Win A Fun and Comfortable Barefoot Woodworker T-Shirt!

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Win a Handmade Lady Bug Bowling Game!

Every Entrant will receive an Etsy Discount Code.  (one per entrant)

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Can't wait to win it?
You can buy your own now:  Lady Bug Bowling Set



These adorable little lady bugs are brightly hand painted.
Their wide eyes seem to know the ball is coming for them!

We happened upon our friendly wood sprites bowling with some of the loose items in our shop. I guess after a busy day of mischief , even these wee folk like to take a moment for some …well more fun. We noticed they had collected up some ladybugs to play with as well. So when they weren't looking we hand-painted these wooden pegs to look like lady bugs and freed the real ones. The Sprites happily played with these as they don't try to escape.

Now you can attract your own Wood Sprites with these adorable Lady Bugs to bring your home good luck and to keep the real ladybugs safe. Just don't knock on wood or you'll scare the Sprites away!

Play anywhere - or keep these cute guys on display to show your whimsical side.
Fun to play with - easy to set up again and again anywhere there is a flat surface.

Each wooden bowling pin (or skittle) measures approximately 3" and this set comes with a hand-dyed red wooden ball.

Items may vary slightly as they are all hand-painted. All are finished with a semi-gloss to protect the paint of the ladybugs from that mean ball.

Come see us and you can win!

Check us out at this event!  Take a picture of yourself at our table and post on Facebook and you could win a Barefoot Woodworker T-Shirt and/or a Tic Tac Toe Game!*

*For every 5 people who post we'll give away 1 T-shirt.
*For ever 10 people who post we'll give away a Tic Tac Toe game.

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Winning at the OC Fair Woodworking competition!

As we told you recently, The Barefoot Woodworker (Randy Mason) entered one of the beautiful Manzanita Jewelry Boxes.   Now for those who aren't local and part of the woodworking community, the woodworking competition is actually quite a prestigious one.  They open it up to everyone in the state of California and it has grown to be something that draws some of the best woodworkers to compete.  Barefoot was honored to be juried into the competition this year for his first attempt at an entry.

And we are so excited to report that, this past Thursday, this jewelry box was awarded a 2nd place Industry Award from Woodworker West magazine.

Congratulations to our very own Barefoot Woodworker on his well deserved win at the Orange County Fair.  We loved this jewelry box and we're ecstatic to hear that so many others did too!

A note from the winner himself: "While this compeitition made me very nervous (largest I've ever entered), and the results made me proud, I would say the biggest prize I won was being able to talk with the judges and learn from them their take on my work.  Hopefully next year I'll be able to learn from it and improve upon it. Fingers crossed" - Barefoot

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Islands at 2012 The Orange County Fair

This wonderful heart-shaped jewelry box was accepted into the Woodworking competition at the Orange County Fair this year (here in Southern California).

The OC Fair has a very prestigious reputation, so we are honored that this piece made it through the pre-jury and is currently on display.


If you are here in So Cal, please be sure to stop by the woodworking building to see Barefoot's entry.  It's easy to find right when you first walk in.

You'll also see a voting box to the right ...please take a minute to cast a vote for it to win a sort of People's Choice Award!

Win Big with the Bloggers Birthday Bash

The Barefoot Woodworker has joined up with some great bloggers to offer you wonderful prizes! 

(Moms Living Thrifty, Centsable Coupon Lady, Clair's Freebies, Good Steward Savers, Feisty FruGals and more) 

We've got lots of great prizes up for grabs, including a grand prize of $300 PayPal cash!

Yes, that's 3 BIG ONES to one lucky reader! What would you do with an extra $300 in your pocket?

Pay a bill or two, buy a few month's worth of gas, have a romantic night out with your spouse. go on a shopping spree or put it in savings.

Whatever you choose to do with it is up to you, but you have to win it first!

Oh, and what about the other $2000 in prizes we have to offer? Don't forget about those!

Please note that only the grand prize is open worldwide. All other prize packages are only available to U.S. entrants.

What else do we have in store for you? Well, let's see...

Win a $20 CPK Gift Card

First we'd like to congratulate our winner of the Tic Tac Toe game!

But we are ready to go on our next contest.  This will be a short one so hurry and get on board!


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Win a Prize!

Enter to win this adorable handmade Tic Tac Toe game! 

Choice of 1 dark (walnut) or light (beech) wood.

and yes I made it!

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While you are running around the internet to win our cool handmade swag, please take a moment to support small businesses at www.MissionSmallBusiness.com.  Each vote adds $5 to the grant pool so more small businesses can get some much needed funds.  And we'd really appreciate a vote for us (CUSTOM CLASSICS in Anaheim, CA) while you are at it!  Thanks from the Barefoot Woodworker.

Mission Small Business

You do it all to drive your business forward. Chase and LivingSocial want to help fuel that drive by awarding up to 12 individual grants of $250,000 to 12 small businesses. Submit your Mission: Small Business℠ application today! 

If you believe your small business is eligible and wish to apply for a Grant, you must do the following:

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• obtain at least 250 Votes; and

• be deemed eligible by the Sponsors.  

Then come back here and list your business in the comments below so we can vote for you too! 

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Vote for your favorite small businesses in your community. Consumers may vote an unlimited number of times but only once for each small business. Each business needs at least 250 votes to be considered for a $250,000 grant. Eligible small business applicants will then be judged by a panel of business experts. 

This grant is an amazing opportunity.

We are trying to garner votes for this endeavor.  This grant would allow us to complete ambitious projects that achieve three major goals: growth of our business, continued charitable presence in our local community, and becoming a woodworking educational presence (starting apprenticeship programs) in the online and local community. This would change our lives and the lives of others as well.    

Please consider voting for us.  Custom Classics in Anaheim, CA. 

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NO FEAR!

YEAH RIGHT!...try TERRIFIED!

Well I finally went and did it. I went and entered a contest. Many may not see this as a big deal - a lot of people enter contests, and I'm working on my Masters project so I'm supposed to be good, right?...uh huh

Let's back up 30 yrs ago when I started this....as a kid I was told don't bother it's not worth it...so I didn't - EVER , until now. Then I didn't just enter any old contest either. Not being one to ever go 1/2 way, I entered the LA County Fair. One of the largest county fairs in the country!

What a way to start huh?...all or nothing!....well I'm still telling all of you about it, so I didn't come in last place, lol.

What I entered was a hand plane...

Not just any old hand plane mind you...it was obviously hand made by me (contest rules after all) but it was also made for my masters project. It was 1/2 of a matched pair. A standard angle (the other is a low angle but otherwise the same) 22" smoothing plane. With Jatoba scales on the sides (the low angle uses Jara)and as the "body of the handle as well as accents on the forward knob. The main body is fiddle back maple and the sole is made of Lignum Vitali.




With the physical description out of the way....It's not just 1 plane...as a matched set they make a total of 10 hand planes! 5 per body. consisting of a European style smoothing plane, a European stile scraper plane, a pull style Japanese smoothing plane (remove the knob and handle),a pull style Japanese scraping plane (remove the knob and handle), and a shooting plane if i put both knobs onti the side if 1 plane. all of this made ergonomically to MY personal body style and size.

I have about 60 board feet of olive tree almost dry (just a few more months) just waiting for this plane to be done to begin, in earnest, the masters project.

So I had to get this plane done early in order to enter it as once its used its not eligible to enter into the fair and I can't wait another year....this project is already taking years! I can't purposely set it back by a full year.....Besides while I did not take the best of show....I would have had to wait a whole year more to tell all of you that ...




I DID win the BLUE RIBBON AND JURORS CHOICE!....not bad for a first try :)