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  1. BadBob
    Do you drill the hole for the clock movement or cut it with your scroll saw? This year, I made my first clocks for Christmas gifts and drilled the hole as prescribed by the instructions using a Forstner bit. After that experience, I think I will cut them next time.
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    I have some toys in my shop that will not sell for a long time, then one day someone buys four of them. The owls are cute.
  3. BadBob
    I like to use contrasting wood when I can. The nacelles and fuselage are poplar, believe it or not. The dark wood on the horizontal stabilizer is walnut. The wings and vertical stabilizers are ipe. The wheels are birch. I have a friend that sends me dark wood cutoffs from his larger projects that he can't use.
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    I make these reindeer I found in an old magazine. I didn't do much to them and I have sold two sets so far. I had one person that wanted the larger ones. Larger than I could cut on a scroll saw. After several attempts at it with a bandsaw equipped with a carter guide and the smallest blade I could find I gave up. I could cut out the reindeer, but the antlers kept breaking. I could probably have cut them from some better hardwood. I spoke to the customer about pricing and she was not willing to pay enough for me to cover wood cost. I wasn't willing to spend $40 on an experiment that I could not sell. The experience got me to lusting after the Pegas scrolling band saw. I could not find one anywhere in stock or I would have bought it. I love photography as well. My Cannon T7i just recently rolled the counter over. That's more than 10,000 photos. Sitting on my hard drive right now are more than 47,000 photos.
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    I've had this made but unpainted sitting in my shop for months. There are several more in the series currently suffering the same fate.
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    A few months ago, my grandson asked questions about the 30x173mm round from a GAU-8 I have sitting on my desk. We watched several videos of the A-10 firing at ground targets. Since then, he asked every time he was here: When will you make one for me? So I did. Burrrrt! My 30x173mm practice round. Disarmed of course.
  7. BadBob
    What is the brand and model of your printer?
  8. BadBob
    Changing your display settings doesn't have anything to do with printing. I worked in IT for over 30 years. Printers can be a pain to deal with. My educated guess guess is that the problem is either your printer, driver, or printer settings.
  9. BadBob
    A dragon on my Shopsmith belt sander. Made from ipe and poplar.
  10. BadBob
    A flock of turkeys.
  11. BadBob
    A Stegosaurus in the raw.
  12. BadBob
    I use both Inkscape and Gimp running on Fedora 32 Linux. I've never had a problem printing to the exact size from Inkscape. I never print patterns from Gimp I use it to clean up scans I made or other bitmaped images before tracing them with Inkscape.
  13. BadBob
    I have never (yet) had a busy holiday season. My sales for the year peak in August. I have very few items listed as made to order.
  14. BadBob
    DOulbe stick tape works go for holding lots of things. Some of it holds to tight.
  15. BadBob
    But you do have to find it. I have had a few things that I made that didn't sell for a long time and when they did I could not remember where it was. I have started policy of making only one and when it sells I change the listing to made to order. My plan is to only stock those items that I sell a lot of. The puzzles I make are eazy to store, but lager toys are not. I have a few items that get very few views and stay in the shop for a long time, The all of a sudden it will start selling. I also have listings that get lots of views and hav since I posted them. I never sold one.
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    Short answer is no. However, It would depend on the finish you are using. I use and oil and wax blend and never see an issue. I use a lot of stretch wrap where I can. I have found that certain paints will be damaged by the wrap. No acrylics. All of these were Rattle can pants with clear top coats. I don't use those finishes any more.
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    I have lots of critters. I make them from cut offs. I sell a few but give most of them away. My kids, grandkids, nieces, and nephews love them. I learned to use a scroll saw making animal cutouts.
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    I use basically the same, but different brands. For me rolls were a lot cheaper and versatile. I only sell online and use the shrink wrap to keep the puzzles together and protect them from scuffing during shipping and storage.
  20. BadBob
    The clips on my saw are metal. Steel I think.
  21. BadBob
    I paid $100 for mine several years ago. I wound up spending over a $100 on it for parts and some up grades. I believe it is newer than this one. The on;y problem I have with the round clamps is that they will sometimes come ou when a blade breaks and as with anything else I drop they alway seem to bouce and roll underneath something.
  22. BadBob
    I would use plywood on the walls. That way you can hang aything on the wall anywhere you like.
  23. BadBob
    Well that sucks. Big Sky Tools has been a primary source of tools for me over the years. I own many Hitachi tools all purchased from them. I was wondering if this change would affect them. I just went to their web page and there is very little in stock. One of the most used tools in my shop came from Big Sky Tools.
  24. BadBob
    You should be able to spray anything. Tip size is important with acrylic paint due to the larger pigment size. Construction of the airbrush can be a problem when spraying lacquer. Lacquer thinner will eat the seals in some of the Chinese airbrushes.
  25. BadBob
    It makes it difficult to read posts. The constant motion is distracting.
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