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Happy Birthday Marge. Have a great day!

Kevin, I've done a few in the past and probably need a refresher but a router inlay collar/guide is the way to go. The collar has a removable external ring for doing the inside and outside cuts. You make a template that the collar bushing can ride against and then establish the thickness or depth of the decorative piece you want to inlay into the cutting board. Then remove the external ring to cut the insert using the template. Leave the insert piece a little proud and after gluing and mounting sand flush. There are a "slew" of Youtube videos available on how to do this and Rockler sells a bushing kit. Have fun!

I did a photo inventory of all my tools in the shop a while ago. I have had some of the tools for over 20 years and understandably the receipts are long gone but I have a running record of things I have bought on line or in the box stores or Wood craft. I keep all the pictures on a disk and filed away. The expendables are expendable so they are either used up or outdated and thrown away. I don't really sell my items so what's finished is either in the house or with friends or relatives.

Did a portrait on my B-I-L from many years ago. 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" base, lacquer finish. Plaque is for his nephew. He trains K-9's in Germany. 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" backer. Time to give the portraits a rest for a while.

Well Done!

That is just fantastic craftsmanship!

LOL! the flowered shirt wasn't to bad. It's kind of fun to spin that plaque around the deck of the saw table but the curly hair was just tedious.

I wanted to make a portrait for our best friends. Picture was taken last year while they were on a cruise. My wife did the primary cleanup in Photoshop and then I'm back to MS 3D Paint to gobble pixels. The faces were pretty easy but the shirt and curly hair is a Pita. I need to learn how to simplify things.

My wife wanted me to do a portrait of her sister. The picture is from several years ago. this designing thing is not simple. I feel like I'm gobbling pixels in Pacman. Never sure how much detail I should remove or keep. I'll keep practicing.

great job, You are are a racing machine with all the ones you did!

Those are really nice! Great job!

Thanks Rocky, Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Michaelangelo. Sawdust is the pixie dust that inspires scrollers to turn wood into art! Keep making sawdust!

My wife has been bugging me to try a portrait. I found a picture from a few years ago of her and dove into MS 3D paint. After a few hours, I came up with a picture I could cut. I'll try my hand on a few others in the next coming weeks for some of the family relatives. I hope I don't get disowned! LOL! 1/8" BBPW on 1/4" backer Gloss lacquer finish.

The windows in the door are actually square and you can order various plastic inserts that just pop into the window frame. My pattern conforms with approved HOA requirements.

Insulated doors are great and keep the shop cooler but I am a nut for light. I added several LED ceiling mounted lights when I set my shop but I wanted more. I have 4 windows in the shop but still not enough. I contacted a garage door company and they installed some upper lighted panels in my garage doors ( 3 car garage) Whow! what a difference. Sun comes in in the morning and I always think I left a light on over night! My work bench faces it and working is so much better. Tech took about 45 minutes to install just the replacement upper panels and adjusted the springs and lubed to make sure they were working properly. Great choice, no regrets!

Dave, I also make different boxes, both square, domed, box joint and 8 sided (22.5 degree cuts) . On the joint box, I always leave at least 2 extra pins for the top. Depending on the width of the wood, I may end up with short pin and I'll mount the top on that side. I have a 8" HF band saw and cut it on the 2nd pin. I have a Kreg fence for even cuts. After various attempts to get the cut marks out and even, I decided to "lap" the lower and upper edges of the top and bottom where they mate. I have a tempered 1/4" piece of glass that I carpet taped with sand paper. I also use it for glue ups. I pencil mark all edges to be sanded and proceed to figure "8" sand. When all the marks are gone, the surface is perfectly even. It can be tedious and time consuming but the effects are always the best. I need to find some sort of oscillating table to make short work of this process. On my 8 sided boxes, I make sure that all the side pieces are exactly the same height. I sneak up on my 22.5 degree cuts until my miter is set for the rest of the cuts. On glue up, there can be a slight miss alignment but since the sizes of the pieces are identical, the lapping is minimal. Hope that helps. BTW, paintings by my wife.

Gold Medal!!!!!!

The Boeing 314 is the 3rd in my cuttings of vintage luxury airliners and this airplane has the most interesting story. PanAm was operating the luxury B314 flying boat Clipper Ships across the long legs of Pacific prior to WWII. The story of the Pacific Clipper on December 7th 1941 is one of courage, ingenuity and perseverance. I have included a PDF file of that amazing adventure along with a route map and pictures of the aircraft. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed cutting the B-314 plaque. A movie is in preproduction called the Escape of the Pacific Clipper. BTW, wife says I need to give the planes a rest for a while. Back to boxes and fret work. The Round The World Saga of the.pdf

The colors and the shadow on the text make it POP! Nice job!

I'm still on an airplane kick. I have always been interested in the Boeing -377 Stratocruiser. It's based on the B-29 bomber with an enlarged double deck fuselage capable of holding between 63 to 84 passengers depending on if the ship had births. It was one of the last radial reciprocating engine luxury airliners and only 55 were built. There was also an enlarged freight version called the Guppy and the Air force used it as the C-97. BOAC and AOA operated this aircraft and PAN AM named it a Clipper like its earlier long range aircraft, the B-314 China Clipper. The introduction of the jet engine British Comet and the Boeing 707 brought an end to the operation of the B-377 in 1963. More info on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_377_Stratocruiser

Great looking cabinet. Wonderful workmanship!

Still Chasing planes. Found a line drawing of a Lockheed Constellation ( not a super) built a lot of bridges (3D paint). A beautiful Queen of the Sky. Looking at a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser for my next project. Missed the age of luxury flying. Too many trips on a 737 middle seat, row 24 and the vent and recliner were broke and #24 for departure.

Thanks all for your kind comments. I'll be looking to do more aircraft in the future but now my wife has me building another box joint box again so she can paint it. I'll post when I'm done.

What can I say, Just beautiful!

I have been cutting a fair amount of cars lately and decided I needed to elevate my game and move to planes. Fan of WWII aircraft so tried my hand on a PBY and a P-40. Fun to cut.