jerrye

Like most plywoods, there are differing grades of BB. This article is one of the best I've found on BB ply.

Good ones as always! The coupon reminded me of a statistic: Studies show that three out of four people make up 75% of the population.

My wife is into this one right now:

Great as always! I had the producer of pool noodles as a customer in the mid-90's. They had two extrusion lines that ran 24hrs for 5 days pumping them out by the thousands.

I've had much said about what comes out of my mind over the years, but interesting and insight are rarely heard in the comments.... Learn? Yeah. Remember? Nah, unless it's something that you've relied on for a living over a decade or so...which enables scoring fairly well on a pop quiz. There is a lot more where that came from, but is it useful?

Having sold tape for a living in the past, I can say that 3M is good tape, with consistent quality control, and the most expensive option available. The problem with adherence to a carton these days could be that the carton has high recycled content. Shorter fiber strands are much tougher for tape to adhere to, requiring in many cases a better tack in the adhesive. The three types of adhesive in descending order of popularity and ascending order of cost are hot melt, acrylic, and natural rubber. If you're looking to use packaging tape, hot melt will be the type with an amber tint and a tackier release, while acrylic is clear with a freer release. Natural rubber is pretty much limited to duct tape. The perception is since acrylic releases so easily that it isn't as sticky as hot melt, but that isn't true. Acrylic has a faster and stronger tack than hot melt, so a release agent is applied to the back of the carrier to enable using the tape without having to fight it to get it off of the roll. In a freezer environment, acrylic is the adhesive used as nothing else will work on cases of frozen or soon to be frozen product. Look around and see if you can find Shurtape. It's a good quality tape that will cost less than 3M...if that kind of thing matters to you. This is likely more about tape than anyone really wanted to know.

Look at both the regular and the trip odometers in the pic below...

You could try using thinned acrylic paint to stain. It can be made as opaque as you want, allowing most or just some of the grain through. It's available in a vast palette of colors as well.

Not the cheapest option, but the easiest one I've found, and the one I use in the house: https://www.amazon.com/Command-Picture-Decorate-Damage-Free-PH206-14NA/dp/B073XR4X72/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3UKIAM19WM9CL&dchild=1&keywords=velcro+picture+hanging+strips&qid=1609508836&sprefix=velcro+pi%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-2 They're available in several sizes and strengths. I use sawtooth most often on scroll projects, usually with E6000 or screws, depending on the thickness of material I'm attaching to.

Welcome to the Village from another central NC fella. Durham is where I was born & raised, but due to sales jobs I spent much time in Alamance County. Got out of Durham before I got shot, but still lived in the Triangle before moving to Clearwater about ten years ago. Hope to see ya around!

For simple conversion of photos to patterns, I find Cute Cutter to be very good. Simple, easy, quick, effective. https://cutecutter.com/

Nice work. Can you tell me where I can source this pattern please?

Danny, I saw a similar post about living on a cruise ship in retirement a while back. Seems to make some sense, even when posted in jest...

This collection is the blue ribbon winner! Thanks TONS for the amusement and laughter you bring here, namesake! Although, in full disclosure, Jerry is actually my nickname, but is how I am generally known...when I get calls or mail with my given name, I know it's SPAM!

At the risk of hijacking this thread (which may or may not have already happened ) I think that Gary hit on something in his last comment above that needs a little more fleshing out...so I'll give it a shot. According to your comment that I quoted, Gary, I'm becoming more convinced that a generation that never learned the "lessons of life" themselves cannot teach those to its subsequent generation. IOW, if this is true, then the generation that raised today's parents bear a lot of responsibility for spoiling their kids and keeping them from learning the "lessons of life," which stopped the passing on of those lessons. Or, I could be totally wrong here. But I don't think so.