grandpuppies

very cool, nice work

I found that a cardboard box with an open side and a piece of foam taped to the back of the box can catch the pieces the mop insists of grabbing and trying to throw across the room when sanding the edges on the drill press. When I get the saw and drill press set up again, I'll take a picture or two so you can see what I mean.

Laguna bandsaw all the way!!!

Joe, Thank you so much!

I couldn't find the horse in Steve Good's pattern catalog. Could you point me to it? I have a niece that would totally love it. Thanks.

Just to clarify the flat boxes the puzzles are displayed in such a way that customers can handle the puzzles and feel the smoothness etc. they are only sealed when sold.

I display puzzles in flat boxes with fiber padding on the bottom and clear lids. I have stickers with business name and logo I use to seal edges of boxes when I sell them and am put them in bags for customers or otherwise giving them to customers.

Open cardboard boxes of different sizes and shapes will solve a multitude of problems. For instance, I have a sanding mop I run on my table top drill press. It would frequently grab the small piece I was sanding and throw it who knows where. I taped a cardboard box big enough to cover the back of the drill press and if a piece was grabbed it went directly into the box rather than across the shop never to be found again for months. I always would take the things I wanted to spray paint out side and put them in a cardboard box to paint them. No fumes, over spray didn't get on any thing I cared about and a new box when things got too muck up. Just a thought.

I have that saw. I love it.

Fox Chapel has a book Wooden Banks You Can Make by Harvey E. Helm with ready to use patterns and instructions for 32 banks available for I think $15.

Still says unavailable.

Congrats !!!!

Three books with good patterns, two currently available from Fox Chapel - one Colorful Toys by Dmitry Bogomazov for 7.99 (not strickly puzzles); Baby Animals by Judy and David Peterson (their patterns and puzzles are excellent look good and hang together extremely well); and Adorable Animal Family Puzzles in Wood by Jaeheon Yun available from Amazon for 12.99. The animal family puzzles would keep a child with a good imagination busy for hours with all kind os stories about the particular families' adventures. I'm not a sales person for these books just a puzzle maker who loves making puzzles of real and fantasy animals. As the kids grow older the books by the Pertersons can lend quite well to years of puzzles if you get hooked There is another book I would suggest for for kid's presents Wooden Banks you can make by Harvey Helm available from Fox Chapel for 14.95.

Painters tape, white glue, let it dry over night, no problems, easy removal. Occasionally if there is a real narrow space between cut areas it may want to lift but a small piece of scotch tape holds well. I always am at least a day ahead or more of what I want to cut. Sometimes when I am getting tired at the saw I'll stop and spend a while setting up my next cuts. I have finally learned to stop a project when I'm getting tired. I use to push it but I finally put it together that that was why I'd run into trouble.

I love sailboats and sailboat racing, but the foiling boats bear little resemblance to sailboats and are really not feasable for ordinary people. I like to race and did for many years in San Francisco bay. And when there was a womens team in the race for challenger it was really exciting. But the new generation of boats and equiptment has taken something away from the sport.