courdorygirl

Thanks for the suggestion about goggles, friends! Unfortunately, I have to wear my Rx safety glasses or I can't see, and goggles won't seal around my regular glasses. Contacts are generally a no go between the Bell's Palsy and my severe allergies. (The last time I tried to put one in I ended up tearing it in half because my eyes were watering so bad I couldn't see what I was doing, ugh). As for the dust issue I was having before, I've since then moved my saw to a communal woodshop I share with some friends and we have an industrial vacuum system to deal with it, along with air filters and fans. Not long after my last post about scrolling indoors, the owner of the shop asked if I didn't mind moving my saw there so that he could cut some small pieces of foam and in return I could use the other equipment (including the cnc, although it currently down, waiting on some replacement parts :/). I'm very glad to be back and waiting impatiently for my wood to be delivered!

I ordered some face shields in the hopes that between them and my safety glasses it will keep the sawdust out of my bad eye. I stopped using my saw because I developed Bell's Palsy and the doc said absolutely no sawdust until I could blink normally again. Well, I'm there! I'm super anxious to cut more puzzles (I have invested in a small maker's market booth and need inventory) so I have some birch craft wood that should be in next week! Looking forward to checking out everyone else's projects! Oh yea, I also have a Twitch, where I stream occasionally. Username is the same. Gonna try to stream some from our workshop in the future. So, how has everyone else been?

I'd definitely buy that blue pair for $10 if you want to PM me. Edit: misread. Still interested!

What I do is search online for coloring book pages if whatever I'm looking for (farm or barnyard in this case). Then print it on heavy card stock. The blade will chew up printer paper, I speak from experience. Then I tape the pieces to my wood using a couple coats of packing tape to make the cutting easier. Once they are all cut, I either sand all the pieces smooth and put them in a baggy or I use a full page and my drill to cut a tray, depending on the age of the child I'' making for and their likelihood of losing pieces. Hope that helps!

Closest Menard's to me is a 4 hour drive, so that's rare. I've bought BB at Lowe's but had to sand it and it was flawed but it was cheap. I can buy already prepped BB at Michael's for a little more (and usually do). Get all my "stuff" at Lowe's because they have Olson spiral blades. We have a Harbor Freight I've visited once, it wa a joke.

Be glad you missed Windows 8, it was terrible. Basically, everything that was in your start bar is now in that windows icon at the bottom left of your screen now. I pin things I use regularly to my task bar (calculator, file explorer, OpenOffice and Firefox) just right click on the icon or on the program and click "pin to taskbar". If you need help finding a file just start typing what you're looking for into Cortana'a search bar. It will either give you the file location or an app that will work. Pretty user friendly once you get used to it.

That's awesome!

Hey Dick, sorry it took me so long to get back, I haven't been online much. I print my picture on photo paper then use 45m spray adhesive on th back side to stick it to my wood, then let it dry for 30 min or so before cutting. after 24 hours the glue is cured and won't come off. Hope that helps!

Even if you use other's family photos to make portraits, it falls under the works of art part of US copyright law.

Dick, I do mine quasi-freehand. I go ahead and paste my photo to the wood, then use a grid generator to make squares the size I want (usually one inch) then tape that to my wood (no wasted wood that way) the. I freehand the tabs and holes as I go.

It just means she logged you out and logged herself back in. A lot of Browsers (I use both Firef ox and Chrome and they both do this) keep you logged in even if you close the window.

click on the one that looks like a light switch, I just did it twice and it turned my task bar off then back on again.

1. Go to www.google.com the regular search box comes up 2. There is a small black camera at the end of the search bar. Click on it. 3. Choose either upload picture (saved on your computer) or paste url (a picture online you haven't saved to your computer, right click on the pic and click "view image", and in the new tab or window, copy and paste the urn at the top of the screen) 4. The picture should show in the search box now, click search.

Those are really nice! I have some cousins who ride high school and little britches rodeo that would love something like that

When I cut out puzzle pieces, I always drill on a near a point so that when I'm sanding, I can round the drill mark off. For patterns such as this, though, I think it comes down to preference since it's all waste material. Second question, about what to cut out first. It's a matter of personal preference, I think. I always start with the smallest pieces and work my way up because of the fiddly little adapters I use for spiral blades.