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Finished up the salt/pepper grinders over the weekend and did a little shop cleaning.

About a week ago my granddaughter wanted to do a project with me and she chose a fish as the topic. Late last week we picked out the wood and a fish design, I cut is out with my new Grizzly scroll saw, Thursday she painted it, her way, and this weekend I put it together and mounted it on a plaque for he. I thought the paint job was a little unusual but considering it came out of the mind of an 11 year old I think it came out pretty good.

What a fun project! And wonderful memories made too.

Dealing with Movers.....3-5 round trips a day in my Chevy Equinox, hauling car loads.....loading up boxes, totes, and large tools..oh my...back.

Movers have been paid up, awaiting the 2 trucks to show up......

Setting up the new shop? Maybe by Labor Day, I might have a work area set up...

Worked on cleaning up some of the brush I cut last week along the creek and finished digging out the popcorn tree I had gotten part way on last week . After cleanuo and cool off got to the shop . For some reason the A/C altho set at 81 had allowed temp to get to 88. Did some research and found suggestion to cut power and take batteries out of remote for 3 minutes. Will see if that worked tomorrow. This was at least the 3rd day it has done this.

So got the pantry drawers sanded and will paint tomorrow. Hope to seed the ditch I have been working on tomorrow. May get some rain by end of the week.

Well, had my first bandsaw blade break during a cut. 😲😬 Thankfully a thin blade that was well into the wood so nothing too dramatic...although definitely added some excitement to the afternoon. 😉 Got the original blade back on and finished the cuts.

Need to order some new blades. What are everyone's favorites? This is for my Rikon 3061 (10 inch).

I get these most of the time

https://www.timberwolfblades.com/

They sell them at Woodcraft.

My bandsaw uses a weird size so I need to get custom lengths.

I get mine local as I tend to damage a lot of blades. Not sure if they sell online but the name is Fersco Saws. Very reasonable prices.

Glueup day. Will see how it worked when we pop off the clamps tomorrow!

And he practiced etching stars.

43 minutes ago, BB1 said:

And he practiced etching stars

Lookin' Good!

3 hours ago, lew said:

Lookin' Good!

He's still looking into ways to make the stars a bit cleaner. I had chiseled the sides and that did help with guiding the Dremel up the sides before clearing the middle.

Edited July 31Jul 31 by BB1