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Very nice work Jim... I love to make boxes.. but somehow got trapped into always doing fretwork.. I don't some bandsaw boxes a couple years ago.. My issue is storage.. Boxes take a lot of space up compared to clocks and ornaments etc.. though they do seem to sell quite well..

They used to call with this scare tactic.. guess the news got around on that one so now they're trying a different way..

I just put the pattern in the pattern section if you want to use it.. It's a sloppy pattern but if you can get past that have at it.. Please share your cutting photo here if you cut it.. If i see others cutting my patterns it might inspire me to post more of them, LOL

These were real popular years ago.. was going through inventory and ran across them.. Use to sell them on my website but then when I shut the site down they never made it to any of the other sites.. Guess I better get them up for grabs again.. Amazing how many projects I've made that either never made it to the websites or I move websites around and never get them all back online... Anywaythese was one of my favorite to make.. and sell.. somehow they got lost with my A.D.D. Pink for girls and blue for boy... also did green for neutral not pictured These are cut from 1/4" BB ply and I used a foam sheet backer and then screwed small screws in to hold the sawtooth hanger..

I've been using them for about 3 years now.. last year they ran a bad batch and I ended up with 5 gross of the bad ones... I used 3 of the 5 gross anyway.. but that last 2 gross was basically unusable whatsoever.. About 13 years of Flying Dutchman blades before that.. and yes. ran into bad batches of those before too.. so it happens.. You must have lucked out on not ordering / needing blades during that bad batch last year.. Was a lot of complaints on the FB groups about those blades, LOL

Just wanted to clarify that I emailed Bear Wood where I bought the blades.. with my order number and the amount of blades I had ordered with them.. They replied back saying they was going to ask the higher ups about the issue and get back to me.. Later that day.. they messaged back and said there was a few blades that Pegas tried to redesign or something and that they had some issues with.. and said they would be sending out replacements right away.. The replacement blades came directly from Grobet.. not from BW.. Must faster than the other orders I've gotten from BW.. probably because they were sent from within the USA.. and not Canada.. BTW, Been sawing all day today so far with those #5's.. no broken blades.. Yay, LOL Also the new blades seem to be much sharper blades than the ones with the notch.. Now.. not all the notched ones were as bad as those I got from BW.. The 3-4 gross I got from DnD with the notch.. I did have breakage issues from time to time.. and they were sharper than these others I got from BW.. some of these from BW didn't even have the last couple of teeth on the cut stroke pointed.. it was just a square shape rather than a pointed tooth..

I'm assuming that is $5000 a year of Marine Items? Or is that total hobby income..

Mine came direct from Grobet instead of Bear Wood.. Guessing that is why they came so fast..

The replacement blades showed up in my mail box today.. Yay.. now it's been almost a year since I've had "Good" #5 blades... might have to run to the shop and give the good ones a try again... Been using those bad blades so long that the good ones will probably mess me up, LOL

I made a post several years back on all the bearing sizes etc one needs to replace all the bearings... That said though... I didn't give the bearing sizes for the actual motor... I never had a need to replace those..

Always loved going to the Engine shows... Those old hit and miss motors purring... The local show here always has a person running a ice cream maker off a hit and miss motor... best ice cream ever.. LOL

He's got quite a nice web page showing other works he's made http://www.kencowellstudio.com/Gallery/Gallery.php?cat=Furniture

In my area... collecting wood could be a full time job going around getting all the free lumber.. then you'd not have time to make something with it, LOL

Ouch, looks painful.. Keep a close eye on that.. as the others said specifically burns are bad for getting infection.. Praying for a quick full recovery.. After seeing that.. I think if I ever use CA glue I'll get a hazmat suit, LOL

Me Too but you got me by a few years.. I've only been married 26 years well

I'm thinking about buying a cheapy press from HF or somewhere so I can still have one to use when I take mine apart..

