RabidAlien

Very nice!

Gopherwood for the ark, dogwood for the bark. **ducks head in shame**

Yep, I noticed that after I'd attached the pattern to the wood. Next time I'll beef up the boundary edge a bit.

Yep! I've used Publisher to make this type before, but it was a pain getting the dimensions right. Used Inkscape this time, and just dragged two horizontal guides down, spaced em an inch and a half apart, drew a rectangle, then added text. Resized the text to fit into the rectangles. Sooooooooooooooo much easier than Publisher!

Put this one together for my daughter. 2x4 ripped in half, I believe, used a Pegas #5mg. Stained with Minwax Provincial.

Looks great to me!

Awesome!!! Gotta ask, tho, where you got the hand/world pattern?

I've worn off the lettering on my DEL and BACKSPACE keys.

...sometimes the problem is us. 1" pine, Minwax Espresso stain finish. Used a....Pegas #5MG blade, I believe, because its what I had in the saw at the time. (hint...replace the lower-case letters with the actual numbers: ID10T)

Very nice!

Awesome cut!!! ...I keep thinking it needs an old Coca-Cola bottle cap pounded into the wood, tho....

Game of Thrones fans will understand. Valar Morgulis.

The frame lets us lay the TV flat on the table, screen up. The guy running the game connects his tablet and is able to display a map of the area we're in, so we can actually see what's happening, instead of having to rely on our DM's drawing skills. The dice tower has three angled baffles inside for the dice to bounce off of, making sure that someone can't try to influence the outcome of the roll (cheat). The tray the dice bounces into keeps it from flying off the table and everybody wasting time looking for it.

So a bunch of us (most of us in our mid 40's) get together once a week after work to do some old-school tabletop gaming. Dice, miniatures, junk food, the works. We've modernized, though, with dice towers, 3D printed minis (I still paint mine, although our "enemies" tend to show up as a uniform Whataburger-orange color). The dice tower I made recently works great, and then someone took a look at youtube. Apparently the big thing now is digital maps (if you could see our DM's drawing skillz, you'd agree, digital is better), but not just displayed on a wall-mounted TV. Nope....lay the TV flat on the table, project a map and grid, and put your minis right on the screen. So of course, being the woodworker in the group, everyone pestered me to make one. "Sure....you got a spare TV?" Sudden silence. Fortunately, I did have a spare 32", having just replaced my wife's bedroom TV. 1x6x10' Lowes whiteboard, with a plexiglass cover cut to fit the frame. Had to do a bit of tweaking to remove the bezel from the TV, then added a ledge around the edge to hide the sharp edges and exposed electronics and also, conveniently, give a place to stash minis when they weren't on the map. Scrolled out openings for vents, speakers, input cables, and the power button (ledge covers the IR port, so no remote) and had to rasp a groove for the power button, which protrudes below the bottom of the TV just enough to be really annoying.

Dammit....yet another pattern I'm gonna have to get!!!! Awesome job!

"INfamous" works too.

Painters' tape will also make it easier to remove the pattern afterwards, even on thin, fragile pieces (just pull slowly). Keep it up, every hole cut adds a bit to your experience level! And wolves....they rock!

I'll kick this one off. Most folks I talk to always gush about beach vacations, cruises, sand and palm trees, Hawaii.....they can have em. Send me to the mountains! Forests, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, the peace and quiet of a shady trail with nothing but the sound of the wind to disturb the afternoon (and the occasional curse as my clumsy ass trips over a root). My wife is of the same mind, although she enjoys the beaches more than I do. Thus a Steve Good pattern, not quite finished yet (I'm juggling three or four projects at the time), but still....is mountains. Is good.

Thanks everyone!

My wife is sick of Texas (heat...cedar pollen...heat....humidity...heat....cedar pollen....heat.....), and would love to move to Colorado. I wouldn't mind it much, either, except our being in the Austin area can only be described as an Act o' God, Y'all (its an official term. Look it up. Book of Southern Revelations, Chapter 11, Section 8.), so moving would be...difficult. So we're stuck pining for piney woods and snowcapped mountains, listening to coyotes yapping across the road instead of wolves howling their freedom. Enter....Steve Good. His shadow-box pattern, which I've had for a while and decided this is the perfect time to cut. If I can't afford to move my wife to Colorado (and remain her husband, at any rate), I can at least bring a piece of Colorado to my wife. His plan calls for 1/4" wood, but I had some 1/2" ply on hand and decided to use that instead. Pegas #5MG blade, I plan on toasting the background with a propane torch, then staining it a dark walnut. The rest will be a combo of ipswich pine and cherry stains, with the top layer being (maybe) boiled linseed oil. I may get lazy and just do the whole thing in ipswich or cherry. At this point, who knows?

Tower worked great! It was a "figure out measurements/dimensions as I go" sorta project, so it's not the neatest or cleanest thing I've ever built, but the cover fits and converts into the dice output tray (keeps them from shooting off the end of the table). Next time, I'll use the Steve Good pattern.

Go Navy!!! Great cutting, and congrats on the job!

Nicely cut! This is THE song, I'm firmly convinced, that bagpipes were invented to play. The inventor and the songwriter were a little off on dates...:)

Nicely cut cats!

Been on a carb-free diet for about six months now....I'm afraid I'd eat the noodle and gain back three pounds. LOL