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for me, lack of ideas. or lack of decision of what to do next.

Finished project..

It turns out there is another part of this project that my daughter in law wanted. A tree that she goes to on hikes. She sent a tree picture. So I had some lacewood that the grain patterns now looks like leaves. The height of this wood is 4 inches. Thickness is 1/2 inch. All cut with spiral blades. I mixed #2 with #00 to help with contouring of branches.

my brother has been in woodworking and was a Rockler store manager. He told me to check "General finishes" out and try them on my wooden cowboy hats scraps. I tried water based general finished side by side with oil based finished from "General finishes" Arm R Seal is oil based wipe on wipe off. The oil based is so much better to bring the magic of black walnut. When I did the tiny feet drawers I tried the Osmo (oil based) hard wax. side by side with Arm R Seal. Both look great. The wax Osmo won't be as durable be it will make it feel like furniture polish. Kid toy safe. I also did this side by side on the recent feathers I did. All 3 feathers were different wood. I went with Arm R Seal because of the softer wood Butternutwood I wanted it to be stiffer. Osmo is very expensive but it does not need much. It is also considereal toy safe. Kids can chew on it.

Arm R Seal or Osmo

I also hear the the song free bird.

tattoo images are a great inspiration. fantastic artist. It looks good on your wood. I might do that with olivewood. With the olivewood having a peaceful meaning.

good idea , keep a bigger base to show off black walnut grain.

Hi villagers.. I just got done with a small 4 inch logo. My daughter in law has set up her practice for therapy called "Three Feathers Therapy". This her logo.. This is my small 4 inch plaque. Made from Butternut wood. Wow that is soft wood. 2/0 spiral blade was used. She did not mind to add a bit of tint to the wood. I played with my green and orange transtint dye. Butternut wood did pretty well with green and orange. The middle feather I used water-based stain Provential brown. Very diluted, just to get the tan effect. The 3 bigger stand alone feathers : ( left to right) are oak, olive, canarywood. The oak did not do well with green dye after the finish darkened the oak. Olive is so pretty no tint was needed. Canarywood is orange enough with no stain. The off angle pic has a better angle to show green tint. This angle also shows that I added texture to the edge of the feathers. Spiral blade with slight pressure changes left to right. Lessons learned: Butternut wood is soft. Leaves fibers behind. Breaks easily. "feothors" now has a definition. Scollsawyers need therapy when using butternut. Olive smells like olive oil when cutting. Olivewood is my favorite wood due to smooth creamy patterns. It is hard to find good uses for olivewood to show off the grain patterns. Canarywood wood smells fruity. Nice orange color after an oil based finish. Nice to play with. Me. Mark Eason

Very classic hot rod. The wind blew his hat sideways. Oh he is just looking at the camera.

But you forgot the red lipped cowgirl !! Nice project. The ganged panel makes it standout more. Plus you can up the cost. Maybe some wine tasting room will purchase it. Me. Mark Eason

When I tried a butterfly it was the first intarsia project I did. It is hard to get each piece to fit. Especially the short ones near the bottom. Looking at yours it looks beautiful. So it is natural to say it is easy to do. But because each piece fits smoothly it is just the opposite of easy. I know better. Thank you for making it look easy:) Wood choices are superb. Zebra wood is great to get the butterfly texture. And butternut to get a bit of orange. Well done.

ok other stupid mods I did. Added a small 12v to magnifier arm. Added sandpaper held on with magnets (2) on a stick. I sand the edges of the blades for better clamping. Added accessory box with magnet in the bottom. Spare bottom clamp is in the box. And here is 2 pics of the funnel and container for large dust. Black tube is drip system tubing that extends funnel. last pic is the dust mound in the can.

I also order another spare bottom clamp.

That is a very nice unit you got there. There are holes in the legs and I put a shelf on using those holes. I had to check that the blade is straight left to right the same as the bottom clamp. There is Alan screws on the opposite side of the thump knobs clamps. You might have a newer version that has Alan screw in the of the top arm to adjust front to back. Looking directly at the end ,inside the clamp arm. Mine only has 2 positions of bottom clamp to adjust agressive (front to back) cutting.

this post is a good reminder to go wax my hawk.

read my last post here. But the full thread gives some good ideas also.

I bought this in 2020 for $400. It has a lower serial number. It even has half the power. No problem with anything. OCtoolguy said to look at the tension lever area to see if was still pointed. It was not used much. Wow that was 4 years ago. Hah... You can see my dust collection system in that picture. No noisy vacuum. I put a funnel in the already existing hole in the chassis. The funnel goes into the can.

I too saw your video on YouTube. great topic of cacti.

My methods: I don't do alot of fretwork. 1) drill press allows precise angles and longer drill bits to go straighter. 2) hand battery drill makita. 3) I have a harbor freight $5 version that I never use. But if I did fret work I would probably use it.

Yep, very admireable

yeah. Glad to see you're work again.

Yep, the family is taking on a great adventure. Extra challenging to head west. Oh your saying the cutting is extra challenging. Yes but it looks great. I had to look closely, i think the child is a girl peeking out of the covered wagon.

Ray that project above needs a bit more marbles.

very nice keyboards.