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I have an old Craftsman rotating table that I have had for close to 30 years. The idea was great but it is not practical for me. Mine has 3 stations. I have always had a spindle sander on one side, a disc/belt sander on another and the third side was left open as my worktop... I have a small shop. Anytime that I need one of the sanders I had to clear off the worktop in order to flip the table. Also the side that I used as my worktop had a piece of metal going across the table on both ends to help keep the table from flipping. These pieces of metal didn't give me a truly flat worktop. Most of the time I had to put a piece of plywood on the top to get a flat worktop. I just remodeled my shop and currently have this table on Offerup for sale. No one has even asked about it over the last couple of months. Next week it is going to the dump! Click the link to see the offerup add in order to see pics of it. https://offerup.com/item/detail/392db87e-9bc4-34f2-ba1b-9ede32ca5316?q=Craftsman+rotary+tool+bench

Very clean looking, great job.

I like that one on the right.. no,, the other right. LOL ...and I think picture frames are over rated. I am working on remodeling my shop.. almost done. I was hoping that I would have some room to hang some of the things that I have made once I am done but it doesn't look like I will have much room.

That is a great pattern and cut! I have cut one of Charlie's other Cash patterns. I have several waiting to be cut once I get my shop remodeled.

Ernest T was one of my favorites as well. Although it seemed like more, I believe he was only in 6 episodes. He also directed several.

Another awesome pattern and cut!

Cool! I made several of them a few years ago.

Very well done! If you are still sending out copies, I would love to have one. Thanks

Beautiful woman, beautiful cutting!

If most of your stock is 3/4" to 1" and you plane it down to an 1/8" or less, you are wasting a lot of material. Your best bet would be to use the bandsaw to "resaw" the stock. then sand each piece. You would get 2 or 3 thin pieces out of each 3/4" piece. I remember last year I needed some 1/4" cedar,, all I could find at the time was some 3/4" at Lowes. (Didn't want to order and have to wait) $22 for an 8' piece,, I ran it through the planer and got it down to 1/4" I looked on the ground and I had about $15 worth of cedar saw dust all over the ground. LOL

Very nice! You wanna be my uncle? LOL I love cutting Eagles. Have a few that I have cut, have a few statues, got a 4' chainsaw carving of one and one inked onto my arm.

All are very nice! I've made the church one myself.

I was 8 when Grease came out. I'm pretty sure she was my first crush too!

The woodgrain in the sky looks like the clouds. Very nice in all aspects.

Same here. LOL I don't golf and only know one that does and that is who it would be for.

Spray the center black? I have an Elvis record and a pattern, but what I don't have is .... time!

I like them all! The apple and worm really "POP" with the color. Great job!

Wow, that is awesome. You win! LOL

Haven't tried it. Several months back I bought enough BBply to keep me stocked for a while. I did see recently (possibly here?) about a different birch ply that is being produced. Ah,, it was on YouTube, I'll try to find that video and link it here. In the video it mentioned a distributor in Jacksonville, FL that had some. That's about an hour away from me.

So that would be a "no" to his question?

Lots of very nice pieces there for sure! Congrats!

Nice. My wife asked me a few months back to make a square one to cover our square tissue boxes. I made a long one a couple of years ago that sits over a tissue box in the living room. One complaint about the long ones is that the tissue doesn't stay "popped" up on that style of box so you have to actually reach down into it to grab the next tissue whereas the square ones "pop" up automatically when you pull one out. It may have been a Sue Mey pattern, can't remember.

I have noticed a little slow down of sorts myself, but I tend to think that it is the a combination of a few things. The weather is nice in most area's now, people are catching up on cleaning, projects around the house, getting out more due to Covid restrictions mostly gone everywhere, maybe even people having to go back to work in offices instead of from home. I am a longtime member of a motorcycle forum that was huge. We had one big forum reunion every year usually somewhere in Tennessee, or N.C., or Virginia, KY, etc. and many smaller ones throughout the year. As many as over a 100 people a few years back would attend the main reunion, now it's down to around 20 people. People from all walks of life getting together for a few days to ride, eat, drink, tell lies, etc. The forum was always very busy, now.. very little activity. Most went to this place called Facebook.. me, I never use it. Some of the people I have met over the years from other states thru that forum are closer to me than some of my actual family. We vacation together, stay at each others houses for days, know their families, etc. But like I said, the main reunion is down to around 20 people attending. I haven't went the last 2 years because I sold my bike and we actually been vacationing in new places the last couple of years. This years reunion is the first of June in Bardstown, KY. It has been there several times and we are taking the car this year, many do now-a-days because we are older, don't have bikes anymore or some other reason. I know that it was a motorcycle reunion and we were able to come together and enjoy our hobby whereas this hobby of scrollsawing would be a little difficult to get us all together and scroll away in a hotel parking lot somewhere,, hmmmm? My point is at some point we all will find other interests and slowly move on...one way or another unfortunately. Hopefully I can hang out here for many more years and keep making sawdust and do a little bragging every now and then.

Saw the pattern the other day and thought about it,, Nice job, but I think it's upside down!

Nice! I cut that one myself a few weeks ago.