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I don't really know what the melting temp of the beeswax is.. but my wax was about all melted before I turned off the burner.. right about 130-140. so you'd be pretty safe probably shutting off the burner at 120.. the hot plate I think would retain the heat for a bit after shutting it down.. Many times I've turned it off well before the 150 and if I kept mixing it it'd melt down with the temp.. You can always turn it back on.. if needed..

I've only been in trouble with the wife two times about using the stove and oven.. first time was I had some wheels I just painted and I wanted to "bake" the paint.. oven seemed like a good idea.. however the smell in the house wasn't too pleasing.. this was back in my younger... maybe not so smart days.. and pretty newly married The second time wasn't all that long ago and she actually encouraged me to try it.. I made thermal modified lumber.. Took a 1 x 6 x 18 inch poplar board and put it in the oven on low heat ( around 200 - 250.. and left it in for a couple hours.. the poplar came out looking almost as dark as a lighter shade of Walnut.. works awesome.. just don't do the dumb thing i did and cut it to the exact size ... because who knew it'd shrink more in the oven, LOL I did get the pan at a garage sale that I use.. the cheese grader too.. and the thermometer is new but only specifically used for this.. That all said though.. it all washes off pretty good plus it is food grade mineral oil and natural beeswax so.. most likely not something that'd be harmful.. She has actually used her stove to make it for me during a real busy time a couple years ago.. so she better not say anything to me about making it myself... and yes.. I'd still say " okay sorry dear, yes dear... LOL

Baby oil is nothing more than mineral oil..with the signature baby smell added... IF you like that smell.. As for selling the products with the scent added.. that would probably be a turn off to customers and some people are very sensitive to some smell.. The pellet beeswax seemed to melt much faster than the block type I had been using... The wax does have a nice smell to it.. This wax has a yellow tint to it and the mix is sort of yellow colored.. I'm wondering what effect this might have on my projects.. as the block wax was a clear color and didn't have as nice a smell to it..but it's all I've used in the past.. This stuff last quite a long time.. that block I bought was a 5lb block that i bought maybe 5-6 years ago.. I normally make this about 2-3 times a year now.. when i first started was only about once a year or close to that.. I'll try to do another short video on how I apply it and the process of heating it to melt into the wood pores etc.. also the next video will show the consistency of the wax mix after it sets up..

I made this video today to demonstrate how I make my finish since I get asked quite often how I make it.. This should give a good idea.. Now excuse the poor quality video.. first video I've done and I was trying to do everything with one hand.. LOL https://www.kevskrafts.com/post/511661656292/how-to-make-homemade-wood-finish-using

I didn't see that it was your birthday... I know that feature is on the side to see whose birthday it is.. but I rarely see it.. Anyway.. Happy birthday! Hope you have a great day..

I don't know how much truth in this.. but I read on another site ( laser cutting site ) that the 4 x 8 sheet stuff is made buy a different company and I wanna say it was a USA company that was trying to produce the same stuff and market it under the BB ply name... Guess they wanna get a piece of the pie too, LOL.. anyway.. whoever makes it.. it's not the same stuff as the 5x5 sheet.. from what I've been reading.. not as high quality etc..

I've never seen " real " Baltic Birch ply at the big box stores.. I know people claim they have it and maybe they do.. my local Lowes and like stores do not have it.. and many times people confuse BB plywood with regular plywood... and I'm betting that's what you have.. Even the specialty lumber store I get my BB ply from... depending on the worker pulling the stock for me, they many times get it confused with plain old plywood even though the order says BB ply and also says the oddball size.. because the real deal to my knowledge only comes in 5 x 5 foot squares.. Not 4 x ? which when you say 2 x 4.. that 4 ques me in that you have just birch plywood.. and not the real deal..

So you're saying you need a 10ft. wide flat screen tv hanging behind you running on a monkey peddling a bike that's running the generator, LOL.. On a more serious note.. inverters and batteries have come a long way.. whether that's practical for you is your choice.. I'm just saying people bring saws to do live displays.. the next best thing to that is.. video.. Just my opinion.. In those cases where one wants to "show" how it's made.. it's more practical to handle the light weight big screen TV's of today... and a battery pack than setting up a scroll saw where your attention is on scroll sawing than your customers.. Not to mention the mess the scroll saw might leave behind etc. after the show to clean up etc..

Is there no way at these shows to put up a video of you cutting the puzzles? I just wonder because this day and age with video technology and electronics etc.. seems like a screen with a video of cutting the puzzles out would be self explanatory.. I don't do shows so I don't know.. Maybe it's not possible.. I've read in the past about people bringing saws and setting up to do live demos etc.. While that's cool.. I don't find that as practical as video...

VERY TRUE... I think the photo of the saw might help a little.. but.. then.. many don't have any kind of idea what a scroll saw is a does anyway so even with the picture.. may not make a difference for some folks.. LOL

No I didn't I just glued them up and then also used screws.. I'll be packing them up maybe tomorrow and sending them on their way... they got a long way to go since they're headed to a wedding shop in Hong Kong of all places.. Not cheap shipping but they was willing to pay sooo.. LOL

You mean you didn't at least use the Pegas saw and help promote Pegas? LOL I think the new banner is a better way to go.. you should have used the Pegas saw though, LOL.. but probably more people relate to the DeWalt more..

