munzieb

I'm back to scrolling after going through 55 years of stuff in the garage, attic and bedrooms. We had 2 garage sales in the last month and actually did pretty well. What we didn't sell, went to Goodwill or gifted. I have a Charles Dearing pattern I want to cut but I want to use up some of my baltic birch. I have 1/4" and 1/8" and I want to stack the pattern. Has anyone stack cut mixed wood sizes and would you do the 1/8" on top and 1/4" on bottom or vice versa?

Picture you, a framing artist!

Spot on Paul. I'll probably never replace the bearings again and $5 on bearings or $100+ for a new sander with a little bit labor, is an easy choice . It was fun, I lke doing puzzles (with tools).

I have had a few belt sander over the years, Craftsman (burnedup) Central Machinery (gave away) and recently a WEN. It has given me good service until recently. After running a minute or 2, it would start squeeling like a banchee. I started with a good vacuum cleaning. It looked better but was still noisy. I took the belt off the aft roller on the back side and noise went away so that told me it was probably a bearing. I looked it up in the parts break down sheet and it said it was discontinued! I decided to dissasemble it to see if there was a P/N, 6001-2RS and measured the dimensions. Found several on Amazon and bought 2 for $5 and change and they came the next day. I went on Youtube to see if anyone had posted a video and I found one that had the same problem. He stumbled through the dissassembly and had to use a wheel puller to remove the bearings but mine just slid off with no problem. He did all the right things on the reassembly. (tip- the screw for the belted tooth gear cover is a reverse thread. I had to use an impact tool to loosen the 3 screws on the base to get the toothed belt off. There is a small hole in the base case to push the housing with a screwdriver to tighten the belt again. There are also 2 screws above the switch on the cover plate that are under the belt direction label. The belt is very quiet now. After checking out several of the same models, the only difference is the color and label. WEN, HD, HF, Grizzley, Rikon, Ryobi and Skil are all the same and the bearing is the same also. (6001-2RS) The video was helpful and somewhat humorous and worth watching if you have the same problem. Ryobi bench top sander repair, bearings replacement (FIX for loud noise)

Denny, Great cutting, I think you have the frame thing down, Ha!

Treasure chest delivered. Lots of happy faces!

Avast, Jim Hawkens! Be that Ben Gunn carrying Captain Flint's treasure Chest! (Treasure Island, 1950 the best!) Our Groomer has a 4year old grandson that is crazy about pirates. She had boarded our dog while we were away for Christmas and I was bored, so I made another treasure chest. The box is poplar and I used my I-Box tool to make the box joints. I ripped 3/4" wide, quarter inch thick strips for the top and glued and pinned nailed in place. Brass, hamered nails are sold a Lowes for a few dollars for a box of 25. My wife found the hardware on the web and did the fabulous paintings of the Scull and Cross bones and the parrot on the front and ship inside the top. The groomer will be back in about 2 weeks and will be surprised.

The manager of our local UPS store has been helping me with my pattern printing. I made a Wrangler Plaque in the past and His wife was due with their 1st child so I made them a baby plaque. Very easy pattern. I just had to waite for the date and the name. She would not let him know if it was a boy or a girl but he figured it was probably a boy. I put it together in a few hours. Great reaction when he got it.

3 months is amazing for this project! I think you blew past master scroller to master woodworker, Tilman Riemenschneider would be proud!

Your table is absolutely stunning!!! How long did it take to complete?

That one took the longest to cut but I did use your "0" skip tooth blade for the veining and it came out great!

Since finishing the humming bird lamps and the River Boat projects, I had fallen into a derth of scrolling ideas. It was, a sort of been there, done that. My wife noticed I was getting ansey and bored and I needed another project. She says I want you to make another Christmas project? I say ok and then a little while later she shows up with 3 patterns for Christmas wreaths she bought from Scroll Saw Artist! I'm back in the game! The 3 were not too bad to cut but the poinsetta veining took a little time. Originally, we were going to do regular candles but have kind of moved away from that and she found some LED candles on the web with timers that worked perfect. Project was 1/2" BBPW with shellac and satin Lacquer. It ain't Christmas yet, what will I do next? Added some pictures with candles and wife ordered cushions with pictures of us and the dog.

Amazing!

This must be the before picture. Love it!

I've been off the radar for a while. We had company come from NH. We had enticed them to come and visit for the "Fall For Greenville" festival. It got postponed because of the hurricane. They decided to come anyway. We visited Falls Park and the next day we drove up to the Tryon Int'l Equestrian Center just over the NC border. As we drove north to the center, we saw many massive broken off trees along the road. It looks like several may have laid across the road at some point but had been cleared. We were only about 10 miles south of Lake Lure but decided they didn't needed any tourists viewing the devastation. While they were here, they fell in love with my hummingbird lamp. As a consolation for missing the festival, I would make them one. It took about 4 days and I used up the last of my lexan. I was glad I had the original to work off of for the measurements. The 1/8" Lexan is easy to cut on the table saw with a 80 tooth cross cuit blade but it does make a mess with all the chips/dust. It becomes static and sticks to everything. Starting to think about making some Xmas gifts.