JimErn

I can't wait, they finally broke ground here and are going to up a Harbor Freight - having to drive an hour into San Antonio and deal with their traffic just isn't something I am willing to do.

He does "Texas" crosses and sells at the same fair I do. I dug through his "decorate with these box" and found them,

So friend pays $5 for this at a yard sale, gives it to me saying, make it nice so I did. The words are his idea.

Interesting way to do it - nice jig too, very creative, I generally use a keyhole router bit this show one way to do it, not sure how I wold get it done with a circular piece though https://www.wwgoa.com/article/using-a-keyhole-bit/

Beautiful cutting and the pattern is perfect. Those older cars had style and personality, today they all look the same to me.

I like Pop's place the pic just does not lend itself, IMO, to a shed, but then again "shed" may mean something different down under Beautiful, even though I said that before, the "plates" just add to it nicely

When I started I saved ever pattern I could, sorted them in folders and sub folders. Then someone here mentioned their hard drive crashed - so I moved the parent folder with all its sub folders of pattern to the google drive folder - now they are on my HD and in the cloud I flip through them looking for something, never find it, or looking for something to interest me, again rarely find it ,,, so I started a new parent folder with new sub folders and I clip one part of the pattern I like and save it to use in new pattern, like a clip art collection sort of still can't find what I want most times though

I beveled one edge, it does open an envelope, how long it will last who knows, just a trinket for my display at trade fairs

Very very nice

@oldhudson you do nice work, seeing it just reinforces to me that I need to keep pics of my knocked together, temporary, it'll do, jigs to myself. some of my temporary work is still working fine decades later, honest I am going to redo them all pretty like ROFL

@Bill WIlson I just noticed the link for your club blazing blades cherry burning kismet? ROFLMAO

Now that is an interesting piece of anecdotal evidence. And yet it made no difference to the other pieces of cherry - very odd, you would think the wood would be consistent.

ROFLMAO

In the gear head communities, and especially the biker community, there is a dreaded, sometimes contentious, often laughable subject, "What oil is best?" and I think this one will probably be close to that kind of thing here. I only have two scroll saws, I have tried this on both, and I can not see a difference at all when I stick the pattern to the wood, or first blue tape it and stick the pattern, or package tape it and stick the pattern. Urban legend says, the tape lubricates the blade. Really? melted adhesive becomes a lubricant? And if that were the case, why doesn't the melted adhesive from just sticking the pattern to the wood also become a lubricant? And if not the melted adhesive, melted plastic (clear tape) or melted paper/cloth (blue tape) does become a lubricant? Then urban legend says the clear tape or blue tape is easier to remove. Not in my experience at all. Tape is at the most 4" wide which means it has to over lap, those over lap pieces of tape at the minimum have to be peeled off individually. And since tape tears so easily, I have yet to be able to pull off one 4" wide strip intact, which means more work taking those pieces off. Then urban legend says, tape prevents burning the wood when cutting. Even when I was starting this hobby and didn't quite understand when to change the dull blade, I never scorched the wood (no tape by the way). I stick the pattern to the wood with spray adhesive, cut it, brush on some mineral spirits, wait a minute or so, and the whole pattern lifts off. Then I wipe down the piece with a paper towel wet with mineral spirits and let dry. And if could find a way to do it with fewer steps I would. So I guess my point to this diatribe is, does anyone know of an actual quantitative study showing that the urban legends concerning tape are true?

Really nice cutting Mimi, thanks for posting it

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No pics of it sorry, it is just something so common never thought to take a pic very very crude drawing attached, the red is supposed to be a hole approx 2x diameter of the washer you use, of course the smaller the hole more difficult it is

Maybe I missed it or I am just confused, the mixture does it cool to a paste or stay liquid? Wipe on and wipe off, or wipe on and polish? Thanks for the video

That is one version, usually it is just a board with a hinged leg at the top so it sits at a slope

Absolutely beautiful

We do the same game but on a smaller scale with large washers, as well as horseshoes. Nice work

I have to say Wow like everyone else. And I too would be hard pressed to find room for it.

Very nice work

I started with a porter cable, IMO it would not be a fair comparison even though I have an EX and not the Pegas. The PC does have a build in light I liked and the blower is stronger. The PC cut very nicely, but the fixed upper arm was a real pain sometimes since I am a bottom feeder.

THAT is awesome, Wow!