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congrats man!!! looks great.

WOW!

as part of payment for my "new to me" table saw was "Iron Man". Tuesday i picked up the cover at the comic book store and glued it to the wood. it also got 2 coats matte sealant. then it got another coat before work yesterday. last night after work it was cut, glued, got 2 more coats of high gloss finish, and 2 more this morning, delivering this afternoon. life is good!

wonderful Rocky!! love my hawk.... i'm happy for you.

i can walk for hours with no complaints from my bum knee. but standing still for only 3 to 5 minutes and my knee gives out from pain. i had no room in my tiny shop for a chair so i bought a folding stool. my wife is learning to scroll letters and prefers to stand. so 1 vote for each here.

well this ad makes me feel SUPER LUCKY! i picked up my like new VS226 for under $500. (thank you Keith)

Hey rocky, I am still and Andrew Sisters, and John Denver fan as well. Just not much call for that around here. I stack cut for 1 for me and if the others sell , great. If i acted on all the ideas i have for this stuff i would have to have someone else scroll for me cause i would never have the time. Lol I love this stuff

for custom portraits i make them to fit a standard frame. that helps me set a standard price. i am learning more on how to make frames by making them to fit the project.

just from this test video i have 2 ppl that want me to make one for them when i finish the design, i ordered more lights so we shall see.

i have about 15 kinds of blades. i made this holder. with free wood and a forstner bit.

i call enough with the cold for this year. i can't afford to heat an uninstalled building unless i am working in it. so i thought i would share how i save my paint. i built these shelves when i didn't use paint often enough to need it in the shop. so i knew i needed to keep warm when i moved it.. the floor and walls are covered with 1/4" Styrofoam and the divider is a cooler lid that falls 1" from the front cover to allow for air flow and to keep from over heating the paint. i use a 25W fluorescent bulb. it's surface holds at a temp you can almost hold in in your hand. a regular bulb would melt the styro. not having room for swinging doors and the fact 1 door had to be about 7" bigger i made a 2 layer cover for the paint side and just the outer for the other. this has worked great all winter.

i like these for hanging things, they have a very low profile. https://smile.amazon.com/Sawtooth-Hanger-ART-DISPLAY-SYSTEMS/dp/B000OL0U28/ref=sr_1_4?s=hardware&ie=UTF8&qid=1523052674&sr=1-4&keywords=sawtooth+picture+hangers

shiny heart poster board.

just playing with a new idea.... a different kind of jimmy your thoughts would be great....

i have spent my whole life doing different "arts". i did lights , sound, and makeup for plays in my youth. in my 20 i learned how to make life casts and masks and have made maybe 60 over the years. i lived in the house my wife and mother-in-law (yes, and i'm glad she lives with us) for 10 years. without a long story it had structural problems that would cost to much to repair. so we put a house on the property right next to it. with almost no woodworking experience and knowing the house would have to be torn down i began removing the 80yo trim and doors to allow it to live on. SOOO i began building my shop to make t hings for my for my family to honor that home. this is my wife's favorite. she has it full of heirlooms. well sitting at the computer one night i saw some scroll saw portraits and said to my wife "that is so cool. i would love to try that but i bet i couldn't do it". well 2 weeks later a box with my name on it arrived. yep! my wife bought me a WEN. i did lots of outside cuts, became board and wanted to try a portrait. well using the #%!* adapters on the WEN i cut one. i was hooked. here is my first ever.... the hand i made reaching out of the frame is what i am trying now. that baby was 8 months ago. this month makes 1 year behind the saw. in that time i started with a 16" WEN and am now cutting on a 26" Hawk. i scroll because i amaze myself. i still can't believe i can do this. i need to know how far i can take this in both traditional cutting and see how my twisted mind can twist my art. thank you all for inspiring me and to my wife for knowing more about me than i did.

i am not sure if i got what you have said but this is what popped in my head after reading all of the posts. thank you all so much. i learn here every time i visit. OK.... i made my first corner and this was the next so i took a scrap of the molding and did this this is the result. not perfect but i will get there. thank you all and i hope it helps others as well.

if it is i you were speaking to... please do use it. i just used a $2 forstner bit and free wood. i did add a second rack below this one, i also use these tubes to hold my saw tooth hangers and 1/4" machine screws.

thank you rocky.... lack of space is a great motivator...

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LVXE98H/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 i made my own holder with wood i took out of a bed boxsprings to keep it within the 2x4 construction of my portable building. -chris

i use a lot of luan. it is so easy to pull fibers out as you remove tape. i have learned to use blue tape only to tape layers together for stack cutting and applying "Duck" clear shelf paper to glue the pattern down. but above all never remove either "with the grain". slowly remove across the grain and you will have much less tear out. -chris

i have made frames with flat stock. no problem it is using "corner trim" that i can not wrap my head around. i got the first corner!!! i cut it the top the same way i did the flat stock and it ended up being over an inch to long when i put on the first side. i looked for videos that show how to do this but never found the right one. so my question is: can anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong, or the trick to cutting the correct length? -chris

i am beholden to you for your comment. using a would i had to look up!!! lol really thank you so much. i receive a lot of confidence from all the nice people here.

hard question for me to answer. i can tell you the label says "made in Germany".

you are welcome... i still have LOTS of FD blades so will use both for a while.

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