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It's been a busy couple of nights in the shop. This is my first time cutting the beagle pattern. I'm really liking it. Will start stocking up on other breeds of dogs also. Thanks for looking Jim

I have already made layered bee project (it was ornament style), but this time I wanted to make more realistic pattern Video of making Bee project Bee pattern

I decided to try a portrait. So I found Steve Good's "Easy Elvis" and cut it yesterday. It's going up for sale at The Rustic Barn so I just stuck it in a cheap frame. It's 1/4" BB ply done with a Pegas MG #3 and finished with spray lacquer.

Did this one today

Finally I can give some advise back to you all, when stealing the wife's makes up brushes for cleaning the saw, don't steal the £30 contour brush it works great but wow was she mad lol

Well all is well but lots of meds to take now.i had no idea what was wrong but the pain was excruciating to say the least. Do I drove to the hospital knowing something big was going on,never thought it was a stroke.i had to rotate my shoulders as much as I could just to endure the pain while driving to the hospital.They put a stent in my heart via a vein in my thigh in minutes once the x-ray or ultra sound came back.BUT the good thing is I was surrounded with females all the time I was in the hospital. I didn't,take names as I,m behind already making names. About a week before this happened I slowed down to just about a stop scrolling. Yep the heart attack was building up.no damage that they know of! Glad to be back!!! Thanks for all the well wishing friends .God never left me!!!! The pharmacist got his name when I fill my meds. Can,t keep a scroller down long!!! He,s vietnames. The font is rage.

Finished cutting this yesterday. Think I’ll frame this one. Charles did a good job creating this one for sure. Any opinions on what stain to use?

Women aren't always forgiving when you find another purpose for some of their things. I once used my wife's favorite bread knife to cut sod around the contour of our walkway. Walkway looked great and so did the "new" bread knife I was so happy to purchase.

Kenny Hopkins pattern cut on 1/8" BBPLY (stack cut 2) FD #1 blades. (Flat & Spiral)

It hurt to do this one as I am a charger's fan. It is a very bad picture from my very bad phone.

Will do tomorrow.

Rockytime, care to post a few pictures of how you have it mounted?

This is how It looks finished. I went with danish oil on the wood.

Kevin when you get back to cutting, cut this for your shop

What is yours is hers--BUT What is hers is HERS! Marriage lesson #1

I don't want to beat an old horse to death but here goes. I purchased a 5X mag light for my saw. Too strong. Put in on my metal lathe bench. Bought a 1.5X mag lamp on ebay foe $25, a very nice lamp for the price. Worked quite well but it kept my nose to close to the table. I bought this 3X lamp on Amazon for $50. Wow, perfect viewing distance for me. What is unique is the lens. The lens is plastic but the quality of the viewing is great! It is unusual due to it's shape. It is like not looking through a lamp because there is no distracting outside frame. The led's are mounted underneath and just ahead of the lens. The led's are 24 volt . It is a unique looking lamp but works beautifully just wearing my reading glasses.

Beautiful.....I like it a lot

Beautiful plaque Brent.

I figure if you plumbed a water heater through a pump, and had circulating how water in the lines and some car radiators, you don't need the fans. You could turn the pump on and off with a simple on the wall thermostat like in the house. With water circulating it is being cooled, when not circulating the hot water heater thermostat would stop heating the water and hold it ready just like it does now.

Yeppers, I messed that one up. The thermostat is a value, and the measurement of water temp I was referring to, typically opens around 180*F, allows the cooler radiator water to mix with the engine water. The temp gauge is usually about midway on the block (front to back) and runs the gauge on the dash. Mea culpa, one day I will get the brain and the fingers to work together well.

I bought a lamp and magnifier from Michael's. I couldn't get used to it. So I just wear cheaters. But I do like the look of that one. I might give it a try. Thanks for posting Les

That is beautiful!! I have the pattern to do, hope I can do as well as you did.

when the car gets hot.. they kick on to cool the car engine. Technically, since I just got back from PT and am feeling onery, the water gets hot, and the fan cools the water in the radiator, the thermostat measures the water temperature.

Thanks John! That's good to know...I'm taking this one to the flea market today and put it in my booth for sale. I might take the one of the boy fishing also, I posted it here a week or two ago.

Having lived in Minnesota for nearly 50 yrs of my life, I lived in many places heated with boilers and hot water radiators. I don't remember freezing to death and got a chuckle about needing to top off my antifreeze, even though 20-30 below temps were common. I went to several schools that were radiator heated. Once again, never froze if I wasn't seated next to the rad. Not a fan of hot water heat mostly due to the lack of vents, so adding air conditioning was a problem, but a properly maintained hot water system is different then what some have said here. Many people painted the radiators which reduced the efficiency and they can be insightly. I don't know if a hot water heater would work anywhere as well as an actual boiler.

