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  1. Wichman
    There was a discussion in 2016 on blades in which the Eberle blades were mentioned, many of the current posters weighed in, including you.
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    Just curious, which blades did you compare? My preference is FD, but I am curious.
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    I have no "best sellers" sales are all over the place; one week I'll sell a bunch of tea light stands and then not sell any the rest of the season, ext week sell several wolf profile plaques and then just dead. No rhyme or reason to it.
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    I made these for a fellow vendor at the FM, he's a turner. I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like when they're done, but the scrolling's done. 3/8 x 1 1/2 x 2" Elm. cut with FD Polar #1 no finish as there will be addition work done on them. Always a joy when you don't know beforehand how the picture will orient.
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    Available at Cherry Tree Toys. I just had to check.
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    Healthy diet, light exercise, really good genes.
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    '77 Ft Dix, NJ. Entered at 165, left at 180, currently 185.
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    My hybrid seat started as a HF saddle seat. But I had a damaged Hydrocele ( look it up, remember "size of a mango" ) that took the better part of three years to resolve, including a three day stay in the hospital with sepsis. The seat was just to uncomfortable to use, for me, YMMV.
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    My solution to the whole chair dilemma was to take the chair bottom from a HF chair, the tractor seat from a TSC chair, and added a plywood base to the foot rest ( for the foot switch ).
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    You can use any blade you'd like as long as the piece will swing around the back arm of the saw. When I cut the name with a rose and ducks I was too the limit of my saws throat ( 22" ) and I still used FD Polar #1 blades . If I were doing more of them I would use aux tables to support the piece from the sides. The hardest thing was sucking in my gut while making the turns on the ends; and I don't have a lot of gut. here's a video of a gentleman cutting a pretty wide piece, he uses spiral blades, but at the 11:00 mark you can see the aux tables he's using:
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    That font, mathjax calligraphy, only has uppercase letters. That's the font the customer saw and liked so that's what I used. My current favorite font is Z003 and is much more readable and has both upper and lower case letters. Painting the inside of the letters was a royal pain, I ended up thinning the craft paint (gloss white) 50/50 with water, then dripped the paint into the recesses with the small hole in the cap, once the letter was full I used a small wire (ornament hanger) to stir the paint around in the hole and get better coverage/adhesion of the paint.
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    Three more football plaques done. Team colors for each. Steve Good pattern to start, I replaced the text added the shaker pegs and the countersunk holes under the stripes The piece is 2, 1/2" BB laminated together after the interior cuts in the top, exterior cuts made after lamination ( 1" thick ), interior cuts made with FD Polar #1, exterior cuts made with FD polar #5. Lamination with polyurethane glue applied with a 4" foam roller then weighted down by a cinder block. 3 1/2" shaker pegs.
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    https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4674473 I think this is it. I open the image and then right click on it and use search for image on Google.
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    This is my go to dry lube: https://www.howardpianoindustries.com/micro-fine-ptfe-powder/ The average particle size is 3 microns. This stuff will work into the pores of the metal and the end result is the parts rub Teflon on Teflon instead of metal on metal. The one oz size will last for years.
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    There are many circular patterns in the pattern library under "Utilitarian". These could be used for large pan trivets or cake holders or ... To bad the closest Menards to me is over 500 miles away, sigh.
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    Jimmy, back to the original question How big is the piece? Where did you get the pattern?
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    This is a tip from someone who does not like big blades ( I normally use a #1, will occasionally use a #3, and the largest I have ready is a #5.) Use the largest blade that will make the curve. The width of the blade will help "even out" the curve. Of course, you can go to far:
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    Even the military uses "Crawl, Walk, Run" in their training. Just go with the flow for now, you're doing fine.
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    I painted the ends with odds and ends paint from the local Ace Hardware. This was before it was slabbed. I let the 1/2" panels dry for about 8 months, then stored them inside my shop. I'm in Southeast Idaho and it is fairly arid here, the gentleman with the lumber mill came by and did a moisture check and gave the thumbs up for storage.
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    From the top pull down menu Edit> Preferences> Interface> Theming> Uncheck the "use dark theme" box
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    I started a folder on a thumb drive. I take a picture of the item, the file name is the person and the date. I have individual folders for immediate family and generic folders for others.
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    I like the color.
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    I had to take down a large elm in my front yard. The gentleman who cut down the tree has a band saw lumber mill. He slabbed the tree up for me, 1/2" slabs, and I air dried them in my yard. I ended up with 135, 1/2", slabs and 25 2" slabs. The largest slabs are 18 to 20" wide and 100 " long. The sawyer was not able to cut the largest section of the tree as it would not fit in the saw bed (too big).
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    Wolf profile by Steve Good, Arrowhead design by U.S. Forest Service. 1/4 elm, FD #1 Polar blade for the interior cuts, #3 for the outside. 1 Coat thinned BLO followed by 3 coats of thinned shellac. Made three one already sold. Size 11 x 14 Stack cut all three at the same time.
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    I made a Thing
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