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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

Actually considering scraping the table saw purchase and maybe getting the shop finished and heat installed. Depends on how sales go for the rest of the year

Determining what way to angle the table will depend on what direction you want to cut in.. As JT said.. play around with some scraps to get the corrected angles.. Another issue I've had with bevel inlay ( i've only done this a couple times so I'm limited on experience ) is the wood cupping before I got my project finished and glued.. so then the piece didn't want to fit too well.. so keep that in mind as you proceed.. Not sure if one was to seal up the wood would prevent the cupping or not.. When I did my last inlay.. I gave myself some thickness room with the intent to run the inlayed board through the planer afterwards if needed.. A drum sander would be a better fit for doing that... but I don't have one of those yet..LOL I'm kind of thinking with a 1/2 board and a number 5 blade would need to start your angle at about 3* for a test cut and adjust from there... but I could be wrong.. just an uneducated guess, LOL Like to see this once you get it done... even some progress photos would be cool.. Good luck and have fun with it..

I don't see one on their site for 19.99? This is the one I have.. I believe I paid 19.99 for it but the website doesn't show one at that price.. Maybe I got it on sale... either way.. I don't like it... it is usable and I recently had to use it while I was waiting to get the new brushes for my Bosh.. It does work.. but is very fast running and would be easy to damage anything very delicate... https://www.harborfreight.com/5-inch-random-orbital-palm-sander-93431.html I see they have another style now... This one appears to be a variable speed.. https://www.harborfreight.com/28-amp-5-in-random-orbital-palm-sander-63999.html

Not usually this busy this early in the season. Actually the whole year has been a little busier but not usually this busy until after Thanksgiving. Did 4 custom / personalized orders tonight and then this big order.. Got burned out on personalization so I removed the contact for custom order buttons from the website, at least until I get caught up.

Sorry to hear someone walked off with your sander... I bought a harbor freight orbital sander years ago and loved it... used the crap out of it.. then the dust bag finally just gave up.. I wanted to replace the bag but couldn't find anything.. sooo... I went and bought another sander.. figured the bag would be as much as a sander anyway.. and I could use both sanders for different jobs... anyway... long story short.. the sander had changed from what my first one was and the new one is way too aggressive and no variable speed... fastest running OS I've ever seen.. I couldn't use it for anything with my fragile pieces and even sanding blanks was a pain to hold onto the sander.. I wouldn't recommend buying it if its still the same as the newer one I have... I'd let you have mine but... but shipping would be half the cost of the one you can get from HF anyway... at least they are pretty good about returns and I'm not.. Anyway.. just an idea but maybe look on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace to see about getting a better one..

Today was actually the warmest day in my shop in at least a week and a half.. got up to 38F in there.. We've been in a cold spell for a couple weeks now I think.. but later this next week and into the following week looks to have some mid 40's... hoping to take advantage of that..

Glad you got it all taken care of... sounds like you shouldn't never have any more issues out of this part of the saw now.

When your account gets lock it means you've been really bad... and also means you're on Santas naughty list... so you get a bag of coal for Christmas... which in my mind isn't so bad because last I heard the price of coal was kind of high... I'd sell that stuff and buy some wood... I haven't had any issues.. however I have mine set to stay logged in... I only have to log in when the cookies get stale and they have to throw them out and get fresh cookies..

Almost all my tools I bought when I first started woodworking was refurbished.. my TV's we have are all refurbished.. so yeah I buy a lot of refurbished stuff too and never a problem.. the tools such as my planer ( ryobi ) still going strong and I put a lot of BFT through that thing...

I guess I didn't look at it that close... I didn't realize it was a refurb.. I did see the 90 day warranty.. and thought it was odd because I thought they had a 5 year on them..

6 years since I built my new shop.. I said the same thing.. not putting up finish the walls on the inside until I have everything set up the way I want it.. well... I still don't have it the way I want it and quite frankly.. I'm more confused about how I want it that I was in the beginning, LOL.. One thing I know I want.. is several power outlets in the ceiling... I put most of the outlets on the outer walls... and I don't like all these power cords running across the floor and tripping me up at times.. Not Cool to have it like that with saws.. But not totally sure hanging cords from the ceiling to the tools is going to be better or now.. then if you handle long boards.. they could get into the cords that way too..

I personally not a big fan of Delta as a company.. but that said. I thought this might be a decent deal. and these saws are so close to being a DeWalt than I imagine most of the main wear points are probably the same parts.. Anyway.. just thought you might be interested in this... seems like a decent deal.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Delta-Power-Tools-40-694-20-In-Variable-Speed-Scroll-Saw/123488881835?epid=2254908595&hash=item1cc082ccab:g:0zcAAOSwmT1b6-Ev:sc:FedExHomeDelivery!49021!US!-1:rk:55:pf:0

I just seen this and thought it's not a bad looking deal if it's really what they say it is.. Not sure but someone recently was talking about getting a new saw.. I personally not a big fan of Delta company but in reality it's the same thing as a DeWalt pretty much.. guessing most parts are interchangeable... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Delta-Power-Tools-40-694-20-In-Variable-Speed-Scroll-Saw/123488881835?epid=2254908595&hash=item1cc082ccab:g:0zcAAOSwmT1b6-Ev:sc:FedExHomeDelivery!49021!US!-1:rk:55:pf:0

Yeah I checked that place out back in 2007 when we stay there for a month.. Neat place for sure.. Also enjoyed the island we stayed at think it was Port Aranas.. Lots of fun when we go down there.. I enjoy seeing the old un-rusted cars.. up here in the north with all the salt they put on the roads to melt the ice and snow.. most everything rots away fairly quick

That's weird.. I thought you lived in IL? Did you move and I missed that.. I know I'm getting older.. and a little forgetful from time to time.. but I thought I had a few years before the senile set it...

Yeah, this issue with getting too many layers is that each layer does slow the sawing speed down.. and there is a fine line where you ask yourself.. is it worth lowing down a bit or cut another stack.. both take extra time... but you have to saw at a comfortable rate too.. I like cutting faster.. I find cutting several stacks going too slow and I tend to push too much on the wood.. which will burn through blades faster.. I typically cut 4 at a time.. in this case I needed 25 more and I'd have had to cut it a couple more times had I went my usual 4 at a time.. I figured it was worth a couple extra blades to get them all cut on this one set of 7x7 blanks.. and not have to set up sand and prep another stack for just a couple more ornament I would have needed..