munzieb

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.

It was an overnight stay in the hospital and walked out with some pain. Sleeping was an issue. Had to move around various beds and couches like a cat trying to find a good spot. It got better day by day but the original pain before the surgery went away.

Rick I went through almost the same thing L-4, L-5 fusion back in Dec 22. A little less hardware than you. It took me about 9 months to get close to normal. They had me walking right away but it wasn't easy but got easier as I got to the 9 month point. Now trying to do 2-3 miles a day. It will get better.

I did have an incident with a hacksaw blade on my finger. Held it together before it started to bleed and had my wife apply some CA glue over the cut. It never bled and healed in 3 days!. When I had my L-4, L-5 back fusion done, they CA glued a pad over the incision instead of stitching and it healed and came off in a few days.

Sorry Denny, Used the Skip tooth. With all my small cuts, I would have been all over the map with a Spiral blade. Still love your blades.

Me too!

Couldn't have done it with out your "0" blades. Thanks

Do you remember the Hudson River Dayliner and the tour boat out of Kingston to the light house?

Charleston and Savannah will get it worse.

Thank you Paul. It's Only Make Believe.

Over the years I have done several cars, planes, landscapes and a few ship. I thought I try my hand at a Mississippi style steam boat. It was about the max size for my EX-16 at 17 x 14 and had to do some cuts coming in at opposite directions. The railing was the most challenging with close to 140 very narrow cuts. Lots of very small cuts, especially the stairs. I really liked the drifting smoke coming off the stacks. It took several days to cut because it would get hot in my shop, garage and did most of the work in the mornings when it was still cool. 1/8" BBPW with shellac/ lacquer finish.

Recently I started stack cutting all my 1/8" thick plaques. Cutting 2 is just as easy as cutting one using 1/8" BBPW. A while back I had used Scrolleronline's (Windfield Collection) adhesive 2 sided tape and was very happy with it. It could be removed with no residue and came in a 11.5 x 20' roll and was easy to to apply and remove. It was originally reasonably priced but eventually got way too expensive. It used to be $20 a roll but its now almost $30 a roll. I tried most of the methods listed but eventually went to spraying 2 sides of printer paper with 3M 77 and would remove it with mineral spirits. (smell doesn't bother me and dries quicky with no film) I would use a small injector to apply between the boards and pry them apart. The top pattern sheet would usually come off in one sheet and the middle section would come apart once the MS got through the panels. The boards would clean up quickly with minimum glue residue.