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You did great! Very nice.

Very nice and a great gift.

Nice cutting. Even nicer to make others happy!

Great job on a wonderful pattern!

Very nice and thoughtful. Will be appreciated for years to come!

Years ago I got started with used Varney HO railroad stuff. Some guy wanted to get into slot cars and sold me his railroad stuff for pennies on the dollar. I sold that along with a small layout. When N scale came out a friend encouraged me to get into it. Loved it. We formed a RR club which is still in existance to this day operating in Forney's Transportation Museum. Then I discovered HOn3. Sold the N scale stuff of which there was lot. Built a fairly large layout. Then I thought On3 is more prototypical so I sold the HOn3 stuff, tore out the layout and rebuilt with On3. I discovered I did not like the tight radii as it did not work well. Sold it all and returned to HOn3. Our house was burglarized, the thieves coming in through a large basement casement window directly over my rail yard and crushed an engine house and gallows turn table. That was it. Sold everything. Then got into hobby machining. Another story.

That's gorgeous!

I'm sure you will think of something! Does Barb know how much money is left over? I'd be quiet about that!

That is very nice and well executed! You always come up with a winner.

I don't mind old posts. If old enough they were posted before I was here. I'm sure the newer members here don't mind. Even if I had seen them before there are things I forget.

I guess buying tools are great fun even if you don't need them. Faye has never quetioned what I spend. During my model railroad, 40 years plus, I spent many thousands of dollars. Brass engines at hundreds of dollars plus rolliing stock. Chased all over the country to model railroad conventions and chasing trains. But I have decided to use Walnut and Maple. I put in an order with Ochooch. I can purchase a lot of hardwood for the price of a planer. Also using is difficult. I walk with a cane or Walker. A bit dangerous on the table saw lest I fall on it. I am extremely cautious. Faye is never very far away. So while I'd take great pride in having a planer in my shop, even just to sit and admire it, I will forego the purchase. I hope you are enjoying your vacation. An afterthought. You surely realize plastic fences are made from recycled milk bottles . Now this is only a suggestion, if you were to give up the wine, drank milk instead, save the empties and recycle them for a fence. Of course if wine comes in plastic jugs you could do that too. I just don't know as I don't drink the stuff myself.

Griteat article! Gonna have to study it in some depth. It can come in handy for all my BB projects.

Hiding in the garage was a good thing. You did some very nice projects.

That's a gorgeous cross!

Dynamite cutting on a beautiful pattern. I'm impressed!

Well it's not exactly a clock yet. I've started by copying the two sided plans on individual sheets so I can cut them apart. I've made the base. Sometime in the future I will make a couple of more pieces. I start this needing a lot of advice. 1. What kind of wood to use. I would like to use hardwoods but that can be expensive for an experiment. I don't have a planer or flat sander along with other things. My wife says, "Why don't you buy them?" Duh, at my age who knows how long I can use them? So I have a lot of 1/8 and 1/4 inch BB which I plan to use. 2. That brings up the problem of finishing. Should the pieces be stained after cutting and before assembly or after assembly? 3. What adhesive should I use for assembly? I have no idea how long this project will take. I did cut the base on the table saw and trimmed the edged on the router. Before I go further I'm waiting for advice.

Looks great!

Really a nice job!

Your daisy is nice. I like the sun flowers too.

Great cutting! Very nice likeness of a great singer. Loved his music. I'm pretty haggard also!

Very nice! The B4you go is clever.

I have a HF spindle sander. Don't use it alot. I mostly use my 1" belt with 5" disk sander. Also a 4" Belt and 5" disk sander. For small radius clean up I use a Dremel with the little sanding drums. I could do without the spindle sander.

I have a couple of friends that have the Taig lathe and mill. Nice little machines. All my big machinery is gone, Bridgeport and nice 12 inch lathe. My age and strength no longer allowed me to bigger projects. I still have a Sherline lathe and mill, Grizzly mini-mill, MaxMat 7 lathe. I do very little in them anymore. I also made pens for several years just giving the pens away. After while I ran out of people to give them to and it gets pretty expensive if you can't sell. I sold all the pen stuff including several hundred blanks. Small fortune there. Kept the wood lathe and chucks. I don't sell my scroll work either. It just stacks up. I think this thread has been hijacked!

I could order the knobs but I like using my mill to make round knobs with flutes instead of knurls. I have a couple of Seyco knobs. Also I have lots of aluminium left over from my machining days. What lathe do you have?

Thanks. Very cool. That's the same as I used, the socket head cap screw. I didn't drill it out but just ground it flat and polished a bit. Instead of a wing knob I made a round knob. Nice job making the little insert.