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Seen many adaptions of routers using a jig to plane. A little slower and not for those that plan every day. A quick search should get a group of them. Seen them of wood working shows and youtube. Just a basic router support to hold the router level over the work piece. By passing a straight bit over all the work area the work piece is 'planed'. Good for occasional, can't afford, can't fit a planner. RJF

I'm pretty sure its b/w. when you watch old movies their b/w. It's cause back before color pictures everybody lived in b/w. RJF

I have a camera photo of George Washington I'll sell you. RJF

Renumber people collected bottle caps. There a bottle cap forum somewhere out there. RJF

Just a thought. Make a coffee table with the legs and frame. Lay out various pieces of your prized wood on top and it can be rotated. Probably with the lumber weight, don't have to screw it down. Take some spare unused lumber, lean it against a wall. Tape a cheap mirror to it with double sided tape. Usable mirror with a fine piece of lumber framing the outside. RJF

Not trying to be sarcastic. Coin collectors, collect coins, but spend time sorting listing and looking for others to add to their collection. Lumber tends to be heavier and is a usable product, like screws, glue, hinges. People collect antique hardware, then put it in their place to display it. With the lumber hidden in the shop in a stack, its out of site, isn't it? I don't live in a glass house, but an apartment with kids that run on the ceiling from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. Please come over and throw stones at their window. Until we get out of here, we sit and think nasty thoughts. RJFv

Sell them with nice big hot candles. When the holder burns up you can sell another. Planed obsolescence. RJF

I don't hang onto wood so I'm curious. Why hang onto hardwood, or softwood, for years when it could be made into a beautiful cabinet to look at every day? RJF

Ok, Who's the guilty party hoarding wood. Filled the shop already so they creep out to their 20x 20 rented storage shed at night to stash more wood. With all this wood kicking around I'm surprised there haven't been posts on spare wood to sell. Anyone hear an Auction Bell? RJF

Naturally funny. 'Wood has a shelf life.' At times wood can go against the grain. RJF

Most the scroll saw patterns I've seen are somewhat small. I can imagine there isn't space in any living space. We have lived in apartments and had to create space. Slide a few boards under the bed. Slide a few boards beside the frig between the wall and frig or frig and cabinet. Slide a few boards behind sets of cabinets, dressers, bookcases. With 8 x 10 signs there must be a few spaces to keep a bit of spare wood. Most purchases depend of the amount you buy. Buy one piece and you pay max. Buy a bit more and you get a discount. I lived in a submarine and they tucked everything in a space. Hardwood has a higher price, but you probably have favorites you work in, I haven't seen too many posts with someone working in a exotic scarce hardwood. One major question is budget. We buy food in bulk and break it down to small packs and freeze it. We have to save, but we save a lot on bulk purchase. Stock of wood would work the same. 'Might fit in the freezer if you break it down'. Unless you live in a tent, there is space somewhere. If you live in a tent, put pieces of wood on a tarp next to it and fold the tarp. Bet I could fit a few 8 x 10 pieces under the car seat, or in the trunk. RJF

I notice a lot of reference in this thread mentions 'IF PRICE IS NO OBJECT'. Is someone on this site scroll sawing in a Mansion? RJF

AWWW, sure we do. I love a good Indian cowboy movie. RJF

Work that birthday and use the sad puppy dog eyes. I'm 60 and my wife caught on to that years ago, maybe it will work for you. RJF

The way its written up, don't think there is a problem. Just 6 million of one insurance and 12 million of another. Along with the $100,000 up front. All I have to do is price each piece at $10,000. Break even of the up front money in 10 sales, and the rest is gravy! By the way does someone sell gold sheets I can scroll on? RJF

I wonder how may pieces of scroll work it would take tobreak even. RJF

There used to be something about artistic rights. An artist had to right to create items. If they created a Disney cutout in wood, it was their creation since Disney does not have wood characters. If they laser 500 cutouts, it was a manufactured processes and violated the spirit of artistic lic. I think some of this copyright gets carried away. Cut a group of Disney characters and some parent buys it for their kids room. Kids are thrilled and remember their room for life. Now their going to fine and lock the guy up for a couple of cutouts? It will never cut into their profits. I remember a article of a daycare using a group of volunteers to paint their walls in Disney characters. Disney sued and made them repaint their walls. Basically showed Disney as a company looking to grab as much money from kids as possible. Now if Disney heard of it, they should have sent a few of their artist to the day care. Touch up the paintings, add a few special touches and let the public know they did it. Now Disney come off as a kind company. The kids have Disney characters around all day, and what child isn't going to want what they see? I stay away from selling anything that is corporate owned. But, I bet my son has grown up with cabinets painted with Pokemon and Disney. Lets see some agent break our door down to inspect his cabinets. RJF

I have multiple personalities. One guy is a absolute slob and the other has OCD and keeps cleaning up the mess the slob keeps making. RJF

Good luck. Ask for the Six Million Dollar Man package. Stronger, Faster...Probably won't need the car. RJF

If you want to vary motor speed you can use one of these. They are used for electronic test/ design benches to get a specific AC voltage. They will change the speed of most AC motors. There is going to be a point of the motor stopping and each type will stop at a different speed. RJF https://www.amazon.com/Max-Amp-Variac-Variable-Transformer/dp/B00O68YVLQ

Dust masks with exhaust vents are more comfortable. Something that happens in many industries is continued exposure to small amounts of dust, chemicals of the same over and over and the workers become oversensitive. Happens with woodworking. My family and I are messed up, so we are more careful with any chemical, dust exposure. Proably most would filter water and air so much. Use this unit with 2 hoses for going to an attic or mobile ventilation. Moving around apartments hasn't allowed any perment designs, 'Hopefully moving to a house soon'. With this unit bought metal duct pipe and large hose clamps, plywood. Cut a hole in the plywood, pushed the metal duct through the hole. Put a hose clamp on each side to keep the duct in place. Than braced the plywood against the open window. Connected a hose to the inside metal duct. RJF https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200660314_200660314 https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200660300_200660300

If the entire area gets nailed your probably going to be dealing with FEAMA. RJF

Safes are rated for burglary and fire resistance. Most home improvement safes are bottom of the line ratings on burglary and can't handle fire. There are specific safes for fire. As the price goes up you can find combination safes that are highly rated for fire and burglary. The top rated are basically bank vaults. Renting the smallest bank box is going to give you access and a high rated safe. If you use cloud storage, do your homework on their hack security and encryption. I would even go as far as buying encryption software for personal sensitive information. A top notch security professional is going to ask questions to match your needs for the right safe. Don't buy a chest safe, they just walk out with it and take their time breaking into it. If you buy your own safe, bolt it to the floor. Easier to bring a cart and take the safe they get caught banging away at it in an owners home. RJF

Touch up a few apartments. Moving into a house, I expect I'm going to be painting. Some places have every room in a different bright color. Haven't used one and hopefully won't spin the paint out of the can. Thanks RJF We have some nice scroll work still in boxes that can finally go on the walls. Apartment we are in does not allow anything on the wall. Not a picture hanger, not a poster, nothing framed. If maintenance sees anything we are fined. A bit more controlling then we would like.

Just buy a cheap harbor freight drill and leave it hooked on. RJF