Yeah, mine is 24 x 32 and I'm sure happy I spent a little more for that style roof because the loft is 14 x 32.. plus I put flooring behind the trusses where the wall would be and I store my totes with finished scroll work in them.. plenty of overhead storage for lumber etc.. actually the loft is a workout room and mancave so to speak with fridge, microwave TV etc.. weights and stationary bike etc etc etc..

I've been looking at those portable saws for a few years now.. I don't do any work that really requires a high end saw.. in fact. the only thing I use my table saw for is splitting up my plywood to the size I need.. I just have a very cheap Tradesman table saw that I bought before I even got into woodworking.. I needed a power saw for a home remodel job I was doing.. the table saw was on sale for $59 and came with a stand.. I bought a dust bag thing from HF and added it.. Technically I probably could get by without the table saw and just dig out my handheld circular saw.. My table saw started smoking two years ago and I finally broke down and took it apart to find a bad bearing in the gearbox.. Parts were Obsolete for the gearbox but I pressed the old bearing out and went to the local bearing supply shop got a match and it's lasted me another couple years so far.. LOL It's nice to have the thing at times.. even though i could get by without it.. I've grown used to using it that when it was broke for a few weeks with that bearing I found it to be a pain in the behind to dig out the handheld saw.. Not to change the subject again but Ray.. did you ever take the drill press apart and give it a going over?

What's the wife say about you going back to the EX .. This is why I almost always spell out Excalibur or I put Ex-21 LOL Those are beautiful Ray.. Great job with them.. Your gonna catch up to me on saw hours soon...

I've thought about selling at one time .. but the problem is and I've seen it and had it happen to me.. You buy some nice looking boards and by the time they arrive in the mail they are cupped twisted and grew knots in them, LOL... I feel like with all the dis-honest people too.. one that sells lumber is just asking for angry customers and or customers trying to pawn off their junk wood as being the wood you sent them but it's junk.. You'd almost have to keep records of the wood you sold with many photos for proof from those that are dis honest and it really seems as though it could be more hassle than it''d be worth..

You sound like me too... and that is why I try my best to stay away from the two local mills.. LOL.. I end up bringing a truck load their scraps home..

I thought so too when I first built it.. now it's so full of stuff there is hardly room to turn around in there... LOL Mostly just needs finished and some shelving put up etc.. and organized.. even as un organized as it is... I know exactly where everything is.. until my wife and kids go moving stuff

Me Too.. My uncle lives right behind me and owns a excavating business and a hobby sawmill.. he's retired now from the excavating but still owns the all the equipment.. anyway.. I think maybe he just switch careers because that hobby mill is running an awful lot, Got some real nice slabs of Walnut yesterday.. live edge stuff etc.. he was just gonna burn it, LOL.. and my brother has been in the mill business since 1975.. he is just 5 mile up the road.. He just gives me cut-offs etc.. which turns out pretty good.. I give him all my planer sawdust.. right now sawdust prices are way up there and he has a hard time not just grinding up his logs into sawdust, LOL

This came up on my FB Memories this morning so I thought I'd show you the inside of my shop.. In the background of some of the pictures you can see my other shop too.. There is two things today that I have to say about this shop... Boy did it fill up fast.. and I should have built a bigger shop, LOL That lean too on the one side there is just a porch.. I've really been considering adding one to the other side to expand my wood shop over to there to free up that one bay.. I originally built this for wood shop only and using the other shop to work on cars etc.. But in putting up this shop they accidentally cut the power line to the old shop.. and the old shop is in rough shape.. so I wasn't going to hook the power back up since the complete electrical was not close to being up to code etc.. probably a good thing it got cut off because the wiring was really old and in rough shape.. probably would of burnt the place down anyway, LOL The dog in that one photo is making sure we was doing everything correctly and in the other photo he is guarding the contents.. ( sand floor ) LOL

Me Too.. They've always been real good to me and get my products typically 2-3 days.. BW took 2 weeks just to process my order and get it in the mail and another 1+ in the mail system... Maybe because I caught them at Christmas time.. but DnD was quick.. Also love the small drill bits that DnD sells.. they come in plastic tubes with a cap.. just like some of the blade storage tubes.. but mini ones LOL