Far from neat.. maybe a nice work area but very cluttered and dirty... you just can't see the rest of the shop, LOL

The only way to see what was wrong is to have seen and downloaded each pattern update he did.. then look at what he changed between them.. When he updates the error.. he deletes the old download page.. so you'd need to see each download / update.. I should follow him better than I do.. I get his daily email but then many times don't really read them.. while he puts out some great patterns.. most of them don't apply to what I try to make and do so a lot of times I just do a very quick glance at what the design is and delete.. I've got so many to do patterns I'll never get them cut.. then customer request and just keeping inventory now that business is getting busier.. If it's something you've already started cutting on and are worried about messing up because of a design flaw.. maybe send him a email to find out what the changes he made are..?

Well.. as of yesterday morning.. they're cut.. sanded, assembled and waiting to have a finish on them... Not the greatest picture since sun was blasting through the window I couldn't get a good angle and get them all in the photo, LOL

My wife likes Leopards.. so I made her this Leopard for our anniversary a few years ago.. wrote a little love note on the back. hangs in our bedroom.. Then also.. My mother passed away when I was like 10 years old from cancer.. and she collected owls.. anything owl she loved it.. so in memory of her I made these owls.. Before my daughter knew about my mothers liking owls she took a liking to them too.. so I've made these and they hang in our house as well.. The wolf picture is something I made for my daughters 4th grade class..to auction off as a fund raiser to take a class trip to Mackinac Island.. it was the last year the school was taking that trip due to cuts and funding for class trips and without the fund raisers they wasn't going to go.. fortunately they did raise enough to take the trip.. This was a while ago because my daughter is in the second year of college now, LOL

The bearing in the drive arm that connects the motor to the lower arm are sealed bearings.. That said mine the grease was either never there or.. dried up from sitting since 1998 until two years ago when i got it, LOL.. I'm not sure what happen but mine created a vibration and it ended up being the bearings in that piece of flat stock.. I took the big block off the end of the motor as that has a bearing in it too.. however it's a pressed fit bearing that is like a wheel bearing on a car sealed good sized bearing and seemed to spin smooth so i didn't mess with it on mine..

I haven't done anything to the saw but put the legs on it and park it in the parking spot.. then while cutting I notice the front cam lever was squeaking when I put tension or release tension.. so then realize the fine folks at Bushton never lubed the lube points on the saw.. so I started messing with things.. i did have to adjust the set screws in the blade clamps.. both top and bottom was not in far enough and bent the blade that came with the saw.. so I guess that was actually the first thing I did.. Then it was running pretty smooth but not as smooth as my other saws.. since I hadn't really done any kind of leg / foot adjustments I messed with those.. and something happen and made it worst.. so I need to look into it and recheck the feet on the bottom.. I had trouble getting to the back ones to get them tight.. the saw is against the wall and right next to a workbench on one side and the other Hawk right next to it.. so I have to crawl through a maze of saws to get back there to those back legs, LOL.. I just was done messing with it and needed to get my daily quota cut.. so moved to the other Hawk to finish up some work.. Will say that.. I'm just not as impressed with the company.. saw seems great so far.. but no lube on a new saw to a new customer.. If they don't want to lube the thing..they could at least send a sample can of the " special dry tool lube" that they recommend so one would know what to buy.. I had some stuff I bought for the other saws.. but it may be old and not working like it should because I used that and it helped for a few cuts then started squeaking again.. so then I just used a drop of 3 in one oil like is recommended for the old Hawks.. since my can of dry lube was about gone.. maybe it wasn't shook up good enough over the coarse of using it and they only thing left in the can was the liquid part of it, ? don't know.. will get another can though..

I've got 5 hours on the clock on the new Hawk.. it's cutting quite nicely.. BUT.. I have some more tuning and tweaking I want to do with it.. and this large order came up for those 10 crosses then slammed with 5 clock orders and several ornaments went out the door too.. so I ended up doing most of my cutting split up between the two saws that are tuned and ready to make dust.. Most of my 5 hours cutting was good on that new saw.. then I tried to make a adjustment to it.. and got it all messed up with some bad vibration in the speed range I wanted to cut.. so put the new Hawk on hold until I get a little more "play time" ..

