BadBob

I'm working on my Mozaic site and waiting for them to create a custom DNS. I want to start promoting Christmas items and want to link to my Mozaic site. I've built websites from scratch before, so I am not inexperienced with this. I find the instructions a bit lacking. They look like they were written by a programmer who knew what everything was and not proofed by someone who didn't.

Here is how I do it using a drill press. I drill a lot of eye holes. A sharp quality is essential no matter what type of bit you use. I insert the bit and adjust the table height so the tip of the bit barely touches the backer board. The idea here is to get a tiny hole (forstner or brad point) or little bump (twist drill) so you can easily locate the hole position from the backside of the board. Drill the hole with the proper speed. Faster speeds are better for small holes. Turn the board over. Find the small hole or bump and carefully drill from the other side. This is easy with brad point or forstner bits. It takes some practice to work well with twist drills. With twist drills, I hold the piece lightly while lowering the bit slowly into the wood. To get a smooth hole, you need to let the bit do the cutting. I have watched many woodworking videos where they force the bit through the wood. Softer woods require sharper, better-quality tools to get smooth cuts. If possible, drill your holes before cutting on the scroll saw. I have broken many pieces by not doing this. When buying forstner or brad point bits, buy the best you can afford. Lee Valley Lipped brad point bits a great. Buy the sizes you need. With sets, I find that there are always a lot of bits that do not get used. I like Freud or Fisch wave cutter bits for my forstner bits. However, I have a couple of carbide-tipped metric bits I purchased from Aliexpress that work amazingly well. They only come in metric sizes. I always buy high-speed steel bits. For twist drills, I use Harbor Freight bits. They may not work for steel, but I am not using them for steel. They are cheap and run true. Harbor Freight brad point bits are junk. I bought a set to try them out. Only three of the bits were useable. The rest were ground off-center or were not straight. The photo shows drilling the back side of the eye hole. Note the little wheel on the end of the bit. If you use the technique described above, you will see many of these. Also, notice how smooth the hole edge is. Here is a shot of what the wheels look like coming out of a larger hole.

The body is 4x3-1/2x3/4 inch.

I like the one on the right. I need to try that.

Hard to beat Pegas blades for durability. I noticed that the first time I used them.

It may be a long time before we start making money again.

Do you have some photos of your birdhouse ornaments you could post?

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Since 1993, I have maintained and supported web servers. I know from personal experience how difficult and how much work it is to do this from bare metal. I have avoided it for that reason. I have a place I can host for free until my traffic goes above a certain level. It is a completely bare virtual host. I would need to install the operating system and software—lots of work to take advantage of this. I think I am going to go with Mozaic for now. Thank you so much for the feedback.

All I can say for sure was that the Flying Dutchman blades were #5 skip tooth with reverse teeth. The only reason I know they are Flying Dutchman blades is because FD blades are the only ones I have in test tubes.

I'm highly unlikely to see it on Facebook. Facebook shows me what it wants us to see in my feed.

I have a hard time giving up on a project that is not working like I want and starting over. I'm getting better.

I have never had a blade stretch. Recently, I did a test comparing Flying Dutchman blades to Pegas blades. Flying Dutchman blades cut a lot smoother and were less aggressive. In harder woods, the Flying Dutchman blades produced a glossy, smooth cut.

I have experienced the same thing selling online. I had some listings that got views and didn't sell for several years, and one day, one person bought three of them and came back later for one more.

I don't see this changing for at least a year or two. I have gone from steadily increasing sales to a steady decline since February 2021.

Same here. The ones that get the most views don't sell at all.

Been there, done that. It's probably a good thing that I can't type very well, or I would do the same. So, where is your website hosted? Are you doing your own or using software to create your site?

I have not sold anything yet, but I have not tried to promote it to amount to anything. I do not think any of my page views in the analytics are me. I look at a 30-day sliding window every day, and I don't see a great change in the stats, even when I do a lot of page views in a day. However, I am logged in with the dashboard open while testing. I have 365 listings up there now, with more coming. Many things have been sitting idle on Etsy, waiting for me to make more when I have time. I'm posting all of these as made-to-order. I figure it will take at least a year to know for sure if it is going to work.

The emails worked for me.

My only Thanksgiving project.

I purchased labels and a stand for the printer. Shipping and 1x2 labels for identifying stock with SKUs and a brief description. It is easier to change labels than it was to feed them through the laser printer manually. The printer is fast. It prints the label before my laser printer can finish its warm-up cycle. I needed the stand for the 1x2 labels that are only available in rolls. My Brother-HL-3170CDW has been repaired and is working like new. There were several videos on YouTube demonstrating the procedure. Every one of them was missing steps. The cost to repair was about $18.00.

Why not? You would always win.

Where is this group?

My label printer got here yesterday. It works great and is very easy to install.

I do sometimes if it hasn't been used much. If I switch to a different size, I will stick the used blade to a magnet to use later.