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Not real sure that can be done , I think you’ll have to upload it to a video hosting site. I use YouTube and upload them there. You have the option to hide the video from public viewing and only place a link to sites that you want to share it with.

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. My original thought was to do cherry for the main wood and do a walnut stripe and maybe even a bubinga stripe just kinda opposite of the coaster. But then I didn’t know what to do for the dowel. Maybe have to do the triangle idea.

I’m thinking you meant where did I get the pattern? If so then it’s from the scrollsawcafe site.. If you really meant why then I have to say that I’m not that good yet to just grab a blank ,start cutting, and come out with something this good. Some day I hope to get to that level, thinking that’s probably not in this life though since I’ve been cutting for 12 years and even the the stuff I’ve done multiple times still need a pattern

You just need to cut really fast so you don’t have time to lose your focus.

I made these coasters and have sort of just finished up with the coats of poly on them.. I intend to make a coaster holder.. kinda just thinking another square larger than the coasters are and using wood dowel rod sort of in the corners for the sides... BUT.. I have no idea what woods to use.. and not sure about the dowel rod wood types.. I think I have some 1/4" red oak and maple.. might actually be poplar now that i think about it.. anyway.. not too sure what other types of wood I can get dowel rod in.. and not sure what type of wood to use for the bottom of the holder.. I feel like doing the holder the same way as the coasters might make someone think there was another coaster there.. and.. so If I was to do it out of another type of wood.. what would I use and what dowel rod type of wood to use that wont really clash with what I have here... I did sort of think I could use a non- wood rod such as brass or another steel rod.. might look good with a solid Walnut base? Anyway, I'm looking for some ideas and thought I'd ask you all what your opinion is.. what would you do? whatever it is.. I made 10 coasters and thought I'd make two holders to split them up... BTW.. the wood used here is Walnut and the thin strip is Cherry.. the other is an exotic wood that I don't recall what it was.. wanna say it's bubinga ? Not sure that is spelled right...

Ray.. you just click the mouse over the area to be filled... It'll fill the whole area though unless there are boarder lines.. This is why we use it to see if a pattern has any floaters.. just click the pattern.. if there is an area that has a floater.. that area will not be filled.. because it has the boarder around it.. I'm thinking this is discussed in the pattern videos that Travis has put up... but that is a lot of videos to watch to catch the right one with this info in it.. I don't do enough pattern stuff yet to really know what I'm doing.. I've done patterns for several years... but not often enough to remember what I'm doing.. I'm slowly getting it on some things.. I just don't seem to do enough repetitive times to remember everything.. then many times I'm too busy to try so i ask here for a pattern... personally not my thing but yet I want to learn if that makes any sense.. much rather buy a pattern LOL..

I believe many of these car patterns are designed for a minimum of a size of 11 x 14.. I might even consider bigger than that.. the larger the pattern / cutting the larger those delicate pieces will be.. I did the duster one a few years ago and originally printed a sheet of paper size... no way to cut it that small... at least not back then.. I might could attempt it now that I have much more experience with delicate stuff.. LOL

This has been my thinking too... Not sure how it is these days.. but back in the day when my brother was looking to heat a garage where he was going to be doing automotive repairs.. the insurance companies refused to insure any type of wood heat source... he was quite bummed because he had already purchased the woodburner etc.. Wondering what you think about a pellet stove rather than a wood burner? I have one I heat my house with.. I like wood heat.. but don't like the mess that comes with it.. The pellet stove I have is fully sealed and the only part that gets hot enough to maybe burn you is the glass window and door assembly.. not so hot you can't touch it.. but hot enough you don't want you hand on it for very long though.. Has safety devices that if it gets too hot will shut down the auger motor.. I been contemplating buying a new one for my house and putting the one we been using for the last 20 years in the shop.. Not something I'd be running while not working... also contemplated if I block off a small section of the shop to work in the heated area.. a small electric shop heater.. Anyone have thoughts on either of those heaters.. No need for A/C for me and up here in the North the heat pumps aren't all that effective.. My son is a volunteer firefighter.. started at the age of 14 as a cadet for out local department..

My friend chose to use this design rather than the one that was made in my pattern request.. I'm still going to cut the one made for me in the request.. in fact it's already on the wood and drilled.. just need to get off my lazy butt and go cut it.. Not for a few days though with all the holiday things I've got going on and the errands I've gotta do today.. will be a little busy.. Oh took the picture of it setting on my drink coasters I made.. they are finally done.. dipped in the 50/50 BLO MS.. and then top coated with water based poly.. Made 10 of them... now need to make the holding tray for them..

Yes inkscape also has it.. but I've never seen anywhere that has a "wood look color"... When I do a custom order for a customer I do the wood looking bucket fill to show them a simulation of what it'd look like... as there are many folks that get confused with the black and white drawing and they cannot visualize what it is going to be.. so this is very helpful to me as a seller to email a simulation photo... normal colors work as well but I think the wood colors give a better simulation..

@octoolguy. I do this in gimp as it has some pre-loaded "wood colors" as to how I do it.. LOL that's a good one that I probably can't explain to well since I don't really know how I do it, LOL.. I just know there is a bucket fill too and then you click something that said pattern fill ( I think ) then it brings up the colors to choose from.. then click the area to be filled... I do this so automatically that I'm not exactly sure how I do it, LOL.. anyway.. I learn to do this when doing portrait patterns.. you fill there area and if you have any floaters.. they stay white so it helps you find those bad areas.. or.. it colors in areas that shouldn't be colored .. Not sure that made any sense but I tried.. I don't use these tool enough to know what I'm talking about..

