods Gift Certificate. To enter the contest each entry had to include a picture of the Buffalo Nickel Pattern I published.
If you click the link above you can see all the entries. I have to tell you that these turned out great.
The Winner is
Justin Martin from Pennsylvania
Justin, I will be getting the gift certificate to you in a separate email. The email will come from Bear Woods so keep your eye open for it.
Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. I hope you enjoyed the project.
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Inlay with a 1" Forstner Bit.
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Racing to the Finish: My Story
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s only authorized book revealing the inside track on his final year of racing and retirement from the driver’s seat.
“Time was running out on my charade… My secrets were about to be exposed to the world.”
It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn’t know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He’d dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes, no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal, and lengthy.
When NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and happy life.
Torn between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine, but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday, struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again the following weekend. For the first time, he shares these notes and fully reveals the physical and emotional struggles he faced as he fought to close out his career on his own terms.
In this candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up about his frustration with the slow recovery, his admiration for the woman who stood by him through it all, and his determination to share his own experience so that others don’t have to suffer in silence. Steering his way to the final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.