Don't go this way if you live where temperatures can fall below freezing or your water in the system will need anti freeze added to it in case it's off when the temperatures do fall this low. The idea of heating directly or indirectly from electric power is an expensive way to heat too, unless a heat pump (reversible air conditioner) can be used. My shop has a 24K BTU window style heat pump mounted high and through the North wall of my shop. It keeps my shop above freezing and around 70 degrees whenever I'm working in there, but I live in North Carolina where heat pumps work quite efficiently, and not in the Great White North. No part of a heat pump system ever gets hot enough to ignite paper or wood, so it's very safe. With a good pleated air filter, it makes a good shop air cleaner too. When I lived in NY State, my shop was heated by an oil fired hot air furnace in a separate room from the shop, and I filtered the air going through it with good pleated filters. Charley

WOW!! I got the same reaction when I took my wife's emory boards to use,I had to go out and buy her 2 packs

Glad you found one that was 'easy'. You did a terrific job, now find one a tad more intricate. Marg

I bought an old house in NE years ago. It had hot water heat...in the winter the only way to really get warmed up was to sit on a radiator! A year or two later it was ripped put and replaced with a new gas forced air heater...much better!

Cheers Dan, she told me I can go and do beautiful carving now she has removed the saw blades lol guess am shopping for new makeup brushes lol

Just tell her how beautiful she is without make-up and get back to scrolling. Lol

it is my Second cross puzzle. The first cross was animal puzzle with the letter "JESUS" I would like to have a 12-piece cross that represents 12 apostles. After hearing some advice from my friends, I made 12 pieces and the completed puzzle made a cross in the form of Jesus. I have a choice of animals that enter the puzzle Not always, but I didn't want to put any animals on the cross. I think everybody has feelings about animals it is mine below Whales: Tolerance Turtle: Relaxation, Patience, Peace Elephants: mother's instinctive love ,great love for the family Tiger: Toughness Horse: Freedom Hippo: patience and toughness Puppy: loyalty and lovelyness(always enters all the puzzle) Dove: Peace Squirrel: Wisdom Bat: darkness I hope to put some massages into puzzle it might be batter than preety puzzles how to make youtube : https://youtu.be/1e6hzVhDdjI

I lived with radiators a lot of years, learned to hate them, seems no matter how hot the water is it just does not do much more than heat the immediate, and I mean immediate area. Even with tin foil on the wall behind it that was little help. But, a friend did that with several radiators (the old copper kind) daisy chained around his garage, that worked fairly well. Your mentioning radiator reminded me of his his set up.

Hi Jerrye I just opened my etsy shop if you want to buy ma patterns just look around Etsy shop and email me what you need I will tell you village price and paypal account on E-mail https://www.etsy.com/shop/Namunolie email address: twityyel@naver.com

Bill, if you have anybody near you that has the clamps,maybe they'd go along with letting your either borrow them for a trial or let you use their saw. There was no reason for me to replace my "perfectly good clamps" either but if everybody felt that way, we might all still be driving model T Fords. They did the job well too but there was always a better car coming along. The size difference alone is worth the change over. Much lighter too.

Les, it's never "beating a dead horse" when you post about a new product. If nobody ever let the word get out, we'd all still be using handheld fret saws. Just sayin.....

I finished up Santa's Truck by Steve Good this morning. Had to laugh when I saw Dan put the same thing up yesterday...mine was in the shop letting the backer paint dry before I glued it up! I used 1/4" Maple and 1/4" Birch ply painted red but put it on an Oak base. I veined it with a Pegas #5 and followed with a 2/0 spiral. Following the #5 it was better behaved...but still tried to get wild a couple of times...lol. This method may be my only use for spirals, for now. I took it up to Red Barn to put in my booth and the owner really liked it. When I signed the bottom of the base I dated it and wrote "#1 of 10"...lol. Maybe people will think it's a limited edition...limited by how many I want to make...lol And she wants me to design a tissue box for the store! Cool!

Thank you very much Spirithorse (Bob). The customer loves it. I'm sure your pattern was the clinched. Tony

Great looking work you do. I like the sign too!!!

There's a time for everything, Thank you Brent!!!

Some of the scrap I have been using,I have plenty more.The 3D Ornaments I have made an attempt in the past,{bad attempt}.I thought I would give them another try.Not to shabby.My Wife help me paint them.

fantastic work i like soft coloring good luck on your show

I envy that you work with your wife cololing is beautiful well done

Sounds like you may have a death wish

I appreciate the feedback and perspective, Ray. I know I'm swimming upstream on this one, given the nearly universally positive reviews these clamps have gotten. Like I said, I have little reason to replace perfectly good clamps, at the moment. But if/when I need to, I'll certainly give the Pegas replacements serious consideration.

You should post a link to this device. I know I have some issues and I'd wager there are others who are unhappy with their current light/magnifier. Maybe one of my kids will get me one for Christmas? Thanks for your review.

Haven’t posted for long time, but finished this bowl up last week.

OK I'll confuse the issue even more, I would use pegas Modified geometry #3 1/8 or 1/4 makes no difference in cutting IMO, stack cut two or three, they are all usable in my experience

I'd probably use 1/4" ply myself and stack 2, just because I think the 1/4 would make it pop a bit more than 1/8th. That's just personal preference though and it will look great either way. As far as blades go I'd probably use a FDUR #5 whether cutting 1/4 or 1/8th inch stacked.

I would stack 3 pcs of ply and use a #5 Olson match blades I never cut just one piece of ply you cut 3 pcs so you will have 2 good ones if you get 3 its a good thing but if you adre cutting only one piece I would use a #3 I verlly seldom use 1/8 ply unless i am cutting orniments then I stack4 to 6 pieces. IKE