RabidAlien

Nicely cut! I'll be the first to step up and say the word "fishstick".

Heh. You should send that to Chuck Norris. Nicely cut!

Not really.

Not nearly as eye-bending as the last couple I posted of his. Standard (for me) Lowes 1" whiteboard, I think I used a FDUR #3 or #5 (or both?) to cut it. My nephew is borrowing my saw, so I didn't argue, and just used the blade he had in the clamps after he left. Finish is Minwax "Honey", which is rapidly becoming one of my favorite stains.

Oink! **chug** Oink!

Love the colors!

I've been kinda eyeballing some band-saw boxes, but thought about maybe making a yin-yang one that pivoted out like this. I hadn't really put too much thought into the mechanics of it, but when I saw this on Steve Good's site, I thought I'd give it a try to see how difficult it would be (not too bad!). Now I just need to sit down and design a round version....maybe add some dragons on the lid, or a Tree of Life split along the "s" curve of the yin-yang.

Final glue-up of a couple of Steve Good jewelry boxes. The rose is original to the pattern, the dragon was requested by my daughter. Stained Minwax Provincial and Minwax Gray.

Very nicely cut!

Change your screen-name to "The Wood Whisperer"!!! This is AWESOME!!!

I feel that "used" or "repurposed" items typically have more character than sleek, shiny new stuff that all looks like it came out of a cold and clinical factory. Used, faded, banged up, cracked, it all has character, warmth, a....feel to it. Gimme "rustic barn" to "ultramodern New York condo" any day. I love the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi (yeah, had to Google the name....never said I was the smartest bulb in the HappyMeal), repairing something and making it into a work of art instead of automatically tossing it and buying something new.

Ran across this one on Google, and immediately knew I'd found a place to use the LED strip I ordered for a previous project. Yep....works REALLY well! Cut from cheapo ply (wasn't sure how it was going to turn out), which sanded down really nicely. Frame is a strip that was leftover after stripping down a 1x6 a while back. The overlap on the front is only about 1/8", most of the frame sticks out behind, making it more of a box than a frame (I'm cutting out a backer later tonight, after dinner...wife's making chili, and you can call me what you want, just don't ever call me "late for dinner"). The LED strip is wrapped around the inside twice, using its own self-adhesive backing, but I may bolster that with a little bit of Gorilla superglue applied strategically. The backer itself is a piece of white acrylic. I work in the IT field, and when users order a privacy screen for their laptops, the ones we've been getting have these two acrylic sheets sandwiching the filter to give it some protection in shipping. So I've acquired several of these, thinking they'd be useful. Boy are they ever!!!!

Nice!!!

LOL I was gonna say the same thing....

Nicely cut!

Totally agreed!!! I think my next "job" will be to learn how to design Celtic knots myself.

It very well could be. I was about to Google and see if any pieces were missing from the USS Constitution....tell ya what, though, you put a pot on that thing, it ain't goin NOWHERE.

Challenge accepted, and asses kicked!!!! Those look AWESOME! I wouldn't've thought "newb", except that you said it. Keep on pushing the limits!!!

It was mentioned that a Celtic knot that I'd given to my Mom (an early project, still learning my way around my first saw) was too small to be used as a trivet. Makes a good coffee coaster, though. The same conversation, I was asked about crosses as trivets. Easy enough to do, just make em big enough! So, since last weekend was taken up with funeral arrangements/events and no sawing was done, and this coming week is a business trip (no after-work sawdust), I decided to cram as much as possible into one weekend. LOL 1x12 whiteboard from Lowes for most of them, the "round" one is a 1.75" thick piece of battleship armor I believe. That thing was DENSE. Probably a pressure-treated beam, I nabbed several pieces from skids in front of local housing construction a while back. Went through three FDUR #7 blades on that one piece.

Using the "f-word" is called "dropping the f-bomb". So....I made F bombs.

I figured that was the case. Thanks!

Ver' nice!!! What blades do you use for metal? Just curious if the normal Pegas or Flying Dutchman UR blades would work, or if there's specific blades for metal cutting.

Very nice!!

I think I posted it up in the Pattern Library. The pattern comes out to about 6" top to bottom, but can be scaled down easily. TBH, I had to look up who did the original song, but that tune was running through my head as I cut them. LOL Makes it difficult to concentrate on the audio book I had playing....

My sense of humor has always been a little....quirky. "Off", as my wife (and several HR departments) would call it. One of the first patterns I ever created, using Publisher of all things: the F-bomb. An order done and drying. 1" "whiteboard" from Lowes, used a couple of #7 FDUR blades (they cut, but I'm more of a fan of Pegas, so I'm trying to burn through my FD blades. Don't judge me!), one set stained Minwax Espresso, one with Minwax Ipswich Pine. Stack cut them two at a time. I'm sure The Clash would approve...."The Shareef don't like it...drop the f-bomb, drop the f-bomb..." Oh....wait....they were singin' about "rock the Casbah". Eh, close enough.