Also most use black backers but it doesn't always need to be black.. here is a couple I've done in other than black colors..

I did a bucket fill with a light colored wood. This is how it should look when you're done... Cut out the black areas.. then put a backer board of your choice of colors..

Yep, It was Jerry.. I was one that didn't have any of that (wax paper? ) and used a trash bag.. as it was double the purpose.. I spread glue on one of my plastic trash bags and then do the process.. I figure I'm going to through out the trash bag anyway.. so.. why use an added thing to the landfill, LOL either way you do it.. it works great and is much faster when you have a lot of backers to glue up..

This is why I feel putting up walls and insulating the crap out of a small area is a smart idea.. because I'm not wasting $$ to heat / cool a whole building year round... It adds up quick to heat a whole shop.. and my shop could easily be condensed down to about a 12 x 20 or less area.. rather than heating a 24 x 32 lower level and a 14 x 32 upper level, LOL That's a lot of wasted energy to keep all that warm / cool.

Thank you, I had a wonderful day.. was a nice sunny Cold day and I was able to work packing orders in the house where it was warm... LOL first sunny day we've had in a while so that was nice..

Thanks John..

Well, my experience has been that.. about 95% of the ornaments I sell are a unique gift for someone.. maybe a guy thing here.. but I can't stand wrapping a gift... especially one that has no box.. and many of the ornaments are quite fragile.. so this box come filled with cotton.. which gives some padding.. which also helps for shipping them too.. so I feel it's all around good for me and the customer.. also a nice little box to just keep the ornament in during storage.. They come in cartons of 100 pcs.. I order in bulk and order 10 cartons every year... yeah I sell a lot of ornaments...

Yep... mines been cleaned about every week since I put it up.. I took a picture but never did get a post up about it... Thanks for showing this...

This is something I'm also looking into.. Not so much for the A/C but heat might be helpful.. I'm one that doesn't mind the cold until it gets below 25F in my shop... then i have to wear gloves and turn my LP little buddy heater on... So this topic I'm finding quite interesting.. My issue for heating is going to be.. 1) I have a upstairs and heat is known to rise.. and not really interested in putting doors up etc to block off the upstairs.. My other thought was to make a shop partition with walls etc.. and heat only a small area.. but then.. I don't really want to put a wall down the center of my shop.. as it makes it pretty cramped for doing work on cars on the sides... nothing I hate more is trying to do a brake job up against a wall... My shop is 24 x 32.. and I should have made the 32 the width instead of depth.. I always was backwards LOL...

Do agree JT... a little practice goes a long way... I've done a total of 4 double bevel cuts in my 12 ish years of sawing... so I need more practice on a tilted table... will also say.. really didn't need to practice on my flat table of the Excalibur.. only practice was getting the correct angle to fit the piece right before actually cutting the project.. I hope to do more inlay work this next year.. It was a fun project to do... Angling the drill is something I've known about.. but I never did it.. I just used the smallest drill bit I had that the blade would fit through.. then drilled the hole in a spot where it would be hard to see.. also saved some sawdust if I needed to mix with glue it for a filler if I needed it.. which I didn't need..

Something I use to do when I first started was.. If I got off the line.. I did everything I could to bring it right back on the line.. but after awhile of doing this I figured out that if I got off the line a bit.. just gradually move it back to the line.. makes it much less noticeable.. especially to those that may know the pattern design... You're doing good.. practice makes perfect... I've been sawing for 12 or so years... still practicing.. as I've never had a perfect cut yet, LOL... I've also been told i am my own worst critic, LOL... most important... just have fun with it..

Not the same one but ARPOP has this one on his blog You'll need to scroll down almost to the bottom of the page http://fssp-arpop.blogspot.com/search/label/Signs%2FWord Art

This is where the Excalibur saws come in and shine... I've done the double bevel years ago on my DeWalt.. having that table tilted even as minimal as it was... throws you off and just weird feeling.. I did my latest piece on my Excalibur... It was soo much nicer to use in doing those bevel cuts.. One big reason I do hang onto the Excalibur...

Packaging this weekends sales today.. and while boxing up ornaments I thought maybe you all would like to see my method of boxing the ornaments.. I get these little clear top gift boxes from Papermart or.. Uline.. The sizing is just about perfect for a business card to fit into the box.. and I also buy little stickers that I stick n the sides to hold the top on during the shipping process.. One customer mentioned they wanted to do another purchase from me but had lost my business card.. when she was unpacking and putting up her tree.. she come across my ornament box that while torn to get open.. had the remnants of these little stickers with my web address on them.. so kinda serves two purposes I suppose.. We have a pretty cold morning today.. so since it's my birthday.. I'm staying inside and working on getting orders ready for the post office... This is ornaments I sold over the weekend.. Now I need to get these packaged in the boxes and mailing labels put on so i can move onto the 4 clocks and 2 Portraits I sold.. P.S. I've gotta reply to this message with the photos because they are on my phone and I'm on my PC at the moment.. So if you see this before I get the photos up.. they're on the way in just a minute, LOL