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Wichman3

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  1. Goodbye Ladies and Gents. I've had all I can take without becoming abusive. Wichita Blundell
  2. I looked at your gallery pictures before I asked about the deep recesses in the jewelry boxes, hoping that you would respond to the thick (3/4 to 4/4) fretwork that I am doing with the "rose with a name" pieces. It is impractical (to say the least) to sand each coat of finish, so I will be giving up on using poly. It the current world of finishing, Lacquer is a catchall for a hard surface coating that may or may not contain; shellac, polyurethane, nitrocellulose acrylic, enamel, epoxy, and/or other ingredients and/or may require sanding between coats. I will probably switch to shellac as it does not require sanding between coats. My concern about shellac is it's tendency to change the color of the wood and having an amber color to begin with.
  3. So, Smallpatch; when you are finishing your scrollsaw jewelry boxes, how do you get the finish, evenly, in the bottom of the deep recesses?
  4. 3/4 ash, FD #3 Polar Blades throughout. Red food dye on the Rose, rattle can poly after staining. I'm having issues with the finish, the wood soaked up the poly fast. The picture is with 4 coats of poly and there were areas where I couldn't get enough spay on to get a good surface coat. Finishing fretwork has some unique problems, anyone care to chime in?
  5. YKYAWW when you catch this beast and think " I need to make a fillet board"
  6. Yes, that's the only reason I posted in this thread.
  7. Tree has not been slabbed up yet. Last word, about a week ago, was that they had used up their last blade and were waiting for new blades to get here.
  8. Here's a new ornament I just cut. I don't know what kind of wood this is (part of a few pieces given to me) I saved all the dropouts to make this a demonstration piece for the market this summer (quarter for scale):
  9. A friend of mine gave me a piece of this wood a couple of days ago 5 x 24 by 1/4 thick. I've tried to make some scroll saw designs in it and, ugh. It's real " grabby" on the scroll saw, to the point of breaking small details. The board has a split in it about 3 inches in, so I'm pretty limited in what I can do with it; but I will find something.
  10. Gandpad, you beat me by seconds. A tarp and a bed extender: https://www.harborfreight.com/truck-bed-extender-69650.html
  11. From the Blue Spruce Toolworks website; a coping saw takes pin end blades and a fret saw takes plain end blades.
  12. Y'all are just watching the wrong YouTube channels, search for woodworking women. You may not learn any new techniques but it'll be a real eye opener.
  13. In the next couple of days I'm going to paint the ends with latex paint, probably the mismixed bin at HD.
  14. ??? Is it not on their website or they can't/won't ship it to your store/house? What exactly are you looking for?
  15. So the trees are down, and I am sore. The trees came down without a hitch, power company and cable company were good. The sawyer reconsidered what I am doing with the wood and will be slabbing a LOT more of the tree, about 80% verses 10%. He wants to wait for warmer weather so the bandsaw mill gets proper lubrication (Our lows have been in the single digits for a couple of weeks), and I'm fine with that. I'll have to expand where I'll stack the slabs, but I have time. I kept a close eye on the smaller trees in the back, it's a good thing I did, one of the small elms has some tremendous burl; it should make a fantastic bowl blank. The boxelder had some great color, light purple or rose. While the boxelder isn't very large I just want scroll saw sized wood. The largest section of the big tree is too large to fit into the sawmill for live edge planks, I want to have the sawyer cut it into quartersawn pieces instead. There will be plenty left for live edge. some pictures:
  16. Jess, Do you know that you can order online from Home Depot and have them ship the items to the store for free. I've done this several times without any issues.
  17. Scheduled to come down Friday, I've had so many plans screwed up at the last minute over the years that I struggling with the nervousness. The new owners of the house next door (half lots, so not much room) are in the middle of replacing the roof (complete strip off and new OSB panels). There was considerable coordination that went into scheduling the tree coming down, power company, cable company, tree company (who did the coordinating) really can't change the date now
  18. My latest off the saw. Pattern by Steve Good, 5/16" hardwood, FD #1 polar blade, BLO finish, font on new word Z003. I'm learning to use Inkscape, that's how I changed the word, the next pattern I changed the color to red and added red dots (.035 diameter) to where I needed to drill pilot holes.
  19. Sigh, Yes, you can save money by buying in bulk. But are you realistically going to use 80,000 screws in the time you have left? The wife of the guy I bought my house from (they are/were friends of mine, 20+ yrs) did picture framing, she had bought things in bulk. One item that came with the house is three boxes of saw tooth hangers @ 1000 pieces per box, I'll never use all of them and I do use them. One of my goals is to only get enough supplies for a particular project (or for a season of scroll saw sales). When I pass (hopefully not for years and years) I don't want the kids to have to wade through piles of stuff that had value to me, but not to the casual viewer. So one of my goals is to go through the backlog of projects that had to be put on hold for one reason or another. Just my take on this, no disrespect or offense intended.
  20. The laser I used at work had an accessory that would allow it to cut a round object. This could, with much time and patience, be adapted to cut this style. That why I added "at this time". If this style suddenly went viral, it wouldn't be long until they were all over, but for now..... The issue is that the laser would have to be able to vary the z axis (depth) along with the x and y axis. Current enter level lasers don't have that ability. Just like doing the big panels, if a furniture store chain, saw the big panels (2' x 5') and wanted hundreds, it wouldn't be long until someone created a laser cutter capable of doing them, right now it's just not worth doing (no market), given a ready market to sell to, well, it wouldn't take long.
  21. Since I am a cheap old *astar* (I pinch the buffalo nickle till he poops then compost and sell the manure) These will be separate ornaments. The angled cuts give them a unique look which (at this time) cannot be duplicated with a laser. I started with this rather simple pattern to see how it looked, now I'll show them around and get opinions.
  22. This is an example of a single bevel cut, the first time I've ever tried this. The starter hole is drilled at the same angle that the cut is made and the piece is never rotated, the bottom of the piece is kept lined up with the bottom of the scroll saw table. This technique has to be cut with a spiral blade, a flat blade simply will not work. I normally do not use spiral blades, I just don't like them, but I am willing to experiment and try new stuff, so. Also, this cannot be done with a laser (for now). 25* bevel, 3/4 maple, 2/0 FD new spiral blades:
  23. Update: Cal, I have a metal detector and so far its indicates no metal, the sawyer warned me I'd buy the blade(s) if he hits metal. I have been drooling over a large format printer (hp 500, 24" wide printer rolls are 150' long, this would allow one piece patterns) at the local ReStore, $300. They dropped the price to $175 so I jumped on it. It needs two ink cartridges (now on order). Everything looks good except the ink. Fired up, loaded the paper, computer recognizes the printer. The printer came with three rolls of paper, This should be enough to print pattern for all the planks I expect to get out of the Elm tree. And that is plenty to see if this is a viable sideline. I think I have a handle on the whole process. Scroll saw attached to miter saw stand. check roller extensions tall enough for scroll saw. check printer able to generate one piece patterns. check I can buy 1 x 12 pine to do test cuts. check
  24. Hey Artie, how about an update? anything change? did you find a fix?
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