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Very nice work Dick!

I just received my very first dozen of FD spiral 2/0 blades so I have no comparison to decide if they are "bad" or not. They are wonderful compared to the Bosch blades I've been buying at Lowe's.

It's pretty pricey and I agree it would be a pain to use on wood as it's iron on transfer paper.

Hi Paul, and welcome! Lots of friendly, helpful folks here.

Awesome work as usual Gator! Now my hubby wants me to make him an MTG plaque.

I have at Etsy store too, but I'm not very good at keeping up with it, so it doesn't do great. I also have a Facebook business page that does really well (I just share it on my private Facebook as a public post and it went from there.) and I also sometimes post on yard sale sites.

Love it, you did an awesome job! The artwork on the rack is beautiful!

On my PC, once I'm done editing my favorite way of choosing my print size is through the print option in Windows photo viewer. For scaling, I either use Photoshop (not free) or Adobe Reader (free and included with most systems)

I don't stain, and you've already received great advice on that front so I'll answer the other question. if you're willing to wait and pay shipping, my favorite websites is woodworkerssource.com. If I'm in a pinch and need more wood yesterday, I go to Michael's craft wood section. Pretreated for sawing already (vs Lowe's or HD raw plywood) and cheaper than Woodcraft. Hope that helps!

It took me years to convince my mom (whom I usually share a booth with) to try a comic convention instead of craft fairs. I've never been shy about my opinion of craft fairs (the only people that go to craft fairs are crafters lol). We did the first one and she was hooked! At the last one we went to in May I didn't do great because I haven't been cutting much (bronchitis and sawdust don't mesh well of course) but she made around $600, and it was a small local con (about 2000 attendees, only one day.). I also like that conventions tend to have rules for vendors, such as no pyramid party type sales (avon, Tupperware, etc) and ideally your product should appeal to the target audience. The one we went to was general fandoms, so everything geeky did well, especially superheroes (my mom and I both crochet, she was selling beanies at that one, I had a few puzzles out and took some orders) If you have the time and money, definitely worth looking into, especially local conventions that are trying to get started (we paid $75 for two tables for one day and we wrapped at 4 pm)

when you go to Google search, at the end of the search bar it says "search by image" or something like. you click that and either upload your image or copy and paste the image link.

If it makes you feel better, I got it before even looking at this topic! I laughed!

Thanks for the breakfast, Larry! I'll add it to my cereal. Can finally keep food down, now a couple more days and hopefully I'll be back to creating sawdust.

Thanks! I started to run the words vertically but it looked funny so I stuck with horizontal. Glad you love it Kevin!

Hiya Kevin! Since I'm home sick and can't sleep, I decided to work on my pattern making! I hope this is something like what you're looking for. I'm pretty sure I found the same tie template you did. I tried to catch all the islands. Hope you like it!

Lovely! Very nice work, and I agree it's a great way to use up scraps!

Great idea and great gift! I love your work and adore the idea!

Love these Gator! Excellent work!

Very nicely done work!

I use either a sanding drum or pointy sander on my dremel to get to the inserts on my puzzle pieces. I love my spiral blades, I don't have much practice with flat blades, beyond cutting pieces down to size. I haven't tried the sanding blade yet.

Hi Redgam, I live in AR but originally from NOLA so that makes us neighbors, more or less! Very nice to meet you and looking forward to seeing your pictures! About to try some fretwork for the first time, myself, if I can get over this crud.

Usually, if you have a scholarship waiting you cannot take a gap year, you have to go straight to college (like I did.) The reason the state does this is because something like 85 per cent of traditional freshmen (straight out of high school) get burnt out and drop out their first year of college. (I did this, my grades weren't high enough to keep my scholarship anyway.) So, I took a gap year. I moved, got my very first full time job, made some friends, met my then-boyfriend now-husband. Gap years aren't a bad thing. It actually took me a long time to finally get my degree because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, I had to make As to replace the Ds and Fs, and I only returned to college part-time. I don't believe in having regrets, but I suspect if I'd taken the gap year first and found out what the workplace was like without an education, I would have done a lot better from the start.

Are you taking your pictures with a smart phone? If I turn my phone sideways, when I upload the pictures to the computer they are sideways like that. I have to open them in photoshop, rotate them, then resave them.

Like most of you, one at a time for me. I do the stuff that is commissioned first, then work on products for craft shows/conventions, and devote one day (usually Friday, but I'm home sick with a terrible cough today), to doing gifts and personal items.

I have terrible allergies. I haven't been able to cut this week at all due to a horrible allergy attack which led to a horrible cold (that I seem to passed on to my DH, poor fellow). Here's what works for me. If I'm gluing down a photo that's going to stay, like for a puzzle, I use 3M 45 adhesive spray. I have to use it outside, on top of newspaper because it's messy. If I'm gluing wood to wood I use Elmer's Wood Glue. Like your family, other sprays bother my allergies, especially used in an enclosed space (the fumes), so If I'm using a pattern that's going to be removed (like the grid for my puzzle pieces), I use clear packing tape. The edge comes off as I cut, so I use small pieces to tape the edge back down as I go. I hope that helps!