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Charlie E

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  1. Charlie E
    Oh well. No great loss.
  2. Charlie E
    My Star Wars loving grandsons told me my truck looks like a Storm Trooper so I decided to lean into it. Guaranteed not to rust.
  3. Charlie E
    Very cool!
  4. Charlie E
    Great job! Cool present!
  5. Charlie E
    Made a fun pick holder for my 8 year old grandson who just got a guitar for his birthday. Highly imperfect work but OK for a first try. Got off a bit with my templates making one side of the lid a bit thinner than the other. Proves it's hand made I suppose. Louidjy will forgive me. If anyone is interested I followed the instructions from a YouTube video called Scroll Saw Guitar Pick Holder from Acutabove Woodworking.
  6. Charlie E
    Thank you! I’m sure I didn’t invent this process but in a lot of cases, like this one, the backer doesn’t stain as dark as I’d like. So I take a can of flat black spray paint and sort of fog it from a couple of feet away, then lightly wipe it with 0000 steel wool and repeat till I like the contrast. Then I spray it with a satin clear enamel. Works for me anyway.
  7. Charlie E
    After cutting this I sat on my front porch and got still and quiet. My favorite squirrel got within a few feet from me. I can tell him apart because he's more brown than gray and has a skinnier tail. Lots of good things happen when we take the time to be still.
  8. Charlie E
    Thanks for the birthday wishes. I haven’t done much scrolling lately. I’m in the middle of building campaign chests for my 5 grandchildren for Christmas presents. Basically little table top chests with lots of compartments for treasures like pocket knives, marbles, yo-yos, important things like that. I’m really enjoying it and will post pictures when I finish them. Thanks again. I turned 64, and my wife still needs me and feeds me. Reference, Beatles song.
  9. Charlie E

    Serenity

    Charlie E replied to Fish's topic in Bragging Rights

    Beautiful piece and some great clean cutting.
  10. Charlie E
    Beautiful piece, Barb!
  11. Charlie E
    Beautiful work. I’m not a fan of making multiple cuts of the same thing either.
  12. Charlie E
    One of the best things about our hobby, for me, is the ability to make meaningful, personalized gifts like this. Great job!!!
  13. Charlie E
    Very nice. I feel like I know her personality from the picture.
  14. Charlie E
    As always, any discrepancies between your cutting and the pattern are known only to you.
  15. Charlie E
    Yes, thankfully we do get beautiful fall colors. We’re in a drought right now which may affect the colors/duration this year. I actually used a combination of oil based stains and water based dyes to get the color and covered it with clear semigloss spray enamel. I hang different things on this spot for different seasons/holidays. It’s out of the rain and gets almost no direct sun so everything has held up great so for several years now. It’s about 3’ x 4’. To make it I planed some old weathered pressure treated fence boards, cut one end on a 45, lined them up and drew the leaf pattern freehand and cut the leaf pattern on each board with the scroll saw. I used a Kregg pocket hole jig to join the boards along with one fence board down the middle on the back. It was fun to make it up as I went along with no real plan or pattern.
  16. Charlie E
    Excellent job and I love the wood too. Great pattern!
  17. Charlie E
    No fancy scrolling here but I like how it turned out. Plus it’s for my favorite time of year.
  18. Charlie E
    Excellent job and I love the pattern. I just finished watching Band Of Brothers again. It’s about WWII where my uncle was killed. Nothing but respect and gratitude for those men.
  19. Charlie E
    Nice job, Dick!
  20. Charlie E
    Thank you, Marg. Slowly getting used to the new normal. We had a Labor Day get together yesterday and was saddened when I was counting up how many hamburger patties to make and briefly wondered if Amy was coming.
  21. Charlie E
    Thank you, Tyler.
  22. Charlie E
    Thank you, Rick. I'm sorry about your brother. My mom had Alzheimer's for the last two years of her life. Such a sad disease. Wonderful blessing to live near family!
  23. Charlie E
    Happy piece! My favorite way back game was Red Rover.
  24. Charlie E
    Great looking piece!!!
  25. Charlie E
    Nice job. Good wood choice for a cabin!
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