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  1. Jim Finn
    I made this toy box for a friend/customer and inlaid maple into walnut for the name plate. Just another way to use a technique once you learn it. (Inlay)
  2. Jim Finn
    Very nice Inlay! The bells look great. Yes Maple will stand out a lot better in Cedar. I have given up on using walnut in cedar.
  3. Jim Finn
    I think the Black and Decker tool is a better tool than the Dremel. It has three speeds and at any speed it has the required power to sand or drill. The Dremel has to be run at top speed in order for it to have enough power to not bog down while sanding. The down side is: The Dremel does have replaceable brushes but the B&D does not.
  4. Jim Finn
    I have a 2 HP Grizzly dust collector with 2.5 micron bag filter and it lets dust through it so I put it outside my shop and build a small shelter for it. Quieter also. I still need to sweep the floor often. I have a, ceiling mounted, filter box that cleans the air quickly. You will find that a permanent duct system will cost as much as the dust collector does... or more.
  5. Jim Finn
    Update: I had glued the two pieces together in the larger size (6") with white glue and it failed. I took them apart and glued together again using Titebond liquid hide glue. Looking at the fish view you can see the glue points are very small so care must be taken to make sure the glue bond is strong.
  6. Jim Finn
    Hope you have better luck than I have had in consignment shops.
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  8. Jim Finn
    I like your price tags. I made some much simpler but not nearly as nice. I glued a printed price onto a 2" square of thin plywood and place them in front of the items for sale.
  9. Jim Finn
    I wish I had been told how very easy doing double bevel inlay is .I do a lot of it now. Also I wish I had listened when I was told how much to sand wood before applying finish.
  10. Jim Finn
    I have the Black and Decker rotary tool mounted in the Dremel drill press attachment and it works well.
  11. Jim Finn
    Our club has a fund raising raffle and sale each September where we usually raise about $1100. The guys make and donate items to be raffled. We also sell a few toys. This, plus our dues allows the club to purchase the wheels and dowels for axels. We have a source for free mahogany scraps to make most of the toys with. I and others scrounge free wood from the many, on going, construction sites here. We buy the wheels by the thousand from a place in Maine.
  12. Jim Finn
    Here is the pattern. Block dimentions included. You can size it to fit your scroll saw. (Three inches tall)
  13. Jim Finn
    Our wood working club makes and gives away 5000 toys a year to local children's hospitals and to The Salvation Army. These are some I have been working on this past week. Pine, Cedar & Mahogany
  14. Jim Finn
    A friend of mine that is 89 years old Has COPD. He smoked for 30+ years but has stopped for the past 30. He works with me a lot in my shop so he asked his doctor (for his COPD) if the sawdust may have caused his problem. His doctor told him: "You do not get COPD from sawdust" His words, not mine. He told him that there is plenty of general air polution out there to cause issues like his.
  15. Jim Finn
    I made these using my scroll saw and my band saw. It is patterned after a local similar piece that is made of metal and about nine feet tall. I have made a number of these using just my scroll saw that are three inches tall. These are six inches tall and made of Mahogany.
  16. Jim Finn
    I have tried hooking up my shop vac to draw off the dust and it works well but running a vac that long killed it. I killed two of them this way. I now use a fan to blow the dust away from me. Works well in the warm weather but not when it is cold in the shop. I do ware a mask then. I have a two horspower 220v dust collector also and it has plenty of volume but not enough velocity at the small size to work well for this.
  17. Jim Finn
    Nice job! Clean, uncluttered, look to it.
  18. Jim Finn
    I once sloped my scroll saw but found it not much of a help... to me. I sit at my Hegner on the Hegner stand (level) and this puts the blade at about chin height. I sit up streight this way and can cut for hours on end. Dust in the face is a problem but a fan blowing across the saw, fixes that. I have a ceiling fan directly over one of my saws and that works well also.
  19. Jim Finn
    That is why I went to Black & Decker
  20. Jim Finn
    Nice job. Fun to make. I once made a collapsable basket and enjoyed making it. It took me almost a year to sell it though. Folks show some interest but not enough to buy it, even for $10. They would make a nice gift I think, but do not sell well, in my experiance.
  21. Jim Finn
    I prefer the Black and Decker rotary tool. It has three speeds and is strong in all speeds. I find the Dremel too weak when not run at top speed. This B&D tool is available at Amazon for $28 and I have one mounted in the dremel drill press attachment. I have it set to about six deegrees angle for drilling start holes when doing my inlay work. Downside is that the B&D tool has non replacable brushes. But for $28 not a bad deal. I bought three.
  22. Jim Finn
    I agree. When cutting thick material on any saw, you need to feed at a snails pace or the blade will flex and give you a curved cut. Lots of blade tension also.
  23. Jim Finn
    Actually, Kevin, I have so many things on hand now (about 300) that I have stopped making more until I sell some. I am now making toys for our club give away to childrens hospitals. I have a sale in four weeks and then will start making replacement items for what I sell.
  24. Jim Finn
    The only way I have ever sold anything on line was through a chat room. I was just there chatting , not trying to sell and made a few sales. This was 5+ years ago. Selling wooden art projects requires a hands on , by the shopper, to work well. I now sell everything I make at local craft shows and festivals. I make and sell well over seven hundred and fifty items a year now for the last six years at these local sales.
  25. Jim Finn
    do a search for stained glass patterns. They will work well.
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