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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.

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.

Simple but elegant.

Don't beat yourself up. I like it! Send it!

It's time to add my 2c. My wife had the same complaint. The walls are full of plane and car plaques. I had gifted a few planes and cars to relatives and friends but needed to do more. Last year I was invited to my old company's 25th anniversary in New Hampshire. They have a beautiful $10mill hangar and several conference rooms to work with aircraft customers while their ships are in the hangar for service and installations. My old business partner lamented he needed to get some art for these conference rooms. I sent him all my aircraft plaques and made several more I sent later. I really enjoyed looking at my plaques in my office but I felt it would be better if more people can appreciate them (and maybe order some??) Now what to do with all the car plaques, car shows or car dealerships? I'm still working on that...

Your work is really impressive. The gradiant colors make it really stand out!

I thought that was good luck? I guess that is if you are performing on stage. Contact me if you have any questions.

Didn't I send you that Peacock lamp pattern pattern? It takes some time to make and your wife may find that useful?

I joined the Craftmans club over 25 years ago. I had bought it for a special project and then it sat forlorn until 2012. A neighbor had brought a friend along for a dinner we had one evening. He showed me some of the scroll work he had done and had actually sold it. I thought to myself " I can do that" I pulled out the old craftsman started a simple project. I was finally hooked and frustrated at the same time. Through trial and error, I mastered the cutting techniques but the blade clamping drove me crazy. It had a metric hex screw to tighten the blade and the screw heads and the wrenches would wear out. I bought a whole box of screws because I was constantly replacing them. The steel screws were going into an aluminum housing wasn't a good thing. Eventually the threads wore out and installed a helicoil in the housing. It worked for a while but knew there was a better way--- replace the saw and eliminate the frustration. Did my research and eventually bought a EX-16 from the local Woodcraft store. I had it shipped to them and they covered the freight. Still happy with the unit. I replaced the blade mounts with Pegus blade mounts and had to replace the airpump. Still working good. Sold the Craftsman at a garage sale to a neighbor for $60. I think it was a sympathy buy. Spoke to his son a while back and he said he never used it. Oh Well.

What a wonderful Christmas present. You always do great work.

Wonderful work Frank!

That is stunning Dick, lots of detail cuts. Love it!

Thank you Chris, you're right, the rail were the most difficult. My efforts are second class to your train plaque.