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I'm with you on staining and sorry for the confusion (rock maple). I'm from Vermont and that is what we always called it, but it is the same as hard or sugar maple. Its what gives us the sap that we make Maple Syrup from.

Ray, I use Rock Maple on nearly all my Christmas ornaments and have no trouble cutting them using the Olson Mach blades. My nephew gives me cut offs from a mill he works at, so the price is right. I love using it for ornaments as they seem to be less prone to cracking and the light color shows up well on a Christmas tree.

Thanks, the box is about 4" tall by 4" wide and about 1 5/8" deep

This is a small trinket box I made for my wife for Valentines day. Another one of Steve Good's patterns.

That is absolutely unbelievable!! That takes some mighty fine skill and patience. I only wish I could do those. Great job.

I bought a Delta 40-694 around the first of December and so far, I love it.

I have not as of yet, but I have only had it since the beginning of this past December. I am a little hesitant to tear it apart because of the warranty.

You will absolutely love the new Delta. I couldn't see the need to spend the extra for the Dewalt either. After having used my new Delta and used my Brother in laws Dewalt, I see no difference at all. Again you'll love it!

Ray, For instance, what I do is pull a pattern into Inkscape that has 6 ornaments on a page and I only want one of them, I select the images by clicking on any one of them which in turn selects them all. Then you go to "object" and click on "ungroup" and this will put individual boxes around each ornament. Then click anywhere off the images to unselect all. Now you are able to click on any individual image and delete it, copy it or move it anywhere on the page. The one thing I might warn you about is when you select each one, use the pointer curser to draw a box around it, as ungrouping may ungroup items within the individual ornament.

Ray, I do mostly Christmas ornaments, so I know exactly what you are talking about. I usually use a lot of Steve Good's patterns which may have multiple patterns on a page and I may only want one, so I pull the pattern into Inkscape and can delete and move others around or even make multiples of the same ones that I want.

Excellent job, and now I'm also going to have to watch those videos. It adds a whole other look to the projects. I really like them.

I like it!! That is really neat. Nicely done.

Great job Dick! I may have to cut one of those.

I have this same issue as well.

You'll love it!! I bought one in December and absolutely couldn't be happier.