RabidAlien

I went to the cemetery earlier today. The was a man crouched down behind a headstone near where I was and it made me a little uneasy so I said, "Morning." He said, "No, taking a s***."
 
There were two fish together in a tank. One said to the other, "You know how to drive this thing?"
 
I remember the day my English teacher taught me the word plethora. It meant a lot.
 
What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?      Dam. 

Phew, I held my breath just reading that.  😰 So glad it worked

The last thing I did before I sprayed finish on my 23rd Psalms piece was glue on the medallion  on top of the piece.  I put glue on the back of the medallion, and put it in place.  As I was getting ready to clamp it my wife called down to me to go open the gate, we had company.  I hurriedly clamped it in place and did as I was commanded (as usual).  I did not notice until much later, that the medallion had moved as I clamped it.  It was around 1/8" off center.....  Glue was set. I thought, well no one will notice,,,, but I knew, and it drove me crazy.  I did not sleep last night, thinking about how I could possibly fix it.  I thought of two options.  1: try heating and see it the glue would give before I scorched the wood, or 2: sand it off.  Start with a belt sander until I got it very thin, then switch to a random orbit sander to finish it.  I just knew there was a good chance I would slip with the belt sander and destroy something, but worth trying.  I took some scraps of the same wood, glue it to a piece of BB, even sprayed it with the Deft finish I used on the piece and tried the heat gun on it.  It worked, so I decided that is what I would do.  I used a putty to pry with.  Laid other pieces of BB around the medallion to protect what was close by and went to work with the heat gun,,,, very slowly and carefully.  It worked great!  got the medallion off with nothing burning or breaking.  Sand the old glue off, cleaned everything real good, re-glued the medallion back on where it belonged...
LIFE IS GOOD!

I did this for my grandsons birthday tomorrow, he will be 16.  He loves American basketball and as you can see his favorite player is LeBron James.  The pattern is by Mahendra ( @multitom  )
Marg
 

Playing card box by Steve Good. I tried my hand at epoxy inlay.   Glitter for the red, coffee grounds for the black. 
Not perfect, but not bad.

I’ve got an old beater truck that I put new speakers in. Today I made speaker covers. Sketched it out in about 2 minutes. Spent about 10 cutting it out. Another 2 screwing them on. Badda bing. Speakers are protected! Literally did not care what they looked like since it’s an old beater - 1997 Ford Ranger. I’m the only one that drives it and it’s got a few other cosmetic issues. It’s just my “fun” truck do anything to truck. 
My goal was to get them cut and put on as quickly as I could. 
New Pioneer speakers and stereo are LOUD! 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I stain baltic birch all the time using minwax stains and then a clear coat sealer.
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This was 70+ hours of planning, cutting, finishing and framing.  Simply put, Waluigi is a bad form of Luigi (one of the Mario brothers).  In this scene I created, Waluigi is having daydreams about destroying the Mario Brothers.  I used a variety of hardwoods to pull this off.  I did use a touch of paint to airbrush the eyes, the blue pants and the Green clothes for Luigi.  The LED light is mounted behind the stained glass and it allows the user to control the color of the dreamscape.   Let me know if you have any questions.  In what is becoming standard practice for me, here is the build album https://imgur.com/gallery/8lPxDJ1

There are worse evils,lol

Finished up a POW*MIA sign to replace a damaged one at a Facebook friend's VFW.  Letters/star/filigree(?) and POW/tower are done out of 3/8" BBply.  The backer is 1/2" rough ply scrap that I found at Lowes, a cutoff piece I got for free.  It sanded smooth, so I'm happy.  Frame is....pine?  2x2 I ripped in half(ish) lengthwise and probably took about 6' worth of wood to make.  Frames always seem to surprise me with how much wood they consume.  Also with how high my blood pressure gets when making those friggin things.
 
 

Hallmark movies are their own form of torture.  There are hotlines you can call before  you go that far down the drain.

Don't go down the Hallmark rabbit hole;just leave this site open and hit refresh every 7 minutes. (That's about the timing of a commercial break.😎)

I kinda got distracted in the middle of this one.  Cut this back in December, then got some other honey-do's (and, yes, a few "Why the hell not" projects) that came up.  Some friends of ours just signed the mortgage on a new house and expect to be moving in at the end of next month (literally, new house.  Its still being built).  So....a house-warming gift.  I was even happy with how the frame turned out, and I *hate* frames. 
 
 

Hallmark movies are their own form of torture.  There are hotlines you can call before  you go that far down the drain.

Hallmark movies are their own form of torture.  There are hotlines you can call before  you go that far down the drain.

Driftwood art



I bought new couches and sold my old ones, but the guy who was supposed to buy them bailed. So I photoshopped myself onto all of them

 

I kinda got distracted in the middle of this one.  Cut this back in December, then got some other honey-do's (and, yes, a few "Why the hell not" projects) that came up.  Some friends of ours just signed the mortgage on a new house and expect to be moving in at the end of next month (literally, new house.  Its still being built).  So....a house-warming gift.  I was even happy with how the frame turned out, and I *hate* frames. 
 
 

Great job on the whole project..frame is great also.

That's really true! It is very nice and I'm sure it will find a prominent place in their home.

Hey Folks,
Don't often post things I've made,  I'm but kinda proud of how this baby turned out.  My daughter is a US Federal Probation Officer in Iowa.  I wanted to do something for her to celebrate her accomplishments.  I saw a number of members on this forum posting military type plaques of various styles and that got my thought processes going.  She showed me what her department seal looked like so I took all the tips and ideas gleaned here and came up with this representation.  
It is about 16 inches in diameter.  The bottom layer is 1/2" Walnut, middle layer is 1/4" Sycamore and the top layer 3/16" Walnut.  I milled all my own wood.  I used Inkscape to come up with a cutting patterns.  The color picture of the flag is a blowup of an image I found on a photo web site (royalty free).  To help mitigate wood expansion the bottom layer Walnut is cut in an octagonal shape and then splines used to join it to a 1/2" plywood backer.  The middle and top layers are loosely screwed to the layer beneath so hopefully there is enough room left for any movement of the wood.
I used a FD UR #5 on the bottom layer, FD #3 on the middle layer and a FD #2/0 on the top layer.  For all the veining I first cut the vein with a flat blade then came back and recut with a FD #2/0 spiral following the initial blade kerf.  Finished with a Deft Satin Lacquer spray.
I have 16 hours in cutting time on all the layers and probably another couple hours for assembly and finishing.
Thanks for letting me share.
Larry
 

Hi all,.
Well, after all the little 1 inch snowfalls we have had since start of winter, the tide has turned and we got about 6-8 last night. Also coldest weather this week we have seen in about 20 years. Looks like its a behind the saw week, run my model RR or get bored with Hallmark Movies......:) 
Chilly Willy

Super good. And the frame is awesome. 

I am sure it will be the first thing hung in the new house!
 
Very nicely done.