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Thank You John and RJ, glad you enjoyed the Journey!

Thank You Dave, Barb, and Denny!

Oops! I forgot to post an image of the hinges!

The Box got the treatment and that Tiger Wood never fails to impress! After the Poly is applied, I go over the Box with a Scotch-brite Pad and then apply clear Furniture Polish... It gives it a "slippery" feel, and helps to mellow that strong Poly Smell... A Tray was added inside... It is a good-sized Box, 10 1/2" x 6 1/2" x 5"... Woods used were: Tiger Wood for the sides, Ash for the top and bottom panels, Mahogany 'hardware', Chestnut for the Tray brackets, Red Oak for the Tray sides and Pine for the Tray Bottom... The doweling used to hold the Box together was store-bought Poplar... Over the Years, I've found that some Projects seem to WANT to be made and come together easily, while others do not, and fight tooth and nail to get accomplished! This Box 'wanted' to be and made a very enjoyable time of it! As always, Thank You for your Time! Any questions, comments (or even criticism!) are Welcome... 19 December 2025

All of my early supplies of wood was found wood, old furniture, dumpster diving... At one point, my Friend's Brother worked at a Glass company and brought us over the glass shipping crates, an endless supply! (The company was just throwing mountains of nice lumber into a compacting dumpster, Sinful!)

Thank You Dave!

I grew up in Manchester, N.H. and in 2001, the city had just completed building a brand-new Arena... The Arena, had been built as the Home for the Manchester Monarchs semi-professional Hockey Team, a "farm team" for the L.A. Kings... The Team took out a full-page ad in the Union Leader to announce their inaugural season and to invite Manchester to come and see them! The minute I saw the Advertisement, I said, "Wow! Now THERE'S a Pattern!!" It was, and a big one! All I had was my 18"er at that time, so it required some pretty creative cutting... Also, it has large areas of negative space and some of the cut-outs had to be taped back in place to maintain some integrity... Three were stack cut, all in plywood, a 3/16" layer and two 1/2" layers... This was the thin one... The Team Color was Royal Purple and I had some purple suede, so that was used to cover a backer board for the piece (the 3/16" plywood wanted to warp something awful!) Another case of keeping your eyes open! You never know where or when a Pattern could be waiting for you! 6 December 2025

Great Job Archer! I like the edging around it too, nice detailing

Spirithorse: This Calendar is used to mark months and will work forever... I probably added to your confusion by reversing the pictures demonstrating the month change (it was a couple years ago that the pictures were taken!) The switch was actually from Feb. 2023 to Mar. 2023, not a January to February switch... I apologize for that and corrected it... The Calendar is admittedly 'bare bones' and assumes that the owner knows the actual year, month, and day of the week... In the U.S., the months of calendars always start on Sundays and end on Saturdays, but that is not the case world-wide... but anyhow, this would work regardless of which day of the week a Calendar starts on! Don't know if I cleared that up for you or complicated it even more?

That's beautiful Jerry, so thoughtful!

Thank you Dave!

3 or 4 hours work, Poplar (I think) lettering and Yellow Birch for the Backerboard... The design was very quickly found On-line, traced onto the Wood with Carbon Paper, and cut... Went from here to here... I might do more of these... G. Washington, John Hancock had beautiful penmanship and would be some fun challenges... Funny thing, the further back you go in history, the better people's writing gets! Thanks for reading 24 November 2025

Thank You Dave and Denny! Denny: In this day and age of electronic devices, a pencil and paper still work and work quite well!

Thanks Fab4, RJ, and Jim!

Thank You all very much for your kind greetings and thoughts... I have boxes full of things that I scrolled many years ago... This doesn't account for all that I gave away over the years and what is hanging around our house! I'll probably show some of that work but mostly just to demonstrate different techniques... I'd rather do new things and try to show not only the how-to, but also the why-for as I work along... Next up, I would like to work on a small sign to share the experiences I've had making them... My hope is, is that it can help some of you with at least a new perspective... Again, Many Thanks for the Warm Welcome I've been shown here! It is very much appreciated! Michael C.

