About a posting i just answered about tools seldom used and remembered these that were requested by my wife. First attempt segmented, turned and carved with angle grinder,. Oh and staged by SWMBOand flap wheel.

Second try also segmented ,turned etc. Think it looks better. Almost forgot their made from reclaimed wood from that remodel last year.

Those are amazing, Rusty!

I forgot about the little Dremel tool I have that was used to add details to a couple of turnings.

I've ruined one Dremel doing piercing on small bowls, replaced it with a craftsman, didn't last as long as the Dremel. time to replace that one

4 minutes ago, Rusty S said:

I've ruined one Dremel doing piercing on small bowls, replaced it with a craftsman, didn't last as long as the Dremel. time to replace that one

One of the guys in our turning club has tool, with the motor separate and interchangeable head units. It is really nice! Can't remember the name but he said he bought it at a woodturning show. A jeweler friend of mine had one with the motor that hung on a stand with a cable that connected to the hand unit.

Nice job with the limited tools. The Micromotor would be better for tight carving. The carver Lew is thinking about may be a Foredom which has a hanging motor and cable to handpiece, It can be used for heavy material removal and uses mostly 1/4 bits. Note there are other brands, I have a Wecher from Woodcraft.

Note for piercing adental tool is best . NSK is expensive but you can get one on eBay made in right angle for just over 20. Note it is air driven, Look up Captn Eddie video Piercing 101.

I have looked at the tools you suggested but i decided not to pursue any of them as I decided that type of project is going to move way down the favorite list, but you have to try to know

Every time I try this it gets me in trouble, thinking. Anyway Lew mentioned cutting the blanks for his 6 line bowls like he cuts his rolling pins, well that's all it took,

built this to fit my 12 in. miter saw,and it worked, so I go into the house and mention that I finally can cut these without profanity. So SWMBO calmly remarks that she thinks that they would be the perfect Christmas gift for each family, well in the interest of harmony I respond with of course I can do that . Not perfect but think they will work. Now to find the time to turn them. Hopefully before long this heat will break so I can get some things accomplished.

Well now you've gone and done it!!

Love that adjustable jig and you know I'm gonna have to try that. I found a big chunk of white oak the other day!!!

That's a pretty clever jig for that task.....good thinking.

Kind of forgot about needing a depth stop on your saw, fortunately mine has one. Go Harbour freight. FWIW this saw isn't a Makita,but with the exception of the dust collection, it does everything I need, thanks to my wife for a wonderful birthday gift.

The wheels are always turning.🤔

5 hours ago, Rusty S said:

forgot about needing a depth stop

Mine has one but because of the smaller diameter blade and the Irwin laser guide I added, I cannot get quite 3" cuts.

that's one of the reasons for the sheet stock base and the full 2" back rail, even on this saw I couldn't get the cuts right, keep thinking you'll come up with something, OBTW Harbor Freight sell this saw pretty reasonably and it's not a bad saw😁

OK. I sort of said that I would post something to help with a build so here goes.

This kind of shows the main dementions, the fence is 1.75 thick so I could get full depth of cut all the way through a2.75 thick blank without cutting all the way thru the blanks and having to line everything back up.

This is the space on hold down bolts. Real fancy 5/16 all thread with a wing nut double nutted ,length is somewhat important since it goes out the bottom and hits everything if too long, holes are counter bored and T nuts inserted from bottom.

Well I've about messed this up enough so will quite for now. Going to think on this for a while and see if i can come up with a better explanation. Hope you can get something out of this mess.

@Rusty S Hope you don't mind that I fixed some of the spacing.

Thanks for the additional images and explanation. This is going to be my next project!

MIND? Grateful is more like the right answer, thanks for bailing me out again. have i ever mentioned i hate computers.

3 hours ago, Rusty S said:

have i ever mentioned i hate computers.

You and me both!!!!!!!!!!

I spent yesterday, from 1pm until 8pm trying to get a failed installation of iTunes repaired to put TWO songs on my wife's iPod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone once told me that a wise man chooses his battles, guess where that leaves me

Finally got back to update this a little and realized i never stated what it was built out of, base is a left over 1/2" particle board shelf, the rest is construction pine. as shown jig will handle a 7" sq. blank, that's as big as my bandsaw will cut, parts holding adjuster bolts are direct threaded, drill holes a couple sizes smaller than bolt then simply screw bolt thru, done, also no wiggle in threads and as long as you don't get crazy trying to tighten I have not had any failures, if worried back bolt out and saturate the threads with thin CA allow to dry and rethread your bolt, Hope this helps a little any questions or suggestions for improvements are welcome and might be borrowed😁