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I decided to make a few more small fret boxes with mahagony and ordered 6 each 1/8 x 6 x 24 sheets from Ocooch Hardwood. It came in 3 days and the wood was packed beautifully and the wood was perfect. Time to make the saw dust!

I love old trains. Outstanding!

My wife found this pattern on Etsy for $2.00. Website HisNHersSVGStudio. 1/4" BBPW .

Hi Denny. Of course they were your 0/1 blades. The best!

Thought this would be a fun and quick pattern to cut. Memories of days at the beach. BBPW 8.5 x 11. Shellac/Laquer.

Wow! that's a beaut!

Yikes! you've been busy!

It helps to have a great plan!

That's great!

I did a search one the web"1972 chevelle ss scroll saw pattern" and found that Charles Dearing at Wooden Visions has one. Always quality patterns.

Nice clock, does it have chime?

All fantastic projects. Great work!

Thanks Jerry, Pink Clock?? What kind of wood is underneath. It's usually veneer but nice. We have a Howard Miller Grandfather Clock and I always lub it once a year to keep it running good. I have to because the local Clock repair shop closed up a few years ago. Heal up well from your surgery so you can start scrolling again.

Assorted house projects, travel and a lingering summer cold have kept me away from my saw, but now I'm back. My wife ordered 2 Alex Fox patterns cut and they went fairly fast. The aircraft came from my sister's 80's birthday party guest. He mentioned that he had recently flown on a Hawker 800EX business jet. Told him that I had worked on the earlier model, Hawker 700 back in the early 80's. Conversation touched on all sorts of aviation topics. Decided to surprise him with a cutting of the 800. He received it yesterday and was totally surprised and thanked me profusely. Dinner and drinks are waiting the next time I'm in the area.

Cars! I got lots of cars! I did all of the designs except the 2 Studebakers. They are done by Charles Dearing at Wood Visions. The '57 Hawk has 400 holes in the grill, ugh! I have gifted a fair amount over the years.

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.

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.