For most of my Work Career, I was employed as a Cook... For years, small printers have been used in kitchens, to generate food orders... A peculiar condition applies to these printers, when they run low on paper they malfunction, and stop feeding it, with this result... I had seen a note-making device using register tape when I was child, at the Summer Camp my Parents rented for us every year for vacation week... Not meaning to offend Cavemen, but early on, a Caveman version was made with a bit of two by and some sheet metal... While this one is very roughly made, it still proved to be very useful for noting groceries, phone #'s and such! At one point, I decided that I could do better, and came up with this one... It performs just as well as the first one, and looks a lot better doing it! Since then, I've made 6 or 7 of these things as Gifts to various people... I made one last weekend that just emerged from the Finishing Department... The building of this was blogged in two parts on these pages, the first part, "A Gift Build for Christmas" and the second part, "The Rest of the Story" Again these are an old idea! It's my understanding, that these were popular in High School Woodworking classes back in the 1930's and 1940's and many Mother's Kitchens were graced with them! This was my 'interpretation' of the idea... A simple and fun little build, that proves to be very useful! (And it requires very little Wood too!) Thanks for reading along!

Thank you Dave and Denny!

Thank You Dave!

Thanks Barb!

Inspiration can come in many forms, and sometimes will lay dormant for years, before it reaches fruition... Back in the 1990's, I lived close to a small Grocery Store that I visited everyday... Near Christmas time, while standing waiting in the checkout line, for several days I had noticed some templates they were selling... The templates, if you remember them, were for the little white spray-on Winter and Christmas scenes people used to apply to their windows... I finally broke down and bought a set (I think they were something like $1.98?!) to see if any use could be found of them for Scrolling... At that time, after study and consideration, there wasn't anything there that could be worked with... Fast Forward ten years later, and I came across the templates again in my Pattern Files... After re-examination, and with what I had learned in the intervening time, I was able to flesh-out and develop the Templates into usable Patterns... Thus... Once the Patterns were established it was very easy to reproduce them, they are all relatively easy cuts... I often would tape them to presents after marking them with the year and some well wishes written on them! Another year, I stack cut a bunch and gave them to my Co-workers... Still another year, I hung them up into a Mobile for the Holidays and enjoyed bumping into them for the duration... So keep your eyes open! You never know where you might find an idea waiting - even if it takes a while to bloom! 18 November 2025

Never made a TP holder (yet), but I made one for our Paper Towels we've had over 20 years...

In 1999 much was rightfully made of the upcoming new millennium that was to begin on 12/31... All the conversation reminded me of something I had always wanted to make, a Perpetual Calendar... This was my first effort... I had stack cut two of these and gave the better of the two to my Parents... About a year or so later, I re-visited making these and made a slightly fancier set... Since it is some ambitious cutting, six sets were stack cut that time... The sets were all given away to Family members and Friends, but I kept this one for myself... There are 10 vertical placards in each set, two versions of the "1", "2", and "3" so as to be able to represent all the months accurately... To demonstrate, here was the switch in 2023 from February to March I've enjoyed "marking the passage of time" with them! There is a gentle, unending rythym to updating the Calendar every month that is somehow satisfying, sort of like waves on the beach (sort of)... Thanks for your time! Comments and questions are always appreciated... 17 November 2025

I managed to get the first half of the blog up It's under the General Blog heading... Second half is on it's way...

The rolls are cash register tape... I purchased 10 rolls of 3" - single ply for just under $30, enough for decades (except I depleted my supply by making these gifts!) The idea is an old one, but the pattern is my own... I made one this morning, took pictures of the process and wrote a nice blog about it this afternoon... But when it was all written, I was unable to post it??? Probably something I did on my end, but it was very frustrating... I'll try again...

Made these last year for several Family Members and Friends... They're for making quick notes, i.e., grocery lists, telephone #'s, etc... We've had ours on our kitchen wall for about 15 years, would be lost without it...