I've seen that stuff when I was looking for a dry lube for my Hawk saw lubrication.. they recommend a dry lube but that is all they say.. so I never knew what exactly to use.. I found a similar product but made by P.B. I think my next trip to town I'll get a can of this since my other can is about gone.. I ended up liking the stuff so well I use it on about everything from door hinges, brake cables on bicycles to windows as you say.. LOL Amazing how much the stuff works.. I went through most of the can in one day, LOL

I do constantly look for "New" customers as only about 5% are return customers.. that said.. I think any business is constantly looking for new customers.. You can surely tell who is in it for business and who isn't when you look through websites.. well that statement is wrong.. as some don't know how to do it as a business.. My wife has a co-worker who's husband does etsy.. makes rustic looking signs and coat racks etc.. business was booming for them at first and he quit his decent paying day job to do etsy full time.. Now their shop is dead.. and he has had to pick up a part time job.. His issue IMO.. is they never did any advertising.. they never did anything to build a following.. they just list and the buyers came... What many people don't know about etsy is.. Etsy gives "NEW" shop owners a boost in searches to get them off their feet.. so naturally a new seller is going to get some boosted page views for the first year.. but as a seller you should be trying to build a customer base to "your shop" . build back links.. The links in my signature here... every time I post a message or reply.. that is a back link.. The more of those you get throughout the internet the better boosted your website gets... especially when someone clicks on those back links.. Some of the way googles search works to put a site near the top ( first pages of search results ) is popularity.. If people are using links to a page from another site that boost your page in search.. so basically.. every time I post here it's as if I'm building popularity to my web page ... This is why they say to do Blogs..social media, and pins on pintrest etc.. building backlinks and followers etc.. Anyway.. this co-workers husbands etsy site has fizzled out.. I told my wife to tell them to raise their prices 15% and take that money to advertise.. I've never seen a retail ( that's what etsy seller are if they are selling ) store whether online or brick and mortar not advertise.. yet small online business's such as artist and crafters are cheap and don't want to pay for advertisements.. You have a choice to ether pay for ads.. or sit at your computer all day and build back links and post on social sites all day long trying to get attention or to be seen by new people... Or you can do both paid ads and work the social pages etc. too.. if you have time for that.. Either way you must not just list and sell if you want to survive... I do paid ads in multipal places.. from right on etsys promoted listings to instagram and facebook ads.. Just one example.. I paid in one of these places $420 but sales directly from the ads resulted in $3200 in sales.. so basically I spent $420 so I could make $2780.. A lot of "new" seller will run a daily ad budget of $1 run it for a week and no sales so they say they aren't doing that again.. as it was a rip off.. Some times my ads might not get any result in a sale for a whole month.. but over the coarse of the year there are results.. people aren't patient enough to see results.. many don't know how to do business.. Brick and mortar stores pay big money to print fliers advertise on the radio and tv etc.. what makes a person selling crafts think they can succeed without taking a portion of their sales and pouring it back into placing ads is beyond me.. If you don't do it.. your sales are going to be about as good as a local craft show that doesn't advertise well.. Its like opening a brick and mortar store and never put a sign out saying what you are or sell, LOL people drive by and wonder what that building is.. LOL I honestly think people are wrong when saying that one cannot make a living at scroll sawing or crafts.. I think they just don't have the mindset of how selling crafts works in an ever changing world.. Not picking on anyone here and saying you don't know how to sell.. but the way many people buy these days is not the same as they did 10, 20, 30 years ago... where is everyone's attention at these days?? The buyers are out there still.. but where they are at has changed..and still changing..and will always be changing.. faster changing than ever before as technology grows... so one in the business needs to constantly roll with those changes or sales will be dropped and go out of business..

Not practical for where I live.. not many people want to drive out to the boonies to have a car detailed... I also live 1/2 mile off the main road on a gravel road.. I have all the equipment to do detailing.. well most of it anyway.. special high end carpet / seat shampoo machine etc.. but..as I said.. not real practical.. once they get to the main road after a detail.. it's need detailed again...

I can't tell you how many of those I went through in the business... well not exactly like the one shown.. I first started buying the air powered ones.. they are much nicer because of better speed control on certain contours of a car body.. if not careful that electric one will burn the paint right off a edge on a car LOL.. No need to ask how I learn that.. LOL.. Took a long time to get used to the electric ones.. they don't loose power on some heavy buffing like the air ones do.. and the air ones you can make then just barely spin.. Electric spins lowest I think was 750 or 1000 RPM ? anyway.. certainly take getting used to between the air and electric..

I've heard of this place before from somewhere.. but forgot about them.. I used to buy some thin stuff ( 1/16 ) from a seller on eBay years ago before I had a way to make my own.. But I don't even use the real thin stuff anymore.. Used to use it for bookmarks, pendants and keychains.. which reminds me.. I still have a brand new box full that I purchased about 8 years ago.. all exotics.. 1/16 thick..

I've never seen buffing wheels like that.. but then they wouldn't be too practical for the autobody world.. This is what I have.. and I just use the medium buffing compound that I would use on cars.. Since I have this stuff on hand.. it's what I use.. The wool pads are plenty good for this purpose.. since I not looking to make a mirror, lol https://www.ideaautorepair.com/product/6131/equipment-tools-hand-specialty-tools?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4qvlBRDiARIsAHme6osSFtd7AFwRaye8134M0oBEYr7Efw9wcGwkDPvOSd1OmZkGKJKdQXwaAicOEALw_wcB