THIS IS A CALL FOR RSVP FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE MEETING AT WILLARD BROTHERS EXOTIC WOOD LUMBERYARD IN TRENTON NJ, (((SATURDAY!!!)))) 02/21/2026. RESPOND IN THE COMMMENT SECTION SAYING: "SEE YOU THERE" if you are going. Info is HERE: https://phyredojo.com/events/ Regarding JANUARY's 1st ever Green Belt Workshop at Boards & Beams of Fairfield, NJ - I think it went much better and smoother than I thought it would. (Of course, I think everything is going to go wrong anyway.... but that is another matter...) I didn't think you guys would get some exotics, so that surprised me. I thought we would just get some basic woods like White Ash but I loved seeing that you guys are going ALL OUT! Also, I don't know if you saw it but this place is where I get IPE from. I forgot to show you where they have it on their shelves. They also have huge beams of Spruce and Eastern hemlock in their back yard outside. I've never had to REALLY explain the importance of individually identifying each piece. Glad you all experienced it in action and its practicality. You got a glimpse into my process for how, what and why PhyreDojo selects large boards and processing them for later processing. (i.e. My measuring bag of stuff.) BTW, I call these steps "RM1" Raw Materials (Gather, bring home and cut to a size that can be put away on a shelf until you can do...), "RM2" Ready Milled (Cut and process them down to the sized pieces necessary for finishing, which is...), "RM3" Reality Made (Finishing the pieces enough where they are ready for packaging into a PhyreBox or etc.) Willard Brothers of Trenton will be our 2nd RM1 process. In March, we will begin RM2 at PhyreDojo. You know I have 2 workshops, an outdoor garage workshop and an indoor basement workshop. I know we didn't go downstairs yet but that is because all major cutting and milling happens (will happen) in the outer workshop, and when those pieces are ready, they will be finished in the inner workshop downstairs. But you guys are beginning to see why no one has done anything like this before with PhyreKeeping. All the large equipment and materials inventory ALONE permanently take up a two car garage footprint of space.... and there is other larger finishing equipment and inventory materials taking up a full basement footprint of space... Who is stupid enough to take up this much space in a home? Phyre Dojo is.

Credit the idea to my friend Matthew Tait. I found a dry dead leaf of Cabbage Palm (Sabal palmetto) in Florida. I played Grandfather Stalking Wolf’s game and made a bow drill coal with it as fast as I could. Used my steel knife. Bow: random dead branch on the ground (I think Lyonia sp.) Cordage: my shoelace Spindle and fire board: Cabbage Palm leaf stalk Coal catcher: leaf of Saw Palmetto Lubricant for pressure hand brace: crushed green leaf Pressure Hand Brace: random slab of dead wood. Note how thin it can be if your bow drill wood is very soft.

So, PhyreDojo is getting ready for 2026's GreenBelt Workshops. DATE: (((SATURDAY))) JANUARY 01/17/2026 THE PATH TO (GB) GREEN BELT - MONTHLY TRAINING/THEME: WE ARE GOING TO VISIT AND PURCHASE OUR OWN RAW MATERIALS (RM1) AT https://www.woodboardsandbeams.com/hardwoods OF FAIRFIELD NJ, RETURN TO PHYREDOJO AND BEGIN PRIMARY MILLING. This is a call for those who are going to start participating in January to respond here so I have an idea of how many people to prepare for... RSVP at: https://www.skool.com/phyredojo

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