23 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 

My dad was a Maine native, as such he used to enjoy a comedy duo called Bert and I in the 1980's, in spite of neither of them being Mainers.

One of their stories was "The Silent Chainsaw"

 

Now that I'm older and wiser, I can admit that I didn't understand the joke as an 8 year old  

@JWD I used to tell that joke to my kids at school (high school age). Thanks for the memory!

Just now, lew said:

@JWD I used to tell that joke to my kids at school (high school age). Thanks for the memory!

 

I imagine that joke is both as old as chainsaws themselves and used everywhere chainsaws are used.  It's an excellent one!

 

I will say that for non-Mainers, those guys hit that accents really well, even though they are a little exaggerated compared to what you tend to hear.  They sound about like maybe 5-10% of the Mainers I knew (but I didn't live on the coast either, maybe more down there).

15 hours ago, JWD said:

That's looking really good!

I would show my girlfriend your work (she's Japanese American) but she would then want me to start doing the same!

 

Come to think of it, all one has to do is look at the floor of my shop to see that I could never do that level of work!  

Actually it isn’t all that hard.
The trickiest part by far is doing the frames.  I gave up on doing that by hand because if you don’t get the spacing exactly right it throws everything off.
So I made a table saw sled that is similar to a box joint jig that I use to index the joints for the frames.  I am working on another one to do diamond and hexagon patterns but that is for the future.

The angles for all the pieces are cut by chisel on an angle jig. Those are pretty easy to make and I will post the process when I make my next set of them for 30º and 60º.
These are 22.5º, 45º, and 67.5º 

Once you are set up with your jigs, just grab some scrap and mill it to size, I am currently doing 1/2”, on the planer.  Then I cut it slightly proud of 1/8” on the bandsaw, but a lot of people use some version of a thin rip jig on the table saw.  Then the final step is using a planing jig to cut the material to 1/8”. I prefer to do it this way because a plane leaves a nicer surface than the table saw does.

After that, it is just a matter of making frames and fitting the pattern pieces which I actually find very relaxing.  Lately I have been wandering out to the shop after dinner, throwing on some chill music and working on these.